List 23

Question 1

hibernal

Answer 1

hibernal​ADJ. /冬天的/wintry. Bears prepare for their long hibernal sleep by overeating.

Question 2

hindrance

Answer 2

hindrance​N. /障碍物/block; obstacle. Stalled cars along the highway are a hindrance to traffic that tow trucks should remove without delay. hinder,V.

Question 3

histrionic

Answer 3

histrionic​ADJ. /戏剧性的/theatrical. He was proud of his histrionic ability and wanted to play the role of Hamlet, histrionics, N.

Question 4

hoard

Answer 4

hoard​V. /储藏/stockpile; accumulate for future use. Whenever there are rumors of a food shortage, many people are tempted to hoard food. also N.

Question 5

hoary

Answer 5

hoary​ADJ. /灰白的/white with age. The man was hoary and wrinkled when he was 70.

Question 6

hodgepodge

Answer 6

hodgepodge​N. /大杂烩/jumble; mixture of ill-suited elements. The reviewer roundly condemned the play as a hodgepodge of random and purposeless encounters carried out by a cast lacking any uniformity of accent or style.

Question 7

holster

Answer 7

holster​N. /手枪套/pistol case. Even when he was not in uniform, he carried a holster and pistol under his arm.

Question 8

homage

Answer 8

homage​N. /敬意/honor; tribute. In her speech she tried to pay homage to a great man.

Question 9

hone

Answer 9

hone​V. /磨尖/sharpen. To make shaving easier, he honed his razor with great care.

Question 10

hoodwink

Answer 10

hoodwink​V. /欺骗，迷惑，蛊惑/deceive; delude. Having been hoodwinked once by the fast-talking salesman, he was extremely cautious when he went to purchase a used car.

Question 11

horde

Answer 11

horde​N. /拥挤/crowd. Just before Christmas the stores are filled with hordes of shoppers.

Question 12

horticultural

Answer 12

horticultural​ADJ. /园艺的/pertaining to cultivation of gardens. When he bought his house, he began to look for flowers and decorative shrubs, and began to read books dealing with horticultural matters.

Question 13

hovel

Answer 13

hovel​N. /小屋/shack; small, wretched house. He wondered how poor people could stand living in such a hovel.

Question 14

hulking

Answer 14

hulking​ADJ. /大量的，巨大的/massive; bulky; great in size. Despite his hulking build, the heavyweight boxing champion was surprisingly light on his feet. hulk, N.

Question 15

husband

Answer 15

husband​V. /节约/use sparingly; conserve; save. Marathon runners must husband their energy so that they can keep going for the entire distance.

Question 16

hyperbole

Answer 16

hyperbole​N. /夸张/exaggeration; overstatement. As far as I’m concerned, Apple’s claims about the new computer are pure hyperbole: no machine is that good!

Question 17

hypercritical

Answer 17

hypercritical​ADJ. /及其夸张/excessively exacting. You are hypercritical in your demands for perfection; we all make mistakes.

Question 18

hypochondriac

Answer 18

hypochondriac​N. /无病呻吟；忧郁症/person unduly worried about his health; worrier without cause about illness. The doctor prescribed chocolate pills for his patient who was a hypochondriac.

Question 19

hypocritical

Answer 19

hypocritical​ADJ. /伪善；欺骗/pretending to be virtuous; deceiving. Believing Eddie to be interested only in his own advancement, Greg resented his hypocritical posing as a friend. hypocrisy,

Question 20

ichthyology

Answer 20

ichthyology​N. /鱼类学/study of fish. Jacques Cousteau’s programs about sea life have advanced the cause of ichthyology

Question 21

iconoclastic

Answer 21

iconoclastic​ADJ. /打破旧习/attacking cherished traditions. Deeply iconoclastic, Jean Genet deliberately set out to shock conventional theatergoers with his radical plays.

Question 22

idolatry

Answer 22

idolatry​N. /过度崇拜/worship of idols; excessive admiration. Such idolatry of singers of country music is typical of the excessive enthusiasm of youth.

Question 23

ignite

Answer 23

ignite​V. /点燃/kindle; light. When Desi crooned, “Baby, light my fire,” literal-minded Lucy looked around for some paper to ignite.

Question 24

ignoble

Answer 24

ignoble​ADJ. /不高贵的；不光彩的/of lowly origin; unworthy. This plan is inspired by ignoble motives and I must, therefore, oppose it.

Question 25

ignominy

Answer 25

ignominy ​N. /丢脸；抹黑；耻辱/deep disgrace; shame or dishonor. To lose the Ping-Pong match to a trained chimpanzee! How could Rollo stand the ignominy of his defeat? ignominious,ADJ.

Question 26

illimitable

Answer 26

illimitable​ADJ. /无限/infinite. Man, having explored the far corners of the earth, is now reaching out into illimitable space.

Question 27

imbalance

Answer 27

imbalance​N. /不平衡，不成比例/lack of balance or symmetry; disproportion. To correct racial imbalance in the schools, school boards have bussed black children into white neighborhoods and white children into black ones.

Question 28

imbibe

Answer 28

imbibe​V. /吸收/drink in. The dry soil imbibed the rain quickly.