實例講解GRE高頻熟詞僻意考點
在準備GRE考試的時候，熟詞僻意問題往往是最為棘手的，有些時候考察到的往往就是那些我們所不熟知的含義，所以這里給大家做一個詳細的總結：
1，account熟詞僻意：報道，解釋;
①account：報道
對應真題：
Given the flood of information presented by the mass media, the only way for someone to keep abreast of the news is to rely on __________ accounts.
synoptic
abridged
sensational
copious
lurid
understated
在這個題目當中，因為空格前面出現(xiàn)了news，空格后面的account在這里當報道，
②account：解釋
對應真題：
Before about 1960, virtually all accounts of evolution assumed most adaptation to be a product of selection at the level of populations; recent studies of evolution, however, have found no ______ this ______ view of selection.
Blank Blank
departures from controversial
basis for innovative
bias toward pervasive
這個題目中virtually all accounts of evolution譯作幾乎所有對于進化的解釋，account在這里當解釋講。
2，detachment熟詞僻意：客觀公正，沒有偏見
對應真題：
Whereas biologists must maintain a ______ attitude toward the subjects of their research, social scientists must, paradoxically, combine personal involvement and scholarly ______.
Blank Blank
scrupulous sympathy
casual detachment
disinterested abandon
這個第二空格的正確答案是E，detachment，在這里表示的是客觀公正，而不是分開的含義。
3，construction熟詞僻意：解釋，詮釋
對應真題：
When theories formerly considered to be ______ in their scientific objectivity are found instead to reflect a consistent observational and evaluative bias, then the presumed neutrality of science gives way to the recognition that categories of knowledge are human ______.
Blank Blank
disinterested fantasies
callous imperatives
unassailable constructions
第二空格應該填入一個表示不中立不客觀的東西，那么這里正確答案應該是F選項，填入后表示的是各種知識實際上都是人類的詮釋
4，context熟詞僻意：環(huán)境
對應真題：
The First World War began in a context of jargon and verbal delicacy and continued in a cloud of ______ as ______ as language and literature, skillfully used, could make it.
Blank Blank
clich literal
euphemism impenetrable
subjectivity enthralling
注意到題干中context在這里的意思不是文本，而是環(huán)境，表示的是第一次世界大戰(zhàn)在一個充滿著行話和語言精妙的環(huán)境中開始。
1， AB
2， CE
3， AF
4， BE
5，friend熟詞僻意：資助者，贊助者
對應真題：
Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ______ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.
connoisseur
critic
friend
scourge
judge
這個題目正確答案應該選擇C，表示的是資助者，贊助者
6，license：
對應真題：
Word order in a sentence was much freer in old French than it is in French today, this _____disappeared as the French language gradually lost its case distinctions.
restriction
license
similarity
rigidity
imperative
this之后所提到的名詞一定在上文出現(xiàn)過，所以這里空格填入一個free同義詞，但是從字面看選項中沒有自由的同義詞，這個時候查一查韋氏詞典就會發(fā)現(xiàn)license：freedom of action;所以這里我們應當選擇B。
7，yield熟詞僻意：產(chǎn)出
對應真題：
Surprisingly, given the dearth of rain that fell on the corn crop, the yield of the harvest was ____; consequently, the corn reserves of the country have not been ____.
Blank Blank
A inadequate D replenished
B encouraging E salvaged
C compromised F depleted
題干中yield在這里的意思顯然不是屈服，而應該是產(chǎn)出，題干中表示的是糧食的產(chǎn)量。
8，list熟詞僻意：傾斜
對應真題：
In order to emphasize the erect posture of his subject matter, the painstaking painter has startlingly contrasted it with the ______ of the windswept trees.
A. tilting
B. instability
C. uprightness
D. perpendicularity
E. exaggeration
F. listing
題干當中在說要和筆直的姿勢形成對比，所以空格應該填入一個表示傾斜的概念，所以這里可以選擇AF。
4,C
5,B
6,BF
7,AF
在準備GRE考試的時候，熟詞僻意問題往往是最為棘手的，有些時候考察到的往往就是那些我們所不熟知的含義，所以這里給大家做一個詳細的總結：
1，account熟詞僻意：報道，解釋;
①account：報道
對應真題：
Given the flood of information presented by the mass media, the only way for someone to keep abreast of the news is to rely on __________ accounts.
synoptic
abridged
sensational
copious
lurid
understated
在這個題目當中，因為空格前面出現(xiàn)了news，空格后面的account在這里當報道，
②account：解釋
對應真題：
Before about 1960, virtually all accounts of evolution assumed most adaptation to be a product of selection at the level of populations; recent studies of evolution, however, have found no ______ this ______ view of selection.
Blank Blank
departures from controversial
basis for innovative
bias toward pervasive
這個題目中virtually all accounts of evolution譯作幾乎所有對于進化的解釋，account在這里當解釋講。
2，detachment熟詞僻意：客觀公正，沒有偏見
對應真題：
Whereas biologists must maintain a ______ attitude toward the subjects of their research, social scientists must, paradoxically, combine personal involvement and scholarly ______.
Blank Blank
scrupulous sympathy
casual detachment
disinterested abandon
這個第二空格的正確答案是E，detachment，在這里表示的是客觀公正，而不是分開的含義。
3，construction熟詞僻意：解釋，詮釋
對應真題：
When theories formerly considered to be ______ in their scientific objectivity are found instead to reflect a consistent observational and evaluative bias, then the presumed neutrality of science gives way to the recognition that categories of knowledge are human ______.
Blank Blank
disinterested fantasies
callous imperatives
unassailable constructions
第二空格應該填入一個表示不中立不客觀的東西，那么這里正確答案應該是F選項，填入后表示的是各種知識實際上都是人類的詮釋
4，context熟詞僻意：環(huán)境
對應真題：
The First World War began in a context of jargon and verbal delicacy and continued in a cloud of ______ as ______ as language and literature, skillfully used, could make it.
Blank Blank
clich literal
euphemism impenetrable
subjectivity enthralling
注意到題干中context在這里的意思不是文本，而是環(huán)境，表示的是第一次世界大戰(zhàn)在一個充滿著行話和語言精妙的環(huán)境中開始。
1， AB
2， CE
3， AF
4， BE
5，friend熟詞僻意：資助者，贊助者
對應真題：
Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ______ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.
connoisseur
critic
friend
scourge
judge
這個題目正確答案應該選擇C，表示的是資助者，贊助者
6，license：
對應真題：
Word order in a sentence was much freer in old French than it is in French today, this _____disappeared as the French language gradually lost its case distinctions.
restriction
license
similarity
rigidity
imperative
this之后所提到的名詞一定在上文出現(xiàn)過，所以這里空格填入一個free同義詞，但是從字面看選項中沒有自由的同義詞，這個時候查一查韋氏詞典就會發(fā)現(xiàn)license：freedom of action;所以這里我們應當選擇B。
7，yield熟詞僻意：產(chǎn)出
對應真題：
Surprisingly, given the dearth of rain that fell on the corn crop, the yield of the harvest was ____; consequently, the corn reserves of the country have not been ____.
Blank Blank
A inadequate D replenished
B encouraging E salvaged
C compromised F depleted
題干中yield在這里的意思顯然不是屈服，而應該是產(chǎn)出，題干中表示的是糧食的產(chǎn)量。
8，list熟詞僻意：傾斜
對應真題：
In order to emphasize the erect posture of his subject matter, the painstaking painter has startlingly contrasted it with the ______ of the windswept trees.
A. tilting
B. instability
C. uprightness
D. perpendicularity
E. exaggeration
F. listing
題干當中在說要和筆直的姿勢形成對比，所以空格應該填入一個表示傾斜的概念，所以這里可以選擇AF。
4,C
5,B
6,BF
7,AF
