Notes

(228 Memorial Day)

Vocabulary 

Monday

1. academia : the academic world; scholastic life

2. Academy award : an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievement in the file industry.

3. accelerate : move or cause to move happen more quickly

4. accident : event that is unexpected or without apparent cause (by accident–偶然意外地)

5.accuse : charge with a fault or crime

Tuesday

1. acid test : severe or conclusive test

2. acoustic : of sound or the sense of hearing

3. Adam’s apple : projection of cartilage at the front of the neck

4. adolescent : between childhood and adulthood

5. adoptive : because of adoption (adoptive son-養子)

Wednesday

1. adviser : (advisor) person who advices

2. advocate : person who supports or speaks in favor

3. affect : pretend to have or feel/use, wear, or assume in a false way or in order to express

4. after-effect : delayed effect following an accident, trauma, etc.

5. aggravate : make worse or more serious/annoy

Thursday

1. agitate : disturb or excite (a person or feelings)

2. agony : extreme mental or physical suffering/severe struggle

3. agony column : column in a magazine etc. offering personal advice to corespondents = personal column

4. airhead : slang or foolish person

5. airing : an act of exposing laundry or a place to warm or fresh air

Friday

1. airs and graces : affected manner

2. airy : well-ventilated, breezy/flippant, superficial

3. alien : unfamiliar; unacceptable or repugnant/foreign

4. allowance : amount or sum allowed, esp. regularly for a stated purpose

5. all-time : (of a record etc.) unsurpassed