Kaplan 8 #2 Flashcards
enervated
使无力的，使衰弱的
the scorching sun enervated her
ravaged
devastates, ruined
a ravaged landscape
bourgeois
中产阶级的，资产的
extant
现存的
Germane
有密切关系的
Those factors are not germane to the present discussion
Inviolable
不可侵犯，不可亵渎的
natty
整洁时髦的；设计轻巧的
a natty blue blazer and designer jeans
germane
有密切关系的
these factors are not germane to the present discussion
natty
整洁时髦的，敏捷的
a natty blue blazer
profligate
挥霍的，浪费的
rapacious
贪婪的
sententious
说教式的，警句的，格言的
he tried to encourage his men with sententious rhetoric
obsequious
谄媚的，奉承的
panacea
万能药
debacle
溃败
failure, fiasco, catastrophe
the economic debacle
euphemism
委婉语，婉转说法
evanescent
逐渐消失的；
转瞬即逝的 ephemeral, transitory
sanguine
乐观的
he is sanguine about the remorseless advancement of information technology
dogmatic
教条的
disinterested
公正 无私 的
unbiased, impartial, nonpartisan
sinister
阴险，邪恶，恶意的
there was a sinister undertone in his words
saccharine
故做多情的，过分甜蜜的
too sentimental & sweet
some saccharine love songs
scurrilous
恶意诽谤的；下流的
a scurrilous attack on his integrity
dulcet
悦耳的
dulcet tones
comely
秀丽的
a comely young woman
facile
轻率的，肤浅的；容易做到的
that’s too facile an explanation
she achieved a facile six-length victory
inscrutable
难以捉摸的
ingenuous
天真的，直率坦诚的
spendthrift
挥霍者/挥霍的
he is a notorious spendthrift
his spendthrift father
prodigal
挥霍的，浪费的
miser
守财奴，吝啬鬼
hedonist
pleasure seeker，爱奢侈享受的人
people who believe that the pursue of pleasure is the most important thing in life
skinflint
吝啬鬼
epicure
美食家
a person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink
ablated
remove
- ablade cancer cells
- drying wind slowly abode away the ice
attenuated
thin; weakened
he rippled his attenuated finger in the air
the radiation of the sun is attenuated by the earth’s atmosphere
bedizened
过分的打扮， gaudily
a dressed bedizened with …
caparisoned
马衣；盛装打扮
extirpated
连根拔起；根除
fomented
挑起，instigate
they are accused of fomenting civil unrest
