星火六级词汇必备(乱序版)day29

1.Paper

2.Thesis

3.Prose

4.Verse

5.Texture

6.Timber

7.Velvet

8.Gorge

9.Ridge

10.Trench

11.Tunnel

12.Whatever

13.Whatsoever

14.Drought

15.Flood

16.Evolve

17.Degenerate

18.Odds

19.Opportunity

20.Program

21.Repertoire

22.Tick

1 A tick is a written mark like a V: . It is used to show that something is correct or has been selected or dealt with. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use check)

Place a tick in the appropriate box.

2 If you tick something that is written on a piece of paper, you put a tick next to it. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use check)

Please tick this box if you do not wish to receive such mailings...

3 When a clock or watch ticks, it makes a regular series of short sounds as it works.

A wind-up clock ticked busily from the kitchen counter.

Tick away means the same as tick.

A grandfather clock ticked away in a corner.

4 The tick of a clock or watch is the series of short sounds it makes when it is working, or one of those sounds.

He sat listening to the tick of the grandfather clock.

5 You can use tick to refer to a very short period of time. (BRIT INFORMAL)

I'll be back in a tick...

= sec

I shall be with you in two ticks.

Just hang on a tick, we may be able to help.

23.Tickle

24.Privacy

25.Privilege

26.Acquaint

27.Acquaintance

28.Automate

To automate a factory, office, or industrial process means to put in machines which can do the work instead of people.

He wanted to use computers to automate the process. automation

In the last ten years automation has reduced the work force here by half.

29.Automatic

1 An automatic machine or device is one which has controls that enable it to perform a task without needing to be constantly operated by a person. Automatic methods and processes involve the use of such machines.

Modern trains have automatic doors.

2 An automatic action is one that you do without thinking about it.

All of the automatic body functions, even breathing, are affected.

30.Pose

31.Posture

32.Intense

33.Intensive

34.Desirable

35.Desirous

36.Finite

37.Infinite

38.Entrepreneur

39.Enterprise

40.Aesthetic

41.Aesthetics

42.Economical

43.Economics

44.Symmetry

45.Symmetrical

46.Recite

1 When someone recites a poem or other piece of writing, they say it aloud after they have learned it.

They recited poetry to one another.

2 If you recite something such as a list, you say it aloud.

All he could do was recite a list of Government failings...

47.Retell

48.Seal

49.Overhear

50.Overpass

51.Clay

52.Cement

53.Cargo

54.Checkpoint

55.Download

56.Upload

57.Orient

58.Parachute

59.Paperback

60.Paradox

61.Parameter

62.Preside

If you preside over a meeting or an event, you are in charge.

The PM presided over a meeting of his inner Cabinet.

He presided at the trial of the Maguire Seven.

The presiding officer ruled that the motion was out of order.

63.Quart

64.Quench

If someone who is thirsty quenches their thirst, they lose their thirst by having a drink.

He stopped to quench his thirst at a stream.

65.Questionnaire

66.Relish

67.Revenge

68.Setback

69.Supersonic

70.Telecom

71.Tuck

1 If you tuck something somewhere, you put it there so that it is safe, comfortable, or neat.

He tried to tuck his flapping shirt inside his trousers...

She found a rose tucked under the windscreen wiper of her car one morning.

2 You can use tuck to refer to a form of plastic surgery which involves reducing the size of a part of someone's body.

She'd undergone 13 operations, including a tummy tuck.

72.Ultraviolet

73.Unbutton

74.Whereby

75.Zigzag

76.Elapse

77.Standby

78.Minibus

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80.Perspective

81.Battery

82.Bloodshed

83.Chamber

84.Essence

1 The essence of something is its basic and most important characteristic which gives it its individual identity.

The essence of consultation is to listen to, and take account of, the views of those consulted.

...the essence of life...

2 You use in essence to emphasize that you are talking about the most important or central aspect of an idea, situation, or event.

Though off-puttingly complicated in detail, local taxes are in essence simple.

3 If you say that something is of the essence, you mean that it is absolutely necessary in order for a particular action to be successful.

Speed was of the essence in a project of this type.

= crucial

4 Essence is a very concentrated liquid that is used for flavouring food or for its smell.

...a few drops of vanilla essence.

...exotic bath essences

85.Clockwise

86.Counterclockwise

87.Queue

88.Irregular

89.Burdensome

90.Cafeteria

91.confucianism