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Question 1

suborn

Answer 1

suborn​V. /教唆/persuade to act unlawfully (especially to commit perjury). In The Godfather, the mobsters used bribery and threats to suborn the witnesses against Don Michael Corleone.

Question 2

subpoena

Answer 2

subpoena​N. /传票/writ summoning a witness to appear. The prosecutor’s office was ready to serve a subpoena on the reluctant witness. alsoV.

Question 3

subservient

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subservient​ADJ. /奴隶似的；奴性的/behaving like a slave; servile; obsequious. He was proud and dignified; he refused to be subservient to anyone.

Question 4

subsidiary

Answer 4

subsidiary​ADJ. /次要的；辅助的/subordinate; secondary. This information may be used as subsidiary evidence but is not sufficient by itself to prove your argument. also N.

Question 5

subsidy

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subsidy​N. /政府的补助/direct financial aid by government, etc. Without this subsidy, American ship operators would not be able to compete in world markets.

Question 6

subterfuge

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subterfuge​N. /借口；托辞/pretense; evasion. As soon as we realized that you had won our support by a subterfuge, we withdrew our endorsement of your candidacy.

Question 7

succinct

Answer 7

succinct​ADJ. /简洁的；紧身的/brief; terse; compact. Don’t bore your audi ence with excess verbiage: be succinct.

Question 8

succulent

Answer 8

succulent​ADJ. /多汁的/juicy; full of richness. To some people, Florida citrus fruits are more succulent than those from California. also N.

Question 9

succumb

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succumb​V. /屈服；屈从；死/yield; give in; die. I succumb to temptation whenever I see chocolate.

Question 10

suffragist

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suffragist​N. /扩大参政权；扩大妇女参政权/advocate of voting rights (for women). In recognition of her efforts to win the vote for women, Congress authorized coining a silver dollar honoring the suffragistSusan B. Anthony

Question 11

sully

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sully​V. /弄脏；玷污/tarnish; soil. He felt that it was beneath his dignity to sully his hands in such menial labor.

Question 12

sultry

Answer 12

sultry​ADJ. /闷热的，酷热的；放荡的；粗暴的/sweltering. He could not adjust himself to the sultryclimate of the tropics.

Question 13

sumptuous

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sumptuous​ADJ. /奢侈的；华丽的/lavish; rich. I cannot recall when I have had such a sumptuous Thanksgiving feast.

Question 14

sunder

Answer 14

sunder​V. /分裂/separate; part. Northern and southern Ireland are politically and religiously sundered.

Question 15

supercilious

Answer 15

supercilious​ADJ. /自大的；傲慢的/arrogant; condescending; patronizing. The supercilious headwaiter sneered at customers whom he thought did not fit in at a restaurant catering to an ultrafashionable crowd.

Question 16

superimpose

Answer 16

superimpose​V. /添加/place over something else. Your attempt to superimpose another agency in this field will merely increase the bureaucratic nature of our government.

Question 17

supersede

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supersede​V. /取代；推迟/cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete. The new bulk mailing postal regulation supersedes the old one. If you continue to follow the old regulation, your bulk mailing will be returned to you.

Question 18

supplant

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supplant​V. /篡位；取代/replace; usurp. Bolingbroke, later to be known as King Henry IV, fought to supplant his cousin, Richard III, as King of England.

Question 19

supple

Answer 19

supple​ADJ. /柔顺的；顺从的；柔韧的/flexible; pliant. Years of yoga exercises made Grace’s body supple.

Question 20

supplicate

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supplicate​V. /恳求；祈祷/petition humbly; pray to grant a favor. We supplicate Your Majesty to grant him amnesty.

Question 21

supplicate

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supplicate​V. /恳求；祈祷/petition humbly; pray to grant a favor. We supplicate Your Majesty to grant him amnesty.

Question 22

surfeit

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surfeit​V. /饮食过度；恶心/satiate; stuff; indulge to excess in anything. Every Thanksgiving we are surfeited with an overabundance of holiday treats. also N.

Question 23

surly

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surly​ADJ. /粗暴的；阴沉的；板着脸的；无礼的/rude; cross. Because of his surly attitude, many people avoided his company.

Question 24

surmise

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surmise​V. /猜测/guess. I surmise that he will be late for this meeting. also N.

Question 25

surreptitious

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surreptitious​ADJ. /暗中的；秘密的/secret; furtive; sneaky; hidden. Hoping to discover where his mom had hidden the Christmas presents, Timmy took a surreptitious peek into the master bedroom closet.

Question 26

surrogate

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surrogate​N. /代理；代替/substitute. For a fatherless child, a male teacher may become a father surrogate.

Question 27

surveillance

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surveillance​N. /监视；监督/watching; guarding. The FBI kept the house under constant surveillance in the hope of capturing all the criminals at one time,

Question 28

sustenance

Answer 28

sustenance​N. /食物；生计/means of support, food, nourishment. In the tropics, the natives find sustenance easy to obtain, due to all the fruit trees.

Question 29

suture

Answer 29

suture​N. /缝合；缝合处/stitches sewn to hold the cut edges of a wound or incision; material used in sewing. We will remove the sutures as soon as the wound heals. alsoV.

Question 30

swagger

Answer 30

swagger​V. /大摇大摆；自大/behave arrogantly or pompously; strut or walk proudly. The conquering hero didn’t simply stride down the street; he swaggered. also N.

Question 31

swarthy

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swarthy​ADJ. /暗的；有雾的/dark; dusky. Despite the stereotypes, not all Italians are swarthy, many are fair and blond.

Question 32

swathe

Answer 32

swathe​V. /包装物；绷带/wrap around; bandage. When I visited him in the hospital, I found him swathed in bandages.

Question 33

swelter

Answer 33

swelter​V. /闷热；中暑/be oppressed by heat. I am going to buy an air conditioning unit for my apartment as I do not intend to swelter through another hot and humid summer.

Question 34

swerve

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swerve​V. /转向；突然转向/deviate; turn aside sharply. The car swerved wildly as the driver struggled to regain control of the wheel.

Question 35

swill

Answer 35

swill​V. /痛饮/drink greedily. Singing “Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum,” Long John Silver and his fellow pirates swilled their grog.

Question 36

swindler

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swindler​N. /骗子/cheat. She was gullible and trusting, an easy victim for the first swindler who came along.

Question 37

sybarite

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sybarite​N. /纵情逸乐之徒/lover of luxury. Rich people are not always sybarites; some of them have little taste for a life of luxury.

Question 38

sycophant

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sycophant​N. /马屁精；阿谀奉承者/servile flatterer; bootlicker; yes man. Fed up with the toadies and flunkies who made up his entourage, the star cried, “Get out, all of you! I’m sick of sycophants!” sycophancy, N.

Question 39

tacit

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tacit​ADJ. /默许的；会意的/understood; not put into words. We have a tacit agreement based on only a handshake.

Question 40

taciturn

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taciturn​ADJ. /沉默寡言的/habitually silent; talking little. The stereotypical cowboy is a taciturn soul, answering lengthy questions with a “Yep” or “Nope.”

Question 41

taint

Answer 41

taint​V. /污染，感染；污点/contaminate; cause to lose purity; modify with a trace of something bad. One speck of dirt on your utensils may contain enough germs to taint an entire batch of preserves.

Question 42

talisman

Answer 42

talisman​N. /护身符；避邪物/charm to bring good luck and avert misfortune. Joe believed the carved pendant he found in Vietnam served him as a talisman and brought him safely through the war.

Question 43

talon

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talon​N. /鸟爪/claw of bird. The falconer wore a leather gauntlet to avoid being clawed by the hawk’s talons.

Question 44

tanner

Answer 44

tanner​N. /皮革工人；6便士/person who turns animal hides into leather. Using a solution of tanbark, the tannertreated the cowhide, transforming it into supple leather.

Question 45

tantamount

Answer 45

tantamount​ADJ. /同等的/equivalent in effect or value. Though Rudy claimed his wife was off visiting friends, his shriek of horror when she walked into the room was tantamount to a confession that he believed she was dead.