背句子记gre单词（每天5个GRE单词）

背句子记gre单词（每天5个GRE单词）【例】He examined her work and found it wanting.他检查了她的作业，发现不合要求。We tried her cooking and found it to be very wanting.我们试了试她的厨艺，结果发现很不尽人意。【考法 2】adj.未达到要求的: not being up to standards or expectations【例】Grass is almost entirely wanting in that arid wasteland.那片荒漠几乎没有长一丝青草。【近】absent lacking missing nonexistent【反】existent present 存在的，出现的

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wanting

英 /ˈwɒntɪŋ/ 美 /ˈwɑːntɪŋ/

【考法1】adj.未出现的，缺少的: not present or in evidence

【例】Grass is almost entirely wanting in that arid wasteland.那片荒漠几乎没有长一丝青草。

【近】absent lacking missing nonexistent

【反】existent present 存在的，出现的

【考法 2】adj.未达到要求的: not being up to standards or expectations

【例】He examined her work and found it wanting.他检查了她的作业，发现不合要求。We tried her cooking and found it to be very wanting.我们试了试她的厨艺，结果发现很不尽人意。

【近】deficient dissatisfactory ill inferior lousy paltry poor unacceptable unsatisfactory wretched

【反】acceptable adequate passable tolerable 可接受的；satisfactory 令人满意的

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tantalize

英 /ˈtæntəlaɪz/ 美 /ˈtæntəlaɪz/

【考法1】vt.激起，挑逗: to excite (another) by exposing something desirable while keeping it out of reach

【例】He was tantalized by the possibility of earning a lot of money quickly.有人用迅速致富挑逗他。

【反】comfort console solace alleviate assuage relieve satiate 安慰，缓和

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rouse

英 /raʊz/ 美 /raʊz/

【考法1】v.激起，煽动: to stir up

【例】He was roused to fury.他大为光火。

【近】agitate excite motivate provoke stimulate

【反】allay alleviate assuage ease mitigate mollify palliate relieve soothe 平息，缓和

【考法 2】v.唤醒: to cause to stop sleeping

【例】The piercing siren roused her from a deep sleep 剌耳的警笛声将她从沉睡中唤醒。

【近】arouse awake awaken waken

【反】lull使睡着

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askew

英 /əˈskjuː/ 美 /əˈskjuː/

【考法1】adj.不成直线，歪的: out of line awry

【例】The picture hung askew画挂歪了。

【例】His tie was askew他的领带歪了。

【近】crooked cockeyed oblique lopsided skewed aslant slanted slanting listing tilted awry

【反】aligned列成一行的；straight erect直的

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penury

英 /ˈpenjəri/ 美 /ˈpenjəri/

【考法1】n.贫穷: extreme dearth; barrenness or insufficiency

【例】Some have pessimistically regarded the higher education in China as an invisible and irresistible path to penury.有人悲观地把中国的高等教育看作是一条通往贫穷的通道——无形但不可抗拒

【近】destitution impecuniosity impoverishment indigence neediness poorness poverty want

【反】affluence opulence richness wealth 富裕

【考法 2】n.吝啬，节俭: extreme and often niggardly frugality

【例】They bitterly complained about their father's penury.他们哀怨地抱怨父亲的节俭

【近】closeness miserliness niggardliness parsimony penuriousness stinginess tightfistedness tightness

【反】generosity largesse munificence openhandedness philanthropy 慷慨的

【派】penurious adj.贫穷的；吝啬的