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Ambler

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n.

someone who walks at a leisurely pace

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Excess

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More than the necessary amount

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Excrete

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排泄

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Pronounced

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Adj.

Very noticeable

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Perpetuate

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V.

To cause sth.(a mistaken idea, a bad situation or system) to continue

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Derived from…

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To develop or come from something else

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Impotently

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In a helpless and powerless manner.

I found myself impotently shouting.

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Tradeoff

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An exchange that occurs as a compromise

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Viscous

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Adj.
Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid.

Not all barrels of oil are alike. Crudes can be viscous like tar or so “light” they float on water.

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Retain

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Maintain; continue to have

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Chromatic

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Adj.
Related to colors; colorful.
Musical scales consisting only semitones

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Allot

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V.

分配（时间、金钱、地方…）

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Scribble

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Careless writings/drawings

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Subsequent

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Following; coming after something in time

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Replicate

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DIY someone else’s experiment, work, or research in the exact same way

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Cosmonaut

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An astronaut (especially Russian)

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Pretentious

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Adj.

wanting to be regarded as more impressive, successful, or important than they really are

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Culmination

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something important, that happens at the end of a long period of effort or development

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Concerning

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Relate to, about

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Catastrophe

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an unexpected disaster that causes great suffering or damage

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Habitat

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n.

The native and natural environment for an animal or plant

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Concerned with

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Care about

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Abyss

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A deep, empty hole

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Itinerary

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n.

a plan of a trip, including the route and the places that you will visit

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Meticulously

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very careful about small details, and always making sure that everything is done correctly

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Visceral

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Adj.

obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation. Deep feelings which are hard to control.

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Annotate

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V.

to add notes or comments to (a text, book, drawing, etc), to provide explanations or critical thoughts.

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Emerge

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Come out, come into view

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Temporal

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Relating to time

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Calibrate

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Mark with a standard scale of readings

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Welter

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n.

a large and confusing amount of something

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Access

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V.

To evaluate the value, quality, importance, or ability of…

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foolhardy

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adj.

Taking stupid and unnecessary risks

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implicitly

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adv.

含蓄地；毫不怀疑地

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dally

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v. 磨蹭；调情；虚度

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underpinning

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supporting; foundation, basis

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egregious

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adj. very noticeable especially for being bad or incorrect

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ineffable

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adj.

too great to be described in words; indescribable.

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presume

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v. 假定、推测

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presume to do sth.

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擅自做…

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plumb

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v. to examine (sth. mysterious/difficult) in a carefully & complete way in order to understand it. 探出究竟

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validate

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v. to prove/confirm sth. to be true, worthy, or justified; to make sth. officially & legally acceptable.

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hunch

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n. an intuitive guess or feeling

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glean

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v. to gather/collect (information/knowledge) slowly and gradually.

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shudder

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v. shake (uncontrollably) with fear, disgust, or coldness

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flutter

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v. to move up and down or from side to side with a lot of quick, light movements

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tantrum

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n. 脾气发作，无理取闹（尤指小孩）

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chortle

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v. to laugh in a way that shows you are very pleased

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peculiar

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adj. strange, unusual

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jerk

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v. to move with a quick sudden movement, or to make part of your body move in this way

51
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shudder

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v. shake (uncontrollably) with fear, disgust, or coldness

52
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flutter

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v. to move up and down or from side to side with a lot of quick, light movements

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tantrum

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n. 脾气发作，无理取闹（尤指小孩）

54
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chortle

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v. to laugh in a way that shows you are very pleased

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peculiar

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adj. strange, unusual

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jerk

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v. to move with a quick sudden movement, or to make part of your body move in this way

57
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huddle

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n. a group of people or things that are close together, but not arranged in any particular order, pattern, or system

58
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stroke

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抚摸(to pass the hand over gently) n. 击， 打(a hit)； 一笔， 一画(a line made by a single movement of a pen or brush)

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rattled

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adj. anxious & losing confidence

60
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pursed lips

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噘起的嘴唇

61
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flinch

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v. to draw back in fear, pain, or disgust

62
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exasperated

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adj. frustrated or angry because of something that is happening or something that another person is doing

63
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gingerly

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adv. very carefully

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groan

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v. to make a long, low sound because you are in pain, or because you are upset or unhappy about something

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slug / slug it out

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v. 用拳猛击 / 决一胜负

n. 鼻涕虫，子弹

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snarl

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v. 咆哮；陷入混乱纠结

67
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elapse

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v. 时间流逝、过去

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evolve

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v. 进化，逐渐演变

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predator

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n. 食肉动物；掠夺者

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advent

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n. …的出现、到来、问世

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sparse

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adj. 稀疏的，稀少的

72
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shoal

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n. 大量，大群（鱼）
n. 浅滩
v. 使…变浅

73
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doomed

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adj. 注定的，厄运的

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flock

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n. 一群

75
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engulf

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v. 吞没，吞噬

76
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lineage

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n. 血统，家族，后代

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bonanza

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n. 富源，兴旺

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protocol

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n. 礼节，协议

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pine

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v. miss & long for the return of..

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tripartite

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adj. 涉及三方的

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