GRE填空单词中的熟词僻义，你都掌握了吗？

学GRE的同学一定知道，GRE填空是考我们的单词量。只要我们能知道选项里所有单词的含义，那么填空题将毫无难度。

是的，确实如此。

对于很多中国学生来说，GRE在很大程度上就是考的单词量。因为，很多单词我们都不认识。

但是如果换个角度想想，GRE是美国人出题考美国人的，它不可能考美国人认不认识这个单词。正如中国的研究生入学考试，不可能会问你认不认识这个字。

同理，GRE填空考单词的目的，不是简单的单词量，而是背后的“逻辑”。

GRE对于字词的考查方式有很多，其中最致命的，莫过于——熟词僻义。

出题人如果想考查你的词汇量，也就是考查你字词的基本概念，倒不如他们更喜欢考查你可能不熟悉的含义。

一个多义词，在什么情况下是什么含义，以及相对不常见的一些用法，都可以体现考生在语言和逻辑水平的分档。

为了让大家更好的应对熟词僻义的考查，一起来看看甄选的真题吧！

GRE填空：熟词僻义真题举例 

例1 填空 93-1

The author affects _____ in the tone of his novels that is quite at odds with his predilection for invective in his nonfiction publications.

A. a tenacity

B. a neutrality

C. a pugnacity

D. an effusiveness

E. an irascibility

答案：B

| affect

1. to act upon (a person or a person？s feelings) so as to cause a response 影响

2. to present a false appearance of 假装

3. to go to or spend time in often 经常参与

例2 填空 26-8

The dictator’s gleaming military uniform and imperial paraphernalia sharply contrast with the _____ fashion favored by most other contemporary political leaders.

A. unostentatious

B. modest

C. august

D. majestic

E. formal

F. casual

答案：AB

| august

1. the eighth month of the Gregorian calendar 八月

2. marked by majestic dignity or grandeur 宏伟的

例3 填空 90-3

The professor frequently reiterated a basic assumption behind the experimental method---namely, that the outcome of the experiment is always (i)_____. The hypothesis can never assume the experiment’s results, in other words, but instead must (ii)_____ their appearance.

A. undetermined

D. await

B. incontrovertible

E. signal

C. inconsequential

F. negate

答案：AD

| assume

1. to think that something is true or probably true without knowing that it is true 假定

2. to take up or in 接受

3. to take to or upon oneself 承担

4. to take on 呈现

5. seize, usurp 获取

6. to take as granted or true 认为理所应当，认定为真

例4 填空 84-7

The recent exhibition on Dadaism is nothing if not _____, for the visual arts are currently awash in Dadaist gestures and gambits of one variety or another.

A. sensational

B. timely

C. daunting

D. ill-advised

E. opportune

F. misguided

答案：BE

| awash

1. flooded with or covered by water or another liquid 被水淹没

2. filled, covered, or completely overrun as if by a flood 充满

例5 填空 16-10

The major _____ of much popular history is that it betrays no interest in making intellectual contributions to our understanding of an issue.

A. characteristic

B. shortcoming

C. dilemma

D. quandary

E. ploy

F. fault

答案：BF

| betray

1. to give information about (a person, group, country, etc.) to an enemy 泄密 

2. to hurt someone who trusts you by not giving help or by doing something morally wrong 背叛

3.  to show something without wanting or trying to 不经意地表现

这5道题和相应的5个熟词僻义，大家把知识点好好巩固一下！

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