List 5&6 Flashcards
Consummate
Complete or perfect
Construe
To explain
Containment
Keeping Sth. Within limits
Contemplate
To think about intently深思
Contempt
轻视
Contention
A statement one argues for as valid 争论,论点
Contravene
To conflict with
Contrite
悔罪的
Contrive
To think up 设计计划
Converge
To come together at a point
Conversant
Familiar or acquainted 精通的
Converse
To exchange thoughts and opinions in speech
Convivial
Having Sth. To do with a feast or festival activity
Convolute
Spiraled, complicated
Copious
Very plentiful
Cordiality
Sincere affection and kindness
Corroborate
Make more certain, to strengthen
Corrosive
Tending the power to corrode 腐蚀
Cosmopolitan
全球性的
Coterie
A close circle of friends who share a common interest
Countenance
支持,表情
Counterbalance
To act as a balance to
Counterfeit
伪造
Counterpart
Corresponds to the same function as
Counterproductive
Having the opposite effect to that intended
Covet
To want ardently
Crater
火山口
Credulous
Tending to believe too readily
Crestfallen
Deject
Crooked
Dishonest
Cryptic
Mysterious
Culinary
Of the kitchen
Culminate
To bring to a head or the highest point
Culpable
Deserving blame
Cumbersome
Hard to handle with
Cursory
Superficial
Custodian
管理员
Dappled
Covered with spots of a different color
Daunt
使胆怯
Dearth
Scarce
Debilitate
To make week or feeble
Decadence
The process of becoming decadent
Deciduous
Not lasting
Decorous
Marked by propriety and good taste
Decorum
礼节
Decrepit
Broken down or worn out by old age
Decry
责难
Defamation
The act of defaming another 诽谤
Defecate
To clarify
Defect
Fault, flaw
Defer
To yield with courtesy 遵从
Deferential
Showing deference 尊重
Defiance
Open disobedience
Deficient
Lacking in some necessary quality
Deft
Skillful in a quick way
Defunct
Dead
Deign
惠允,施惠于人
Delimit
To fix the limit of
Delude
To deceive
Deluge
A great flood
Demean
To degrade
Demobilize
To discharge from military service
Demolish
To destroy
Demotic
民众的
Demur
To object
Denigrate
污蔑
Denounce
To accuse publicly
Deplete
To exhaust
Deplore
To express grief for
Deprave
To make bad
Deprecate
To express disapproval of
Deprecatory
Disapproving
Derelict
Deserted by the owner
Deride
Ridicule
Derogatory
不敬的
Descry
To catch sight of
Desecrate
To treat as not sacred
Despondent
Depressed
Desultory
Disconnected
Deter
To discourage
Deterrent
Serving to deter
Detest
To dislike intensely
Detour
A roundabout way
Detriment
Injury
Deviant
Deviating especially from an accepted norm
Devious
Not straightforward or frank
Devour
吞食
Dichotomy
两分法
Didactic
Morally instruction
Diehard
顽固分子
Diffident
Not showing much belief in one’ sown abilities
Dilapidated
Broken down
Dilate
To swell
Dilatory
Inclines to delay, slow or late in doing things
Dilettante
业余爱好者
Dilute
稀释
Disabuse
To rid of false ideas
Discharge
释放,解雇,履行义务
Discomfited
Frustrated
Disconsolate
Cheerless, dejected
Discretion
审慎
Discursive
散漫的
Disenfranchise
剥夺…的权利
Disgruntled
Annoyed or disappointed
Disinclination
A preference for avoiding Sth,
Disingenuous
不坦率的
Disjunctive
Showing opposition between two ideas
Dismal
Showing sadness
Disparage
To speak slightly of
Dispassionate
Free from emotion
Dispensable
Capable of being dispensed with 不必要的
Disperse
To spread from a fixed source
Disputable
Not definitely true or right
Dissect
To cut up a dead body
Disseminate
To spread abroad
Dissent
Difference of opinion.
Dissident
A person who disagree
Dissipate
To break up and scatter
Dissonant
Opposing in opinion
Distent
Swollen,expanded
Distraught
Mentally confused