gre 词汇 攻略 GRE词汇备考攻略( 三 )


混乱:名词:chaos/confusion/ disorder / mayhem/ disarray/ havoc大面积的破坏-混乱 pandemonium 撒旦居住的地方 , 比喻嘈杂 , 混乱的地方/ shambles废墟/ turmoil 混乱 , 动荡/ upheaval突发的巨变
灾难:calamity/cataclysm/ catastrophe
危险 名词:danger/hazard/ peril
危险的:hazardous/perilous/ precarious/ treacherous
危及:动词endanger/ compromise/ imperil/ jeopardize
保护:protect =safeguar
GRE词汇重点解析:supplant
supplant: to take the place of
1) to take the place of, especially by force, through treachery, or through superiority
2) to take the place of; supersede
1. The rebels overthrew the government, only to supplant one tyranny with another.
2. Can you supplant my position if I cannot play?
3. The ancestry of the piano can be traced to the early keyboard instruments of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries – the spinet, the dulcimer, and the virginal. In the seventeenth century the organ, the clavichord, and the harpsichord became the chief instruments of the keyboard group, a supremacy they maintained until the piano supplanted them at the end of the eighteenth century.
4. People who expect underground mass transit systems to gradually supplant out reliance on the automobile are not being realistic.
相近词汇:overthrow, succeed, supersede, undermine, uproot, displace, usurp
GRE词汇重点解析:torpid
torpid: 迟缓的|torpidity|dormant, apathetic, numb, sluggish, dull
1) being dormant; slow, sluggish
1 a : having lost motion or the power of exertion or feeling : DORMANT, NUMB b : sluggish in functioning or acting
2 : lacking in energy or vigor : APATHETIC, DULL
2) lethargic; sluggish; dormant
torpid <> ardent, ebullient, animated, vivacious; responsive, arduous
When we came upon the hibernating bear, it was in a torpid state.
A torpid animal does not act with energy.
The old, torpid dog spent most of his time sleeping.
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