CP ENG 12 Vocab 17
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English | Chinese, Simplified |
|---|---|
 affectation | artificial manner or behavior; pretense. 做作 |
| auspice | patronage; omen premonition 前兆 |
| burgeon | grow rapidly; flourish |
| curtail | cut short; reduce |
| distend | swell out by pressure from within 扩张 |
| emanate | issue; originate 发出 |
| exhume | dig up |
| meander | wander at random, (of a stream) wind about , 蜿蜒, 漫步 |
| nebulous | cloud like, indistinct, vague |
| officious | domineering, intrusive, meddlesome (多事). |
| pallor | paleness; 苍白 |
| pundit | expert authority or commentators. |
| renounce | formally abandon (a claim, right, etc), repudiate, reject |
| specious | plausible but wrong. 似是而非 |
| subterfuge | evasive or conspiratorial lying or deceit; statement, action, etc. used for such purpose. |
| subversive | seeing to subvert(颠覆) (especially a government); subversive person |
| tantamount | equivalent (to); 无异 |
| usurp | seize (power) wrongfully;篡夺 |
| viable | feasible. capable of developing and surviving outside the womb. 可行的 |
| zealous | full of zeal; enthusiastic. |
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