List 21 Flashcards
(85 cards)
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Pilfer
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To steal in small amounts
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Pigment
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颜料
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Pillory
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被示众嘲弄
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Pinnacle
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The highest point of achievement
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Pinpoint
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Located with extreme precision
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Piquant
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Spicy, provocative
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Pique
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To arouse anger
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Pithy
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Precisely meaningful, forth full and brief
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Pittance
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A small allownance
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Pixel
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像素
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Placate
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To soothe by concession 通过让步平息抚慰
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Placebo
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安慰剂
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Plagiarize
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To steal the ideas of another and pass off as one’s own
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Plasticity
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Capacity of being molded or altered
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Plateau
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A relatively stable period
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Platitude
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陈词滥调
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Plausible
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Superficially reasonable but often specious
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Pleat
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Fold,打褶
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Plentitude
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An abundance
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Plethora
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Excess,abundance
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Pliable
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Supple enough to bend freely without breaking
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Pliant
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顺从的
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Plight
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A bad and unfortunate situation
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Plodding
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To walk heavily or slowly
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Pluck
Daring in the face of difficulty
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Plumb
用铅锤测定深度，exactly vertical
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Plummet
To decline suddenly
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Plump
Chubby, fat
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Plunge
To descend suddenly 突然下降
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Plutocracy
Government by the wealthy
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Podiatrist
足病医生
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Polemic
A controversial argument
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Polished
Cultured
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Politic
精明能干的
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Pollster
民意测验专家
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Pompous
浮夸的，傲慢的
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Ponderable
Considerable enough to be assessed值得考虑的
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Ponderous
Of very great weight
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Pontificate
To speak in a pompous or dogmatic way
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Porous
多孔可渗透的
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Portentous
Full of unspecifiable significance
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Poseur
An insincere person
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Posit
To assume as true
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Posture
To assume a pretended attitude故作姿态
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Potable
Suitable for drinking
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Potboiler
粗制滥造的文艺作品
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Potentate
One who has power to rule over others
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Potentials
To make more active
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Pout
噘嘴
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Practitioner
One who practices a profession
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Prairie
大草原
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Prate
To talk long and idly
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Preach
布道
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Precarious
Dangerously lacking in stability
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Precedent
An earlier occurrence of something similar
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Precipice
悬崖
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Precipitate
To cause to happen
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Precipitation
降水
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Precipitous
非常陡峭的
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Preclude
To make impossible, prevent
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Predecessor
前任，先辈
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Predilection
爱好
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Preeminent
Having paramount rank,outstanding
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Preempt
取得优先权
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Preen
整理羽毛，打扮
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Preface
序言
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Pregnant
Full of meaning
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Premeditate
To think beforehand
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Preoccupation
Extreme concern with something
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Preponderant
Having superior importance
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Prepossessing
Pleasing
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Preposterous
Contrary to nature , common sense, absurd
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Presage
预言
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Prescience
Foresight
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Prescription
处方
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Preservative
防腐剂
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Prestige
The level of respect
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Presumptuous
放肆的，冒昧的
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Pretense
The act of pretending
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Preternatural
Surpassing the normal
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Prevail
To be greater in strength
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Prevalent
Widely or commonly occurring
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Prevaricate
To stay from or evade the truth
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Primordial
Original
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Primp
To dress in a careful manner
