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Word Power ----01
Word Power ----01
我刚刚购得KAPLAN WORD POWER一书。共750 must-know words. 个人感觉比XDF的要好的多。现共享出来，由于我的打字速度慢，每天计划出十个含例句，大家一起来学吧！
The author's foreword:
We couldn't include in this book every word in the English Language. We assume you know that! What we did attempt to do was organize the most important words into three broad categories. We started in section 1 with words you really ought to know already---to build your confidence and straighten out any critical incorrect impressions you might have had about actural meanings. If you know these words, we figure you're ready to have lunch with an admissions conselor at Harvard or make a great impression on an interview at a Fortune 500 firm. Sections 2 and 3 cover words of increasing difficulty. You 'll wind up training your brain and increasing your word power with new level you decide to trackle.
Would you abdicate or advocate?
1. abdicate v. to step down from a position of power
The king decided to abdicate in favor of his smart, though woefully impetuous son.
The abdication heralded a new era.
2. abridge v. shorten, condense, or lesson in length
At first he planned a lengthy abdication speech, but than he decided to give an abridged version so he wouldn't bore his kingdom to death.
Had he decided to abridge the speech himself, the queen was planning to lose it.
3. Absolve v. forgive or free from blame
As part of the king's historic decision, he decided to absolve all those villains who languished in the tower.
4. Abysmal adj. extremely wrethched, bottomless
The prisoners had been living in an abysmal situation.
5. Advocate v. support, or be in favor of
Not one cabinet member could advocate the king's posiion.
They all became advocates of his proposal, however, when the king's son threatened to hehead them.
6. Affinity n Sympathy, atraction, kinship
She possessed an affinity for the local artists, so she called upon them to display their wares at pre-abdication crafts fair.
7. Agenda n. program, things to be done
The queen's agenda grew longer every day and was impossible to address.
8. Aggrandize v. make great
The king's wealth had aggrandized during the tme of hs reign.
The queen had also experienced an aggrandizement of his wealth.
9. Allusion n. an indirect reference
She was sometimes refered to sa Queen Jackie, which was an allusion to Jacqueline Onassis and his famous shopping spress.
10. Altruistic adj. unselfish concern with the welfare of others
The royal family, despite their excesses, had been quite altruistic about the fairness of the tax system.
Every lesson tells a story
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