List 34

Question 1

paean

Answer 1

paean​N. /欢乐歌；赞美歌/song of praise or joy. Paeans celebrating the victory filled the air.

Question 2

painstaking

Answer 2

painstaking​ADJ. /辛勤的/showing hard work; taking-Dreat care. The new high-frequency word list is the result of painstaking efforts on the part of our research staff.

Question 3

palatable

Answer 3

palatable​ADJ. /可接受的；美味的/agreeable; pleasing to the taste. Neither Jack’s underbaked opinions nor his overcooked casseroles were palatable to Jill.

Question 4

palette

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palette​N. /调色板/board on which painter mixes pigments. At the present time, art supply stores are selling a paper palette that may be discarded after use.

Question 5

pall

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pall​V. /厌烦，腻味/grow tiresome. The study of word lists can eventually pall and put one to sleep.

Question 6

pallid

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pallid​ADJ. /苍白的，惨淡的/pale; wan. Because his job required that he work at night and sleep during the day, he had an exceptionally pallid complexion.

Question 7

palpable

Answer 7

palpable​ADJ. /易于领会的；明显的/tangible; easily perceptible; unmistakable. The patient’s enlarged spleen was palpable: even the first year medical student could feel it.

Question 8

palpitate

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palpitate​V. /拍动；跳动；搏动/throb; flutter. As he became excited, his heart began to palpitate more and more erratically.

Question 9

paltry

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paltry​ADJ. /不显著的；微小的/insignificant; petty; trifling. One hundred dollars for a genuine imitation Rolex watch! Lady, this is a paltry sum to pay for such a high-class piece of jewelry.

Question 10

panache

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panache ​N. /华丽/flair; flamboyance. Many performers imitate Noel Coward, but few have his panache and sense of style.

Question 11

pandemic

Answer 11

pandemic​ADJ. /广泛传播的，流行的/widespread; affecting the majority of people. They feared the AIDS epidemic would soon reach pandemic proportions.

Question 12

pandemonium

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pandemonium​N. /喧嚣；混乱/wild tumult. When the ships collided in the harbor, pandemonium broke out among the passengers.

Question 13

pander

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pander​V. /低级趣味的；拉皮条/cater to the low desires of others. The reviewer accused the makers of Lethal Weapon of pandering to the masses’ taste for violence.

Question 14

panegyric

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panegyric​N. /推崇之至/formal praise. Blushing at all the praise heaped upon him by the speakers, the modest hero said, °I don’t deserve such panegyrics.”

Question 15

panoramic

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panoramic​ADJ. /全景的/related to an unobstructed and comprehensive view. On a clear day, from the top of the World Trade Center you can get a panoramic view of New York City and parts of New Jersey and Long Island. panorama, N.

Question 16

pantomime

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pantomime​N. /演哑剧/acting without dialogue. Because he worked in pantomime, the clown could be understood wherever he appeared. alsoV.

Question 17

papyrus

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papyrus ​N. /纸草；草纸（古代的）/ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant. The ancient Egyptians were among the first to write on papyrus.

Question 18

paranoia

Answer 18

paranoia ​N. /妄想狂；偏执狂/psychosis marked by delusions of grandeur or persecution. Suffering from paranoia, Don claimed everyone was out to get him; ironically, his claim was accurate: even paranoids have enemies.

Question 19

paraphernalia

Answer 19

paraphernalia​N. /琐碎的东西；零碎的随身物品/equipment; odds and ends. His desk was cluttered with paper, pen, ink, dictionary and other paraphernalia of the writing craft.

Question 20

pariah

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pariah​N. /贱民；被社会遗弃的人/social outcast. If everyone ostracized singer Mariah Carey, would she then be Mariah the pariah?

Question 21

parity

Answer 21

parity​N. /相等；势均力敌；奇偶/equality in status or amount; close resemblance. Unfortunately, some doubt exists whether women’s salaries will ever achieve paritywith men’s.

Question 22

parochial

Answer 22

parochial​ADJ. /狭小的，地方的/narrow in outlook; provincial; related to parishes. Although Jane Austen sets her novels in small rural communities, her concerns are universal, not parochial,

Question 23

parody

Answer 23

parody​N. /拙劣的模仿/humorous imitation; spoof; takeoff; travesty. The show Forbidden Broadway presents parodies spoofing the year’s new productions playing on Broadway.

Question 24

paroxysm

Answer 24

paroxysm​N. /突然一阵的，突发的（痛苦，笑，愤怒）/fit or attack of pain, laughter, rage. When he heard of his son’s misdeeds, he was seized by a paroxysm of rage.

Question 25

parry

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parry​V. /躲避/ward off a blow; deflect. Unwilling to injure his opponent in such a pointless clash, Dartagnan simply tried to parry his rival’s thrusts. What fun it was to watch Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy parry each other’s verbal thrusts in their classic screwball comedies!

Question 26

parsimony

Answer 26

parsimony​N. /过度俭省；吝啬/stinginess; excessive frugality. Furious because her father wouldn’t let her buy out the clothing store, Annie accused him of parsimony.

Question 27

partiality

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partiality​N. /倾向；偏见/inclination; bias. As a judge, not only must I be unbiased, but I must also avoid any evidence of partiality when I award the prize.

Question 28

partition

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partition​V. /分裂开来/divide into parts. Before their second daughter was born, Jason and Lizzie decided each child needed a room of her own, and so they partitioned a large bedroom into two small but separate rooms. also N.

Question 29

pastiche

Answer 29

pastiche​N. /摹写；模仿/imitation of another’s style in musical composition or in writing. We cannot even say that her music is a: pastiche of this composer or that; it is, rather, reminiscent of many musicians.

Question 30

pastoral

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pastoral​ADJ. /田园的；乡下的/rural. In these stories of pastoral life, we find an understanding of the daily tasks of country folk.

Question 31

pathological

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pathological​ADJ. /病理学/related to the study of disease; diseased or markedly abnormal. Jerome’s pathological fear of germs led him to wash his hands a hundred times a day. pathology, N.

Question 32

patina

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patina​N. /铜绿；光泽；古色/green crust on old bronze works; tone slowly taken by varnished painting. Judging by the patina on this bronze statue, we can conclude that this is the work of a medieval artist.

Question 33

patriarch

Answer 33

patriarch​N. /长者，家长；酋长，族长/father and ruler of a family or tribe. In many primitive tribes, the leader and lawmaker was the patriarch.

Question 34

patrician

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patrician​ADJ. /贵族的/noble; aristocratic. We greatly admired her well-bred, patrician elegance. also N.

Question 35

paucity

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paucity​N. /少量；缺乏/scarcity. They closed the restaurant because the paucity of customers made it uneconomical to operate.

Question 36

pauper

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pauper​N. /叫花子；非常可怜的人/very poor person. Though Widow Brown was living on a reduced income, she was by no means a pauper.

Question 37

peccadillo

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peccadillo​N. /轻罪，轻微冒犯/slight offense. When Peter Piper picked a peck of Polly Potter’s pickles, did Pete commit a major crime or just a peccadillo？