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Question 1

nauseate

Answer 1

nauseate​V. /令人作呕的/cause to become sick; fill with disgust. The foul smells began to nauseate him.

Question 2

nautical

Answer 2

nautical​ADJ. /航海的/pertaining to ships or navigation. The Maritime Museum contains many models of clipper ships, logbooks, anchors and many other items of a nautical nature.

Question 3

navigable

Answer 3

navigable​ADJ. /可以通航的/wide and deep enough to allow ships to pass through; able to be steered. So much sand had built up at the bottom of the canal that the waterway was barely navigable.

Question 4

nebulous

Answer 4

nebulous​ADJ. /暧昧的，混浊不清的/vague; hazy; cloudy. After twenty years, she had only a nebulous memory of her grandmother’s face.

Question 5

necromancy

Answer 5

necromancy​N. /巫术，妖术，招魂术/black magic; dealings with the dead. The evil sorceror performed feats of necromancy, calling on the spirits of the dead to tell the future.

Question 6

nefarious

Answer 6

nefarious​ADJ. /十恶不赦的/very wicked. The villain’s crimes, though various, were one and all nefarious.

Question 7

negligence

Answer 7

negligence​N. /疏忽，没能尽力的/neglect; failure to take reasonable care. Tommy failed to put back the cover on the well after he fetched his pail of water; because of his negligence, Kitty fell in.

Question 8

negligible

Answer 8

negligible​ADJ. /可忽略不计的/so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may be easily disregarded. Because the damage to his car had been negligible, Michael decided he wouldn’t bother to report the matter to his insurance company.

Question 9

nemesis

Answer 9

nemesis​N. /复仇的人；寻衅者/someone seeking revenge. Abandoned at sea in a small boat, the vengeful Captain Bligh vowed to be the nemesis of Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers.

Question 10

neologism

Answer 10

neologism​N. /新生词/new or newly coined word or phrase. As we invent new techniques and professions, we must also Invent neologisms such as “microcomputer” and “astronaut” to describe them.

Question 11

neophyte

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neophyte ​N. /新入教者；新信徒/recent convert; beginner. This mountain slope contains slides that will challenge experts as well as neophytes.

Question 12

nepotism

Answer 12

nepotism​N. /偏袒的人（亲戚）/favoritism (to a relative). John left his position with the company because he felt that advancement was based on nepotism rather than ability.

Question 13

nettle

Answer 13

nettle​V. /烦恼；激怒；荨麻/annoy; vex. Do not let him nettle you with his sarcastic remarks.

Question 14

nicety

Answer 14

nicety​N. /准确，精密/precision; minute distinction. I cannot distinguish between such niceties of reasoning.

Question 15

nihilist

Answer 15

nihilist​N. /虚无主义者/one who believes traditional beliefs to be groundless and existence meaningless; absolute skeptic; revolutionary terrorist. In his final days, Hitler revealed himself a power-mad nihilist, ready to annihilate all of Western Europe, even to destroy Germany itself, in order that his will might prevail. The root of the word nihilist is nihil, Latin for nothing. nihilism, N.

Question 16

nip

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nip​V. /夹，捏；剪断；阻止/stop something’s growth or development; snip off; bite; make numb with cold. The twins were plotting mischief, but Mother intervened and nipped that plan in the bud. The gardener nipped off a lovely rose and gave it to me. Last week a guard dog nipped the postman in the leg; this week the extreme chill nipped his fingers till he could barely hold the mail.

Question 17

nirvana

Answer 17

nirvana​N. /涅磐/in Buddhist teachings, the ideal state in which the individual loses himself in the attainment of an impersonal beatitude. Despite his desire to achieve nirvana, the young Buddhist found that even the buzzing of a fly could distract him from his meditation.

Question 18

nocturnal

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nocturnal​ADJ. /夜的/done at night. Mr. Jones obtained a watchdog to prevent the nocturnal raids on his chicken coops.

Question 19

noisome

Answer 19

noisome​ADJ. /有害的，有毒的；恶臭的/foul-smelling; unwholesome. The noisome atmosphere downwind of the oil refinery not only stank, it damaged the lungs of everyone living in the area.

Question 20

nomenclature

Answer 20

nomenclature​N. /命名法；术语学/terminology; system of names. Sharon found Latin word parts useful in translating medical nomenclature: when her son had to have a bilateral myringotomy, she figured out that he just needed a hole in each of his eardrums to end the earaches he had.

Question 21

noncommittal

Answer 21

noncommittal​ADJ. /不明朗的，不表态的；中庸的，未决的/neutral; unpledged; undecided. We were annoyed by his noncommittal reply for we had been led to expect definite assurances of his approval.

Question 22

nonentity

Answer 22

nonentity ​N. /不存在/person of no importance; nonexistence. Because the two older princes dismissed their youngest brother as a nonentity, they did not realize that he was quietly plotting to seize the throne.

Question 23

nonplus

Answer 23

nonplus​V. /使迷惑；使为难；混淆/bring to halt by confusion; perplex. Jack’s uncharacteristic rudeness nonplussed Jill, leaving her uncertain how to react.

Question 24

notoriety

Answer 24

notoriety​N. /臭名昭著的/disrepute; ill fame. To the starlet, any publicity was good publicity: if she couldn’t have a good reputation, she’d settle for notoriety. notorious,ADJ.

Question 25

noxious

Answer 25

noxious​ADJ. /有害的/harmful. We must trace the source of these noxious gases before they asphyxiate us.

Question 26

nuance

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nuance​N. /细微差别/shade of difference in meaning or color; subtle distinction. Jody gazed at the Monet landscape for an hour, appreciating every subtle nuance of color in the painting.

Question 27

nullify

Answer 27

nullify​V. /使无效/to make invalid. Once the contract was nullified, it no longer had any legal force.

Question 28

numismatist

Answer 28

numismatist​N. /硬币收藏家/person who collects coins. The numismatist had a splendid collection of antique coins.

Question 29

nuptial

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nuptial​ADJ. /婚姻的/related to marriage. Reluctant to be married in a traditional setting, they decided to hold their nuptial ceremony at the carousel in Golden Gate Park.

Question 30

oaf

Answer 30

oaf​N. /愚蠢的人/stupid, awkward person. “Watch what you’re doing, you clumsy oaf!” Bill shouted at the waiter who had drenched him with iced coffee.

Question 31

obdurate

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obdurate​ADJ. /执拗的；顽固的/stubborn. He was obdurate in his refusal to listen to our complaints.

Question 32

obese

Answer 32

obese​ADJ. /肥胖的/fat. It is advisable that obese people try to lose weight.

Question 33

obfuscate

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obfuscate​V. /迷惑，困惑；增加不必要的复杂性/confuse; muddle; cause confusion; make needlessly complex. Was the president’s spokesman trying to clarify the Whitewater mystery, or was he trying to obfuscate the issue so the voters would never figure out what went on?

Question 34

obituary

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obituary​ADJ. /讣告/death notice. I first learned of her death when I read the obituary column in the newspaper. also N.

Question 35

oblique

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oblique​ADJ. /间接的；倾斜的；无诚意的/indirect; slanting (deviating from the perpendicular or from a straight line). Casting a quick, oblique glance at the reviewing stand, the sergeant ordered the company to march “Oblique Right.”

Question 36

obliterate

Answer 36

obliterate​V. /彻底摧毁/destroy completely. The tidal wave obliterated several island villages,

Question 37

oblivion

Answer 37

oblivion​N. /遗忘；赦免/obscurity; forgetfulness. After a decade of popularity, Hurston’s works had fallen into oblivion; no one bothered to read them any more.

Question 38

oblivious

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oblivious​ADJ. /遗忘的；出神的/inattentive or unmindful; wholly absorbed. Deep in her book, Nancy was oblivious to the noisy squabbles of her brother and his friends.

Question 39

obnoxious

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obnoxious​ADJ. /讨厌的；冒犯的/offensive. I find your behavior obnoxious; please mend your ways.

Question 40

obsequious

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obsequious​ADJ. /谄媚的；拍马屁的；奴性的/slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic. Helen liked to be served by people who behaved as if they respected themselves; nothing irritated her more than an excessively obsequious waiter or a fawning salesclerk.