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1. suggests prolonged fretting over matters that may or may not be real cause for anxiety: a businessman’s endless list of ~ies.
a) concern
2. usually implies precise repetition of the words of another for a particular purpose: illustrate the use of a word by ~ing classical and modern authors; but sometimes quote is applied to a more general referral to someone as author or source of information: don't ~ me as your authority.
b) quote.
3. stresses anguished uncertainty or fear of misfortune or failure: plagued by ~ and self-doubt.
c) solicitude
4. implies great concern or apprehension and connotes thoughtful or hovering attentiveness: behaved with typical maternal ~.
d) anxiety
5. implies oppression of the mind by responsibility and apprehension: a face worn by a host of ~s.
e) worry
6. implies a troubled state of mind and the interest, relation, affection, or responsibility that produces it: your happiness is my only ~.
f) care
ebdcfa Right group care mean a troubled or engrossed state of mind or the thing that causes this.
2/29)
1. implies having a greater size, expanse, or amount than that deemed adequate and may suggest fullness or bulk or freedom from cramping restrictions: we have ~ means to buy the house.
a) effort
2. implies toilsome or solicitous effort by a conscientious agent: took ~ to do the job well.
b) pains
3. often suggests a single action or attempt OR persistent activity and implies the calling up or directing of energy by the conscious will: made the supreme ~ and crossed the finish line first.
c) ample.
4. implies effort that inconveniences or wastes time and patience: went to a lot of ~ to get the right equipment.
d) exertion
5. may describe the bringing into effect of any power of mind or body or it may suggest laborious and exhausting effort: a job not requiring much physical ~.
e) trouble
cbaed Right group effort mean the active use of energy in producing a result.
3/29)
1. implies elimination of one's own feelings, prejudices, and interests so as to achieve a proper balance of conflicting interests: a ~ decision by a judge.
a) dispassionate
2. implies a freer and less rigorous standard than just and may sug. fair and equal treatment to all concerned: provides for ~ distribution of his property.
b) objective
3. sug. freedom from emotional involvement or from influcence of strong feelings , and often implies cool even cold judgement: a ~ summation of facts.
c) just
4. implies even more strongly an absence of prejudices and may imply firm intent to be fair to all: your ~ opinion of the whole affair.
d) fair
5. stresses a freedom from favor OR prejudice in making a judgement: arbitration by an ~ third party.
e) unbiased
6. implies flexibility and ease and quickness in moving but does not stress excellence of coordination or grace: her long ~ fingers moved over the keyboard. (grace优美优雅: simple elegance or refinement of movement动作简单精致，如the gymnast performed on the balance beam with an easy grace体操运动员在平衡木上表演得优美自如)
f) limber.
7. implies an exact following of a standard of what is right and proper: a ~ settlement of territorial dispute.
g) impartial
8. stresses a tendency to view events and persons as apart from oneself and one's own interests and feelings: it is impossible for me to be ~ about my own child.
h) equitable
dhaegfcb Right group fair mean free from favor toward either or any side.
4/29)
1. implies a emancipation from slavery: the proclamation ~ all the slaves.
a) liberate
2. sug. setting loose from confinement, restraint, or state of pressure and tension: ~ his anger by exercising.
b) free
3. implies liberation of a person from submission or domination: this device ~ women from housework.
c) glower.
4. implies usually a permanent removal from what binds, confines, entangles or oppresses: ~ the animals from their cages.
d) emancipate
5. stresses the resulting state of freedom: ~ the novel from Victorian inhibitions.
e) release
6. implies a direct defiant brooding stare or glare as in contempt or defiance: the natives merely ~ed at the invading tourists.（brood这里指一直盯着或瞪着，原意是母鸡孕育小鸡，一窝小鸡，比喻长期怀有想法，如he brooded over his dead mother他对已故母亲念念不忘，如for years he brooded vengeance/suicide多年来他一直在盘算报仇/自杀，如a brood of chicks一窝小鸡，可用于人，如a mother and her brood母亲和一窝孩子，如a remarkable brood of writers几位优秀作家） glower原意是stare凝视盯，但现在主要表示glare瞪了
f) manumit
fedbac Right group free meaning unknown
5/29)
1. is more often used of quadruples or of human beings who move on all fours and proceed slowly, stealthily, or silently: the cat ~(crept) up on the mouse.
a) creep
2. is applied to animals with no legs or many small legs that seem to move by drawing the body along a surface or to human beings who imitate such movement: the injured man tried to ~ to the door.
b) crawl
3. implies a lack of essential relationship and may suggest casual addition or irrelevance: avoided elaborate designs with superfluous or ~ elements.
c) adventitious.
abc Right group creep mean to move along a surface in a prone or crouching posture.
6/29)
1. stress method followed or routine to be followed: achieved success despite disdain for normal ~.
a) air.
2. is esp. appropriate when progress from definite beginning to a definite end is implies and the sequence of events can be divided into a sequence of steps or stages: the ~ of digestion.
b) proceeding
3. implies an exposing or parading of one's views often in order to gain relief or sympathy or attention: cabinet members publicly ~ing their differences. 公开摆明分歧
c) procedure
4. applies not only to sequence of events, actions, operations but also to any one of these and stresses items involved rather than their relation or end in view: had little patience with bureaucratic proceedings.
d) process
cdab Right group process mean the series of such things as actions, operations, or motions involved in the accomplishing of an end。
7/29)
1. implies a temperament or constitution hard to arouse: a ~ person immune to amorous advances.
a) transmorgrify.
2. stresses the absence of any external sign of emotion in action or facial expression: just sat there with an ~ look.
b) apathetic
3. implies a habitual absence of interest, responsiveness, or curiosity about anything beyond an accustomed routine: a ~ woman, wedded to routine.
c) stoic
4. implies an apparent indifference to pleasure or especially to pains, often as a matter of principle or self-discipline: remained resolutely ~ even in the face of adversity.
d) phlegmatic
5. may imply a puzzling or deplorable indifference or inertness: charitable appeals met an ~ response.
e) stolid
6. sug. an extreme, often grotesque and preposterous, metamorphosis: the prince was ~ into a frog.
f) impassive
dfecba Right group impassive mean unresponsive to something that might normally excite interest or emotion.
8/29)
1. implies a lack or loss of stiffness of body and a resulting tendency to droop: a faded flower on a ~ stem. （droop下垂: she was so tired, her eyelids were beginning to droop她太累了，眼睑开始下垂）
a) floppy
2. applies to a something that sags or hangs limply and is likely to suggest flexibility and a natural or intended lack of stiffness: wore a large ~ garden hat that shaded her eyes.
b) admission.
3. implies a flimsiness due to cheap or careless workmanship and may stress a lack or inferiority of standards: a ~ tale of second-rate intrigue.
c) flabby
4. applies to entrance or formal acceptance (as into a club) that carries with it rights, privileges, standing, or membership: candidates for ~ must submit recommendations from two club members.
d) sleazy
5. applies to something of such looseness of structure or insubstantiality of texture as to be unable to stand up under strain; it may also stress a lack of real worth or of capacity for endurance: a ~ excuse.
e) flaccid
6. applies primarily to living tissues and implies a loss of normal and especially youthful firmness or a lack of force or energy or substance: a ~ resolve that easily gave way.
f) limp
7. in its application to material thing is very close to flaccid, but it also suggests spinelessness, spiritlessness, or lethargy: a ~ substitute for a hero.
g) flimsy
fadbgec Right group limp mean deficient in firmness of texture, substance, or structure.
9/29)
1. suggests a uniting of many parts into a whole and often implies an ingenious inventing of something false: ~ an exotic background for her biography. (exotic来自异国奇特, 如exotic fruit异国水果)
a) make
2. implies the generating of a definite outline, structure, or design in the thing produced: ~ a plan. （generate是按一定规则生成，如基因物理定律或写作方法: to generate an idea想出一个方法, to generate electricity发电）
b) manufacture
3. implies a making repeatedly by a fixed process and usually by machinery: ~ shoes.
c) fabricate
4. implies a making or devising or concocting by great physical or mental effort: ~ an agreement after months of negotiating. (devise设计: 特指思考和尝试新方法，如devised new dishes to tempt the palate设计新菜诱惑品尝) (concoct调制捏造，如to concoct a cocktail调制鸡尾酒，或to concoct an excuse捏造借口)
d) shape
5. suggests the impressing of a form upon some material by an external agent: ~ shrubbery into animal figures. (form和shape区别: form应用更广泛，不仅用于有形还可用于无形, shape只用于有形)
e) fashion
6. suggests the use of inventive power or ingenuity: ~ed a bicycle out of spare parts. (ingenious聪慧: 既善于发现又善于发明，可称作杰出brilliant，如an ingenious computer engineer一个杰出(聪慧)的电脑工程师)
f) form
7. applies to ANY action of producing or creating whether by an intelligent agency or blind forces and whether the product has material or immaterial existence: the factory ~s furniture. （produce是正式语言,make随意一些,两个词都很通用）
g) forge
8. implies the removing of doubts by an authoritative statement or indisputable fact: ~ed reports of troop movements.
h) confirm.
cfbgdeah Right group make mean to cause to come into being.
10/29)
1. is likely to imply willingness to destroy the institutions which conserve the ideas or policies condemned and comes close to revolutionary in meaning: an idea conceived by a group of ~ reformers.
a) progressive
2. implies a greater or less degree of emancipation from convention, tradition, or dogma and may suggest either pragmatism and tolerance or unorthodoxy, extremism, and laxness: a politician's ~ tendencies.
b) diligent.
3. applies to what is or seems to be ahead of its proper time and can connote liberalism and mental daring or extreme foolhardiness and experimental impracticality: a man with advanced ideas.
c) radical
4. is likely to imply a comparison with what is backward or reactionary and a readiness to forsake old methods and beliefs for new ones that hold more promise: went to the most ~ school her parents could find.
d) liberal
5. suggests earnest application to some specific object or pursuit: very ~ in her pursuit of a degree. （pursuit事业：指投入极大热情的工作: IT is his pursuit他的事业是IT）
e) advanced
cdeab Right group liberal mean freed from or opposed to what is orthodox, established, or conservative.
11/29)
1. applies to something that is obvious and unavoidable to the sight or mind: the ~ waste of the corrupt regime.
a) outstanding
2. applies to something so extraordinary or exceptional as to demand attention or comment: a film of ~ intelligence and wit.
b) salient
3. applies to something that commands notice by standing out against its surroundings or background: a doctor who occupied a ~ position in the town.
c) signal
4. applies to something unlikely to escape observation: a piano recital with no ~ errors.
d) livid.
5. applies to something that rises above and excels others of the same kind: honored for her ~ contributions to science.
e) prominent
6. applies to something that impresses itself powerfully and deeply upon the mind or vision: the backwardness of the area is ~ even to casual observers.
f) conspicuous
7. basically means leaden-hued, and is used of things that have lost their normal coloring and assumed a dull grayish tinge: the ~ red of the sun through the fog.
g) remarkable
8. applies to something of significance that thrusts itself into attention: list the ~ points of the speech.
h) noticeable
9. applies to what deserves attention as being unusually significant: ~ contribution to sculpture.
i) striking
fgehaidbc Right:) group noticeable mean attracting notice or attention.
12/29)
1. sug. the discovery of a new, profitable, or practical use for sth that might be overlooked or wasted: meat processors that ~ every part of the animal.
a) employ
2. implies availing oneself of sth as a means or instrument to an end: willing to ~ any means to achieve her goals.
b) utilize
3. implies the power or authority to grant or refuse what is asked: refused strangers ~ to hunt on his land.
c) permission.
4. stresses bringing into contact or relation with sth. else such that it proves useful or acquires practical value: ~ specific rules to the situation.
d) apply
5. sug. using a person or thing that is available BUT idle, inactive or disengaged, by putting to some work or profitable activity: your time might have been better ~ by reading.
e) use
becda Right:) group use mean to put into service especially to attain an end or to give a practical value.
13/29)
1. applies usually to offenses or errors so bad that they can neither escape notice nor be condoned: ~ abuse of the office of president.
a) flagrant
2. is applicable to something that stands out by reason of its bad quality or because it is in poor taste: made an ~ error.
b) gross
3. applies to what is openly and extremely objectionable or utterly condemned: it's ~ heresy to say that.
c) rank
4. refers to the impalpable breathable substance essential to life: the ~ we breathe; or that substance mixed with others: smoggy ~.
d) air.
5. implies painful or damaging obtrusiveness of something that is conspicuously wrong, faulty, or improper: ~ errors in judgment.
e) egregious
6. implies the exceeding of reasonable or excusable limits of badness as applied to attitudes, qualities, or faults: ~ carelessness on your part.
f) glaring
aecdfb Right:) group flagrant mean conspicuously bad or objectionable.
14/29)
1. suggests actions or behaviors as formed by breeding or training in regard to the amenities of life: a child with atrocious ~.
a) mien
2. implies a violation of one's oath, promise, or vow or sometimes of something , such as one's principles or beliefs, that is as sacred as an oath: ~ the laws of her country in order to save the life of her child.
b) demeanor
3. applies chiefly to habitual posture in standing or walking: the kind of ~ learned at elite private schools.
c) manner
4. is the most general of these words but now usually implies characteristic posture: a woman of regal ~.
d) bearing
5. suggests one's attitude as expressed by behavior among others : the haughty ~ of a head waiter.
e) carriage
6. implies characteristic or customary way of moving and gesturing in a social context: the imperious ~ of a man used to giving orders.
f) forswear.
7. refers both to bearing and demeanor often as indicative of mood: a ~ of supreme self-satisfaction. mood心情
g) deportment
gfedbca Right:) group bearing mean the outward manifestation of personality or attitude.首字母BDDMMC想成CMD命令人、和BDM变得美<==姿态变美
15/29)
1. implies an emotion or desire operating on the will and causing it to act: a crime without apparent ~.
a) uproar.
2. suggests a motive that keeps one going against one's will or desire: the need to earn a living is the daily ~.
b) spur
3. applies to a motive that stimulates the faculties or increases energy or ardor: fear was the ~ that kept me going.
c) incentive
4. suggests a driving power arising from personal temperament or constitution: my first ~ was to hit him. (temperament和constitution都表示天生性情性格)
d) inducement
5. suggests a motive prompted by the deliberate enticements or allurements of another: offered a watch as an ~ to subscribe.
e) motive
6. applies to an external influence, such as an expected reward or a hope, that incites to action: a bonus was offered as an ~ for Meeting the deadline. (incite鼓动，He incited his fellow citizens to take their revenge鼓动他的同胞报仇雪恨)
f) impulse
7. suggests tumults or wild disorder or often the sound of a multitude noisily or riotously protesting, arguing or defying: remarks that threw the crowd into an ~.
g) goad
egbfdca Right:) group motive mean a stimulus to action.
16/29)
1. whether on person or character, suggests animosity or enmity as its cause but may imply such motives as cruelty, partisanship, or criticism: a speech ~ing governmental policies.
a) assault
2. implies more violence and malice or viciousness and often the infliction of greater damage than attack, sometimes with specific legal or military connotations: a victim of a brutal ~.
b) onslaught
3. applies to what is or seems to be so utterly what it is as to be beyond the possibility of being lessened, softened, or relieved: an ~ evil.
c) onset
4. suggests a vigorous, destructive attempt to overwhelm by force of momentum or number or intensity: succumbed to the ~ of the disease.
d) unmitigated.
5. applies BOTH to the initial attack and to any successive renewal of vigor in the attack: troops preparing for a fresh ~ from the enemy.
e) attack
eadbc Right:) group attack mean an attempt to injure, destroy, or defame.
17/29)
1. stresses the sorrowful regret that accompanies true penitence: the beatings were usually followed by tearful ~.
a) repentance
2. implies a clearly defined but not necessarily unalterable course or direction: an encounter that altered forever the ~ of my life.
b) contrition
3. adds the implication of an awareness of one's shortcoming and a resolve to change: a complete change of character accompanied his ~.
c) penitence
4. implies a painful sting of conscience for past or especially for contemplated wrongdoing: have no ~ about taking back what is mine.
d) remorse
5. implies sad and humble realization of and regret for one's misdeeds: willing to forgive when faced with the outward signs of ~. (很容易错写成’pentinence’，联想penny发音: 因为1分钱忏悔)
e) current.
6. suggest prolonged and insistent self-reproach and mental anguish for past wrongs especially for those whose consequences can not be remedied: swindlers are not usually plagued by feelings of ~.
f) compunction
beafcd Right:) group penitence mean regret forsin or wrongdoing.
18/29)
1. directs attention to the response called forth and often applies to an angry or vexed or extreme reaction: my stories usually ~ laughter.
a) pique
2. suggests a rousing out of lethargy, quiescence, or indifference: the challenge ~d them to work faster.（lethargy困倦，表示不愿意活动，沉沉欲睡，由于伤病药物等implies a drowsiness or aversion to activity such as is induced by disease, injury, or drug，如months of lethargy followed my skiing accident滑雪事故后的几个月一直困倦）
b) excite
3. implies a stirring up or moving profoundly: news that ~ed anger and frustration.
c) quicken
4. suggests stimulating by mild irritation or challenge: that remark ~d my interest.
d) stimulate
5. sug. a simple test of authenticity or value of sth intangible: fine service is a ~ of first-class restaurant:
e) provoke
6. implies beneficially stimulating and making active or lively: the high salary ~ed her desire to have the job.
f) touchstone.
edbafc Right:) group provoke mean to rouse someone or something into doing, being, or feeling.
19/29)
1. implies a definite source or starting point: the theory didn’t ~ with Darwin.
a) gull.
2. applies to the passage of something immaterial such as a principle or thought but carries little suggestion of a causal force: serenity ~ from her.
b) arise
3. implies an originating by dividing or branching off from something as an outgrowth or subordinate development: a whole new industry ~ from the discovery.
c) derive
4. may convey the fact of coming into existence or notice often with no suggestion of prior state: a vicious rumor ~; or may imply causation: mistakes often ~ from haste.
d) issue
5. implies a rapid or sudden emergence: a brilliant idea that had ~ out of nowhere.
e) spring
6. stresses credulousness or readiness to be imposed on or made a fool of: you are so easily ~ed by these contest promoters.
f) originate
7. stresses place of origin, derivation, parentage or logical cause: bitterness that ~ from an unhappy marriage.
g) proceed
8. sometimes interchangeable with arise, distinctively stresses gradual growth or ascent: as time passed, legends about the horse ~.
h) stem
9. implies a prior existence in another form: their system of justice ~ from British colonial law.
i) emanate
10. suggests an emerging from confinement or from a receptacle: shouts of joy ~ from the team’s locker room.
j) rise
11. adds to spring a suggestion of abundance or ease of inception: the belief that all good ~ from God.
k) flow
fihbeagjcdk Right:) group spring meaning unknown
20/29)
1. implies a vague or uncanny sense that something, often unpleasant, is bound to happen: a ~ that some of our group would not survive.
a) foreboding
2. implies availing oneself of sth as a means or instrument to an end: willing to ~ any means to achieve her goals.
b) apprehension
3. suggests fear that is oppressive, unreasoning, or indefinable: the deserted streets filled me with strange ~.
c) presentiment
4. implies a mind preoccupied with fear and anxiety: approached the dangerous undertaking with great ~.
d) misgiving
5. suggests uneasiness and mistrust: had my ~s about her from the start.
e) use.
ceabd Right:) group apprehension mean a feeling that something undesirable will or is about to happen.
21/29)
1. applies to a quick, light and spasmodic movement that oft. combines tugging and jerking: the sleeping cat, its body ~ as it dreamt.
a) dispute
2. implies a contentious and heated argument: scientists ~ the reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs.
b) argue
3. sug. a formal or public argument between opposing parties: ~ the merit of the proposed constitution amendment.
c) twitch.
4. implies sifting of possibilities by presenting considerations of pros AND cons: ~ the need for widening the expressway.
d) debate
5. implies an often heated offering of reasons and evidences in support of convictionS ALREADY held: ~ the project would be too costly.
e) discuss
cadeb Right:) group discuss mean to discourse about something in order to reach conclusions or to convince others of the validity of one's position.
22/29)
1. is very close to perfume but more neutral in connotation: furniture polish with a fresh lemon ~.
a) boutique
2. applies to the smoke from burning spices and gums and suggests a pleasing odor: the exotic ~ of a Middle East bazaar. 树胶 注意是2个a不是2个z
b) redolence
3. may suggest a stronger or heavier odor and applies especially to a prepared or synthetic liquid: the ~ of lilacs filled the room.
c) perfume
4. often used of wine, implies a delicate, complex odor that suggests the distinctive, savory quality of its source: the ~ of ripe apples.
d) incense
5. suggests the pleasant odors of flowers or other growing things: household cleansers with the ~ of pine.
e) fragrance
6. implies a mixture of fragrant or pungent odors: the ~ of forest after a rain.
f) scent
fdcaeb Right:) group fragrance mean a sweet or pleasant odor.
23/29)
1. implies a tactless or otherwise objectionable curiosity about or a thrusting oneself into the company or affairs of others: an ~ interruption in our conservation.
a) obtrusive
2. stresses affirmation, especiallyin the face of denial or doubt: ~ed that he had never had a more splendid meal.
b) protest.
3. stresses an annoying and usually prying interference in others' affairs: ~ old gossips with nothing to do.
c) meddlesome
4. implies the offering of services or advices that are unwelcome or annoying: an ~ salesman followed me outside.
d) intrusive
5. implies exceeding the bounds of propriety in showing interest or curiosity: a little brat asking ~ questions.
e) impertinent
6. stresses improper or offensive conspicuousness of interfering actions: ~ relatives monopolizing the wedding photographs.
f) officious
dbcfea Right:) group impertinent mean given to thrusting oneself into the affairs of another.
24/29)
1. implies having the tangible qualities of a body, such as shape, size, or resistance to force: artists have portrayed angels as ~ beings.
a) material
2. suggests a more marked downward direction and greater momentum as well as more obvious evidence of deterioration: the meteoric rise and ~ of his career.
b) corporeal
3. stresses the capability of being readily or forcibly known through the senses: the earth's rotation is not ~ to us.
c) decline.
4. applies to what is known or perceived through the senses and experience RATHER than by intuition or rational deduction: scientists concerned only with the ~ world.
d) phenomenal
5. may stress material existence apart from a subject perceiving it: tears are the ~ manifestation of grief.
e) objective
6. applies to what is perceived directly by the senses or can be measured or calculated and may contrast with mental, spiritual, or imaginary: the benefits of ~ exercise.
f) physical
7. implies formation out of tangible matter, but may imply a contrast to spiritual, ideal, or intangible: ~ possessions. (materialism唯物主义) (Marilyn Monroe有首歌词this is a material world, and I am a ~ girl这是一个物质世界...)
g) sensible
bcgdefa Right:) group material mean of or belonging to the world of actuality or to things apparent to the senses.
25/29)
1. implies the disturbance of normal or habitual functioning of by disappointment, distress, or grief: constantly bickering that greatly ~s their son.
a) therefore
2. stresses the logically deduced conclusion that it introduces: it was raining hard and ~ we stayed inside.
b) upset.
3. when used to indicate logical sequence, is employed chiefly in the consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence: if A and B are mutually exclusive possibilities and A is true, ~ B is false.
c) then
4. tends to suggest good and reasonable grounds or a strong logical possibility: he said he would come; ~ we will wait for him.
d) hence
5. usually indicates logical or casual sequence but connotes naturalness or usualness in the consequence rather than necessity or inevitability: knew where the edges of the driveway were and plowed the snow ~.
e) consequently
6. though often interchangeable with therefore, is more likely to stress the importance of what precedes: a meal badly overcooked and ~ inedible.
f) accordingly
bacefd Right:) group therefore meaning unknown
26/29)
1. blithe: jocund: jovial: jolly:
a) jocund
2. stresses gladness marked by liveliness, elation and exhilaration of spirits: good news had left him in a ~ mode.
b) blithe
3. suggests a real, sometimes a designed, relationship but one which is secondary and nonessential: expenses ~ to the performance of her job.
c) incidental.
4. suggests carefree, innocent, or even heedless gaiety: arrived home late in her usual ~ way.
d) jovial
5. suggests cheerful, joyous, uninhibited enjoyment of frolic or festivity: a ~ group of holiday revelers.
e) jolly
6. suggests the stimulation of conviviality and good fellowship or the capacity for these: grew inceasingly ~ with every drink.
f) merry
7. suggests high spirits expressed in laughing, bantering, and jesting and a determination to keep one's companions easy and laughing: our ~ host enlivened the party.
g) merry
gacbfde Right:) group merry mean showing high spirits or lightheartedness.
27/29)
1. applies to an utterance or behavior that is difficult to interpret: his suicide was an ~ his family never understood.
a) mystery
2. suggests an enigma or problem involving paradox or apparent contradiction: the ~ of the reclusive billionaire.
b) conundrum
3. applies to an enigma or problem involving paradox or apparent contradiction that challenges ingenuity for its solution: the mechanisms of heredity were long a ~ for scientists.
c) riddle
4. applies to what cannot be fully understood by human reason or less strictly to whatever resists or defies explanation: the ~ of the stone monoliths on Easter Island.
d) problem
5. applies to a riddle or puzzle whose answer involves a pun or less often to a problem whose solution can only be speculative: posed ~s to which there are no practical solutions.
e) enigma
6. applies to any question or difficulty calling for a solution or causing concern: the ~s created by high technology.
f) clear-cut.
7. suggests the absence of any blurring, ambiguity, or uncertainty of statement or analysis: made a ~ distinction between the two military actions.
g) puzzle
ecgabdf Right:) group mystery mean something which baffles or perplexes.
28/29)
1. may suggest a state of completeness or perfection, from which nothing has been taken or to which nothing can be added: the ~ population was wiped out.
a) whole
2. implies everyting has been counted, measured, weighed or considered: the ~ number of people present; or may suggest the absence of all reservation: a ~ eclipse.
b) entire
3. implies nothing has been omitted, ignored, abated, or taken away: read the ~ book.
c) total
4. implies a leading to an unplanned end or state by a flow of consequences: such good results can only ~ to our credit.
d) redound.
5. may equal whole, entire or total: ~ their money went to pay the rent.
e) all
bcade Right:) group whole mean including everything or everyone without exception.
29/29)
1. implies a searching scrutinizing for errors or defects: ~ed the restaurant for health-code violations.
a) inspect
2. suggests a scrutinizing or investigating in order to determine the nature, condition, or quality of a thing: ~d the gems to see whether they were genuine.
b) scan
3. implies perfection deriving from the integrity, soundness, or completeness: recorded the ~ Beethoven corpus.
c) examine
4. stresses the application of close observation and attention to minute detail: closely ~d the bill from the hospital.
d) scrutinize
5. implies a surveying from point to point that often suggests a cursory overall observation: quickly ~ed the wine list.
e) entire.
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