3500 ACT Vocabulary

Stories of USA Today
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(重写手稿,(刮去原文后的)重刻的碑) manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased


Spelling Word: palimpsest
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(苍白的,惨淡的) abnormally pale; lacking intensity of color or luminousness


Spelling Word: pallid
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(广泛传播的,流行的) widespread; affecting majority of people


Spelling Word: pandemic
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(典范,模式) one that serves as a pattern or model; system of assumptions, concepts, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


Spelling Word: paradigm
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(轻罪,轻微冒犯) slight offense; small sin or fault


Spelling Word: peccadillo
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(一贫如洗,穷困潦倒) extreme poverty; lack of something; barrenness; insufficiency


Spelling Word: penury
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(打孔) pierce, punch, or bore hole or holes in; penetrate


Spelling Word: perforate
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(爱管闲事的,无理的) improperly forward or bold; trim and stylish in appearance


Spelling Word: pert
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(神职的,虔诚的) devout; religious; exhibiting strict, traditional sense of virtue and morality


Spelling Word: pious
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(瘟疫,讨厌的人或物) epidemic disease with a high death rate; annoyance


Spelling Word: plague