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Academic Words Level 4 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
refine 
1
 | [奮起] become active; excite, as to anger or action; stir up; awaken |
| [絞り込む] purify; make more precise; improve |
| [簡潔] effectively concise; appearing as if wiped or rubbed, as smooth |
| [引受] write under something else; subscribe; assume financial responsibility for; guarantee against failure |
refreshment
2
| [政治] one occupied with the affairs of government and influential in shaping policy |
| [渦] act of rotating or revolving rapidly; state of confusion; tumult |
| [ほとんど] hardly; barely; only just |
| [リフレッシュ] activity that refreshes and recreates; snacks and drinks served as a light meal |
retrospect
3
| [振り返ってみる] review; look back upon; remember |
| [トランジスタ] a small electronic device containing a semiconductor and having at least three electrical contacts |
| [非難] express disapproval or disappointment; bring shame upon; disgrace |
| [歪] wander or stray; turn aside sharply; climb or move upward |
rhetoric
4
| [制裁] give authorization or approval to something; penalize a state, especially for violating international law |
| [レトリック] art or study of using language effectively and persuasively; insincere language |
| [単調な] having no tone; unmusical. |
| [再生] renewal; growth of lost or destroyed parts or organs |
ripple
5
| [反乱] act of rising; steep place; insurrection; popular revolt |
| [奮起] become active; excite, as to anger or action; stir up; awaken |
| [リップル] wavelike motion; undulation; sound like that of water running over a stony bottom |
| [絞り込む] purify; make more precise; improve |
shrug
6
| [ほとんど] hardly; barely; only just |
| [矢筒] shake with a slight, rapid, tremulous movement |
| [肩] draw up or contract the shoulders, especially by way of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like |
| [送還] restore or return to the country of birth, citizenship, or origin |
skeptical
7
| [矢筒] shake with a slight, rapid, tremulous movement |
| [シーム] line of junction formed by sewing together two pieces; line across a surface, as a crack; scar |
| [強化] reinforce; fortify; make strong or increase the strength of |
| [懐疑] marked by or given to doubt; questioning |
slag
8
| [スラグ] residue by smelting metal ore; waste material from a coal mine; scum that forms on the surface of molten metal |
| [猛烈] forceful; intensely emotional; inclined to react violently |
| [停止] hesitant; not fully worked out or developed; experimental; not definite or positive |
| [普及] spread or scattered over a considerable extent; occurring or accepted widely |
steamer
9
| [振り返ってみる] review; look back upon; remember |
| [船] a vessel propelled by steam; steamship or steamboat; road locomotive for use on common roads |
| [推測] act of supposing; something supposed; assumption |
| [引受] write under something else; subscribe; assume financial responsibility for; guarantee against failure |
swerve
10
| [歪] wander or stray; turn aside sharply; climb or move upward |
| [トランジスタ] a small electronic device containing a semiconductor and having at least three electrical contacts |
| [貫く] be located under or below; be the support or basis of; account for |
| [固定] fixed; immobile; static; not capable of being moved |