unit1综英单词表

Tuck

Verb

1．draw together into folds or puckers

Synonym: gather pucker

2. fit snugly into

e.g. insert your ticket into the slot tuck your shirttail in

Synonym: insert

3. make a tuck or several folds in

e.g. tuck the fabric

Verdant

Adj

1.characterized by abundance of verdure Spectacularly

Adv

1. in a spectacular manner

E.g. the area was spectacularly scenic

Synonym: stunningly

Awe-inspiring

Adj

1. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder

E.g. New York is an amazing city

Synonym: Amazing awesome awful awing

Lush

Adj

1. Produced or growing in extreme abundance

e.g. their riotous blooming

2. full of juice

e.g. lush fruits

3. characterized by extravagance and profusion

e.g. a lavish buffet

Synonym: lavish

Quintessentially

Adv. representing a perfect or typical example of something. Compact

Adj

1. Closely and firmly united or packed together

e.g. compact soil

compact clusters of flowers

2. briefly giving the gist of something

e.g. a short and compendious book a compact style is brief and pithy

3. having a short and solid form or stature

E.g. a wrestler of compact build

Synonym: Heavyset

Verb

1. Squeeze or press together

E.g. she compressed her lips the spasm contracted the muscle

2. make more compact by or as if by pressing

E.g. compress the data

Synonym: Compress pack together

3. Compress into a wad

E.g. wad paper into the box

4. Have the property of being packable or of compacting easily

E.g. this powder compacts easily

Such odd-shaped items do not pack well

Synonym: pack

Stride

Verb

1. Cover or traverse by taking long steps

E.g. She strode several miles towards the woods

2. Walk with long steps

e.g. He strode confidently across the hall

Idyllic

Adj

1.excellent and delightful in all respects

2. suggestive of an idyll, charmingly simple and serene Pedigree

Noun

1. ancestry of a purebred animal

Synonym: bloodline

2. line of descent of a purebred animal

3. The descendants of one individual

e.g. His entire lineage has been warriors

Synonym: Lineage line

Craggy

Adj

1. Having hills and crags

E.g. hilly terrain

Synonym: mountainous

Crumpled

Adj

1. of metal e.g.

e.g. Bent nails

Synonym: Bent

Glacial

Adj

1. Extremely cold

E.g.an arctic climate