GRE红宝书缺失词汇(4)

GRE词汇量是考G考生必须要过的第一关,而GRE红宝书是考生备考GRE词汇的重要教材之一,不过,在新版GRE红宝书中,还有一些缺失词汇。下面请看详细内容。
  mediocrity n. 平庸,碌碌无为(mediocre abilities or attainment)
  [例]Grateful as we are for these splendid books, they remain isolated examples of excellence in a literature of mediocrity.
  melancholy adj. 忧郁的(depressed);令人悲伤的(causing depression)
  [记]词根记忆:melan(黑色)+chol(=bile胆汁)+y→胆汁发黑→忧郁的
  menial adj. 仆人的,卑微的(of servants;humble);n. 家仆(a domestic servant)
  [例]Although Ms. Brown found some of her duties to be menial, her supervision of forty workers was a considerable responsibility.
  [同]subservient, obsequious, servile, slavish
  mercenary adj. 唯利是图的(acting merely for money);n. 雇佣兵(a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army for money)
  [记]词根记忆:mercen(工资)+ary→只为了工钱的→唯利是图的
  meretricious adj. 华而不实的,俗艳的(tawdrily and falsely attractive)
  [记]来自meretrix(妓女)
  meritorious adj. 值得赞赏的(deserving praise and esteem)
  [记]merit(优点,长处)+orious(多…的)→长处很多→值得赞赏的
  mesmerize v. 对…催眠(to hypnotize);使入迷,迷住(to fascinate)
  metabolic adj. 新陈代谢的(of, relating to, or based on metabolism)
  [记]来自metabol(y)(新陈代谢)+ic→新陈代谢的
  [例]When trees go dormant in winter, the procedure is anything but sleepy: it is an active metabolic process that changes the plant radically.
  metamorphose v. 变形(to change into another form)
  [记]词根记忆:meta(变化)+morph(形状)+ose→变形
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