【同义词练习】 第28/30周(2023.10.30--2023.11.05)

纤竹无泪、拒泪

1/34)1. may sometimes imply physical magnitude, usually with connotations of wonder, surprise, or awe: the ~ canyon cut by the Colorado River; but it more often implies eminence, distinction, or excellence: possessed a very ~ talent.  a) adapt2. applies to bringing into a harmonyor accordance with a pattern, example, or principle: refused to ~ to society's idea of woman's proper role.  b) conform3. implies the demonstration of underlying consistence or congruity of things that seem to be incompatible: tried to ~ what they said with what I knew.  c) adjust4. suggests bringing into a close and exact correspondence or harmony as exists between the parts of a mechanism, often by the use of tact or ingenuity: ~ the budget to allow for inflation.  d) accommodate5. may imply yielding orcompromising in order to achieve a correspondence: ~ his political beliefs to those of the majority.  e) great6. implies a ready modification to changing circumstances: they ~ themselves to the warmer climate. (ready 随时表示很快很容易very quickly and easily)  f) reconcileebfcda Right group adapt meaning unknown

2/34)1. suggests depth of discernment coupled with sympathetic understanding: a documentary providing ~ into the plight of the homeless. (sympathetic这里不是同情，而是有感觉，不翻译)  a) acumen2. implies a searching mind that goes beyond what is obvious or superficial: had not the ~ to see beneath their deceptive facade.  b) penetration3. stresses accuracy, as for example, in reading character or motives or appreciating art: had not the ~ to know who her friends really were. (accuracy准确和precision精确(密)的区别: 准确表示正确，形容具体动作或结果；精确精密表示每次都正确这一属性，形容人或仪器设备，现实很多人不区分)  c) sedulous4. implies painstaking and persevering application: a ~ reconstruction of the events of that night.  d) discrimination5. stresses the power to distinguish and select what is true or appropriate or excellent: acquire ~ by looking at a lot of art.  e) insight6. implies consistent penetration combined with keen practical judgment: a theatre director with reliable critical ~.  f) discernment7. implies quick and often sympathetic discernment AND delicacy of feeling: a novelist of keen ~.  g) perceptionebfcdag Right group discernment mean a power to see what is not evident to the average mind.

3/34)1. is close to pacifist, but ordinarily applies only to things: a determinedly ~ outlook.  a) grieve2. implies actual mental suffering, whether it is shown outwardly or not and connotes the concentration of one's mind on one's loss, trouble, or cause of distress: still ~s for his dead child.  b) mourn3. stresses the outward expression of grief, sincere OR conventional, and usually suggests a specific cause such as the death of someone loved or respected: a nation ~s the loss of its hero.  c) sorrow4. interchangeable with either grief or mourn when sincere mental distress is implied, stresses the sense of regret or loss and of deep sadness and suggests an inner distress rather outward expression of grief: ~ed with great dignity.  d) pacifisticdabc Right group grieve meaning unknown

4/34)1. carries an implication of continued or long-continuing and usually increasing success:  ~ in business.  a) ordinance2. applies to an order govening some detail of conduct or procedure, enforced by a limited authority such as a municipality: a city ~.  b) thrive3. implies a state of vigorous growth and expansion without signs of decadence or decay but also without any suggestion of how long this state will be maintained: attitudes that ~ed in the Middle Ages.  c) succeed4. is antithesis to fail and is widely applicable to persons and things: ~ in her third try for public office.  d) flourish5. adds the implication of vigorous growth often because of or in spite of specified conditions: plants that ~ in acid soil.  e) prospereadcb Right:) <i>group succeed mean to attain or be attaining a desired end.首字母SPTF想成Fan Sheng Tai Ping繁盛太平