GRE词汇精选:高频形近词(14)
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    GRE词汇精选:高频形近词(14)

    131. faction / fiction / factitious / fictitious

    faction: A faction is an organized group of people within a larger group, which opposes some of the ideas of the larger group and fights for its own ideas.

    e.g. A peace agreement will be signed by the leaders of the country's warring factions.

    factitious: produced by humans rather than by natural forces

    fictitious: Fictitious is used to describe something that is false or does not exist, although some people claim that it is true or exists.

    132. calamity / calumny

    calamity: A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress. (FORMAL)(=disaster)

    calumny: Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them. (FORMAL)(=slander)(污蔑,诽谤(的话))

    133. team / teem

    teem: If you say that a place is teeming with people or animals, you mean that it is crowded and the people and animals are moving around a lot. (=swarm)

    134. callow / callous

    callow: A callow young person has very little experience or knowledge of the way they should behave as an adult.

    callous: A callous person or action is very cruel and shows no concern for other people or their feelings.

    135. contrite / contrive / connive

    contrite: If you are contrite, you are very sorry because you have done something wrong. (FORMAL)(= apologetic)

    contrive: If you contrive to do something difficult, you succeed in doing it. (FORMAL)

    connive: If one person connives with another to do something, they secretly try to achieve something which will benefit both of them.

    136. discrete / discreet

    discrete: Individually separate and distinct:

    discreet: Careful and prudent in one’s speech or actions, especially in order to keep something confidential or to avoid embarrassment:

    137. impressive / impressionable

    impressionable : easily influenced

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