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GRE词汇解析：hauteur

hauteur: (n.) 傲慢; 自大; haughtiness in bearing and attitude; arrogance

Syn: supercilious, imperious

hauteur <>humility, humbleness

fawn : hauteur

supercilious : hauteur

【考法1】n.傲慢，自大： haughtiness in bearing and attitude; arrogance

【例】 he looked at her with the hauteur of someone who is accustomed to being instantly obeyed 他看着她，带着向来被顺从惯了的傲慢。

【 近 】 bumptiousness, imperiousness, peremptoriness, pomposity, presumptuousness, pretentiousness,

superciliousness, superiority

【反】 humility, humbleness, modesty, unassumingness, unpretentiousness 谦虚

selfdepreciate : swagger 自贬:吹嘘

GRE词汇解析：indolent

indolent: 懒惰的; lazy, disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy

1) lazy; inactive

2) disinclined to work or exertion 

3) of tumors

4) habitually lazy or idle

Synonyms: idle, inactive, slothful, sluggish

indolent <>industrious, assiduous, stir, keenness btuse

indolent : yield

indolent : vivify

1. He was accused of being indolent when in truth he lacked energy because of illness.

2. If we find him goofing off one more time, we won't be able to escape the fact that he's indolent.

3. An indolent student slept all day.

indolent : stir = rectitude : transgression

indolent : shirk = miserly : hoard 懒惰的：偷懒 = 吝啬的：积聚钱财

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：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)

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