List3Nov20

Question 1

amnesia

Answer 1

amnesia​N. /失忆，健忘/loss of memory. Because she was suffering from amnesia, the police could not get the young girl to identify herself.

Question 2

anchor

Answer 2

anchor​V. /固定；锚/secure or fasten firmly; be fixed in place. We set the post in concrete to anchor it in place. anchorage, N.

Question 3

annals

Answer 3

annals​N. /记录，历史/records; history. In the annals of this period, we find no mention of democratic movements.

Question 4

annihilate

Answer 4

annihilate​V. /毁灭，破坏/destroy. The enemy in its revenge tried to annihilate the entire population.

Question 5

antecede

Answer 5

antecede​V. /先于/precede. The invention of the radiotelegraph anteceded the development of television by a quarter of a century.

Question 6

antecedents

Answer 6

antecedents​N. /历史环境；历史背景/preceding events or circumstances that influence what comes later; ancestors or early background. Susi Bechhofer’s ignorance of her Jewish background had its antecedents in the chaos of World War II. Smuggled out of Germany and adopted by a Christian family, she knew nothing of her birth and antecedents until she was reunited with her family in 1989.

Question 7

anthropomorphic

Answer 7

anthropomorphic​ADJ. /人形的/having human form or characteristics. Primitive religions often have deities with anthropomorphic characteristics. anthropomorphism, N.

Question 8

aperture

Answer 8

aperture ​N. /洞，穴，孔/opening; hole. She discovered a small aperture in the wall, through which the insects had entered the room.

Question 9

apiary

Answer 9

apiary​N. /蜂房/a place where bees are kept. Although he spent many hours daily in the apiary, he was very seldom stung by a bee.

Question 10

apocalyptic

Answer 10

apocalyptic​ADJ. /启示的，启示录的/prophetic; pertaining to revelations. The crowd jeered at the street preacher’s apocalyptic predictions of doom. The Apocalypse or Book of Revelations of Saint John prophesies the end of the world as we know it and foretells marvels and prodigies that signal the coming doom.