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GRE词汇解析：tangential

tangential: 离题的; touching or connected only slightly, as a tangent line

1) digressing; diverting

tangential <> elemental

tangential : essential

tangential, incidental <> elemental

gist, essence <> trivial point, tangential point

tangential closely relevant

我选的这个directly related，更多人选前者

Her paper was marred by the inclusion of too much information that was only tangential to her main point.

相近词汇：digressive, divergent, incidental

GRE词汇解析：dirge

dirge: 挽歌;a slow, mournful piece of music

1) (music) a. a funeral hymn or lament b. a slow, mournful musical composition

2) a mournful or elegiac poem or other literary work

3) a slow, mournful piece of music, especially one intended for a funeral or similar occasion

4) a hymn for a funeral; a song or poem expressing lament

5) a funeral hymn or mournful speech

dirge : grief

dirge : mourning

dirge : solemn

1. The mourners sang a traditional Irish dirge

2. The orchestra played the piece so slowly that it sounded like a dirge.

Synonyms: lament, requiem

dirge : music :: elegy : poetry 悲歌:音乐::挽诗:诗

dirge : grief :: paean : praise :: madrigal : love悲歌:悲伤::赞美歌:赞美::情歌:情

dirge : solemn :: polemic : contentious 悲歌:庄严的::辩论:有异议的

GRE词汇解析：prevaricate

prevaricate: 支吾其词; to deviate from the truth: equivocate

1) to lie or deviate from the truth

2) to speak equivocally or evasively, i.e., to lie

Syn: deceive, equivocate, misrepresent, lie, perjure

prevaricate : deceive

prevaricate : truth

prevaricate : deceit

prevaricate : dishonesty

1. Rather than admit that he had overslept again, the employee prevaricated and claimed that heavy traffic had prevented him from arriving at work ontime.

2. Do not prevaricate about who did what or why; simply tell me how the vase got broken.

The mayor's desperate attempt to prevaricate about the scandal was transparent to the voters.

His mother knew no one else could have done it, but the child foolishly prevaricated about the stain on the rug.

prevaricate : deceive = exhortation : encourage

prevaricate : deceive = filibuster : delay :: blandishment : coax

equivocate : clarity = prevaricate : truth

prevaricate : deceit = filibuster : delay

equivocate/palter/falter/prevaricate 含糊其辞,说模棱两的话

GRE词汇解析：diatribe

diatribe: 诽谤; a bitter and abusive speech or writing

1) a bitter, abusive denunciation

2) a bitter and abusive speech or writing

3) ironic or satirical criticism

4) an abusive, bitter, ranting criticism or denouncing

5) a critical or abusive speech or piece of writing

6) violent verbal attack, tirade, malediction, obloquy, jeremiad, fulmination

7) a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism

8) a bitter or abusive speech

9) a harsh denunciation

10) bitter verbal attack

11) an abusive, condemnatory speech

Synonyms: harangue, invective, tiradediatribe <> verbal tribute, vocal tribute, encomium, laudatory piece of writing, laudatory speech

1) The writer peppers 它的作品with ____, 以至人们把她看得比实际的更____. (diatribe....censorious)

2) 某人的___是如此的memorable, 以致于别人觉得他很____。(diatribe.....censorious)

3) The feminist poet’s extremely explicit and witty diatribes against social convention were so thoroughly emulated by other writers that her idiosyncratic brand of rebellion eventually became the convention of her time.

4) Fidel Castro is renowned for his long diatribes against the U.S. government.

5. After taking in her boss’s long diatribe about her work, she simply quit.

6) Diatribes tend to cause the listener to close his or her ears and mind after a short length of time.

During the divorce hearings she delivered a diatribe full of the emotion pushing her away from her husband.

The diatribe was directed towards a disrespectful supervisor.

The speaker launched into a distribe against what he called "the evils of technology."

【类】lullaby:song=diatribe:discourse摇篮曲是一种歌曲=抨击性演讲是一种演讲

declamation:grandiloquence=burlesque:mockery=diatribe:abuse慷慨激昂的演讲用夸大之词=滑稽表演用嘲讽之词=恶骂用辱骂之词

【反】encomium(n 赞辞;称赞);eulogy(n 赞词;颂词);laudatory piece of writing(赞扬性的文章)

GRE核心词汇词组：other than

other than 不同于，除了

释义

You use other than after a statement (usually negative) to say that the person, item, or thing that follows is the only exception to the statement.

例句

There are so many other factors that cause droughts other than the monsoon.

GRE

Parties were partial by definition, self-interested, and therefore serving something other than the transcendent public good.

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