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PreCollege Vocab: Victory & Defeat

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victory
(Athletes must learn both how to celebrate victory and how to lose with grace.)
(n) winning, success
成功
victorious
(China's Team Water was victorious in the non-humanoid robot competition, beating Tech United, from the Netherlands.)
(adj) having won
成功的；胜利的
conquer (v)
(Many nations are united in an effort to conquer terrorism.)
(v) defeat, overcome
征服；胜利
conquest (n)
(The game of conquest challenges players to develop a medieval empire from a single castle.)
(n) victory, mastering something difficult
战胜；征服
acquiesce
(The defeated German army acquiesced to the demands of the Allied Forces.)
(v) give in to
屈服
acquiescence
(Historians argue that the destruction caused by an atomic bomb was necessary to bring about Japanese acquiescence in WWII.)
(n) acceptance (i.e. of defeat)
默许
acquiescent
(If members of the U.S. Congress were sometimes more acquiescent, laws benefiting the American public would be passed more often.)
(adj) willing to give in
默许的；甘心接受的
adversary
(The comic book heroes Batman and Robin always defeat their adversary, The Joker.)
(n) enemy; synonym: opponent; antonym: ally
对手
adverse
(The hurricane caused such adverse driving conditions that we decided to wait out the storm at home.)
(adj) challenging, negative
相对的
adversity
(The small flower overcame the adversity of drought to bloom.)
(n) challenge; synonym: hardship
挫折
antagonism
(Lord of the Flies depicts the deadly antagonism between two groups of boys living in the wild.)
(n) conflict; synonym: hostility
对抗
antagonist
(In many horror movies, the antagonist is a gigantic creature with superhuman powers.)
(n) someone or something that opposes someone else
对抗者
attain
(According to Buddhism, attaining peace should be one of humankind's greatest priorities.)
(v) reach, achieve (a goal)
获得
attainment
(The attainment of a PhD requires intelligence, persistence and patience.)
(n) achievement
获得
attainable
(Weight loss is an attainable goal if you combine diet and exercise.)
(adj) realistic, achievable
antonym: unattainable
可得到的
concede
(Even before all the votes were counted, the candidate conceded to his opponent.)
(v) give up; synonym: yield
让步
contend
(The runners had to contend with a strong headwind in the final of the 10,000 meters.)
(v) deal with, battle against
竞争
contention
(Football watchers predict that Argentina will be in contention to win the next World Cup.)
(n) competition
竞争
contender
(New Zealanders are voting to choose a new flag from five contenders.)
(n) competitor
竞争者
contentious
(The contentious couple loved nothing better than arguing with each other.)
(adj) seeking conflict
引起争论的
defeatist
(I disagree with the defeatist attitude that Congress will never pass a ban on assault weapons.)
(n) someone who expects to fail
(adj) expecting to fail
失败主义者
deter
(When she was in Paris, a fear of heights deterred Mei from climbing to the top of the Eiffel Tower.)
(v) prevent, stop
阻止
deterrence
(The United Nations used the threat of attack as deterrence against any nation's use of chemical weapons.)
(n) prevention
阻止
undeterred
(Undeterred by hardship and danger, the migrants risked a perilous escape from their war torn nation.)
(adj) not stopped
未受阻的
dominate
(The Chinese national ping pong team dominated the Asia Games.)
(v) win, exert power over
统治；支配
domination
(Fortunately, Hitler's dream of world domination was never achieved.)
(n) total control, power over
统治
indomitable
(Anne Frank's indomitable spirit helped her survive years in hiding from the Nazis.)
(adj) can't be beaten or defeated
不屈不饶的
outwit
(11 year-old Carissa Yip outwitted her opponents to become the world's youngest Chess Grandmaster.)
(v) use intelligence to beat an opponent
以智取胜
persevere
(Even after one of their clinics was bombed, Doctors Without Borders persevered in their efforts to treat victims of war.)
(v) refuse to give up or stop
保护
prevail (over)
(Despite being outsized, the terrier prevailed over the larger dog and claimed the bone as his prize.)
(v) win out
胜利
rival (v)
(Some predict that e-sports will rival the biggest traditional sports leagues.)
(v) compete successfully against
竞争
rival (n)
(Apple is beginning to have more rivals to the Ipad.)
(n) challenger; synonym: contender
对手；竞争者
rivalry (n)
(The TV special showcased the rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.)
(n) competition
竞争
unrivalled
(Google is unrivalled in its ability to attract the "best and brightest" technology talents.)
(adj) best, beyond comparison; synonym: unequaled
无敌的
impasse
(If budget talks result in an impasse, the government will shut down.)
(n) situation in which success is blocked; synonym: stalemate
僵局
surrender
(The soldiers were forced to surrender to their enemy.)
(v) give up
投降
triumph (n)
(China's admission to the U.N. in 1971 was one of the nation's first global triumphs.)
(n) win, victory
胜利
triumph (v)
(The Communist Revolution enabled peasants and workers to triumph over wealthy landowners.)
(v) to win, to be victorious
胜利
triumphant
(The media agreed the candidate was the triumphant performer in last night's debate.)
(adj) victorious
成功的；得意洋洋的
vie
(Thousands of Asian high school students vie for admission to top U.S. universities.)
(v) compete for
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