Year 2 School Term 3

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Lair

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Noun

a place where a wild animal lives.

a fox’s lair

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Disrepair

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Noun

poor condition of a building or structure due to neglect

（年久）失修

The building has fallen into disrepair over the years.

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Maidenhair

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Noun

a chiefly tropical fern having slender-stalked fronds with round or wedge-shaped.

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Debonair

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adjective

(of a man) confident, stylish, and charming.

"all the men looked debonair and handsome in white tie and tails"

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Modality

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noun

The way of doing something:

A variety of modalities of communication can be used to send health warnings to the public.

模式，形式

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Passionately

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in a way that shows that you have very strong feelings or emotions:

Ann has always believed passionately in women's rights.

I feel passionately that I did the right thing

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Unquestionably

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in a way that is obvious and impossible to doubt:

She is unquestionably good at physics.

The operation has unquestionably improved the wellbeing of most patients.

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Rhetoric

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Noun

Language that sounds good but is not sincere or has no real meaning:

In reply to the question, he just produced a lot of empty (= meaningless) rhetoric.

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Emotive

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adjective

causing strong feelings:

I didn’t expect such an emotive response from the parent when I said that her son was not a nice child.

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Compose

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verb

1.write or create (a work of art, especially music or poetry).

"he composed the First Violin Sonata four years earlier”

2.(of elements) constitute or make up (a whole, or a specified part of it).

"the National Congress is composed of ten senators"

1. 撰写

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Choral

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adjective

1. composed for or sung by a choir or chorus.

"a choral work"

2. engaged in or concerned with singing.

"a choral scholar"

noun

1. 圣歌

adjective

1. 合唱队的

2. 合唱的

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Sightseeing

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noun

the activity of visiting places of interest in a particular location.

"a sightseeing tour"

1. 游览

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Newsweekly

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a newsmagazine or newspaper published weekly.

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Modifier

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A word or phrase that limits or adds to the meaning of another word or phrase:

In the sentence "The little girl ran quickly," the adjective "little" and the adverb "quickly" are modifiers.

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Collaboration

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Noun

the action of working with someone to produce something.

"he wrote a book in collaboration with his son. “

合作

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Treadmill

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An exercise machine, people walk on it without moving forward.

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Earnest

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Serious and determined

He was a very earnest young man.

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Disheartened

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Having lost confidence, hope, and energy:

She was very disheartened by the results of the test.

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Overzealous

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too enthusiastic and eager:过分热情的

He had to be protected from overzealous fans.

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genealogy

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家譜

The history of the past and present members of a family or families:

I became interested in the genealogy of my family.

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treacherous

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If the ground or sea is treacherous, it is extremely dangerous, especially because of bad weather conditions:

Snow and ice have left many roads treacherous, and drivers are warned to use caution.

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Revision

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Noun 调整

A change that is made to something, or the process of doing this:

These proposals will need a lot of revision.

He was forced to make several revisions to his speech.

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Eerily

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Adverb

in a strange, frightening, and mysterious way:

Her voice was eerily similar to her dead grandmother's.

The airport at this early hour seemed eerily quiet.

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Marrow

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soft tissue containing a lot of fat in the centre of a bone

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Beautician

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Noun

A trained person whose job it is to improve the appearance of a customer's face, body, and hair, using make-up and beauty treatments, often in a beauty salon

She is employed as a beautician at a wedding.

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Apprehension

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Worry about the future, or a fear that something unpleasant is going to happen:

It's normal to feel a little apprehension before starting a new job.

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Reproduction

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the process of having babies, producing young, or producing new plants:

Virus doesn’t have a brain, the only thing it does is the reproduction.

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Statistician

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Noun

Someone who studies or is an expert in statistics.

Government statisticians said sales of cars was down by 30 percent.

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Resilience

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The ability to be happy, successful, etc. again after something difficult or bad has happened:

She showed remarkable resilience after her mother’s death.

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Courtesy

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Noun

Polite behaviour, polite remark, polite action

You might get along better with your parents if you showed them some courtesy.

He could at least have had the courtesy to say sorry.

The president welcomed her visitors with the usual courtesies.

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Courtesy

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Noun

Polite behaviour, polite remark, polite action

You might get along better with your parents if you showed them some courtesy.

He could at least have had the courtesy to say sorry.

The president welcomed her visitors with the usual courtesies.

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Skylight

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Noun

A window built into a roof to allow light in:

Putting in a skylight made the attic seem big and bright.

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Weightless

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Adjective 失重

being in a state in which gravity (= the force by which the earth attracts objects) does not cause movement of objects:

The astronauts are weightless in space.

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wealthy

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adjective

Rich:

He's a very wealthy man.

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audition

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Noun

a short performance in order to show that you are suitable for a part in a film, play, show, etc.

His audition went well and he's fairly hopeful about getting the part.

She was terribly nervous before the audition, but once she started singing she was fine.

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confession

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Noun

The act of admitting that you have done something wrong or illegal:

I have a confession to make - I've lost that book you lent me.

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Abbreviation

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Noun

A short form of a word or phrase:

"TV" is the abbreviation for "Television".

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Rehearsal

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Noun

A time when all the people involved in a play, dance, etc. practise in order to prepare for a performance:

They didn't have time for (a) rehearsal before the performance.

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National

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Relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to other countries:

A national holiday.

The national anthems of the teams are played at the beginning of a big international football match.

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Cursor

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Noun

A line on a computer screen that moves to show the point where work is being done:

You can move the cursor either by using the mouse or by using the arrow keys on the keyboard.

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Technological

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Adjective

Relating to, or involving technology:

We'll see a tremendous lot of technological changes during/in our lifetime.

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Lodge

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Verb

To submit (a complaint/protest,etc)

Lawyers said last night that they would be lodging an appeal against the sentence.

The US lodged a formal protest against the arrest of the foreign reporters.

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Cartridge

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Noun

A container holding ink

Ink cartridge

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Acknowledge

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Verb

to accept, admit, or recognize something

She acknowledged that it was her fault.

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Featheredge

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Noun

A very thin sharp edge

especially : one that is easily broken or bent over

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Foreknowledge

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Noun

Knowledge of an event before it happens

They had foreknowledge of danger long before human beings could suspect it.