WEEK 6.1

Question 1

‘to accord with, obey’

Answer 1

順 shùn

Question 1

‘to repeat, practise, be accustomed to, familiar with’

Answer 1

習 xí

Question 2

‘to extinguish, destroy, exterminate’

Answer 2

滅 miè

Question 3

‘to write’; (as noun) ‘writings, document, letter, book; the Book of Documents (尚書 Shàng shū)’

Answer 3

書 shū

Question 4

‘to be sufficient, enough’; (as auxiliary verb) ‘enough to be …-ed, worth being …-ed’ (makes verb following it passive)

Answer 4

⾜ zú

Question 5

‘to lose, lose control of, miss, fail’

Answer 5

失 shī

Question 6

‘be exhausted, used up, gone; exhaust, use up, use to the fullest;’ (as adverb): ‘exhaustively, entirely, all’

Answer 6

盡 jìn

Question 7

‘decline, refuse, excuse oneself; take leave of’; (as noun) ‘words, speech’

Answer 7

辭 cí

Question 8

‘to increase’; (as adverb) ‘increasingly, even more’; (as noun) ‘benefit, advantage’

Answer 8

益 yì

Question 9

‘to remonstrate’ (protest)

Answer 9

諫 jiàn

Question 10

‘be connected, unobstructed; be conversant in, know all about; have (illicit) relations with’

Answer 10

通 tōng

Question 11

‘to fall, drop’

Answer 11

落 luò

Question 12

‘some, someone, perhaps’

Answer 12

或 huò

Question 13

‘each’

Answer 13

各 gè

Question 14

‘which, who’

Answer 14

孰 shú

Question 15

‘then, immediately’ (similar to modern 就 jiù); (in nominal sentences, comparable to modern 就是): ‘is precisely, is exactly’; (as verb): ‘approach, go to’ (卽位 ‘assume the throne’)

Answer 15

卽（即） jí