GRE词汇微课堂详解黄金形近词2Word文档格式.docx

1、 If someone stifles something you consider to be a good thing, they prevent it from continuing.（=repress）If you stifle your natural feelings or behavior, you prevent yourself from having those feelings or behaving in that way.（=suppress）42. retrench / entrenchretrench： If a person or organization re

2、trenches, they spend less money. （FORMAL）entrench： If something such as power, a custom, or an idea is entrenched, it is firmly established, so that it would be difficult to change it.43. pejorative / prerogativepejorative： A pejorative word or expression is one that expresses criticism of someone o

3、r something. （FORMAL）prerogative： If something is the prerogative of a particular person or group, it is a privilege or a power that only they have. （FORMAL）44. patent / latent / salient / valiantlatent： Latent is used to describe something which is hidden and not obvious at the moment, but which ma

4、y develop further in the future.salient： The salient points or facts of a situation are the most important ones. （FORMAL）valiant： A valiant action is very brave and determined, though it may lead to failure or defeat.45. imminent / preeminent / prominent / eminentimminent： If you say that something

5、is imminent, especially something unpleasant, you mean it is almost certain to happen very soon.preeminent： If someone or something is pre-eminent in a group, they are more important, powerful, or capable than other people or things in the group. （FORMAL）prominent： important.46. loutish / outlandish

6、loutish： If you describe a man or a boy as loutish, you are critical of them because their behavior is impolite and aggressive.47. sprout / spout / flout / pout / toutsprout： start to growspout： A spout of liquid is a long stream of it which is coming out of something very forcefully.（ = jet）If you

7、say that a person spouts something, you disapprove of them because they say something which you do not agree with or which you think they do not honestly feel.flout： If you flout something such as a law, an order, or an accepted way of behaving, you deliberately do not obey it or follow it.pout： If

8、someone pouts, they stick out their lips, usually in order to show that they are annoyed or to make themselves sexually attractive.tout： If someone touts something, they try to sell it or convince people that it is good.If someone touts for business or custom, they try to obtain it. （mainly BRIT）48.

9、 flout / flauntflaunt： If you say that someone flaunts their possessions, abilities, or qualities, you mean that they display them in a very obvious way, especially in order to try to obtain other peoples admiration.flout - 蔑视49. apt / opt / adept / adapt / adoptopt： If you opt for something, or opt

10、 to do something, you choose it or decide to do it in preference to anything else.apt：（1） 合适的（2）有倾向的（3） 聪敏的50. swift / sift / rift / drift / thriftsift： If you sift through something such as evidence, you examine it thoroughly.rift： A rift between people or countries is a serious quarrel or disagree

11、ment that stops them having a good relationship.swift - 快速的thrift - 节约的drift - 漂移51. wary / chary / awrychary： If you are chary of doing something, you are fairly cautious about doing it.awry： If something goes awry, it does not happen in the way it was planned.wary - 谨慎的52. ignoble（卑鄙的） / ignorable

12、（可忽略的）53. glib / glide / gild / goadglib： If you describe what someone says as glib, you disapprove of it because it implies that something is simple or easy, or that there are no problems involved, when this is not the case.glide： If you glide somewhere, you move silently and in a smooth and effort

13、less way.gild： If you gild a surface, you cover it in a thin layer of gold or gold paint.goad： If you goad someone, you deliberately make them feel angry or irritated, often causing them to react by doing something.54. voracious / veraciousvoracious： If you describe a person, or their appetite for s

14、omething, asvoracious, you mean that they want a lot of something. （LITERARY）veracious： truthful, honest.55. ingenuous / ingenious / indigent / indigenousingenuous： If you describe someone as ingenuous, you mean that they are innocent, trusting, and honest. （FORMAL）ingenious： Something that is ingenious is very clever and involves new ideas, methods, or equipment.indigent： Someone who is indigent is very poor. （FORMAL）indigenous： Indigenous people or things belong to the country in which they are found, rather than coming there or being brought there from another country. （FORMAL）（