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Question 1

respite

Answer 1

respite ​N. /暂缓/interval of relief; time for rest; delay in punishment. After working nonstop on this project for three straight months. I need a respite! For David, the two weeks vacationing in New Zealand were a delightful respite from the pressures of his job.

Question 2

resplendent

Answer 2

resplendent​ADJ. /辉煌的；光辉的/dazzling; glorious; brilliant. While all the adults were commenting how glorious the emperor looked in his resplendent new clothes, one little boy was heard to say, “But he’s naked!”

Question 3

responsiveness

Answer 3

responsiveness​N. /响应的/state of reacting readily to appeals, orders, etc. The audience cheered and applauded, delighting the performers by its responsiveness.

Question 4

restitution

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restitution ​N. /归还；补偿/reparation; indemnification. He offered to make restitution for the window broken by his son.

Question 5

restive

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restive​ADJ. /焦躁不安的；难以压抑的/restlessly impatient; obstinately resisting control. Waiting impatiently in line to see Santa Claus, even the best-behaved children grow restive and start to fidget.

Question 6

resumption

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resumption​N. /恢复；重新开始/taking up again; recommencement. During summer break, Don had not realized how much he missed university life: at the resumption of classes, however, he felt marked excitement and pleasure. resume,V.

Question 7

resurge

Answer 7

resurge​V. /复活/rise again; flow to and fro. It was startling to see the spirit of nationalism resurge as the Soviet Union disintegrated into a loose federation of ethnic and national groups. resurgence, N.

Question 8

retaliation

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retaliation​N. /报仇/repayment in kind (usually for bad treatment). Because everyone knew the Princeton Band had stolen Brown’s mascot, the whole Princeton student body expected some sort of retaliation from Brown. retaliate,V.

Question 9

retentive

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retentive​ADJ. /保持的；记性好的/holding; having a good memory. The pupil did not need to spend much time studying, for he had a retentive mind and remembered all he read.

Question 10

reticence

Answer 10

reticence​N. /不动声色的；深藏不露的；沉默寡言的/reserve; uncommunicativeness; inclination to silence. Fearing his competitors might get advance word about his plans from talkative staff members, Hughes preferred reticence from his employees to loquacity. reticent,ADJ.

Question 11

retinue

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retinue​N. /随行人员；扈从/following; attendants. The queen’s retinue followed her down the aisle.

Question 12

retract

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retract​V. /撤回，撤退/withdraw; take back. When I saw how Fred and his fraternity brothers had trashed the frat house, I decided to retract my offer to let them use our summer cottage for the weekend. retraction, N.

Question 13

retrench

Answer 13

retrench​V. /裁减，削减；紧缩，节约/cut down; economize. In order to be able to afford to send their children to college, they would have to retrench. retrenchment, N.

Question 14

retribution

Answer 14

retribution​N. /复仇；补偿；惩罚/vengeance; compensation; punishment for offenses. The evangelist maintained that an angry deity would exact retribution from the sinners.

Question 15

retroactive

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retroactive​ADJ. /反动的；（法律）追溯的（由制定之日前的某一天生效）/of a law that dates back to a period before its enactment. Because the law was retroactive to the first of the year, we found she was eligible for the pension.

Question 16

retrograde

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retrograde​V. /倒退的/go backwards; degenerate. instead of advancing, our civilization seems to have retrograded in ethics and culture. alsoADJ.

Question 17

revelry

Answer 17

revelry​N. /狂欢/boisterous merrymaking. New Year’s Eve is a night of revelry

Question 18

reverent

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reverent​ADJ. /尊敬的；可敬的/respectful; worshipful. Though I bow my head in church and recite the prayers, sometimes I don’t feel properly reverent. revere,V.

Question 19

reverie

Answer 19

reverie​N. /冥想；发呆；白日梦/daydream; musing. He was awakened from his reverie by the teacher’s question.

Question 20

revert

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revert​V. /回复；故态复萌/relapse; backslide; turn back to. Most of the time Andy seemed sensitive and mature, but occasionally he would revert to his smart-alecky, macho, adolescent self.

Question 21

revile

Answer 21

revile​V. /辱骂，谩骂，诽谤/attack with abusive language; vilify. Though most of his contemporaries reviled Captain Kidd as a notorious, bloody-handed pirate, some of his fellow merchant-captains believed him innocent of his alleged crimes.

Question 22

revulsion

Answer 22

revulsion​N. /剧变（情感的）；抽回；收手/sudden violent change of feeling; reaction. Many people in this country who admired dictatorships underwent a revulsion when they realized what Hitler and Mussolini were trying to do.

Question 23

rhapsodize

Answer 23

rhapsodize​V. /狂热地描述；写狂想文，作狂想曲/to speak or write in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner. She greatly enjoyed her Hawaiian vacation and rhapsodized about it for weeks.

Question 24

ribald

Answer 24

ribald​ADJ. /下流的；放荡的；亵渎的/wanton; profane. He sang a ribald song that offended many of the more prudish listeners.

Question 25

rider

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rider ​N. /附文；扶手/amendment or clause added to a legislative bill. Senator Foghorn said he would support Senator Filibuster’s tax reform bill only if Filibuster agreed to add an antipollution riderto the bill.

Question 26

rife

Answer 26

rife​ADJ. /普遍的/abundant; current. In the face of the many rumors of scandal, which are rife at the moment, it is best to remain silent.

Question 27

rift

Answer 27

rift​N. /裂缝；破口/opening; break. The plane was lost in the stormy sky until the pilot saw the city through a rift in the clouds.

Question 28

rig

Answer 28

rig​V. /配备；装备/fix or manipulate. The ward boss was able to rig the election by bribing people to stuff the ballot boxes with ballots marked in his candidate’s favor.

Question 29

rile

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rile​V. /激怒/vex; irritate; muddy. Red had a hair-trigger temper: he was an easy man to rile.

Question 30

riveting

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riveting​ADJ. /迷人的/absorbing; engrossing. The reviewer described Byatt’s novel Possession as a riveting tale, one so absorbing that he had finished it in a single night.

Question 31

rivulet

Answer 31

rivulet ​N. /小溪/small stream. As the rains continued, the small trickle of water running down the hillside grew into a rivulet that threatened to wash away a portion of the slope.

Question 32

robust

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robust​ADJ. /健壮的/vigorous; strong. After pumping iron and taking karate for six months, the little old lady was so robust that she could break a plank with her fist.

Question 33

roil

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roil​V. /搅动（使水变浑）;激怒/to make liquids murky by stirring up sediment. Be careful when you pour not to roil the wine; if you stir up the sediment you’ll destroy the flavor.

Question 34

roster

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roster​N. /列表/list. They print the roster of players in the season’s program.

Question 35

rostrum

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rostrum​N. /演讲台；讲道坛/platform for speech-making; pulpit. The crowd murmured angrily and indicated that they did not care to listen to the speaker who was approaching the rostrum.

Question 36

rote

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rote​N. /生搬硬套；死记硬背/repetition. He recited the passage by rote and gave no indication he understood what he was saying.

Question 37

rotundity

Answer 37

rotundity ​N. /圆形，球状；洪亮的演讲/roundness; sonorousness of speech. Washington Irving emphasized the rotundity of the governor by describing his height and circumference.

Question 38

rousing

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rousing​ADJ. /活跃的；煽动的/lively; stirring. “And now, let’s have a rousing welcome for TV’s own Roseanne Barr, who’ll lead us in a rousing rendition of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.”’

Question 39

rout

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rout​V. /吓跑；赶出；击退/stampede; drive out. The reinforcements were able to rout the enemy. also N.

Question 40

rubble

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rubble​N. /碎片/broken fragments. Ten years after World War II, some of the rubble left by enemy bombings could still be seen.

Question 41

ruddy

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ruddy​ADJ. /红的；红润的，白里透红的；健康的/reddish; healthy-looking. Santa Claus’s ruddy cheeks nicely complement Rudolph the Reindeer’s bright red nose.

Question 42

rudimentary

Answer 42

rudimentary​ADJ. /原始的；最初的；原来的/not developed; elementary; crude. Although my grandmother’s English vocabulary was limited to a few rudimentary phrases, she always could make herself understood.

Question 43

rue

Answer 43

rue​V. /懊悔；后悔；感伤/regret; lament; mourn. Tina rued the night she met Tony and wondered how she ever fell for such a jerk. rueful,ADJ.

Question 44

ruffian

Answer 44

ruffian​N. /流氓；恶棍；痞子/bully; scoundrel. The ruffians threw stones at the police.

Question 45

ruminate

Answer 45

ruminate​V. /反复咀嚼；消化；深思；反刍/chew over and over (mentally, or, like cows, physically); mull over; ponder. Unable to digest quickly the baffling events of the day, Reuben ruminated about them till four in the morning.

Question 46

rummage

Answer 46

rummage​V. /到处翻寻/ransack; thoroughly search. When we rummaged through the trunks in the attic, we found many souvenirs of our childhood days. also N.

Question 47

ruse

Answer 47

ruse​N. /技巧；策略，计谋/trick; stratagem. You will not be able to fool your friends with such an obvious ruse.

Question 48

rustic

Answer 48

rustic​ADJ. /乡村的；笨拙的，不舒服的/pertaining to country people; uncouth. The backwoodsman looked out of place in his rustic attire.

Question 49

saboteur

Answer 49

saboteur​N. /破坏分子；怠工者/one who commits sabotage; destroyer of property. Members of the Resistance acted as saboteurs, blowing up train lines to prevent supplies from reaching the Nazi army.

Question 50

saccharine

Answer 50

saccharine​ADJ. /糖精的；代糖的；极甜的/cloyingly sweet. She tried to ingratiate herself, speaking sweetly and smiling a saccharine smile.

Question 51

sacrilegious

Answer 51

sacrilegious​ADJ. /亵渎的，天谴的/desecrating; profane. His stealing of the altar cloth was a very sacrilegious act.

Question 52

sacrosanct

Answer 52

sacrosanct​ADJ. /非常神圣的/most sacred; inviolable. The brash insurance salesman invaded the sacrosanct privacy of the office of the president of the company.