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obligation
【传奇点拨】 lig ← leg 法律
【真题例句】 Not everyone experiences the kinds of severe chronic stresses Alvarez describes. But most women today are coping with a lot of obligations, with few breaks, and feeling the strain.
obscure
【传奇点拨】 ob（哦不）-scure（看成sure）, 意思很模糊，所以我不是很确定，我不sure
【真题例句】 The environment is obviously important, but its role has remained obscure. It does not push or pull, it selects, and this function is difficult to discover and analyze.
observe
【传奇点拨】 想到 serve 服务，servant 仆人，仆人要随时观察主人有什么需求，主动给他服务，同时要遵守主人的规定、制度
【真题例句】 I found as Hacker observed years before that most wives want their husbands to be first and foremost conversational partners but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.
occupation
【传奇点拨】 occupy 占据 → occupation 职业，职业占据了我们的时间和精力； vocation 注意区别于 vacation 假期； profession 本意为专业；career 指长期的职业生涯、道路、轨迹
【真题例句】
[A] profession
odd
【传奇点拨】 奇 可读 qi 或 ji， oddly 谐音：奥地利，是个奇怪的国家
【真题例句】 Even demographics（人口统计学） are working against the middle class family， as the odds of having a weak elderly parent- and all the attendant need for physical and financial assistance have jumped eightfold in just one generation.
offset
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optional
【传奇点拨】 词根 opt 表选择，如 adopt 采用，采纳（即选一种方法来使用）；
optimum
【真题例句】 It is said that in England death is pressing, in Canada inevitable（不可避免的） and in California optional. Americans’ life expectancy（平均寿命） has nearly doubled over the past century.
orient
【真题例句】 In thinking about the evolution of memory together with all its possible aspects, it is helpful to consider what would happen if memories failed to fade. Forgetting clearly aids orientation in time, since old memories weaken and the new tend to stand out, providing clues for inferring duration（持续时间）.
overwhelming
【传奇点拨】over-whel-ming, whel ← wheel 车轮，车轮是压倒性的
【真题例句】 It is not easy to talk about the role of the mass media in this overwhelmingly significant phase in European history.
parallel
【传奇点拨】 para-并列（如 paragraph ）， ll 像两条直线，并列的两根直线即平行
【真题例句】 A parallel situation exists in respect of predatory mammals and fish-eating birds
paralyze
【真题例句】 When I was a child, my family moved to the countryside. Among our new neighbors was a paralyzed woman.（考研写作）
participate
【传奇点拨】 participate in = take part in = engage in
【真题例句】 I would like to convey my heartfelt thanks to you for your kindness to receive me when I participated in an exchange program in USA.
penalty
【传奇点拨】 pen = pun ← pin 大头针，处罚是一种很尖锐的处理问题的方式
【真题例句】 The current state of affairs may have been encouraged-though not justified-by the lack of legal penalty （in America， but not Europe） for data leakage（数据泄漏）.
perceive
【传奇点拨】 per- 每，ceive ← receive，感知就是我们的感官收到
【真题例句】 This means that our noses are limited to perceiving those smells which float through the air, missing the majority of smells which stick to surfaces.
period
【传奇点拨】 杂志期刊会定期发布
【真题例句】 It was not until the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic medium, following in the wake of the pamphlet（小册子） and the book and in the company of the periodical.
permanent
【传奇点拨】 per（每）-man（男人）-ent,
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perplex
【传奇点拨】 complex 复杂的，per（每）-plex（复杂）， 每一个方面都很复杂，所以很困惑
【真题例句】 Hearing allegations（陈述） of cruelty to animals in research settings, many are perplexed that anyone would deliberately（故意） harm an animal.
perspective
【传奇点拨】 per- 每， 词根 spect 看，每一个方面都看过了，才能建立自己的观点。 常见表达：from ... perspective, 从……角度看问题
eg: Try seeing things from a different perspective 从不同的角度看问题。
而不要从单方面看问题，对比一个“方面” 叫 aspect, 因为 a-spect 一 看，只能看到一个方面
【真题例句】 The emphasis on data gathered first-hand, combined with a cross-cultural（跨文化的） perspective brought to the analysis of cultures past and present, makes this study a unique and distinctly（明显得） important social science.
portion
【传奇点拨】 port 长得很像 part
【真题例句】 A sizable（相当大的） portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline.
possess
【传奇点拨】 词根 pose 表示“放”， 大学生自习室占位置，就是前一天在位置上放点书什么的
【真题例句】 Humans are thoughtful and creative, possessed of insatiable（无法满足的） curiosity（好奇心）.
precede
【传奇点拨】 pre（之前）-cede（走），走在前面即先于
【真题例句】 ① A further stimulus（刺激） to invention came from the “premium（奖赏）” system, which preceded our patent（专利） system and for years ran parallel with it.
② Writing in the last year of his life, he expressed the opinion that in two or three respects his mind had changed during the preceding twenty or thirty years.
precise
【传奇点拨】 词根 cise, cide ← cut 切， 见 decide, suicide
想让说话变得准确无误，最简单的方法就是写演讲搞，提前做修改
【真题例句】
predecessor
【传奇点拨】 pre（前）-de（的）-cess（走）-or, 前辈就是走在前面的人
forerunner 先驱，跑在前面的人, fore ← before
【真题例句】 Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames（姓氏） starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush’s predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of the alphabet（字母表） against just 16 in the second half.
recession
【传奇点拨】 re- return, 经济衰退即经济往回走
【真题例句】 This development is boosting wholesale（批发） demand from the food service segment by 4 to 5% a year as the recession is looming（隐现） large, people are getting anxious.
prejudice
【传奇点拨】 jud ← judge， 提前做出判断、先入为主一般会有偏见
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prescribe
【传奇点拨】 词根 scribe 表示“写” ，见 describe
【真题例句】 According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, prescription drug（处方药） costs have risen since 1997 at twice the rate of overall health-care spending.
prevail
【传奇点拨】 vail, val ← value, 一个事物之前认为是有价值的，才能流行起来
【真题例句】 Americans have been migrating south and west in larger number since World War II, and the pattern still prevails.
proclaim
【传奇点拨】 词根 claim 有“喊”的意思，如：exclaim 呼喊，宣布（喊出来），
【真题例句】 School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted. Hofstadter says our country’s educational system is in the grips（掌握） of people who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility（敌意） to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise.”
productivity
【真题例句】 The findings of a research institution have consistently（一向地） shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radical（根本的） higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.
profound
【传奇点拨】 pro（向前）-found（find）, 深远的东西需要不断向前去发现
【真题例句】 As is shown in the picture, a young American girl is wearing traditional Chinese dress and ornaments（装饰品） and is smiling sweetly. It may be an ordinary picture, but it conveys deep and profound meaning: national culture is also international culture. （考研写作）
prolong
【真题例句】
[A] medicine will further prolong people’s lives
prompt
【传奇点拨】 一个人别鼓动以后，行动就很迅速
【真题例句】 A lateral move（平级调动） that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress prompted me to abandon my relatively high profile（高姿态，高地位） career although, in the manner of a disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming “I wanted to spend more time with my family”.
prospect
【传奇点拨】 pro（向前）-spect（看）， 展望前景即看前面
【真题例句】 Consumers seem only concerned, not panicked, and many say they remain optimistic about the economy’s long-term prospects, even as they do some modest belt-tightening（勒紧腰带的，节约的）.
prosperous
【传奇点拨】 pro-sper（spirit）-ous, 繁荣的，欣欣向荣的，有一种奋发向上的精神
prudent
【传奇点拨】 dent 联想到 dentist， 做牙医，要谨慎
【真题例句】 Many writers prudently store their data on disks and print their pages each time they finish a draft to avoid losing any material because of power failures or other problems.
purchase
【传奇点拨】 chase 追赶， pur 看成 purse, 购买就是拿着钱包去追赶（物质）
【真题例句】 ① More than 60,000 people have purchased the PTKs（一种药） since they first become available without prescriptions last years.
② Americans today don’t place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education – not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge.
qualify
【真题例句】 Even in the 1960s,women were seldom on the jury list in some states because_____
questionnaire
【传奇点拨】question + nai（奶奶） + re（阿姨），奶奶、阿姨比较闲，特别喜欢填写调查问卷
【真题例句】 In a recent survey, questionnaires were sent to reporters in five middle-size cities around the country, plus one large metropolitan area.
quote
【传奇点拨】 quo 联想：括号
【真题例句】 Former Colorado governor Richard Lamm has been quoted as saying that the old and infirm “have a duty to die and get out of the way,” so that younger, healthier people can realize their potential.
radical
【传奇点拨】 词根 radi 表示“根，辐射” ，来自于 root, 见单词： radio 收音机, radiation 辐射, radius 半径，radical 激进的，像射线一样往前射
【真题例句】 Mr. McWhorter acknowledges that formal language is not strictly necessary, and proposes no radical education reforms -- he is really grieving（悲伤） over the loss of something beautiful more than useful.
random
【传奇点拨】 ran ← run, dom 家（如 kingdom，domestic），跑回家，很随便
【真题例句】 In a recent survey, questionnaires were sent to reporters in five middle-size cities around the country, plus one large metropolitan area. Then residents in these communities were phoned at random and asked the same questions.
ratio
【传奇点拨】 rat ← rate
【真题例句】 Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females, but this ratio drops to near balance at the age of maturity, and among 70-year-olds there are twice as many women as men
raw
【传奇点拨】 raw 谐音：肉，该单词可表示生肉
【真题例句】 With production having going up steadily, the factory needs an ever-increasing supply of raw materials.
rebel
【传奇点拨】 rebel ← repel 排斥，抵制, 词根 pel 表示“推”
【真题例句】 Think of Gallileo’s 17th century trial for his rebelling belief before the Catholic（天主教的） Church or poet William Blake’s harsh remarks against the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton.
reluctant
【传奇点拨】 新东方经典讲法，谐音：驴拉坦克，很不情愿
【真题例句】 So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token（代币，记号）, the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber（黄瓜）.
reinforce
【传奇点拨】 re（重新）-in（里）-force（力量），增强即重新使他里面有力量
【真题例句】 Durkheim proposed that religious beliefs functioned to reinforce social solidarity（团结）.
recruit
【传奇点拨】 cruit ← crew 全体员工
【真题例句】 In the case of NBA players, their increase in height appears to result from the increasingly common practice（惯例） of recruiting players from all over the world.
representative
【传奇点拨】 present
【真题例句】 Jurors（陪审团成员） should be selected randomly from a representative cross section of the community; that no citizen should be denied（拒绝） the right to serve on a jury on account of（由于） race, religion, sex, or national origin
retrospect
【传奇点拨】 retro ← return， 词根 spect 表示“看” ，回顾即回去看看
【经典例句】 One's school life seems happier in retrospect than it really was.
【真题例句】 Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a child can bring
respective
【经典例句】 The 3 men were given work according to their respective abilities.
【真题例句】 Yet a suspiciously large number of top people have surnames beginning with letters between A and K. Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames（姓） starting with B and C respectively.
speculate
【传奇点拨】 词根 spec 表示看，先观察再推测
【经典例句】 From an analysis of the materials recovered from the cave, it is possible to speculate on the social organization of the community.
spectacular
【传奇点拨】 spect 看，tacular 谐音：太酷了，壮观的风景，看起来太酷了
【经典例句】 The ceremonial opening（开幕式） of the exhibition was very spectacular.
suspect → suspicious
【传奇点拨】 skeptical = sceptical, 其中的 scept = spect （字母替换顺序造词原理，如 precious 珍贵的，其中的 preci = price ）
【真题例句】 What is the author's attitude towards IQ tests？
[A] Supportive.
conspicuous
【传奇点拨】 con-一起，spic ← spect 看，显著的即大家都能看到的
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rival
【传奇点拨】 联想到 river, 河对岸的人可能是自然资源的竞争者，比如一起捕鱼，会能会抢，引起各种冲突
【真题例句】
shelter
【传奇点拨】 shelter ← shield 盾牌，用来躲避的东西
【真题例句】 Even when homeless individuals manage to find a shelter that will give them three meals a day and a place to sleep at night.
shrink
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soar
【传奇点拨】 物价上升太快，大家都会吼叫
【真题例句】 They’re all groaning（呻吟） about soaring health budgets, the fastest-growing component of which are pharmaceutical（药物） costs.
sketch
【传奇点拨】 sketch 谐音 试 catch, 梗概即试着抓住主要的东西
【经典例句】 I will send you a slight sketch of the house.
strain
【传奇点拨】 stra 有“拉”的意思，如：strap 皮带，strait 海峡，string 琴弦，street 街道，都是细长的形状，因为“拉”所以“长”
【真题例句】 Nothing could persuade me to return to the kind of life Kelsey used to advocate（提倡） and I once enjoyed: 12-hour working days, pressured deadlines, the fearful strain of office politics.
constrain
【传奇点拨】 因为紧张，所以拘束
【真题例句】 A national drug agency would provide governments more influence on pharmaceutical（药物） companies in order to constrain the ever-increasing cost of drugs.
simultaneous
【传奇点拨】 simul ← similar, tane 看成 time
spontaneous
【传奇点拨】 spon ← sponsor
【经典例句】 The fans gave him a spontaneous cheer.
【真题例句】 Whoever formulated the theory of the origin of the universe, it is just
subordinate
【传奇点拨】 ordin ← ordinary 普通的，在普通的下面，次要的
【真题例句】 Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates.
submit
【传奇点拨】 词根 mit 表示“送” （如 emit 发射，transmit 传播），提交作业就是学生把作业从下面往上送，提交作业就是服从老师的安排
【真题例句】 A team of researchers working together in the laboratory would submit the results of their research to a journal（期刊）.
substantial
【传奇点拨】 substance 物质，物质有很多
【真题例句】 Retailers（零售商） that master the intricacies（复杂） of wholesaling in Europe may well expect to rank in substantial profits thereby.
surplus
【传奇点拨】 sur 上， plus 加，在上面一直加，就会过剩，比如往一个杯子里倒酒，一直倒，酒就会从上面流出来： super（上）-flu（流）-ous
【真题例句】 If no surplus is available, a farmer cannot be self-sufficient（自给自足的）.
theme
【传奇点拨】 the + me, 这就是我的主题
【真题例句】 An interest in the relationship between the function of society and culture—known as functionalism—became a major theme in European, and especially British, anthropology（人类学）.
terminate
【传奇点拨】 term 学期， 期末考 terminal exam
【真题例句】 A granted patent（专利） is the result of a bargain struck between an inventor and the state, by which the inventor gets a limited period of monopoly (垄断) and publishes full details of his invention to the public after that period terminates.
tolerant
【传奇点拨】 to-ler-ant 谐音：土人，土人很有耐力
【真题例句】 The change in Japanese Life-style is revealed in the fact that ________.
transient
【传奇点拨】 该词 前缀 trans-， 后缀 –ent, 无词根，假如说一个动物只有头和尾巴，没有身子，那么这个动物一定很短；或者把 ent 看成 end
【真题例句】
transition
【传奇点拨】 trans- 从一边到另一边，词根 it 表示“走” ，如 exit 出口（往外走的通道）
【真题例句】 Even if a job's starting salary seems too small to satisfy an emerging adult's need for rapid content， the transition from school to work can be less of a setback（挫折） if the start-up adult is ready for the move.
transparent
【传奇点拨】 trans- 穿过， parent ← apparent 明显的， 穿过去还很明显，如透过玻璃看东西， translucent 中， lu ← lumin 光， 只有一半的光能穿过，即半透明，如毛玻璃
【经典例句】 The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.
trivial
【传奇点拨】 tri ← three, via 走，三人行，必然讨论很多琐事
【真题例句】
[A] domestic and temporary.
[C] durable and frequent.
ultimate
【传奇点拨】 电影《谍影重重》
又名: 伯恩的最后通牒
【真题例句】 This phenomenon has created serious concerns over the role of smaller economic firms, of national businessmen and over the ultimate stability of the world economy.
undergo
【传奇点拨】 经历即在下面走，注意其过去式为 underwent
【真题例句】 Consequently, our feelings, thoughts and emotions have undergone a corresponding change.
undermine
【传奇点拨】 under（下）-mine（我的），在我下面搞破坏
【经典例句】 Water has undermined the stone foundations.
utilize
【真题例句】 It also means that governments are increasingly compelled（强迫） to interfere（干涉） in these sectors in order to step up production and ensure that it is utilized to the best advantage.
vacuum
【传奇点拨】 词根 vac 表示“空” ，
【真题例句】 Last week his firm was busy vacuuming up data bits from the far corners of the world and predicting a crisis in Ukraine.
virtue
【传奇点拨】 联想到 virgin 处女，为什么能保持 virgin, 因为 很有 virtue （一个托福班高中生原创，从某种程度上有道理）
【真题例句】 What the wise man said suggests that ________.
vulnerable
【传奇点拨】 联想到 volunteer 志愿者，比如抗震救灾志愿者，心地善良，
【真题例句】
welfare
【传奇点拨】 wel（看成 well）-fare（费用）； pension 中，词根 pens 表示“花费”（如 expense）； sub（下）-sidy（看成 side）, 社会底层的人需要国家补助
【真题例句】 Governments throughout the world act on the assumption that the welfare of their people depends largely on the economic strength and wealth of the community.
worship
【传奇点拨】 联想到 warship 军舰，我小时候特别崇拜海军，我觉得他们的衣服特别帅
【真题例句】 In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in peril（危险） and that they would someday be meat for worms.
yield
【传奇点拨】 联想 year + field, 每年土地带来很多产量
【真题例句】
zigzag
【传奇点拨】 z 形状就是曲折，其中有两个z 字母
【真题例句】