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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
very careful about small details, and always making sure that everything is done correctly
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Visceral
Adj. | obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation. Deep feelings which are hard to control.
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Annotate
V. | to add notes or comments to (a text, book, drawing, etc), to provide explanations or critical thoughts.
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Emerge
Come out, come into view
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Temporal
Relating to time
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Calibrate
Mark with a standard scale of readings
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Welter
n. | a large and confusing amount of something
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Access
V. | To evaluate the value, quality, importance, or ability of...
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foolhardy
adj. | Taking stupid and unnecessary risks
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implicitly
adv. | 含蓄地；毫不怀疑地
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dally
v. 磨蹭；调情；虚度
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underpinning
supporting; foundation, basis
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egregious
adj. very noticeable especially for being bad or incorrect
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ineffable
adj. | too great to be described in words; indescribable.
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presume
v. 假定、推测
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presume to do sth.
擅自做...
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plumb
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
v. to prove/confirm sth. to be true, worthy, or justified; to make sth. officially & legally acceptable.
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hunch
n. an intuitive guess or feeling
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glean
v. to gather/collect (information/knowledge) slowly and gradually.
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shudder
v. shake (uncontrollably) with fear, disgust, or coldness
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flutter
v. to move up and down or from side to side with a lot of quick, light movements
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tantrum
n. 脾气发作，无理取闹（尤指小孩）
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chortle
v. to laugh in a way that shows you are very pleased
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peculiar
adj. strange, unusual
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jerk
v. to move with a quick sudden movement, or to make part of your body move in this way
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shudder
v. shake (uncontrollably) with fear, disgust, or coldness
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flutter
v. to move up and down or from side to side with a lot of quick, light movements
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tantrum
n. 脾气发作，无理取闹（尤指小孩）
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chortle
v. to laugh in a way that shows you are very pleased
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peculiar
adj. strange, unusual
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jerk
v. to move with a quick sudden movement, or to make part of your body move in this way
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huddle
n. a group of people or things that are close together, but not arranged in any particular order, pattern, or system
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stroke
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
adj. anxious & losing confidence
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pursed lips
噘起的嘴唇
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flinch
v. to draw back in fear, pain, or disgust
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exasperated
adj. frustrated or angry because of something that is happening or something that another person is doing
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gingerly
adv. very carefully
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groan
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
v. 用拳猛击 / 决一胜负 | n. 鼻涕虫，子弹
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snarl
v. 咆哮；陷入混乱纠结
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elapse
v. 时间流逝、过去
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evolve
v. 进化，逐渐演变
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predator
n. 食肉动物；掠夺者
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advent
n. ...的出现、到来、问世
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sparse
adj. 稀疏的，稀少的
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shoal
n. 大量，大群（鱼） n. 浅滩 v. 使...变浅
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doomed
adj. 注定的，厄运的
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flock
n. 一群
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engulf
v. 吞没，吞噬
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lineage
n. 血统，家族，后代
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bonanza
n. 富源，兴旺
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protocol
n. 礼节，协议
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pine
v. miss & long for the return of..
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tripartite
adj. 涉及三方的

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