Part 1 Flashcards
accentuate
[ækˈsɛntʃuˌet]
To accentuate something means to emphasize it or make it more noticeable.
The whole air of menace was accentuated by the fact that he was so cordial and soft-voiced.
cordial
[ˈkɔ:rdʒəl]
Cordial means friendly.
He said the two countries had close and cordial relations.
influx
An influx of people or things into a place is their arrival there in large numbers.
…problems caused by the influx of refugees.
keen
1) If you are keen on doing something, you very much want to do it. If you are keen that something should happen, you very much want it to happen.
Both companies were keen on a merger…
2)You use keen to indicate that someone has a lot of enthusiasm for a particular activity and spends a lot of time doing it.
She was a keen amateur photographer.
I wasn’t too keen on physics and chemistry.
3)If you say that someone has a keen mind, you mean that they are very clever and aware of what is happening around them.
They described him as a man of keen intellect…
magnitude
If you talk about the magnitude of something, you are talking about its great size, scale, or importance.
An operation of this magnitude is going to be difficult…
rudimentary
[ˌrudəˈmɛntəri]
1) Rudimentary things are very basic or simple and are therefore unsatisfactory.
They are deprived of the ability to exercise the most rudimentary workers’ rights.
2) Rudimentary knowledge includes only the simplest and most basic facts.
He had only a rudimentary knowledge of French.
entary grasp of economics.
impart
1) If you impart information to people, you tell it to them.
I am about to impart knowledge to you that you will never forget.
2) To impart a particular quality to something means to give it that quality.
She managed to impart great elegance to the unpretentious dress she was wearing…
vex
vexing
If someone or something vexes you, they make you feel annoyed, puzzled, and frustrated.
It vexed me to think of others gossiping behind my back…
stake
If you have a stake in something such as a business, it matters to you, for example because you own part of it or because its success or failure will affect you.
He was eager to return to a more entrepreneurial role in which he had a big financial stake in his own efforts…
at stake
If something is at stake, it is being risked and might be lost or damaged if you are not successful.
The tension was naturally high for a game with so much at stake…
对于一场成败攸关的比赛来说气氛自然非常紧张。
At stake are more than 20,000 jobs in Britain’s aerospace sector.
timely
A timely event happens at a moment when it is useful, effective, or relevant.
The exhibition is timely, since ‘self-taught’ art is catching on in a big way.
catch on
1) If you catch on to something, you understand it, or realize that it is happening.
He got what he could out of me before I caught on to the kind of person he’d turned into…
2) If something catches on, it becomes popular.
The idea has been around for ages without catching on.
hone
[hoʊn]
If you hone something, for example a skill, technique, idea, or product, you carefully develop it over a long period of time so that it is exactly right for your purpose.
Leading companies spend time and money on honing the skills of senior managers…
substantive
Substantive negotiations or issues deal with the most important and central aspects of a subject.
They plan to meet again in Rome very soon to begin substantive negotiations.
pinnacle
If someone reaches the pinnacle of their career or the pinnacle of a particular area of life, they are at the highest point of it.
If someone reaches the pinnacle of their career or the pinnacle of a particular area of life, they are at the highest point of it.
