Week 2

Question 1

Loom large

Answer 1

If something looms large, it becomes very important and often causes worry

Question 2

Emollient

Answer 2

Adj
润肤的
安慰人的

Question 3

Sanguine

Answer 3

Being Optimistic in a bad/difficult circumstance

Question 4

Conspicuous

Answer 4

Adj
显眼的

Question 5

Shunned

Answer 5

Past tense of verb. Shun
Being persistently avoided, ignored, or rejected

Question 6

Hodgepodge

Answer 6

Noun
A mixture of very different things

Question 7

Impasse

Answer 7

Noun
a situation in which no progress is possible, especially because of disagreement; a
deadlock: the current political impasse.

Question 8

Meticulously

Answer 8

in a way that shows great attention to detail; very thoroughly: a meticulously researched book

Question 9

Jaded

Answer 9

Adj
bored or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having had too much of something

Question 10

Conjure

Answer 10

Ususally conjure up
Call an image to the mind
Cause someone to think abt smth

Question 11

Fictive

Answer 11

Adj
Created by imagination
虚构的

Question 12

Eclipse

Answer 12

Verb
Make smth lose their color
使 黯然失色

Question 13

drab

Answer 13

灰褐色的
Dull, colorless

Question 14

Empirical

Answer 14

有事实根据的

Question 15

Tainted

Answer 15

被玷污的 腐坏的

Question 16

Bohemian

Answer 16

放荡不羁的

Question 17

Streak

Answer 17

A character, a feature of somone

Question 18

Meadows

Answer 18

草地

Question 19

monkish

Answer 19

Like a monk

Question 20

Faintly

Answer 20

微弱地

Question 21

Demeanor

Answer 21

举止 外表

Question 22

Precariously

Answer 22

In a way that is not secure in posistion
不稳定地

Question 23

Epicene

Answer 23

Adj
Asexual, sexless

Question 24

De rigueur

Answer 24

Noun
Required by etiquette or current fashion:
It is de rigueur for bands to grow out the hair

Question 25

Dash

Answer 25

Verb
Run in great rush