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Question 1

gouge

Answer 1

gouge​V. /挖出；撕下/tear out. In that fight, all the rules were forgotten; the adversaries bit, kicked, and tried to gouge each other’s eyes out.

Question 2

gourmand

Answer 2

gourmand​N. /老饕/epicure; person who takes excessive pleasure in food and drink. Gourmands lack self-restraint; if they enjoy a particular cuisine, they eat far too much of it.

Question 3

graduated

Answer 3

graduated​ADJ. /分级；排序/arranged by degrees (of height, difficulty, etc.). Margaret loved her graduated set of Russian hollow wooden dolls; she spent hours happily putting the smaller dolls into their larger counterparts.

Question 4

graft

Answer 4

graft​N. /移植；移植物；嫁接/piece of transplanted tissue; portion of plant inserted in another plant. After the fire, Greg required skin grafts to replace the badly damaged areas on his forearms. alsoV.

Question 5

grandeur

Answer 5

grandeur​N. /庄严，伟大，威严/impressiveness; stateliness; majesty. No matter how often he hiked through the mountains, David never failed to be struck by the grandeur of the Sierra Nevada range.

Question 6

grandiloquent

Answer 6

grandiloquent​ADJ. /语言夸张的；词藻浮华的/pompous; bombastic; using highsounding language. The politician could never speak simply; she was always grandiloquent.

Question 7

granulate

Answer 7

granulate​V. /粒化/form into grains. Sugar that has been granulated dissolves more readily than lump sugar. granule, N.

Question 8

grapple

Answer 8

grapple​V. /格斗，摔跤/wrestle; come to grips with. He grappled with the burglar and overpowered him.

Question 9

grate

Answer 9

grate​V. /磨碎；惹恼；因摩擦发出的刺耳声音/make a harsh noise; have an unpleasant effect; shred. The screams of the quarreling children grated on her nerves.

Question 10

gratis

Answer 10

gratis​ADJ. /免费的/free. The company offered to give one package gratis to every purchaser of one of their products. alsoADJ.

Question 11

gregarious

Answer 11

gregarious​ADJ. /社交的；群居/sociable. Typically, partygoers are gregarious; hermits are not.

Question 12

grievance

Answer 12

grievance ​N. /委屈；冤情；不平/cause of complaint. When her supervisor ignored her complaint, she took her grievance to the union.

Question 13

grill

Answer 13

grill​V. /盘问/question severely. In violation of the Miranda law, the police grilled the suspect for several hours before reading him his rights. (secondary meaning)

Question 14

grimace

Answer 14

grimace​N. /扭曲的脸；做鬼脸/a facial distortion to show feeling such as pain, disgust, etc. Even though he remained silent, his grimace indicated his displeasure. alsoV.

Question 15

grisly

Answer 15

grisly​ADJ. /毛骨悚然的；恐怖的，可怕的/ghastly. She shuddered at the grisly sight.

Question 16

grouse

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grouse​V. /发牢骚/complain; fuss. Students traditionally grouse about the abysmal quality of “mystery meat” and similar dormitory food.

Question 17

grotesque

Answer 17

grotesque​ADJ. /稀奇古怪的；怪异/fantastic; comically hideous. On Halloween people enjoy wearing grotesque costumes.

Question 18

grove

Answer 18

grove​N. /小树林/group of trees (smaller than a forest); orchard. To the child, the small grove of oaks was as vast as Sherwood Forest, in which he played that legendary hero, Robin Hood.

Question 19

grovel

Answer 19

grovel​V. /趴，匍匐/crawl or creep on ground; remain prostrate. Even though we have been defeated, we do not have to grovel before our conquerors.

Question 20

gruel

Answer 20

gruel​V. /稀粥；极度紧张/liquid food made by boiling oatmeal, etc., in milk or water. Our daily allotment of gruel made the meal not only monotonous but also unpalatable.

Question 21

grueling

Answer 21

grueling​ADJ. /重罚；使其筋疲力尽/exhausting. The marathon is a grueling race.

Question 22

gruesome

Answer 22

gruesome​ADJ. /可怕的/grisly; horrible. His face was the stuff of nightmares: all the children in the audience screamed when Freddy Kruger’s gruesome countenance was flashed on the screen.

Question 23

gruff

Answer 23

gruff​ADJ. /粗糙的；粗暴的/rough-mannered. Although he was blunt and gruff with most people, he was always gentle with children.

Question 24

guffaw

Answer 24

guffaw​N. /狂笑，哄笑/boisterous laughter. The loud guffaws that came from the closed room indicated that the members of the committee had not yet settled down to serious business. alsoV.

Question 25

guile

Answer 25

guile ​N. /奸诈狡猾；诡计/deceit; duplicity; wiliness; cunning. lago uses considerable guile to trick Othello into believing that Desdemona has been unfaithful.

Question 26

guileless

Answer 26

guileless​ADJ. /诚实的/without deceit. He is naive, simple, and guileless; he cannot be guilty of fraud.

Question 27

guise

Answer 27

guise​N. /外观；装束/appearance; costume. In the guise of a plumber, the detective investigated the murder case.

Question 28

gustatory

Answer 28

gustatory​ADJ. /味觉的/affecting the sense of taste. The Thai restaurant offered an unusual gustatory experience for those used to a bland cuisine.

Question 29

gusto

Answer 29

gusto​N. /爱好，嗜好；喜欢/enjoyment; enthusiasm. He accepted the assignment with such gusto that I feel he would have been satisfied with a smaller salary.

Question 30

gusty

Answer 30

gusty​ADJ. /多风的/windy. The gusty weather made sailing precarious.

Question 31

hackneyed

Answer 31

hackneyed​ADJ. /常见的；不希罕，陈腐/commonplace; trite. When the reviewer criticized the movie for its hackneyed plot, we agreed; we had seen similar stories hundreds of times before.

Question 32

haggard

Answer 32

haggard​ADJ. /枯槁的；憔悴的/wasted away; gaunt. After his long illness, he was pale and haggard.

Question 33

haggle

Answer 33

haggle​V. /讨价还价/argue about prices. I prefer to shop in a store that has a one-price policy because, whenever I haggle with a shopkeeper, I am never certain that I paid a fair price for the articles I purchased.

Question 34

hallucination

Answer 34

hallucination​N. /幻觉，幻想/delusion. I think you were frightened by a hallucination you created in your own mind.

Question 35

halting

Answer 35

halting​ADJ. /犹豫的/hesitant; faltering. Novice extemporaneous speakers often talk in a halting fashion as they grope for the right words.

Question 36

haphazard

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haphazard​ADJ. /随机的/random; by chance. His haphazard reading left him unacquainted with the authors of the books.

Question 37

harangue

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harangue​N. /夸大的讲话/noisy speech. In her lengthy harangue, the principal berated the offenders. alsoV.

Question 38

harbinger

Answer 38

harbinger​N. /先驱/forerunner. The crocus is an early harbinger of spring.

Question 39

harbor

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harbor​V. /庇护；隐藏/provide a refuge for; hide. The church harbored illegal aliens who were political refugees.

Question 40

hardy

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hardy​ADJ. /艰苦的；勇敢的/sturdy; robust; able to stand inclement weather. We asked the gardening expert to recommend particularly hardy plants that could withstand our harsh New England winters.

Question 41

haughtiness

Answer 41

haughtiness ​N. /傲慢；不逊/pride; arrogance. When she realized that Darcy believed himself too good to dance with his inferiors, Elizabeth took great offense at his haughtiness.

Question 42

hazy

Answer 42

hazy​ADJ. /朦胧的；模糊的/slightly obscure. In hazy weather, you cannot see the top of this mountain.

Question 43

headlong

Answer 43

headlong​ADJ. /轻率的/hasty; rash. The slave seized the unexpected chance to make a headlong dash across the border to freedom.

Question 44

headstrong

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headstrong​ADJ. /硬脖子；任性；不屈/stubborn; willful; unyielding. Because she refused to marry the man her parents had chosen for her, everyone scolded Minna and called her a foolish headstrong girl.

Question 45

heckler

Answer 45

heckler​N. /质问者/person who harasses others. The heckler kept interrupting the speaker with rude remarks. heckle,V.

Question 46

heedless

Answer 46

heedless​ADJ. /轻蔑的；不理睬的/not noticing; disregarding. He drove on, heedless of the danger warnings placed at the side of the road.

Question 47

heinous

Answer 47

heinous​ADJ. /可恶的，令人深恶痛绝/atrocious; hatefully bad. Hitler’s heinous crimes will never be forgotten.

Question 48

herbivorous

Answer 48

herbivorous​ADJ. /吃粮食的（动物）/grain-eating. Some herbivorous animals have two stomachs for digesting their food.

Question 49

heresy

Answer 49

heresy​N. /少数意见，异端/opinion contrary to popular belief; opinion contrary to accepted religion. Galileo’s assertion that the earth moved around the sun directly contradicted the religious teachings of his day; as a result, he was tried for heresy. heretic, N.

Question 50

hermetic

Answer 50

hermetic​ADJ. /密封的，气密的/sealed by fusion so as to be airtight. After you sterilize the bandages, place them in a container and seal it with a hermetic seal to protect them from contamination by airborne bacteria.

Question 51

hermitage

Answer 51

hermitage​N. /隐居的居所/home of a hermit. Even in his remote hermitage he could not escape completely from the world.

Question 52

heterodox

Answer 52

heterodox​ADJ. /非主流；异端/unorthodox; unconventional. To those who upheld the belief that the earth did not move, Galileo’s theory that the earth circled the sun was disturbingly heterodox.

Question 53

heterogeneous

Answer 53

heterogeneous​ADJ. /异类，异种；不纯/dissimilar; mixed. This year’s entering class is a remarkably heterogeneous body: it includes students from forty different states and twenty-six foreign countries, some the children of billionaires, others the offspring of welfare families. heterogenity, N.

Question 54

heyday

Answer 54

heyday ​N. /鼎盛时期/time of greatest success; prime. In their heyday, the San Francisco Forty-Niners won the Super Bowl two years running.

Question 55

hiatus

Answer 55

hiatus​N. /缝隙；短暂的空白/gap; interruption in duration or continuity; pause. During the summer hiatus, many students try to earn enough money to pay their tuition for the next school year.