词汇学习

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Word list:

Ascend / blurt / charter / confirm / convertible / deprive / credit / expedition / fancy / envision / tuck / supplement / solemn / squarely / retort

1. ascend

1. ascend

Examples:

●We had ascended 3,000 ft..

●He took exams to ascend through the ranks.

n. ascent ascendible

2. blurt

v. to say (something) suddenly and without careful consideration

Examples:

●Peter blurted out the news before he considered the consequence.

●He found himself blurting out the whole story to her.

●Cf. blunder

●He blundered (out) his surprise at her winning the prize.

3. charter

v. to hire (an aircraft, ship, or motor vehicle)

n. the hiring of an aircraft, ship, or motor vehicle for a special purpose

Examples:

●He chartered a plane to take him to Paris.

●He liked to see the boat sparkling clean before each charter.

●The government chartered the new airline..

4. confirm

Derivatives

v. a. reinforce someone in (an opinion, belief, or feeling)

b. establish the truth or correctness of (something previously believed, suspected, or feared to be the case)

Example:

●The strange events confirmed his belief in the supernatural.

●This latest tragedy merely confirms my view that the law must be tightened.

●If these fears are confirmed, the outlook for the economy will be dire.

5. convertible

a. able to be changed in form, function, or character

●Nationalism is too easily convertible into bitterness and selfishness.

●They don’t have access to a convertible currency.

●The convertible sofa means that the apartment can sleep four.

6. deprive

v. deny (a person or place) the possession or use of something

Example:

●The city was deprived of its water supplies.

●There is no need to deprive yourself of food on this diet.

●This law will deprive us of our most basic rights.

7. credit

v. to believe that sb/sth is responsible for sth or for doing sth, especially sth good

Examples:

●Bach is credited with performing the first solo on a piano.

●He is widely credited with having started the Middle East peace process.

●She credits her good looks and intelligence to her father’s side of the family.

8. expedition

n. a journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose, especially that of exploration, scientific research, or war

Examples:

●The scientists will go on an expedition to the South Pole.

●She was about to embark on a major expedition.

9. fancy

n. imagination

v. to imagine

Examples:

●My research assistant is prone to flights of fancy.

●Children usually have lively fancy.

●He fancied he could smell the perfume of roses.

10. envision

●to imagine as a future possibility; to visualize

Examples:

●She envisioned the admiring glances of guests seeing her home.

●They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults.

11. tuck

v. a. to push, fold, or turn (the edges or ends of something, especially a garment or bedclothes) so as to hide them or hold them in place

Examples:

●Why don’t you tuck your trousers into your socks?

●Tuck your shirt into your jeans.

12. supplement

v. to add an extra element or amount to

n. sth that is added

Examples:

●She took the job to supplement her husband's income..

●She supplements her diet with eggs and fruit.

●Our special supplement is packed with inspirational ideas for healthy and glamorous hair.

13. solemn

adj. characterized by deep sincerity, serious

●He addressed them all in very solemn tones.

●He swore a solemn oath to keep faith.

●The two sides solemnly declared, “The region must be made immune from any foreign interference.

14. squarely

adv. a. directly, without deviating to one side

b. in a direct and uncompromising manner

Examples:

●The bullet hit him squarely between the shoulder blades.

●They placed the blame squarely on the doctor.

15. retort

v. to say something in answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner

Examples:

●She retorted upon him, saying he was to blame.

●The answer they make to us may very easily be retorted.