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"叩拜"
small group of people united secretly to promote their interests |
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"(hide) cash"
hiding place; something hidden |
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superior status; prestige |
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cacophony n.
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"caco-phon-y; bad sound"
jarring, unpleasant noise |
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"cade=fall, ex: cascade"
a fall at the end of sentance, voice or music
balanced, rhythmic flow; the measure or beat of movement |
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"caj-cage, jole-joy; lead into cage use joy"
to flatter, coax, persuade |
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calamitous adj.
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"(skin) become stone"
thick-skinned, insensitive |
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| false and malicious accusation, slander |
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"from comrade=roommate"
good will and rapport among friends |
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"看那"
false, deliberately misleading rumor or story |
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"cand=white, pure"
honest in expression |
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"very able to"
intelligent |
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"can-on, sth can (bring） on"
an established principle; standard for judging; an authoritative list
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"from canon; make it canon"
to declare a person a saint, raise to highest honors |
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"can't; normally can't speak"
insincere talk; language of a particular group |
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看他饿死
irritable; ill-humored, bad-tempered |
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"can-V-ass, an ass can win"
to examine thoroughly 细查; conduct a poll 拉选票 |
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"capac-hold, ex: capacity"
large, roomy |
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| "capit=head; head down -->" to surrender |
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capricious adj.
caprice n. |
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| impulsive and unpredictable |
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"cap-ti-ous: capture tiny things"
faultfinding intended to entrap, as in argument |
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| "cardi=heart -->" of foremost importance |
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"carn-flesh: ex: carnivorous=flesh eating"
of the flesh |
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| constantly complaining or being naggingly critical, captious |
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| to punish, chastise, criticize |
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| false or excessively subtle reasoning, 诡辩 |
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"cata-clysm: wash downward --> flood"
violent upheaval that causes great destruction and change |
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| absolute, without exception |
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causal adj.
causality n.
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involving a cause
cause-and-effect relationship
the causing of an effect, the relation of cause and effect
functioning as a cause |
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"caus=burn; 烤死他"
sarcastically biting, burning |
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| 骑士， disregard, dismissive |
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| a warning, a qualification or explanation |
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| to surrender possession of something, 割让 |
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"celest=sky"
concerning the sky or heaven; sublime |
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from "censor, 审查"
severely critical, captious, carping |
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"cert=certain"
assurance, certainty |
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"cess=yield, cession=割让，转让"
halt, cease |
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charisma n.
charismatic adj. |
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"cha-ris-ma: china rises Mao"
personal magnetism or charm |
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| not having experienced sexual |
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chauvinism n.
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| fanatical patriotism ("fatherland"); prejudiced belief in the superiority of a certain group， 沙文主义，过分爱国主义 |
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"cherub=small angel"
sweet, innocent, resembling an angel |
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"chi-can-ery: cheat can run"
trickey, fraud |
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chimera n.
chimerical adj. |
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"she-goat" monster
sth that is fantastic, fanciful |
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chivalry n.
chivalrous adj. |
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from "cavalier"
the qualities idealized by knighthood such as bravery and gallantry toward woman |
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"choler=bile"
short-tempered |
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"chrom=color"
relating to color |
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"chron=time"
record of historical events (based on time) |
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"cipher=zero"
secret code; ex: decipher, encipher
non-entity; worthless person or things |
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"locut=speak"
indirect way of saying something |
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circumscribe v.
circumcription n. |
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"to draw a circle around"
to limit narrowly; restrict |
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"come around"
to avoid by clever maneuvering (plan) |
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clairvoyance n.
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"clear-vision"
able to predict the future, psychic |
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"clan=宗派，家族； destine=命中注定"
secretive |
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"claustro=cloister, closed space"
fear of small confined places |
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| an overused exression or idea |
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"co-al-esce; ally together"
to cause to become one, to unite or merge into a single body |
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| a combination, union, an alliance |
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| concluding part of literary or muscial composition; something that summarized or concludes |
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"from code"
systematization |
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coercion n.
coerce v.
coercive adj. |
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| use of force, government by force 强迫，高压统治 |
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| convincing; logically compelling |
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| to think carefully; ponder, meditate, comtemplate |
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"cog-nate; born together"
related, similar
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cognition n.
cognitive adj. |
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| mental process by which knowledge is acquired |
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cognizant adj.
cognizance n. |
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"cogni=apprehend"
informed; conscious; aware |
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"nomen=name"
a surname; a nickname |
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coherent adj.
coherence n. |
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| intelligible, understanablel sticking together |
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| artistic composition of materials pasted over a surface; an assemblage of diverse elements |
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| accompanying or concomitant |
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colloquial adj.
colloquy n. |
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"loqu=speak, speak together"
typical of informal speech |
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"lude=play"
to make a secret agreement for deceitful purposes |
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"com-mensur-ate= measure as equal"
proportional |
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"miser=wretched, pitty"
expression of pity |
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| something that can be turned to commercial advantage |
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"pel=drive, push"
having a powerful effect; demanding attention |
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"pend=weight; weight is together"
a brief, comprehensive summary |
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complacent adj.
complacency n. |
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"plac=pleased"
self-statified |
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complaisant adj.
complaisance n. |
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"plais=pleased; can be praised"
overly polite; willing to please; obliging |
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complement n.
complementary adj. |
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| something that completes or makes up a whole |
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"compl=fill up; to fill up other people"
yielding |
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"plic-->police, sth bad"
partership in wrongdoing |
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"pos=put; all can put down"
mental calmness |
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"com-plus-ive, add all together"
obsessive, addictive, 强迫的 |
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"punct=prick, poke"
uneasiness caused by guilt |
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"con-cede"
to yield, admit |
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conciliate v.
conciliatory adj. |
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"similar to console, consolatory"
overcoming distrust or hostility |
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"coct=cook; cook together"
make by mixing ingredients
to invent a story, lie |
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"con-comi-tant; sth that comes together"
existing concurrently |
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concord n.
concordance n.
concur v. |
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"cord=heart / on a same cord"
harmony; agreement |
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"descend=downward"
to bestow courtesy with a superior air 轻慢 |
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"everything is done"
to overlook volunarily; forgive |
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"flue=flow"
meeting place, meeting of two streams |
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"form=shape; from conform 遵守"
harmony; agreement |
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| to battle, perplex; mix up, confuse; to puzzle and surprise sb. |
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"genial from genius"
similar in tastes and habits; friendly; suited to |
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"geni=gene"
existing at or before birth |
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conglomerate n.
conglomeration n. |
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"glomer=ball; together form a ball"
group of varied things |
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congruent adj.
congruous adj. |
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"gure=agree"
corresponding， having identical shape and size |
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"ject=throw; throw together and think"
speculation, prediction; conclusion reached without proof |
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"jugal=join for marria(g)e"
pertaining to marriage agreement |
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"jure=swear"
to evoke a spirit; bring to mind, 召唤，想起 |
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act of conspiring or scheming
共谋，默许 |
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"nois=know"
a person with refined taste 鉴赏家，行家 |
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"not=notice"
a meaning suggested by a word or thing |
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"sanguin=blood"
relationship by blood or by a common ancestor; close connection |
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from "conscience 良心，是非感; sci=know"
careful and thorough; governed by conscience |
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"write everyone's name"
to enroll for compulsory service 征兵 |
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"secr/sacr=holy"
to declare sacred |
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"sens=feeling; same feeling"
general agreement |
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"sign together / make with a seal"
to entrust; commit irrevocably |
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consonance n.
consonant adj. |
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"son=sound"
something consistent with; in agreement with sth else |
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| an association formed for joint venture, partnership 合伙 |
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"spic=look at"
very noticeable, striking |
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from constitute
part; citizen, voter |
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constraint n.
constrain v. |
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| sth that forces or restrains |
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"sum together"
accomplished, complete |
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"from contact"
a contagious disease |
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| belonging to the same period of time; current, modern |
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contemptuous adj.
contempt v.
contemptible adj. |
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| manifesting or feeling comtempt, to look down; scornful |
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contend v.
contention n.
contentious adj. |
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"tend=stretch"
to battle, compete, assert |
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"tig=touch"
touching; neighboring; connecting without a break |
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"from continent"
self-control |
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"contra-vene: come opposite"
to contradict, deny, act contrary to; violate |
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contrite adj.
contrition n. |
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"一起踹他"
very sorrowful for a wrong 悔罪的，痛悔的 |
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"from contrive=plan; contri + ve=go"
artificial; not spontaneous |
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"tum=tumor, come together like tumor"
disobedient; rebellious |
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"con-und-drum: all under the drum, 全蒙在鼓里"
riddle, puzzle with no solution |
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"val=strong, be well"
to return to health after illness; recuperate |
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"vene=come"
to meet, come together |
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the act of convicting someone who is guilty of a crime 定罪
a fixed belief |
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conviviality n.
convivial adj. |
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"vivi=live"
cheerfulness sociability |
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"voke=call"
to call together 召集 |
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"volut=roll"
twisted, complicated |
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"from copy"
abundant, plentiful |
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"cord=heart"
warm and sincere |
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"corn-->horn; copia=copious"
horn overflowing with fruit and grain, state of abundance |
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"corpor-real=real body"
relating to the body |
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corpulent adj.
corpulence n. |
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"corpu-lent=many bodies"
bulk body, fat |
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"body"
a large collection of writtings on a specific subject or of a specific kind |
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"robor=strengthen"
to support the correctness ofl make more certain |
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"rug=wrinkle"
wrinkled; ridged |
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| relating to beaudy; affecting only the surface |
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"cosmo-polit-an: people believes in universal cities"
sophisticated, free of local prejudices |
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"cosmo=universe"
physical universe regarding as a totality 宇宙 |
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"set everything for (child)"
to pamper |
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"termin=boundaries, end"
having common boundaries; contigunous; coextensive in scope or time |
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facial expression
to favor, support, approve |
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"oppose to command"
to annul, cancel |
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"酷"
a brillantly executed stratagem; coup d'etat |
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| to desire sth owned by another 贪求，妄想 |
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“a coy boy plays toy”
shy and flirtatious |
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relate to "coax 劝诱，哄劝"
to mislead by trick or fraud; deceive |
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"cred=believe"
acceptance of sth as true |
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| statement of belief of principle; creed |
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credulous adj.
credulity n. |
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"over trust"
gullible, trusting |
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| statement of belief or principle |
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"cre-scend-o: rise to crest (top)"
gradual increase in volume of sound |
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from "critical"
a critical commentary |
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"curse mud（妈的）"
ill-tempered, miserly person |
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"curs=run, work done like run through"
done with little attention to detail |
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"cut short" cursory
rudely brief, abrupt 简略而草率的 |
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"cut tail-->make short"
to cut short |
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"cyn=dog"
skeptical or distrustful of human motives， one who believes that human conduct is motivated by self-interest |
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"cyn-osur-e: dog tail"
object of common interest; guiding star (北极星) |
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| deep sleep, prolonged unconsciousness |
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commence v.
commencement n. |
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| to begin, start, orginate |
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to disguise in order to conceal
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"car=flesh, rouse=high (肉吃的很high)"
a noisy, merry drinking party |
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to unite or make firm by or as if by cement |
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深渊，大沟
a pronounced difference |
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| to warm by rubbing, to annoy (激怒) |
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incidental 不重要的，偶然的
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to obstruct; obstruction
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"cloe"
too much of sweetness |
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""from comedy"
using comedy, comedian |
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"com + memor"
to call to remembrance 纪念 |
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"com + mot (move) + tion"
violent motion, turbulence 骚动，动乱 |
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to change or exchange
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| keenly interesting, captivating 引起兴趣的 |
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"opposite to appendix"
a summary or abstract |
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competence n.
competent adj. |
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"pile=堆，叠"
to gather and put together 汇聚，编辑 |
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"prehend=hold"
to understand sth fully; include |
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"caten=chain"
to link together |
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"ceal=seal"
to hide, keep from being seen |
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| to imagine; to become pregnant |
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"con-(oc)cur"
to agree, to have the same opinion |
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"duit=duce"
a large pipe for fluid |
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"fine=end, limit"
restrain 限制，禁闭 |
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"fisc=money"
to seize private property for the public treasury 充公 |
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"flate=blow"
to combine or mix |
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| to face; to oppose defiantly or antagonistically |
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"geal=freeze"
to solidify or thicken by cooling or freezing |
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"sent=feeling"
to give agreement |
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"sternum, 胸骨"
great fear or shock |
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"from contain"
keeping sth. within limits |
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"tort=bend"
deform, to twist or wrench 扭曲，歪曲 |
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| familiar or acquainted 精通的，熟知的 |
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| carry, to make known to another person 转达 |
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"vulse=pull"
to shake or disturb violently, agitate 震动，震惊
骚动，痉挛 |
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| to destroy slowly by chemical action |
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"ter=boundary"
a close circle of friends who share a common interest or background 小团体 |
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| a binding and solemn agreement 契约 |
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to threat
to crouch or huddle up from fear or cold 畏缩，蜷缩
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small particles of bread or cake
to breaks into crumbs or small pieces |
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"crony=close friend"
favoritism shown to cronies as in political appointments to office 任人唯亲 |
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to shrink from danger or pain; to act in a timid, servile manner, fawn
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"crest=鸡冠"
dejected， disheartened， humbled 挫败的，失望的 |
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to fill beyond normal capacity
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queer, eccentric, unsteady
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| hinder, obstruct, burden 阻碍，不便，负担，累赘 |
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