List 22 Flashcards
gouge
gougeV. /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.
gourmand
gourmandN. /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.
graduated
graduatedADJ. /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.
graft
graftN. /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.
grandeur
grandeurN. /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.
grandiloquent
grandiloquentADJ. /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.
granulate
granulateV. /粒化/form into grains. Sugar that has been granulated dissolves more readily than lump sugar. granule, N.
grapple
grappleV. /格斗，摔跤/wrestle; come to grips with. He grappled with the burglar and overpowered him.
grate
grateV. /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.
gratis
gratisADJ. /免费的/free. The company offered to give one package gratis to every purchaser of one of their products. alsoADJ.
gregarious
gregariousADJ. /社交的；群居/sociable. Typically, partygoers are gregarious; hermits are not.
grievance
grievance N. /委屈；冤情；不平/cause of complaint. When her supervisor ignored her complaint, she took her grievance to the union.
grill
grillV. /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)
grimace
grimaceN. /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.
grisly
grislyADJ. /毛骨悚然的；恐怖的，可怕的/ghastly. She shuddered at the grisly sight.
grouse
grouseV. /发牢骚/complain; fuss. Students traditionally grouse about the abysmal quality of “mystery meat” and similar dormitory food.
grotesque
grotesqueADJ. /稀奇古怪的；怪异/fantastic; comically hideous. On Halloween people enjoy wearing grotesque costumes.
grove
groveN. /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.
grovel
grovelV. /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.
gruel
gruelV. /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.
grueling
gruelingADJ. /重罚；使其筋疲力尽/exhausting. The marathon is a grueling race.
gruesome
gruesomeADJ. /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.
gruff
gruffADJ. /粗糙的；粗暴的/rough-mannered. Although he was blunt and gruff with most people, he was always gentle with children.
guffaw
guffawN. /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.
guile
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.
guileless
guilelessADJ. /诚实的/without deceit. He is naive, simple, and guileless; he cannot be guilty of fraud.
guise
guiseN. /外观；装束/appearance; costume. In the guise of a plumber, the detective investigated the murder case.
gustatory
gustatoryADJ. /味觉的/affecting the sense of taste. The Thai restaurant offered an unusual gustatory experience for those used to a bland cuisine.
gusto
gustoN. /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.
gusty
gustyADJ. /多风的/windy. The gusty weather made sailing precarious.
hackneyed
hackneyedADJ. /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.
haggard
haggardADJ. /枯槁的；憔悴的/wasted away; gaunt. After his long illness, he was pale and haggard.
haggle
haggleV. /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.
hallucination
hallucinationN. /幻觉，幻想/delusion. I think you were frightened by a hallucination you created in your own mind.
halting
haltingADJ. /犹豫的/hesitant; faltering. Novice extemporaneous speakers often talk in a halting fashion as they grope for the right words.
haphazard
haphazardADJ. /随机的/random; by chance. His haphazard reading left him unacquainted with the authors of the books.
harangue
harangueN. /夸大的讲话/noisy speech. In her lengthy harangue, the principal berated the offenders. alsoV.
harbinger
harbingerN. /先驱/forerunner. The crocus is an early harbinger of spring.
harbor
harborV. /庇护；隐藏/provide a refuge for; hide. The church harbored illegal aliens who were political refugees.
hardy
hardyADJ. /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.
haughtiness
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.
hazy
hazyADJ. /朦胧的；模糊的/slightly obscure. In hazy weather, you cannot see the top of this mountain.
headlong
headlongADJ. /轻率的/hasty; rash. The slave seized the unexpected chance to make a headlong dash across the border to freedom.
headstrong
headstrongADJ. /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.
heckler
hecklerN. /质问者/person who harasses others. The heckler kept interrupting the speaker with rude remarks. heckle,V.
heedless
heedlessADJ. /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.
heinous
heinousADJ. /可恶的，令人深恶痛绝/atrocious; hatefully bad. Hitler’s heinous crimes will never be forgotten.
herbivorous
herbivorousADJ. /吃粮食的（动物）/grain-eating. Some herbivorous animals have two stomachs for digesting their food.
heresy
heresyN. /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.
hermetic
hermeticADJ. /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.
hermitage
hermitageN. /隐居的居所/home of a hermit. Even in his remote hermitage he could not escape completely from the world.
heterodox
heterodoxADJ. /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.
heterogeneous
heterogeneousADJ. /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.
heyday
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.
hiatus
hiatusN. /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.
