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1、2014 GREQ点词班陈琦GRE团队陈琦GRE团队 80313频道boast ofcomitychurlish admirean advocate analysis of eventsdecline healthmeeting difficult challengingirrelevant extraneousfeigned falseportend predictrapacious avariciousboast ofboast : a statement in which you express too much pride in yourself or in something you

2、 have, have done, or are connected to in some way; a reason to be proud;to speak of or assert with excessive pride< When he says he's the richest man in town, he's not just making an idle boast.>自夸：glory, credit, crown, jewel, honor, jewel, pride, treasure, trophy, brag, vaunt, crow陈琦G

3、RE团队 80313频道boast ofAnne mentioned Johns habitual boasting about his wardrobe as an example of hisways.A. erraticB. egotisticalC. politicD. tactfulE. inconspicuousF. complacent陈琦GRE团队 80313频道boast ofDanas colleagues complained that she was both and: she spoke condescendingly and talked about herself

4、 too much.Blank (i)A. patronizingB. sympatheticC. timidBlank (ii)D. attentiveE. boastfulF. dejected陈琦GRE团队 80313频道boast oft.html?pagewanted=all& r=0陈琦GRE团队 80313频道boast of题源：w/Pinker-t.html?pagewanted=all& r=0Though we live in an era of stunning scientific understanding, all too often the av

5、erage educatedwill have none of it. People who would sneer at the vulgarian who has never read Virginia Woolf will insouciantly boast of their ignorance of basic physics.陈琦GRE团队 80313频道comitycomity:friendly social atmosphere: socialharmony<group activities promoting comity>和谐: chime, harmony,

6、compatibility,友好，concord, peace陈琦GRE团队 80313频道comityA researcher who described a peaceful reunion between normally adversarial chimpanzees as a was criticized for inferring human motives.A. truceB. competitionC. mischanceD. coincidenceE. mishapF. armistice陈琦GRE团队 80313频道churlish & admirechurlish

7、：not polite<it would be churlish for any dinner guest to express anything but gratitude for his host's generous hospitality>脾气坏的，无礼的：boorish, clownish, classless, cloddish, loutish, uncouth陈琦GRE团队 80313频道churlish & admireadmire : to feel respect or approval for (someone or something);

8、to look at (something or someone) with enjoyment<I admire the way you handled such a touchy situation.>赞赏：appreciate, consider, esteem, regard, respect, set store by陈琦GRE团队80313频道churlish & admireThe politician was aspeaker whose debating skills were admired even by theshe outwitted.Blank

9、(i)A. cleverB. bashfulC. good-heartedBlank (ii)D. votersE. advisersF. opponents陈琦GRE团队80313频道churlish & admireOriginally (i)mainly by young, urban audiences, rap music was ultimately (ii)by its appreciative listeners of all ages across the country.Blank (i)A. admiredB. deridedC. relinquishedBlan

10、k (ii)D. condemnedE. instigatedF. embraced陈琦GRE团队 80313频道churlish & admire陈琦GRE团队 80313频道churlish & admire题源：journo-gurusBut it would be churlish not to admire these hacks for thriving in hard times. They produce big ideas that throw light on profound changes. And their books are manna from

11、heaven for a global business class grappling with dizzying challenges. Once the height of journalistic ambition was to shape political events. Now the cleverest journalists are shaping the business world as well. Not bad for a profession in terminal decline.陈琦GRE团队 80313频道advocate & analysisadvo

12、cate :to speak, plead, or argue in favor of;support<advocate traditional teaching methods>支持，提倡：back, champion, endorse, patronize陈琦GRE团队 80313频道advocate & analysisA firmof peace, Montana congresswoman Jeannette Rankin was the only lawmaker to the United States entry into both world wars.B

13、lank (i)A. guruB. spectatorC. advocateBlank (ii)D. supportE. restoreF. oppose陈琦GRE团队 80313频道advocate & analysisSince establishing the Childrens Defense Fund in 1973, Marian Wright Edelman has been an advocate, steadfast and constant.A. antitheticalB. unswervingC. dedicatedD. elusiveE. antagonist

14、icF. inhibiting陈琦GRE团队 80313频道advocate & analysis/06/an-american-iliad/陈琦GRE团队 80313频道advocate & analysis题源：6/an-american-iliad/Branch clearly admires the people, many of them obscure and uncelebrated, who risked their livelihood and property and lives to defy repression, but he is more a na

15、rrator than an advocate. Some say he should have engaged in more analysis of events, but he is wise to let facts speak for themselves.They are complex enough to prompt many kinds of interpretation, and he would bog down the complicated tale if he tried to adjudicate all their competing claims.陈琦GRE团

16、队 80313频道decline & healthdecline: to become lower in amount or less in number; to become worse in condition or quality; to say that you will not or cannot do something< The animal's numbers are declining rapidly.>：decadence, declension, declination,下降，degeneracy, degeneration, degradat

17、ion, descent, deterioration, devolution, downfall, downgrade, ebb, eclipse, fall陈琦GRE团队 80313频道decline & healthAlthough the theory that widespread lead poisoning contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire has gained, the evidence is still.Blank (i)A. disreputeBlank (ii)D. irrefutableB. impla

18、usibility E. systematicC. currencyF. inconclusive陈琦GRE团队 80313频道decline & healthdollimore/vehicles-of-dissatisfaction陈琦GRE团队 80313频道decline & health题源：dollimore/vehicles-of-dissatisfactionSandy McCreery argues in Autopia that traffic congestion, farfrom being a symptom of urban disease and s

19、ocial me is a mark of robust urban health: congestion promotesown,contemplation of our surroundings and takes us out of the race; it provides a shared experience, and thereby fulfills the essential task of the city.陈琦GRE团队 80313频道meeting & difficult & challengingchallenge: to say or show tha

20、t (something) may not be true, correct, or legal; to question the action or authority of (someone)< A number of doctors are challenging the study's claims.>: contest, dispute, impeach, oppugn,质疑，query, question, call in (or into) question陈琦GRE团队 80313频道meeting & difficult & challen

21、gingTheof Maria Irene Fornes play Mud - a realistic room perched on a dirt pile - challenges conventional interpretations of stage scenery.A. appealB. plotC. trialD. settingE. localeF. rehearsal陈琦GRE团队 80313频道meeting & difficult & challengingThe existence of environmental contamination is no

22、 longer a point of; government, industry, and the public agree that it is a serious problem.A. concernB. cooperationC. urgencyD. exigencyE. disputeF. dissension陈琦GRE团队 80313频道meeting & difficult & challenging8陈琦GRE团队 80313频道meeting & difficult & challenging题源：=8Some problems stem fro

23、m the esoteric nature of current research and the associated difficulty of finding sufficiently faithful terminology. Abstraction and complexity are not signs that a given scientific direction is wrong, as some commentators have suggested, but are instead a tribute to the success of human ingenuity

24、in meeting the increasingly complex challenges that nature presents. They can, however, make communication more difficult.陈琦GRE团队 80313频道irrelevant& extraneousirrelevant : not important or relating to what is being discussed right now : not relevant<irrelevant questions that merely disrupted

25、the classroom lesson>extraneous: not forming a necessary part of something : not important<the architect's streamlined modern style shunsany sort of extraneous ornamentation>不相关的，不恰当的 :immaterial, impertinent, inapplicable,inapposite, irrelative, beside the point, neither here nor there

26、, accidental, adventitious, alien, extrinsic, external, foreign, supervenient陈琦GRE团队 80313频道irrelevant& extraneousAlthough Virginia Woolf was a central figure in Londons established literary scene, she nevertheless perceived herself as being.A. renownedB. peripheralC. rationalD. salutaryE. margi

27、nalF. celebrated陈琦GRE团队 80313频道irrelevant& extraneousAn effective member of a debating team must focus clearly on theissue and avoidarguments.Blank (i)A. equivocalB. principalC. comprehensiveBlank (ii)D. obstreperousE. peripheralF. pertinent陈琦GRE团队 80313频道irrelevant& extraneousp.html?pagewan

28、ted=print陈琦GRE团队 80313频道irrelevant& extraneous题源：p.html?pagewanted=printNoise suppression can also play an important role in making cellphone networks more efficient, he said. When phones transmit extraneous noise beyond the speakers voices, precious network bandwidth is wasted, he said.陈琦GRE团队8

29、0313频道feigned & falsefeign : to give a false appearance of<I would never feign illness just to postpone a test.>false: not real or genuine;not true oraccurate; deliberately untrue; based on mistaken ideas<He registered at the hotel under a false name.>象，装出的样子: affect, assume, counter

30、feit,制dissemble, pretend, profess, sham, simulate,erroneous, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, invalid, unsound, untrue, untruthful, wrong,陈琦GRE团队 80313频道feigned & falseAlthough Johnson great enthusiasm for his employees' project, in reality his interest in the project was so as to be almost n

31、onexistent.A generated. redundant B displayed. preemptiveC expected. indiscriminate D feigned. perfunctoryE demanded. dispassionate陈琦GRE团队 80313频道feigned & falseActors in melodramas often emphasized tense moments by being, for example, raising their voices and pretending to swoon.A. ardentB. the

32、atricalC. convivialD. histrionicE. solicitousF. inscrutable陈琦GRE团队 80313频道feigned & false陈琦GRE团队 80313频道ds/feigned & false题源：rds/Articulacy is typically regarded as an aggressivent. But forme its functions were substantively defensive: rhetoricalflexibility allows for a certain feigned close

33、nessconveying proximity while maintaining distance.陈琦GRE团队 80313频道portend & predictportend : to be a sign or warning that something usually bad or unpleasant is going to happen<If you're superstitious, a black cat portends trouble.>predict: to say that (something) will or might happen

34、in the future<All the local forecasters are predicting rain for this afternoon.>预示，预兆: augury, censor, invocation, lucidity, metempsychosis, numinous, preternatural, augur, forecast, foretell, presage, prognosticate, prophesy,陈琦GRE团队 80313频道portend & predictTo avoid being, composer Stephen

35、 Sondheim strives for an element of surprise in his songs.A. erraticB. forecastableC. eccentricD. predictableE. idiosyncraticF. informal陈琦GRE团队 80313频道portend & predictSome scientists believe that Adelie penguins may be of global warming, that their population decline may presage climatic change

36、s throughout Antarctic.A. figmentsB. purveyorsC. derivativesD. heraldsE. harbingersF. by-products陈琦GRE团队80313频道rapacious & avariciousrapacious:having a huge appetite; excessivelygrasping or covetous<Some companies arerapacious and hardly looking for the long-term value.>avaricious: greedy

37、of gain <an avaricious scheme to con the elderly couple out of thousands of dollars>贪食的，贪婪的：edacious, esurient, gluttonous, greedy, ravenous, voracious, acquisitive, acquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, grasping, mercenary, moneygrubbing, grabby陈琦GRE团队 80313频道rapacious & avar

38、iciousAfter her long, arduous hike, Hillary was: she wanted to eat until she could eat no more.A. enervatedB. voraciousC. dehydratedD. ecstaticE. ravenousF. desiccated陈琦GRE团队80313频道陈琦GRE团队 80313频道boast ofcomitychurlish admirean advocate analysis of eventsdecline healthmeeting difficult challengingir

39、relevant extraneousfeigned falseportend predictrapacious avaricious陈琦GRE团队 80313频道abbreviateddocumentaryprovincialism less contingent oninadequate secondhanddetectable violent minusculeoperate outside of activemaintaincomplicated knottywaning declininginflammatory provocativeinaccessible opaqueabbre

40、viatedabbreviate : to make briefer< abbreviate the word “ building” as “bldg.”>缩写，缩短：abridge, curtail, cut back, syncopate, truncate陈琦GRE团队 80313频道abbreviatedCity leaders practicedout of respect for taxpayers,the number of new public projects.Blank (i)A. profligacyB. mendacityC. austerityBlank

41、 (ii)D. curtailingE. extollingF. augmenting陈琦GRE团队 80313频道abbreviatedTo avoid annihilation by parasites, some caterpillars are able toperiods of active growth by prematurely entering a dormant state, which is characterized by theof feeding.(A) curtail. suspension(B) foster. continuation(C) prevent.

42、stimulation(D) mediate. synthesis(E) invert. simulation陈琦GRE团队 80313频道documentarydocumentary: downconsisting of documents : written<a documentary film about the surprise attack onPearl Harbor>的: factual, hard, historical, literal,的，matter-of-fact, nonfictional, objective, true陈琦GRE团队 80313频道do

43、cumentaryThe Wild Parrots of Telegraphy Hill is only about birds; despite its title, the documentary actually examines human relationships.A. ostensiblyB. distinctivelyC. seeminglyD. salientlyE. noticeablyF. intelligibly陈琦GRE团队80313频道documentaryLan Cao describes her novel Monkey Bridge as autobiogra

44、phical in mood rather than fact, claiming it depicts, not, truth.Blank (i)A. poeticB. objectiveC. emotionalBlank (ii)D. romanticizedE. literalF.al陈琦GRE团队80313频道documentaryThe Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic ArtWorld陈琦GRE团队 80313频道documentaryThe Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Plura

45、listic ArtWorld陈琦GRE团队 80313频道documentaryThe Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art WorldThe paintings of Mughal India, particularly under thepatronage of its greatest ruler, were reportorial in ambition but ornamental in presentation. So in onedirection they have an affiwith photographs

46、, while inthe other they have the intricacy of jewels.陈琦GRE团队 80313频道provincialism & contingentprovincial: limited in perspective; narrow and self-centered<an artist who has been criticized for being veryprovincial>狭隘的：illiberal, insular, parochial, sectarian,narrow-minded陈琦GRE团队 80313频道pr

47、ovincialism & contingentThe speaker announced that her primary focus would be on broad global concerns rather than onissues.A. parochialB. substantiveC. disputatiousD. contentiousE. contemporaryF. insular陈琦GRE团队 80313频道provincialism & contingentcontingent: depending on something else that mi

48、ght or might not happen<Payment is contingent on fulfillment of certain conditions.>陈琦GRE团队 80313频道provincialism & contingentManipulating laboratory tissue cultures with hormones is one thing; using hormones to treat human beings, however, is contingent on whether hormones thatin the labor

49、atory can affectorganisms, and in predictable ways.(A) develop. similar(B) succeed. simple(C) fail. cellular(D) work. whole(E) reproduce. unknown陈琦GRE团队80313频道inadequate & secondhandinadequate : not enough or not good enough : not adequate<These supplies are inadequate to meet our needs.>不

50、充足的，不适当的：deficient, short, insufficient, lacking, low, scarce, shy, wanting陈琦GRE团队 80313频道inadequate & secondhandFarming had been profitable on the Great Plains for many decades, but by 1938agricultural practices and years of inadequate precipitation hadthe land.Blank (i)A. shrewdBlank (ii)D. su

51、stainedB. conscientious E. denudedC. imprudentF. fertilized陈琦GRE团队 80313频道inadequate & secondhandBecause they make up just a small percent of all objects that fall to Earth, carbonaceous meteorites are considered.A. nonentityB. largeC. rareD. denseE. nonexistentF. scarce陈琦GRE团队80313频道inadequate

52、& secondhandsecondhand : having had a previous owner; buying or selling things that have already been owned or used; not original : taken from someone who was not directly involved<He's always haunting the secondhand shops for bargains.>二手的，间接的：derivative, secondary陈琦GRE团队 80313频道inade

53、quate & secondhandThe dancers performing style wasand, with each move taken from another artist, and poorly executed at that.Blank (i)A. pedestrianB. chaoticC. derivativeBlank (ii)D. evolvingE. unprecedentedF. inept陈琦GRE团队 80313频道inadequate & secondhandalexander-the-movie/陈琦GRE团队 80313频道inad

54、equate & secondhand3/alexander-the-movie/The controversy about hisality derives from the factthat our sources are famously inadequate, all eyewitness accounts having perished: what remains is, at best,secondhand (one history, for instance, is based largely on the now-lost memoirs of Alexanders g

55、eneral and alleged half- brother, Ptolemy, who went on to become the founder of the Egyptian dynasty that ended with Cleopatra), and at worst highly unreliable.陈琦GRE团队 80313频道detectable & violent & minusculedetect: to discover or notice the presence of (something that is hidden or hard to see, hear, taste, etc.)<detect alcohol in the blood>查明，发现：ascertain, descry, find, determine, dig out, dig up, discover, ferret, find out, get, learn, locate, nose out, root, run down, scare up