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2018 考研真题单词（英语一）

说明：1. (pl.)代表复数形式；
2. 考研词汇的意思大部分比较抽象，建议结合短语例句理解记忆。

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tricky adj Trust is a tricky business.

When people place their trust in an
oxytocin n individual or an institution，their
brains release oxytocin，a hormone
hormone n that produces pleasurable feelings and
triggers the herding instinct(群居本
prompt vt 能) that prompts humans to connect
with one another.
I bought a spray to kill the weeds.
spray v/n
（来自网易有道词典）
inhale v in(进入)+hal(吸)
A Canadian study found that children
differentiate v
as young as 14 months can
differentiate between a credible person
credible adj
and a dishonest.
toddler n toddler and baby

exclaim v ex(向外)+claim(叫喊)

trick v trick(v.) - tricky(adj.)

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dismiss v Don't dismiss that possibility entirely.

automate v auto+mate

alarmist adj This isn’t to be alarmist.

Optimists point out that technological
upheaval n upheaval has benefited workers in the
past.

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The Industrial Revolution didn't go so

mechanize v well for Luddites whose jobs were
displaced by mechanized looms, but it
eventually raised living standards and
loom n
created more jobs than it.

rethink v re(再)+think→再次思考→

current adj.现在的；流通的
curriculum n
curri+culum

vocational adj vocational school

supplement n/v supply v.补充，供应

The challenge of coping with

fade v automation underlines the need for the
U.S. to revive its fading business
dynamism: Starting new companies
dynamism n
must be made easier.
sub(下)+sid(坐下，安排)→安排座位→
subsidy n
帮助→
up(上面)+end(末端)→把上面翻到末
upend v
端→
Destroying the machines that are
nuts adj
coming for our jobs would be nuts. But
policies to help workers adapt will be
indispensable adj indispensable

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Dis(否定)+ap(同 ad，来，临近)+
disapprove v prove(证明) 靠近某个证明→赞同
→+dis 表示

implication n
The implication is that Millennials
prefer news from the White House to be
Millennial n filtered through other sources，not a
president's social media platform.
filter v

literacy n Media literacy skills

During the 2016 presidential campaign,

campaign n
nearly a quarter of web content shared

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by Twitter users in the politically

critical adj critical state of Michigan was fake
news，according to the University of
fake adj Oxford.

verify v 整理自：学长小谭

cross-check v
They cross-check sources and prefer
news from different perspective —
perspective n
especially those that are open about any
bias.
bias n

assume v assume responsibility

reliance n
young people's reliance on social media
led to greater political engagement.
engagement n
Social media allows users to experience
intimately adv news events more intimately and
immediately while also permitting them
projection n to re-share news as a projection of their
values and interests.
This forces users to be more conscious
conscious adj of their role in passing along
information.

exaggeration n exaggerate v.夸张；夸大

counter(相对，相反)+act(行为)
counteract v
相反的行为→
So when young people are critical of an
reveal v over-tweeting president，they reveal a
mental discipline in thinking skills—
and in their choices on when to share on
discipline n
social media.

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commit
v.犯罪；交托；指派；使…承担义务
commissioner n commitment n.承诺
commission n.委员会
ver(真实)+dict(说)
verdict n
说出真实的事情→

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The description was pretty vague.

vague adj
（来自网易有道词典）
mend v mend one’s way 纠正道路→

arrangement n arrange v.安排

informed adj inform n.信息

con(强调)+sent(sens 感觉，sense)
consent n
感觉一样→
But this distinction misses the point that
it is processing and aggregation not the
aggregation n
mere possession of bits, that gives the
data value.
That misses the way the surveillance
surveillance n
economy works.
He needs to learn to curb his temper.
curb v
（来自网易有道词典）

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fiscal adj It reported a net loss of $ 5. b b1llion

for fiscal 2016，the 10th straight year
revenue n its expenses have exceeded revenue.

Bankrupt adj.破产的
bankruptcy n Bank(银行)+rupt(破掉)→

regulatory adj regulation n.管理；规则

Plants are the ultimate source of all food

ultimate adj stuffs. （来自网易有道词典）
Customers often defer payment for as
defer v long as possible.
（来自网易有道词典）
The vehicle was engulfed in flames.
vehicle n
（来自网易有道词典）
off(离开)+set(建立，开始)
offset v
原义为出发，后指
bare adj.赤裸的，光秃秃的→无装饰
bare adj
的→最基本的→

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There's no change to collective

bargaining at the USPS，a major
omission n omission considering that personnel
accounts for 80 percent of the agency's
costs.
The system is in imminent danger of
collapse n
collapse.

新题型
Com(共同)+miss(送，派) 把人派送
commission n 到一起，组成 +ion(名词词根)
Mission n. 使命
Re(再)+viv(活，vivid→生动的)+al(名
revival n 词词尾)
再活起来→
treasury n Treasure n. 财富，珍宝 vt. 珍爱

They plan to erect an apartment

erect v house on that property.
（来自网易有道词典）
e(出，向外)+labor(工作)+ate(动词词
elaborate adj
尾)→辛苦做出的→

diplomatic adj
Diplomatic Reception Room
reception n
The rug adds a dash of colour to the
rug n room. （来自网易有道词典）

granite n 整理自：学长小谭
It has housed 16 Secretaries of the
secretary n Navy，21 Secretaries of War，and 24
Secretaries of State.（国务卿）

翻译

coincident adj be coincident with

witness v By the date of his birth Europe was

witnessing the passing of the religious
tragedy n drama，and the creation of new forms
under the incentive of classical tragedy
comedy n and comedy.

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词根 am, 爱，原指爱好，后带有贬义
amateur n →可以用贬义记住业余，但这个词本
身无贬义
med(中间middle)+ev(时代
medieval adj age)+al(形容词词尾) 欧洲的中世纪
The results were often farcical.
farcical adj
（来自网易有道词典）

rival n She pipped her rival for the gold medal.

no boy who went to a grammar school
ignorant adj could be ignorant that the drama was a
form of literature which gave glory to
yet adv Greece and Rome and might yet bring
honor to England.

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