實例講解GRE高頻熟詞僻意考點

　　在準備GRE考試的時候，熟詞僻意問題往往是最為棘手的，有些時候考察到的往往就是那些我們所不熟知的含義，所以這里給大家做一個詳細的總結：

　　1，account熟詞僻意：報道，解釋;

　?、賏ccount：報道

　　對應真題：

　　Given the flood of information presented by the mass media, the only way for someone to keep abreast of the news is to rely on __________ accounts.

　　 synoptic

　　 abridged

　　sensational

　　 copious

　　 lurid

　　 understated

　　在這個題目當中，因為空格前面出現了news，空格后面的account在這里當報道，

　　②account：解釋

　　對應真題：

　　Before about 1960, virtually all accounts of evolution assumed most adaptation to be a product of selection at the level of populations; recent studies of evolution, however, have found no ______ this ______ view of selection.

　　Blank Blank

　　 departures from controversial

　　 basis for innovative

　　 bias toward pervasive

　　這個題目中virtually all accounts of evolution譯作幾乎所有對于進化的解釋，account在這里當解釋講。

　　2，detachment熟詞僻意：客觀公正，沒有偏見

　　對應真題：

　　Whereas biologists must maintain a ______ attitude toward the subjects of their research, social scientists must, paradoxically, combine personal involvement and scholarly ______.

　　Blank Blank

　　 scrupulous sympathy

　　 casual detachment

　　 disinterested abandon

　　這個第二空格的正確答案是E，detachment，在這里表示的是客觀公正，而不是分開的含義。

　　3，construction熟詞僻意：解釋，詮釋

　　對應真題：

　　When theories formerly considered to be ______ in their scientific objectivity are found instead to reflect a consistent observational and evaluative bias, then the presumed neutrality of science gives way to the recognition that categories of knowledge are human ______.

　　Blank Blank

　　 disinterested fantasies

　　 callous imperatives

　　 unassailable constructions

　　第二空格應該填入一個表示不中立不客觀的東西，那么這里正確答案應該是F選項，填入后表示的是各種知識實際上都是人類的詮釋

　　4，context熟詞僻意：環境

　　對應真題：

　　The First World War began in a context of jargon and verbal delicacy and continued in a cloud of ______ as ______ as language and literature, skillfully used, could make it.

　　Blank Blank

　　 clich literal

　　 euphemism impenetrable

　　 subjectivity enthralling

　　注意到題干中context在這里的意思不是文本，而是環境，表示的是第一次世界大戰在一個充滿著行話和語言精妙的環境中開始。

　　1， AB

　　2， CE

　　3， AF

　　4， BE

　　5，friend熟詞僻意：資助者，贊助者

　　對應真題：

　　Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ______ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.

　　 connoisseur

　　 critic

　　 friend

　　 scourge

　　 judge

　　這個題目正確答案應該選擇C，表示的是資助者，贊助者

　　6，license：

　　對應真題：

　　Word order in a sentence was much freer in old French than it is in French today, this _____disappeared as the French language gradually lost its case distinctions.

　　 restriction

　　 license

　　 similarity

　　 rigidity

　　 imperative

　　this之后所提到的名詞一定在上文出現過，所以這里空格填入一個free同義詞，但是從字面看選項中沒有自由的同義詞，這個時候查一查韋氏詞典就會發現license：freedom of action;所以這里我們應當選擇B。

　　7，yield熟詞僻意：產出

　　對應真題：

　　Surprisingly, given the dearth of rain that fell on the corn crop, the yield of the harvest was ____; consequently, the corn reserves of the country have not been ____.

　　Blank Blank

　　A inadequate D replenished

　　B encouraging E salvaged

　　C compromised F depleted

　　題干中yield在這里的意思顯然不是屈服，而應該是產出，題干中表示的是糧食的產量。

　　8，list熟詞僻意：傾斜

　　對應真題：

　　In order to emphasize the erect posture of his subject matter, the painstaking painter has startlingly contrasted it with the ______ of the windswept trees.

　　A. tilting

　　B. instability

　　C. uprightness

　　D. perpendicularity

　　E. exaggeration

　　F. listing

　　題干當中在說要和筆直的姿勢形成對比，所以空格應該填入一個表示傾斜的概念，所以這里可以選擇AF。

　　4,C

　　5,B

　　6,BF

　　7,AF

　　在準備GRE考試的時候，熟詞僻意問題往往是最為棘手的，有些時候考察到的往往就是那些我們所不熟知的含義，所以這里給大家做一個詳細的總結：

　　1，account熟詞僻意：報道，解釋;

　?、賏ccount：報道

　　對應真題：

　　Given the flood of information presented by the mass media, the only way for someone to keep abreast of the news is to rely on __________ accounts.

　　 synoptic

　　 abridged

　　sensational

　　 copious

　　 lurid

　　 understated

　　在這個題目當中，因為空格前面出現了news，空格后面的account在這里當報道，

　　②account：解釋

　　對應真題：

　　Before about 1960, virtually all accounts of evolution assumed most adaptation to be a product of selection at the level of populations; recent studies of evolution, however, have found no ______ this ______ view of selection.

　　Blank Blank

　　 departures from controversial

　　 basis for innovative

　　 bias toward pervasive

　　這個題目中virtually all accounts of evolution譯作幾乎所有對于進化的解釋，account在這里當解釋講。

　　2，detachment熟詞僻意：客觀公正，沒有偏見

　　對應真題：

　　Whereas biologists must maintain a ______ attitude toward the subjects of their research, social scientists must, paradoxically, combine personal involvement and scholarly ______.

　　Blank Blank

　　 scrupulous sympathy

　　 casual detachment

　　 disinterested abandon

　　這個第二空格的正確答案是E，detachment，在這里表示的是客觀公正，而不是分開的含義。

　　3，construction熟詞僻意：解釋，詮釋

　　對應真題：

　　When theories formerly considered to be ______ in their scientific objectivity are found instead to reflect a consistent observational and evaluative bias, then the presumed neutrality of science gives way to the recognition that categories of knowledge are human ______.

　　Blank Blank

　　 disinterested fantasies

　　 callous imperatives

　　 unassailable constructions

　　第二空格應該填入一個表示不中立不客觀的東西，那么這里正確答案應該是F選項，填入后表示的是各種知識實際上都是人類的詮釋

　　4，context熟詞僻意：環境

　　對應真題：

　　The First World War began in a context of jargon and verbal delicacy and continued in a cloud of ______ as ______ as language and literature, skillfully used, could make it.

　　Blank Blank

　　 clich literal

　　 euphemism impenetrable

　　 subjectivity enthralling

　　注意到題干中context在這里的意思不是文本，而是環境，表示的是第一次世界大戰在一個充滿著行話和語言精妙的環境中開始。

　　1， AB

　　2， CE

　　3， AF

　　4， BE

　　5，friend熟詞僻意：資助者，贊助者

　　對應真題：

　　Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ______ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.

　　 connoisseur

　　 critic

　　 friend

　　 scourge

　　 judge

　　這個題目正確答案應該選擇C，表示的是資助者，贊助者

　　6，license：

　　對應真題：

　　Word order in a sentence was much freer in old French than it is in French today, this _____disappeared as the French language gradually lost its case distinctions.

　　 restriction

　　 license

　　 similarity

　　 rigidity

　　 imperative

　　this之后所提到的名詞一定在上文出現過，所以這里空格填入一個free同義詞，但是從字面看選項中沒有自由的同義詞，這個時候查一查韋氏詞典就會發現license：freedom of action;所以這里我們應當選擇B。

　　7，yield熟詞僻意：產出

　　對應真題：

　　Surprisingly, given the dearth of rain that fell on the corn crop, the yield of the harvest was ____; consequently, the corn reserves of the country have not been ____.

　　Blank Blank

　　A inadequate D replenished

　　B encouraging E salvaged

　　C compromised F depleted

　　題干中yield在這里的意思顯然不是屈服，而應該是產出，題干中表示的是糧食的產量。

　　8，list熟詞僻意：傾斜

　　對應真題：

　　In order to emphasize the erect posture of his subject matter, the painstaking painter has startlingly contrasted it with the ______ of the windswept trees.

　　A. tilting

　　B. instability

　　C. uprightness

　　D. perpendicularity

　　E. exaggeration

　　F. listing

　　題干當中在說要和筆直的姿勢形成對比，所以空格應該填入一個表示傾斜的概念，所以這里可以選擇AF。

　　4,C

　　5,B

　　6,BF

　　7,AF