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GRE词汇精选之高频形近词
131. faction / fiction / factitious / fictitious
faction: A faction is an organized group of people within a larger group, which opposes some of the ideas of the larger group and fights for its own ideas.
e.g. A peace agreement will be signed by the leaders of the country's warring factions.
factitious: produced by humans rather than by natural forces
fictitious: Fictitious is used to describe something that is false or does not exist, although some people claim that it is true or exists.
132. calamity / calumny
calamity: A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress. (FORMAL)(=disaster)
calumny: Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them. (FORMAL)(=slander)(污蔑，诽谤(的话))
133. team / teem
teem: If you say that a place is teeming with people or animals, you mean that it is crowded and the people and animals are moving around a lot. (=swarm)
134. callow / callous
callow: A callow young person has very little experience or knowledge of the way they should behave as an adult.
callous: A callous person or action is very cruel and shows no concern for other people or their feelings.
135. contrite / contrive / connive
contrite: If you are contrite, you are very sorry because you have done something wrong. (FORMAL)(= apologetic)
contrive: If you contrive to do something difficult, you succeed in doing it. (FORMAL)
connive: If one person connives with another to do something, they secretly try to achieve something which will benefit both of them.
136. discrete / discreet
discrete: Individually separate and distinct:
discreet: Careful and prudent in one’s speech or actions, especially in order to keep something confidential or to avoid embarrassment:
137. impressive / impressionable
impressionable : easily influenced
GRE词汇精选之高频形近词
121. substantiate / substantial / substance
substantiate: To substantiate a statement or a story means to supply evidence which proves that it is true. (FORMAL)
substantial: Substantial means large in amount or degree. (FORMAL)
122. rebuke / rebuff
rebuke: If you rebuke someone, you speak severely to them because they have said or done something that you do not approve of. (FORMAL)(责骂)
rebuff: If you rebuff someone or rebuff a suggestion that they make, you refuse to do what they suggest.
123. scatter / spatter
spatter: If a liquid spatters a surface or you spatter a liquid over a surface, drops of the liquid fall on an area of the surface.
124. tether / feather
tether: If you say that you are at the end of your tether, you mean that you are so worried, tired, and unhappy because of your problems that you feel you cannot cope.

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