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Group 3 - Matching Quizzes
meander 
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 | (推迟,延期) postpone or delay needlessly; put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness |
| (剽窃) theft of another's ideas or writings passed off as original |
| (执拗的,顽固的) hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; not giving in to persuasion |
| (弯曲,蜿蜒) follow a winding and turning course; move aimlessly and idly without fixed direction |
mediocre
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| (陈词滥调) dullness; insipidity of thought; commonplace statement; lack of originality |
| (普通的,一般的) moderate to inferior in quality; ordinary; commonplace |
| (多彩的,杂色的,混合的) multi-colored; mixed; having elements of great variety |
| (掠夺的,食肉的) living by preying on other animals |
meretricious
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| (专制的,强硬的,专横的) offensively self-assured; dictatorial; not allowing contradiction or refusal |
| (华而不实的,俗艳的) of or pertaining to prostitutes; tastelessly showy; lustful; deceptive; misleading |
| (多愁善感) tearfully sentimental; over-emotional; sickly-sentimental |
| (独白,个人长篇演说) speech uttered by a person alone; dramatic soliloquy |
meticulous
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| (掠夺的,食肉的) living by preying on other animals |
| (早熟的) advanced in development; appearing or developing early |
| (小心翼翼的) excessively careful; marked by extreme care in treatment of details |
| (消除,排除,避免) bypass requirement or make it unnecessary; get rid of |
mimic
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| (弯曲,蜿蜒) follow a winding and turning course; move aimlessly and idly without fixed direction |
| (模仿,摹拟) copy or imitate closely, especially in speech, expression |
| (负担,责任) burden or obligation; difficult or disagreeable responsibility or necessity |
| (普通的,一般的) moderate to inferior in quality; ordinary; commonplace |
murky
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| (暗的,模糊的,暧昧的) dark and gloomy; thick with fog; vague |
| (包治百病的药,灵丹妙药) remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all |
| (不正当的,邪恶的,做作的) stubbornly wrongheaded; directed away from what is right or good |
| (想家,乡愁) homesickness; bittersweet longing for things of past. |
myriad
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| (小心翼翼的) excessively careful; marked by extreme care in treatment of details |
| (拒不屈服,反抗) stubbornly or perversely persistent; unyielding; obstinate |
| (无数,非常多) of very large or indefinite number; of ten thousand |
| (接近,亲近) state of being proximate; nearness in place, time, or relation |
nostalgia
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| (钱的,货币的) relating to money; requiring payment of money |
| (石化) convert wood or other organic matter into stony replica; cause to become stiff or stonelike |
| (剽窃) theft of another's ideas or writings passed off as original |
| (想家,乡愁) homesickness; bittersweet longing for things of past. |
obtrude
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| (插手,强入,冲出) push oneself or one's ideas forward or intrude; stick out or extrude |
| (微观世界) small, representative system having analogies to larger system; miniature model of something |
| (陈词滥调) dullness; insipidity of thought; commonplace statement; lack of originality |
| (石化) convert wood or other organic matter into stony replica; cause to become stiff or stonelike |
pecuniary
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| (钱的,货币的) relating to money; requiring payment of money |
| (预言,疾病警告) forecasted course of a disease; forecast or prediction; likelihood of recovery from a disease |
| (解释,批注,注释) restate text in one's own words, especially to clarify thought of others |
| (假名,笔名) pen name; fictitious name used when someone performs a particular social role |