unit1综英单词表.doc

Tuck
Verb
1．draw together into folds or puckers
Synonym: gather pucker
2. fit snugly into
e.g. insert your ticket into the slot tuck your shirttail in
Synonym: insert
3. make a tuck or several folds in
e.g. tuck the fabric
Verdant
Adj
1. characterized by abundance of verdure
Spectacularly
Adv
1. in a spectacular manner
E.g. the area was spectacularly scenic
Synonym: stunningly
Awe-inspiring
Adj
1. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
E.g. New York is an amazing city
Synonym: Amazing awesome awful awing
Lush
Adj
1. Produced or growing in extreme abundance
e.g. their riotous blooming
2. full of juice
e.g. lush fruits
3. characterized by extravagance and profusion
e.g. a lavish buffet
Synonym: lavish
Quintessentially
Adv. representing a perfect or typical example of something.
Compact
Adj
1. Closely and firmly united or packed together
e.g. compact soil
compact clusters of flowers
2. briefly giving the gist of something
e.g. a short and compendious book a compact style is brief and pithy
3. having a short and solid form or stature
E.g. a wrestler of compact build
Synonym: Heavyset
Verb
1. Squeeze or press together
E.g. she compressed her lips the spasm contracted the muscle
2. make more compact by or as if by pressing
E.g. compress the data
Synonym: Compress pack together
3. Compress into a wad
E.g. wad paper into the box
4. Have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
E.g. this powder compacts easily
Such odd-shaped items do not pack well
Synonym: pack
Stride
Verb
1. Cover or traverse by taking long steps
E.g. She strode several miles towards the woods
2. Walk with long steps
e.g. He strode confidently across the hall
Idyllic
Adj
1. excellent and delightful in all respects
2. suggestive of an idyll, charmingly simple and serene
Pedigree
Noun
1. ancestry of a purebred animal
Synonym: bloodline
2. line of descent of a purebred animal
3. The descendants of one individual
e.g. His entire lineage has been warriors
Synonym: Lineage line
Craggy
Adj
1. Having hills and crags
E.g. hilly terrain
Synonym: mountainous
Crumpled
Adj
1. of metal e.g.
e.g. Bent nails
Synonym: Bent
Glacial
Adj
1. Extremely cold
E.g.an arctic climate
Synonym: icy
Evocative
Adj
1. Serving to bring to mind
Synonym: redolent remindful
Tinkling
Adj
1. like the short high ringing sound of a small bell
Medieval
Adj
1. As if belonging to the Middle Ages ,old-fashioned and unenlightened
Synonym: Mediaeval gothic
2. Characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages
3. Relating to or belonging to the middle Ages
Perch
Noun
1. any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order
2. Spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
3. Support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)
Chime
Noun
1. A percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer, used as an orchestral instrument
Synonym: Bell gong
Verb
1. Emit a sound
E.g. bells and gongs chimed
Patch
Noun
1. a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
Synonym: bandage
2. A protective cloth covering for an injured eye
Synonym: Eye patch
3. Sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
E.g. her stockings had several mends
Synonym: Mend darn
4. a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole
5. a connection intended to be used for a limited time
Synonym: temporary hookup
Attest
Verb
1. Authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity
e.g. I attest this signature
2 .establish or verify the usage of
E.g. this word is not attested until 1993
3. Provide evidence for, stand as proof of, show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes
Synonym: certify
Stunning
Adj
1. Strikingly beautiful or attractive
2 .commanding attention
Synonym: arresting
Simplicity
Noun
1. Lack of ornamentation
e.g. The room was simply decorated with great restraint
2. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
Synonym: Ease easiness
3 .the quality of being simple or uncompounded
E.g. the simplicity of a crystal
Scribble
Noun
1. An aimless drawing
Synonym: Scrabble doodle
2 .poor handwriting
Synonym: Scratch scrawl cacography
Verb
1. write down quickly without much attention to detail
Synonym: scrabble
2. write carelessly
Tiptoe
Noun
1. the tip of a toe
Verb
1. walk on one's toes
Synonym: Tip
Adj
1. Walking on the tips of one’s toes so as to make no noise
E.g. moving with tiptoe steps
Illustration
Noun
1. a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand
2. An item of information that is typical of a class or group
E.g. this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome
Synonym: Example instance representative
2. showing by example
Synonym: exemplification
3. Artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
Grandeur
Noun
1. The quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
E.g. for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel
Synonym: Magnificence brilliance splendor grandness
2. the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct
Synonym: nobility
Bearer
Noun
1. Someone whose employment involves carrying something
e.g. The bonds were transmitted by carrier
Synonym: Carrier
Exhilarating
Adj
1. making lively and joyful
Synonym: elating
2. making lively and cheerful
E.g. the exhilarating effect of mountain air
Synonym: stimulating
Sibling
Noun
1. a person's brother or sister
Synonym: sib
Crusty
Adj
1. Brusque and surly and forbidding
e.g. Crusty remarks
A crusty old man
Synonym: Curmudgeonly gruff ill-humored
2. having a hardened crust as a covering
Synonym: crusted
Brewery
Noun
1. A plant where beer is brewed by fermentation
Mortified
Adj
1. Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride
E.g. too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street
Synonym: Embarrassed humiliated
2. Suffering from tissue death
Synonym: gangrenous
Barrel
Noun
1. A cylindrical container that holds liquids
Synonym: cask
2. A tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired
3. Any of various units of capacity
E.g. a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons
Jersey
Noun
1. a slightly elastic machine-knit fabric
2. a close-fitting pullover shirt
Synonym: T-shirt
Knitted
Adj
1. Made by intertwining threads in a series of connected loops rather than by weaving
E.g. knitted garments a hand-knitted sweater
Vistas
Noun
 A view from a particular place, especially a beautiful view from a high place