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GRE词汇解析：torpor

　　torpor: 麻木, 迟钝; a state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility

　　1) extreme mental and physical sluggishness

　　2) a state of mental and physical inactivity accompanied by a loss of feeling; a lack of energy

　　3) a condition of dormancy; sluggishness; temporary loss of sensation or motion; stupor;

　　4) dullness or apathy

　　相近词汇：apathy, dullness, lethargy, sluggish, lacking movement, languor, stupor

　　torpor alertness, EXULTANT, vigilance, ardor, ebullient, vivacity, animation, ebullience, zeal, animation, alert, extreme excitability

　　torpor ardor

　　1. After surgery, the patient experienced torpor until the anesthesia wore off.

　　2. During my illness, the fever did not trouble me so much as the torporI hate to be slowed down!

　　3. After 24 hours of sleeplessness, torpor is likely to set in.

　　4. Torpor is characteristic among those who spent hours before their TVs in the old days watching the political conventions from gavel to gavel.

　　VEHEMENCE 热情的tepidity/ torpor 慢热的

　　aloof : reserve :: sluggish : torpor

　　torrid adj.热带的

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