GRE考试中容易出现一些容易混淆的词汇,如果考生把它们的词义弄错了,就很容易误解题意,不妨看看下面的内容:
Exhaustion: extreme weariness Exhaustive: covering all possibilities
Exonerate: 证明无罪 Exorable:可说服的,心软的
Fortuitous: accidental Fortitude: strength
Forfeit: 丧失 Surfeit:饮食过度
Fomentation:煽动,助长 Fermentation:发酵
Flounder: proceed clumsily Founder: collapse
Fractious: 易怒的,好争吵的, hard to handle or control Fractional:部分的,碎片的 Factious: 有派性的 Factitious:人为的,不真实的 Facetious:轻浮的
Fetid: having an offensive smell stinking Fetish: 神物
Fantasy: imaginative fiction Fascinate: be irresistibly attractive
Flush: to pour liquid over or through Fluster: upset
Gouge: 半圆凿,敲竹杠 Gauche:笨拙的,不会社交的 Gauge:标准尺寸
Gravel:碎石 Grovel:摇尾乞怜的 Gavel:a mallet used for commanding attention Grove: a small wood
Grate: to grind or rub against with a rasping noise Grateful thankful; pleasing Gratify: to afford pleasure to Gratis: without charge or recompense Gratuitous: free charge; unwarranted Gratitude: thankfulness
Gamble: 赌博,投机 Gable:山墙 Gambol:跳跃,嬉戏 Gobble: to swallow or eat greedily
Gall: vex, harass Gulled: deceive Guile: duplicity Guilt: 罪
Gloss:光泽 Gross:总的,粗野的,整体的
Hypnosis; 催眠术 Hypothesis:假说
Histrionics:演戏 Histology:组织学
Homely:长相一般的 Homily:a lecture of a moral theme
Hypercritical :meticulously or excessively critical Hypocritical :not sincerely
Halo:光圈 Hale: health, sound ,free from defect, disease
Incision: a cut Incite: start up, stir up
Impassioned:感激的,慷慨激昂的 Impassive:不为所动的
Imminence:急迫的 Eminence;卓越的
Ingrate:忘恩负义的 Ingratiate:逢迎,讨好
Insurrection:造反,叛乱 Resurrection:复活
以上是GRE考试最容易混淆的词汇,希望大家对比记忆,分清各自的题意。