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abeyance

n. （法律、规则、习俗等）中止；暂停；（法律、规则等）暂时失效；处于暂时搁置（或中止）状态

adj. 暂时搁置的，所有权未定的，暂缓执行的

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1. temporary cessation or suspension

2. abeyant

3. suspension

4. The question is in abeyance until we know more about it.

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astute

adj. 机敏的，精明的，狡猾的；聪慧

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1. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence;

2. astutely astuteness

3. s: acute crooked

4. The criminal was very astute and well matched the detective in intelligence.

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castigate

v. 严厉批评；矫正，修订；惩戒

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1. censure severely;

2. castigation castigator castigatory

3. s: skin damn punish

4. The principal castigate the student who have insult their teacher.

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circumvent

vt. 围绕，包围；用计防止；避免；（用欺骗手段）陷害

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1. surround so as to force to give up;

2. circumvention

3. s:abort

4. Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulation.

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congenial

adj. 意气相投的；性格相似的；适意的；投缘

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1. suitable to your needs or similar to your nature;

2. congeniality congenially

3. s: compatible pleasing

4. I met few people congenial to me in the department.

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diatribe

n. 谩骂，讽刺

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1. thunderous verbal attack

2. s: harangue castigation

3. He launched into a long diatribe; She plunged into a dangerous adventure.

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incredulous

adj. 表示怀疑的，不相信的

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1. not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving

2. incredulously incredulousness

3.s: doubtful faithless

4. I am wholly incredulous of the truth of his story.

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maudlin

adj. 感情脆弱的，爱哭的

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1. effusively or insincerely emotional;

2. s: emotional romantic

3. He grew maudlin, could hardly see the cards or sit upright.

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maverick

n. 未烙印的小动物；标新立异的人，持不同意见的人

v. 迷路，迷失；用不正当手段获取

adj. 标新立异的

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1. n. someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

adj. independent in behavior or thought;

2. s: spirit free

3. You're a maverick and you'll try anything.

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prolific

adj. （艺术家、作家等）多产的；众多的；富饶的；（植物、动物等）丰硕的

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1. intellectually productive

2. prolificacy prolifically prolificness

3. Mice are prolific breeders.

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prurient

adj. 好色的，淫秽的，引起淫欲的

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1. characterized by lust;

2. prurience pruriency pruriently

3. s:erotic

4. She showed a prurient interest in the details of the rape case.

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rectitude

n. 操行端正；笔直

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1. uprightness as a consequence of being honorable and honest

2. s: accuracy purity

3. She was indignant with his presumption and self-satisfaction and conscious rectitude.

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utilitarian

adj. 功利的；功利主义的，实利主义的；有效用的；实用的

n. 功利主义者；实用主义者

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1. n. someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility

adj. having a useful function;

2. s: practical utility

3. This is a very utilitarian commercial speculation.

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veracity

n. 诚实，真实

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1. unwillingness to tell lies\

2. s: truth justice

3. I can testify to this man's veracity and good character.

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adversary

n. 对手，敌手；魔鬼

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1. someone who offers opposition

2. s: foe competition

3. He saw her as his main adversary within the company.

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anachronistic

adj. 时代错误的

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1. chronologically misplaced;

2. In remembering historic events, the mistake you tend to make is anachronistic.

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cavalier

n. 对女人彬彬有礼的绅士；对女人献殷勤的男子；<古>骑士；<史>英内战时查理一世的支持者

adj. 随便的；傲慢的；漫不经心的；不在乎的

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1. n. a gallant or courtly gentleman

adj. given to haughty disregard of others

2. cavalierly

3. n. horseman

adj. insolent

4. Nor was that wonderful, seeing how cavalier had been the captain's answer.

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dispel

vt. 消除（疑虑等）；驱散（云雾等）；驱逐

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1. force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings;

2. dispeller

3. s:drive away

4. We hope the programme will dispel certain misconceptions about the disease.

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indelible

adj. 擦不掉的；永久的，持久的；不可磨灭

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1. cannot be removed, washed away or erased;

2. indelibility indelibly

3. s: ingrained permanent

4. It will remain an indelible stain on his memory.

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jingoistic

adj. 强硬外交政策的，侵略分子的

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1. fanatically patriotic

2. In tackling this issue, both governments must deal with national pride and jingoistic media.

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mercurial

adj. （指人）反复无常的；水银的；（指人或性质）灵活的；易变的

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1. liable to sudden unpredictable change;

2. mercuriality mercurially

3. s:choppy flying

4. He is a complicated man— moody, mercurial, with a melancholy streak.

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palliate

vt. 减轻；缓和（痛苦、疾病等）；辩解；掩饰（罪过等）

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1. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of;

2.palliation palliator

3. s:lessen soften

4. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.

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perspicacious

adj. 有洞察力的，判断力强的，有识别力的

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1. acutely insightful and wise;

2. perspicaciously perspicacity

3. s:judicious discerning

4. It is very perspicacious of you to find the cause of the trouble so quickly.

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platitude

n. 平常的话，老生常谈，陈词滥调

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1. a trite or obvious remark

2. platitudinize platitudinous

3.commonplace truth

4. A fellow comes out with some insignificant platitude when I am speaking with my whole heart.

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profligacy

n. 放荡，不检点，肆意挥霍

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1. the trait of spending extravagantly

2.s: extravagance license

3.Subsequently, this statement was quoted widely in the colony as an evidence of profligacy.

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quotidian

adj. 每日的；每日发生的；平凡的；普通的

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1. found in the ordinary course of events;

2.s: everyone

3. There's nothing quite like a real train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute.

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stipulate

vt. （尤指在协议或建议中）规定，约定，讲明（条件等）

vi. 规定，明确要求

adj. 有托叶的

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1. specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement;

2. stipulation stipulator

3.Some manufacturers stipulate the price at which their goods are to be sold.

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vindicate

vt. 维护；证明…无辜；证明…正确；为…辩护

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1. show to be right by providing justification or proof;

2. vindicable vindication vindicator vindicatory

3. s:pardon justify

4.There are other arguments I might adduce to vindicate Shakespeare's authorship.

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voracious

adj. 贪吃的；贪婪的；渴求的；如饥似渴的

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1. excessively greedy and grasping;

2.voraciously voraciousness voracity

3.s:hoggish piggish

4.Joseph Smith was a voracious book collector.

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benign

adj. 温和的，仁慈的；善良的；有利于健康的；[医]良性的

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1. not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor)

2.benignity benignly

3. s: amicable amiable

4. In Soapy's opinion the Law was more benign than Philanthropy.

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cluster

n. 丛；簇，串；群；[语言]辅音群

vi. 丛生；群聚

vt. 使密集，使聚集

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1. n. a grouping of a number of similar things;

v. come together as in a cluster or flock;

2.s: bunch group

3. There was a little cluster of admirers round the guest speaker.

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bioluminescent

adj. 生物（性）发光

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1. (of living organisms) emitting light;

2.This gene enables the jellyfish to glow with the bioluminescent protein aequorin.

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nocturnal

adj. 夜的，夜间的；（动物）夜间活动的；（植物）夜间开花的；[乐]夜曲的

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1. belonging to or active during the night;

2.nocturnally

3. s: nightly

4.When there is a full moon, this nocturnal rodent is careful to stay in its burrow.

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extracellular

adj. （位于或发生于）细胞外的

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1. located or occurring outside a cell or cells;

2. extracellularly

3.Perhaps the simplest approach to extracellular digestion is that employed by saprophytes.

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fetus

n. 胎，胎儿

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1. an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal

2. Unfortunately, his wife had just given birth to a nonviable fetus.

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platelet

n. 血小板，小盘，小板

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1. tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting\

2. It is simply a matter of decreasing sequestration and destruction of platelet.

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clot

vt.& vi. 凝结；拥塞

n. 凝块；（人，动物等的）聚集

网 络

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1. n. a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid

v. change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state;

2.synonym： compression cohere

3. A year ago he had a blood clot removed from his brain.

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plasma

n. 血浆；原生质，细胞质；乳清；[物]等离子体

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1. colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended

2. plasmatic plasmic

3.synonym:blood

4.The plasma is the liquid portion of blood that is free of cells .

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calibrate

vt. 校准；使标准化；使合标准；测量（枪的）口径

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1. make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring

2.calibrator

3. A direct means is required to calibrate the indirect method.

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tumor

n. 瘤

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1. an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose

2. synonym：neoplasm knob

3. Areas of necrosis and cavitation may occur within the tumor.