GMAT考试词汇精选(MP3+文本) 第173期:Unit22-

1.migrate v.移居(to move from one country, place, or locality to another)

词根记忆：migr(移动)+ate--移居

例：The three species most closely related to crook beaks do not migrate at all.

派生词：migration(n.迁移)

同根词：immigrate(y．移入)

2.mileage n.英里数；（耗油1加仑所行驶的）英里里程(total length, extent, or distance measured or expressed in miles)

词根记忆：来自mile(几，荚里)

例：This brand of gasoline will improve your mileage.

3.milieu n．环境（an environment or a setting）

联想记忆；mi( d)（中间）+lieu(地方)--在一个地方之中就是在一个环境里--环境

例：Reactionist writers took the view that frontier women were lonely, displaced persons in a hostile milieu.

4.militancy n.战斗（性）：战斗精神(the quality or state of being militant)

词根记忆：milit(战斗)+ancy(表性质)--战斗

例：political militancy政治交战状态

同根词：militarily( ad.以武力地)；militarism(n．军国主义)：military(a．军事的)

5.millennium n.[pl. millennia]一千年(a span of one thousand years)

词根记忆：mill（千）+ennium(年)--一千年

例：millennium baby千禧婴儿

同根词：biennium(n.二年期间)

6.millipede n.千足虫(a small creature with a long thin body divided into many sections, each with two pairs of legs)

词根记忆：milli千）+ped(脚)+e--千足虫

Capuchin monkeys often rub their bodies with a certain type of millipede.

同根词：centipede(n．蜈蚣，百足虫)

7.mimic v.（模仿，效仿to copy, to imitate）

例：Advertising firms will continue to use imitators to mimic the physical mannerisms of famous singers.

8.mineralize v.使矿物化(to transform(a metal) into an ore)

词根记忆：mine（矿）+ralize--使矿物化

例：None of these high-technology methods are of any value if the sites to which they are applied have never mineralized.

派生词：mineralization（n.矿化；矿化作用）

同根词：mineral(a．矿物的：n.矿物)

9.miniature a．微型的，小型的(small)；n.缩小的模型(a copy or model that represents or reproduces something in a greatly reduced size)

词根记忆：mini(小)+ature--小型的，微型的

例：This model car is a miniature of a real one.

同根词：minikin(n．小东西)：minimal(a．最小的)