GRE熟词僻义的考点整理
①account：报道(M-W：a description of facts, conditions, or events)
对应真题：
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.
(A) synoptic
(B) abridged
(C)sensational
(D) copious
(E) lurid
(F) understated
在这个题目当中，因为空格前面出现了news，空格后面的account在这里当“报道”，
②account：解释(a statement explaining one's conduct)
对应真题：
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 (i)______ this (ii)______ view of selection.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(A) departures from (D) controversial
(B) basis for (E) innovative
(C) bias toward (F) pervasive
这个题目中“virtually all accounts of evolution”译作“几乎所有对于进化的解释”，account在这里当“解释”讲。
2，detachment熟词僻意：客观公正，没有偏见(freedom from bias and prejudices)
对应真题：
Whereas biologists must maintain a (i) ______ attitude toward the subjects of their research, social scientists must, paradoxically, combine personal involvement and scholarly (ii) ______.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(A) scrupulous (D) sympathy
(B) casual (E) detachment
(C) disinterested (F) abandon
这个第二空格的正确答案是E，detachment，在这里表示的是“客观公正”，而不是“分开”的含义。
3，construction熟词僻意：解释，诠释
对应真题：
When theories formerly considered to be (i)______ 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 (ii)______.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(A) disinterested (D) fantasies
(B) callous (E) imperatives
(C) unassailable (F) constructions
第二空格应该填入一个表示不中立不客观的东西，那么这里正确答案应该是F选项，填入后表示的是“各种知识实际上都是人类的诠释”
4，context熟词僻意：环境(M-W：the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs : ENVIRONMENT, SETTING)
对应真题：
The First World War began in a context of jargon and verbal delicacy and continued in a cloud of (i)______ as (ii)______ as language and literature, skillfully used, could make it.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(A) cliché (D) literal
(B) euphemism (E) impenetrable
(C) subjectivity (F) enthralling
注意到题干中context在这里的意思不是文本，而是环境，表示的是第一次世界大战在一个充满着行话和语言精妙的环境中开始。
1， AB
2， CE
3， AF
4， BE
5，friend熟词僻意：资助者，赞助者(AHD：One who supports, sympathizes with, or patronizes a group, cause, or movement)
对应真题：
Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ______ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.
(A) connoisseur
(B) critic
(C) friend
(D) scourge
(E) judge
这个题目正确答案应该选择C，表示的是“资助者，赞助者”
6，license：(AHD: Freedom of action or permission to act)
对应真题：
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.
(A) restriction
(B) license
(C) similarity
(D) rigidity
(E) imperative
this之后所提到的名词一定在上文出现过，所以这里空格填入一个“free”同义词，但是从字面看选项中没有自由的同义词，这个时候查一查韦氏词典(或者是美国传统词典)就会发现license：freedom of action;所以这里我们应当选择B。
7，yield熟词僻意：产出
对应真题：
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 (i) Blank (ii)
A inadequate D replenished
B encouraging E salvaged
C compromised F depleted
题干中yield在这里的意思显然不是“屈服”，而应该是“产出”，题干中表示的是粮食的产量。
8，list熟词僻意：倾斜(M-W：a deviation from the vertical : TILT)
对应真题：
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
题干当中在说要和“笔直的姿势(the erect posture)”形成对比，所以空格应该填入一个表示倾斜的概念，所以这里可以选择AF。
4,C
5,B
6,BF
7,AF
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