实例讲解GRE高频熟词僻意考点

　　在准备GRE考试的时候，熟词僻意问题往往是最为棘手的，有些时候考察到的往往就是那些我们所不熟知的含义，所以这里给大家做一个详细的总结：

　　1，account熟词僻意：报道，解释;

　　①account：报道

　　对应真题：

　　Given the flood of information presented by the mass media, the only way for someone to keep abreast of the news is to rely on __________ accounts.

　　 synoptic

　　 abridged

　　sensational

　　 copious

　　 lurid

　　 understated

　　在这个题目当中，因为空格前面出现了news，空格后面的account在这里当报道，

　　②account：解释

　　对应真题：

　　Before about 1960, virtually all accounts of evolution assumed most adaptation to be a product of selection at the level of populations; recent studies of evolution, however, have found no ______ this ______ view of selection.

　　Blank Blank

　　 departures from controversial

　　 basis for innovative

　　 bias toward pervasive

　　这个题目中virtually all accounts of evolution译作几乎所有对于进化的解释，account在这里当解释讲。

　　2，detachment熟词僻意：客观公正，没有偏见

　　对应真题：

　　Whereas biologists must maintain a ______ attitude toward the subjects of their research, social scientists must, paradoxically, combine personal involvement and scholarly ______.

　　Blank Blank

　　 scrupulous sympathy

　　 casual detachment

　　 disinterested abandon

　　这个第二空格的正确答案是E，detachment，在这里表示的是客观公正，而不是分开的含义。

　　3，construction熟词僻意：解释，诠释

　　对应真题：

　　When theories formerly considered to be ______ in their scientific objectivity are found instead to reflect a consistent observational and evaluative bias, then the presumed neutrality of science gives way to the recognition that categories of knowledge are human ______.

　　Blank Blank

　　 disinterested fantasies

　　 callous imperatives

　　 unassailable constructions

　　第二空格应该填入一个表示不中立不客观的东西，那么这里正确答案应该是F选项，填入后表示的是各种知识实际上都是人类的诠释

　　4，context熟词僻意：环境

　　对应真题：

　　The First World War began in a context of jargon and verbal delicacy and continued in a cloud of ______ as ______ as language and literature, skillfully used, could make it.

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　　 clich literal

　　 euphemism impenetrable

　　 subjectivity enthralling

　　注意到题干中context在这里的意思不是文本，而是环境，表示的是第一次世界大战在一个充满着行话和语言精妙的环境中开始。

　　1， AB

　　2， CE

　　3， AF

　　4， BE

　　5，friend熟词僻意：资助者，赞助者

　　对应真题：

　　Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ______ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.

　　 connoisseur

　　 critic

　　 friend

　　 scourge

　　 judge

　　这个题目正确答案应该选择C，表示的是资助者，赞助者

　　6，license：

　　对应真题：

　　Word order in a sentence was much freer in old French than it is in French today, this _____disappeared as the French language gradually lost its case distinctions.

　　 restriction

　　 license

　　 similarity

　　 rigidity

　　 imperative

　　this之后所提到的名词一定在上文出现过，所以这里空格填入一个free同义词，但是从字面看选项中没有自由的同义词，这个时候查一查韦氏词典就会发现license：freedom of action;所以这里我们应当选择B。

　　7，yield熟词僻意：产出

　　对应真题：

　　Surprisingly, given the dearth of rain that fell on the corn crop, the yield of the harvest was ____; consequently, the corn reserves of the country have not been ____.

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　　A inadequate D replenished

　　B encouraging E salvaged

　　C compromised F depleted

　　题干中yield在这里的意思显然不是屈服，而应该是产出，题干中表示的是粮食的产量。

　　8，list熟词僻意：倾斜

　　对应真题：

　　In order to emphasize the erect posture of his subject matter, the painstaking painter has startlingly contrasted it with the ______ of the windswept trees.

　　A. tilting

　　B. instability

　　C. uprightness

　　D. perpendicularity

　　E. exaggeration

　　F. listing

　　题干当中在说要和笔直的姿势形成对比，所以空格应该填入一个表示倾斜的概念，所以这里可以选择AF。

　　4,C

　　5,B

　　6,BF

　　7,AF