3500 ACT Vocabulary
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3500 ACT Vocabulary
Group (9) - Matching Quizzes
naivete 
1
 | (机会,时机) favorable or advantageous circumstance; chance for progress or advancement |
| (乐观的) hopeful; positive; expecting the best in all possible ways |
| (巫术,妖术,招魂术) belief in magical spells to produce unnatural effects; practice of supposedly communicating with spirits of dead ones to predict future |
| (天真,单纯,缺少经验) lack of sophistication, experience, judgment or worldliness; simplicity; artlessness; gullibility |
necromancy
2
| (巫术,妖术,招魂术) belief in magical spells to produce unnatural effects; practice of supposedly communicating with spirits of dead ones to predict future |
| (坦率直言的) given to expressing yourself freely or insistently |
| (演讲者) skilled public speaker; person who pronounces discourse publicly on some special occasion, as pleader or lawyer |
| (生长速度超过,长得快) grow too large for; lose or discard in the course of maturation |
neophyte
3
| (有气味的) having distinctive odor; emitting an odor; sweet of scent; fragrant |
| (游牧的) leading a wandering life with no fixed abode; changeable; unsettled |
| (新入教者,新信徒) recent convert to a belief; one newly initiated |
| (坚定的,倔强的) stubbornly adhering to an attitude or opinion; hard to control or treat |
neutron
4
| (课税过重) heavily burden; tax in excess of what is considered appropriate or just; tax too heavily |
| (歇斯底里的) extremely disturbed from emotion |
| (讨厌,憎恶) strong dislike, contempt, or aversion; hatefulness; disrepute |
| (中子) elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton |
nomadic
5
| (游牧的) leading a wandering life with no fixed abode; changeable; unsettled |
| (营养品) nourishing substance; source of nourishment, especially nourishing ingredient in a food |
| (初生的) incipient; coming into existence; emerging |
| (鸟类学家) one who makes special study of birds |
noxious
6
| (攻击的,冒犯的) causing anger, displeasure, resentment, or affront |
| (硬化,骨化,化石化) change or form into bone; become set in a rigidly conventional pattern; change from soft tissue to hard bony tissue |
| (有害的) harmful to living things; injurious to health |
| (多管闲事的) marked by excessive eagerness in offering unwanted services or advice to others |
obdurate
7
| (坚定的,倔强的) stubbornly adhering to an attitude or opinion; hard to control or treat |
| (执拗的,顽固的) hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; not giving in to persuasion |
| (杰出的,显著的) distinguished from others in excellence |
| (无嗅的,没有气味的) having no odor; devoid of odor or fragrance |
oblique
8
| (间接的,倾斜的,无诚意的) having slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined |
| (有害的) harmful to living things; injurious to health |
| (巫术,妖术,招魂术) belief in magical spells to produce unnatural effects; practice of supposedly communicating with spirits of dead ones to predict future |
| (嗅觉的) relating to, or contributing to sense of smell |
obsequious
9
| (十分轻蔑的,辱骂的) bringing disgrace; shameful or infamous |
| (谄媚的,拍马屁的,奴性的) slavishly attentive; attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery |
| (无效的,无价值的,等于零的) invalid; void; nullified; having no legal force; invalid |
| (初生的) incipient; coming into existence; emerging |
odorless
10
| (无嗅的,没有气味的) having no odor; devoid of odor or fragrance |
| (乐观的) hopeful; positive; expecting the best in all possible ways |
| (生长速度超过,长得快) grow too large for; lose or discard in the course of maturation |
| (有气味的) having distinctive odor; emitting an odor; sweet of scent; fragrant |