剑六词汇test1-2

1.demolish demolisher
eg: Australian sports teams win more than their fair share of titles, demolishing rivals with semming ease.
→destroy
eg: The heavy rain destroyed all hope of a picnic.
→shatter
eg: The outcome of the conflict shattered our dreams of peace and prosperity.
→wreck
eg: No one can wreck the friendship between us.
2.extensive extensively adv. extensiveness n.
eg: A big part of the secret is an extensive and expensive network of sporting academies underpinned by science and medicine.
3.underpin underpinning n.
eg: A big part of the secret is an extensive and expensive network of sporting academies underpinned by science and medicine.
4.youngster
eg: Hundreds of younsters and pros live and train under the eyes of coaches.
→minor
eg: They said their insurance doesn’t cover minors.
→youth
eg: a youth of twenty
5.intensive intensively adv. intensiveness n.
eg: Both provide intensive coaching, training facilities and nutritinal advice.
6.collaborate collaborator/collaboration n. collaborative adj.
eg: The AIS employs more than 100 sports scientists and doctors, and collaborates with scores of others in universities and research centers.
→cooperate
eg: I advise you not to cooperate with that deceitful businessman.
7.instrument
eg: They are baced up by technicians who design instruments to collect data from athletes.
→tool
eg: The computer is now an indispensable tool in many businesses.
→device
eg: The device will be in production by the end of the year.
→apparatus
eg: There are some electrical apparatus in the room.
→appliance
eg: A manual containing operating instructions, as for an appliance or a machine.
8.focus focuser n.
eg: They all focus on one aim: winning.
→concentrate
eg: The threat of going bankrupt is very unpleasant but it certainly concentrates the mind.
9.slight slighter n. slightish adj. slightness n.
eg: No gain is too slight to bother with.
→tiny
eg: She has a tiny mole on her cheek.
10.gradual gradually adv. gradualness n.
eg: It's the tiny, gradual improvements that add up to world-beating results.
→little by little
11.demonstrate demonstratedly adv.
eg: To demonstrate how the system works, Bruce Mason at AIS shows off the prototype of a 3D analysis tool for arms moving in slow motion.
→show
eg: Her laziness showed in her exam results.
→clarify
eg: The teacher's explanation clarify the puzzling problem.
→prove
eg: The old methods proved best after all.
12.impact impaction n.
eg: With the Cooperative Research Center for Micro Technology in Melbourne, they are developing unobtrusive sensors that will be embedded in an athlete’s clothes or running shoes to monitor heart rate, sweating, heat production or any other factor that might have an impat on an athlete’s ability to run.
→affect
eg: The climate affected his health.
13.remarkably remarkability n. remarkableness n.
eg: Since the tests were introduced, AIS athletes in all sports have been remarkably successful at staying healthy.
→unusually
eg: It won't have escaped your notice that I've been unusually busy recently.
plex complexly adv. complexness n.
eg: Using data is a complex business.
→complicated
eg: The tax laws are so complicated that only an expert can provide enlightenment.
15.overall
eg: All the training is then geared towards making the athlete hit those targets, both overall and for each segment of the race.
→total
eg: Add this numbers together and give me the total.
→whole
eg: The whole country was anxious for peace.
16.transform
eg: Techniques like these have transformed Australia into arguably the world’s most sucessful sporting nation.
→alter
eg: The weather alters almost daily.
→change
eg: changed the yard into a garden.
eg: The solar cell can convert the energy of sunlight into electric energy.
17.fix
eg: But Australia’s success story is about more than easily copied technological fixes, and up to now no nation has replicated its all-encompassing system.
→mending
eg: He had three tries at mending the lock and gave up.
18.vast vastly adv. vastness n.
eg: The vast expansion in international trade owes much to a revolution in the business of mocing freigt.
→enormous
eg: They overlooked the enormous risks involved.
→gigantic
eg: The company has made gigantic losses this year, and will probably be out of business.
→huge
eg: The atomic explosion is always accompanied by huge fireball.
19.expand expandable adj. expander n.
eg: While global economy has been expanding at a bit over 3% a year, the volume of of trade has been resing at a compound annual rate of about twice that.
→extend
eg: My garden extends as far as the river.
merce
eg: What lies behind this explosion in international commerce?
→business
eg: They've done some business together.
→trade
eg: China does a lot of trade with many countries.
21.decline
eg: The general worldwide decline in trade barriers, such as customs and import quotas, is surely one explanation.
→descent
eg: There was a descent of temperature after rain.
→fall
eg: A fall of rocks blocked the road.
22.boom
eg: But one force behind the import-export boom has passed all but unnoticed.
→grow
eg: The coat is too big for him now, but he will grow into it.
→increase
eg: The government is alarmed by the dramatic increase in violent crime.
→thrive
eg: A business cannot thrive without good management.
23.instantly
eg: Goods, once they have been made, are assumed to move instantly and at no cost from place to
→immemdiately
eg: He began to look for another position immediately.
24.dominate
eg: International commerce was therefore dominated by raw materials, such as wheat, wood and iron ore, or processed commodities, such as meat and steel.
→command
eg: The army is under the king's direct command.
→control
eg: The government has imposed strict controls over the import of luxury goods.
25.require
eg: As a result, less transportation is required for every dollar’s worth of imports or exports.
→command
eg: The army is under the king's direct command.
→demand
eg: This work demands your immediate attention.
→order
eg: The chairman ordered silence.
26.concentrate
eg: Most of the world’s disk-drive manufacturing is concentrated in south-east Asia.
→focus
eg: Bring the object into focus if you want a sharp photograph.
27.purchase
eg: Computer manufactures in Japan or Texas will not face hugely bigger greight bils if they import dreves from Singapore rather than purchasing them on the domestic market.
→buy
eg: Money can't buy happiness.
28.transmit
eg: Computer software can be “exported”without ever loading it onto a ship, simply by transmitting it over telephone lines from one country to antoher, so freight rates and cargo-handing schedules become insignificant factors in deciding where to make the product.
→dispatch
eg: A messenger was dispatched to take the news to the soldiers at the front.
→transfer
eg: He was soon transferred to another post.
29.insignificant
eg: Computer software can be “exported”without ever loading it onto a ship, simply by transmitting it over telephone lines from one country to antoher, so freight rates and cargo-handing schedules become insignificant factors in deciding where to make the product.
→little
eg: He is little known as an artist.
→meaningless
eg: His promises were just so much meaningless talk.
→slightly
eg: My interest in music has languished slightly.
→eg: The damage to my car is negligible.
30.swift
eg: But, behind the scenes, a series of technological innovations known broadly as containerisation and internodal transportation has led to swift productivity improvement in cargo-handling.
→fast
eg: They run faster and faster.
→hasty
eg: She made a hasty lunch.
→quick
eg: He gave a quick answer to the teacher's question.
31.incident
eg: Unusual incidents are being reported across the arctic.
→event
eg: This article discussed the events that led to her suicide.
→occurrence
eg: It is more a made-up story than a real occurrence.
32.isolate
eg: There are reports of igloos losing their insulating properties as the snow drips and refreezes, of lakes draining into the sea as permafrost melts, and sea ice bresking up earlier than usual, carring seels beyond the reach of hunters.
→isolate
eg: Scientists have isolated the virus causing the epidemic.
→separate
eg: The war separated many families.
33.present
eg: Climate change may still be a rather abstract idea to most of us, but in the arctic it is already hacing gramatic effects-if summertime ice continues to shrink at its present rate, the arctic ocean could become vietually ice-free in summer.
→current
eg: This word is no longer in current use.
34.urgent
eg: For the Inuit the problem is urgent.
→crucial
eg: A crucial problem.
→vital
eg: It is vital that we move quickly.
35.precarious
eg: They live in precarious balance with one of the toughest environments on earth.
→unstable
eg: Most of the countries in the region have unstable economies.
36. tough
eg: They live in precarious balance with one of the toughest environments on earth.
→hard
eg: That was a hard time.
→difficult
eg: The child is going through a difficult phase.
bine
eg: They believe their best hope of survival in this changing environment lies in combining their ancestral knowledge with the best of modern science.
→blend
eg: The poem blends the separate ingredients into a unity.
→connect
eg: I was surprised to hear them mentioned together: I've never connected them before.
→unite
eg: The more of the masses we unite with, the better.
38.vast
eg: The Canadian arctic is a vast, tressless polar desert that’s convered with snow for most of the year.
→large
eg: He has a large number of reference books at his disposal.
→huge
eg: The destructive force of the storm is huge.
→enormous
eg: Long ago enormous animals lived on the earth.
39.vanish
eg: Somestimes the colonists were successful, sometimes they failed and vanished.
→disppear
eg: Many beautiful fish are fast disappearing because of the severe pollution.
→fade
eg: The closing music fades out when the hero rides off into the sunset.
40.emerge
eg: But around a thousand years age, one group emerged that was uniquely well adapted to cope with the arctic environment.
→appear
eg: Mr. Green had to appear before the committee to explain his behavior .
41.harsh
eg: Life for the descendants of the Thule people is still harsh.
→rough
eg: They complained rough handling by the police.
42.abandon
eg: Over the past 40 years, most have abandoned their nomadic ways and settled in the territory’s 28 isolated communities, but they still rely heavily on nature to provide food and clothing.
→cease
eg: As suddenly as it began, the rain ceased.
→depart
eg: Jane is filled with sympathy for the misanthropic Rochester. Nevertheless, she realizes she
must now depart.
→evacuate
eg: The region near the erupting volcano was evacuated rapidly.
43.obtain
eg: It would cost a family around 7000 pounds a year to replace meat they obtained themselves through hunting with imported meat.
→get
eg: I've got a cold.
→gain
eg: He has gained rich experience in these years.
→earn
eg: His skill in negotiating earned him a reputation as a shrewd tactician.
→acquire
eg: The collector has acquired a fine collection of impressionist paintings.
44.scarce
eg: Economic opportunities are scarce, and for many prople state benefits are their only income. →rare
eg: It's very rare for him to be so late.
→sparce
eg: The television coverage of the event was rather sparse.
45.curtail
eg: While the Inuit may not actually starce if hunting and trapping are curtailed by climate change, there has certainly been an impact on people’s health.
→compress
eg: It is impossible to compress the story of the First World War into a few pages.
→condense
eg: Condense this paragraph into a few sentences.
46.vital
eg: Having survived there for centuries, they believe their wealth of traditional knowledge is vital to the task..
→essential
eg: Food is essential to life.
→fundamental
eg: A knowledge of economics is fundamental to any understanding of this problem.
47.figure
eg: They just figured these people don’t know very much so we won’t ask them.
→reckon
eg: I reckon this will be a hot summer.
→estimate
eg: My estimate of the length of the room was 10 feet.
48.agenda
eg: In fact it is now a requirement for anyone hoping to get premission to do rearch that they consult the communities,who are helping to set the researvh agenda to reflect their most important concerns.
eg: His busy schedule made him completely inaccessible to his students.
49.turn down
eg: They can turn down applications from scientists they believe will work against their interests,or research projects that will impinge too much on their daily lives and traditional activities.
→reject
eg: I absolutely reject the management's line on this.
→refuse
eg: I refuse to be dictated to by you.
50.resolve
eg: IQ could help to bridge the gap and resolve the tremendous uncertainty about how much of what we’re seeing is natural capriciousness and how much is the consequence of human activity.
→settle
eg: The two companies settled out of court.
→solve
eg: Something is bound to happen one way or another to end the conflict or solve the problem. 51.conduct
eg: A new study conducted for the world bank by murdoch university’s institute for science and technology policy has demonstrated that public transport is more efficient than cars.
→manage
eg: In spite of these insults, she managed not to get angry.
52.demonstrate
eg: Technology policy has demonstrated that publiv transport is more efficient than cars.
→clarify
eg: A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning.
→display
eg: There will be a display of bronze statuary in this museum next week.
→illustrate
eg: He pointed at the diagram to illustrate his point.
53.maintain
eg: This included both the public and private costs of building, maintaining and using a transport system.
→sustain
eg: The foundations were not strong enough to sustain the weight of the house.
→hold
eg: Hold yourself still for a moment while I take your photograph.
54.demand
eg: The explosion in demand for accommodation in the inner suburbs of melbourne suggestes a recent cahnge in many people’s preferences as to where they live.
→require
eg: All passengers are required to show their tickets.
55.issue
eg: Newan says this is a new, broader way of considering public transport issues.
eg: The problem is when to get the money we need.
→quesiton
eg: A new bicycle is out of the question we can't afford it.
→case
eg: In your case, we are prepared to be lenient.
56.grossly
eg: The auto-dependent city model is inefficient and grossly inadequate in economic as well as environmental terms.
→very
eg: She likes Beethoven very much.
→quite
eg: It was quite wonderful.
57.particular
eg: It is common for supporters of road networks to reject the models of cities with good public transport by arguing than such systems would not work in their particular city.
→special
eg: This is a special case, deserving special treatment.
→peculiar
eg: There was this peculiar man sitting opposite me in the train.
58.feature
eg: When it comes to physical features, road lobbies are on stronger ground.
→characteristic
eg: Her predominant characteristic is honesty.
59.favor
eg: The more democratic the process, the more public transport is favored.
→approve
eg: We can't approve of this sort of thing/these sorts of things/things of this sort.
→prefer
eg: He chose Germany, but personally I'd prefer to go to Spain.
60.initially
eg:Trains and cars initally allowed people to live at greater distances without taking longer to reach their destination.
→beginning
eg: Did democracy have its beginnings in Athens?
→primarily
eg: This building was primarily intended to be a dinning hall.
61.massive
eg: However, public infrastructure did not keep pace with urban sprawl, causing massive congestion pronlems which now make commuting times far higher.
→big
eg: New Y ork is a big commercial city.
→huge
eg: The atomic explosion is always accompanied by huge fireball.
eg: He has a large number of reference books at his disposal.
62.viable
eg: There is a widespread belief that increasing wealth encourages people to live farther out where cars are the only viable transport.
→practicable
eg: The mountain route is practicable only in summer.
→feasible
eg: The plan did not seem feasible.
63.generate
eg: They are often wealthier than their American counterparts but have not generated the same level of car use.
→cause
eg: What caused his illness?
→create
eg: We've created a beautiful new building from out of an old ruin.
→produce
eg: He hopes to find the money to produce a film about Japan.
64.starkly
eg: A new study makes this point even more starkly.
→completely
eg: The plan of the ground floor is completely symmetrical.
→entirely
eg: Nowadays with the help of modern instruments fishing is no longer entirely dependent on the weather.
→fully
eg: The civil war lasted fully four years.
65.approach
eg: It found that pushing everyone into the city centre was not the best approach.
→access
eg: Citizens may have free accessto the library.
66.reveal
eg: The results of a 14-year study to beannounced later this month reveal that the diseases associated with old age are afflecting fewer and fewer people and when they do strike, it is much later in life.
→demonstrate
eg: How do you demonstrate that the earth is round?
→display
eg: The bottles of whisky on display are all dummies.
→expose
eg: He exposed the plan to the newspapers.
67.gather
eg: In the last 14 years, the national long-term health care survey has gathered data on the health and lifestyles of more than 20000 men and women over 65.
→assemble
eg: The students assembled in the school garden.
→collect
eg: Before you begin to make a speech, you should collect your thoughts and ideas.
→cluster
eg: She held out her hand, a small tight cluster of fingers.
68.factor
eg: But there may be other contributing factors.
→element
eg: There is not the least element of truth in his account of what happened.
→ingredient
eg: Honeysuckle is often an ingredient of some herbal medicine.
69.striking
eg: The survey also assessed how independent people over 65 were, and again found a striking trend.
→attractive
eg: I think she is a very attractive girl.
→outstanding
eg: He is a an outstanding writer
→noticeable
eg: The scar on her forehead is hardly noticeable.
→obvious
eg: an obvious advantage
70.represent
eg: That represents a significant drop in the number of disabled old people in the population.
→symbolize
eg: The poet has symbolized his lover with a flower.
→characterize
eg: This kind of behaviour characterizes the criminal mind.
71.drawback
eg: But independence can have drawbacks.
→disadvantage
eg: The school labors under the disadvantage of not having enough textbooks.
→flaw
eg: a flaw in an otherwise perfect character
→shortcoming
eg: Not being punctual is his greatest shortcoming.
→obstacle
eg: Her father's opposition remained only their obstacle.
72.feat
eg: One of the first great feast of a young child is learning how to talk, closely followed by learning how to count.
→accomplishment
eg: Developing the supersonic jet was quite an accomplishment.
→achievement
eg: Flying across the Atlantic for the first time was a great achievement.
73.facility
eg: From earliest childhood we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it is a feat of immagination to consider the problem faced by early humans who had not yet eveloped this facility.
→installation
eg: The price of these product will just compensate the cost of equipment and installation of the line.
74.sufficient
eg: Even the earliest of tribes had a system of numeration that, if not adcanced, was suffient for the tasks that they had to perform.
→adequate
eg: The town is now counting the cost of its failure to provide adequate flood protection.
→enough
eg: There is enough food for everybody.
→plenty
eg: We have plenty of time to finish the job.
75.indigenous
eg: The indigenous peoples of Tasmania were only able to count one, two, many.
→native
eg: The kangaroo is a native of Australia.
→original
eg: The original owner of the house moved out.
76.ancient
eg: The ancient gothic word for ten, tachund, id used to express the number 100 as tachund tachund.
→old
eg: Don’t play the old tricks.
→aged
eg: Aged people are always envious of young people's energy.
→elderly
eg: He was rather elderly with grey hair and clear blue eyes.
77.average
eg: The average person in the seventh century in Europe was not as familiar with numbers as we are today.
→ordinary
eg: An ordinary subway train, approaching the station, can be twice as loud as the loudest jet.
→medium
eg: This cloth is of medium quality.
78.fundamental
eg: Perhaps the most fundamental step in developing a sense of number is not the ability to count, but rather to see that a number is really an abstract idea instead of a simple attachment to a group of particular objects.
→basic
eg: In this course, students receive instruction in basic engineering.
→elementary
eg: This elementary school is affiliated to a university.
→essential
eg: Her most essential quality is kindness.
→primary
eg: He only accepted the primary education off and on in his childhood.
79.conceive
eg: It must have been within the grasp of the earliest humans to conceive that four birds are distinct from two birds, however, it is not an elementary step to associate the number 4, as connected with four birds, to the number 4, as connected with four rocks.
→think
eg: If you want to make money you've got to think money.
→believe
eg: We believe in his ability.
→consider
eg: In judging him you should consider his youth.
80.ultimately
eg: All counting ultimately involves refernce to something other than the things being counted.
→finally
eg: Finally the team from Argentina won the championship.
→at last
eg: The big moment has come at last!。