文档介绍：考研英语核心词汇辨析(五)
1. alleviate, diminish, reduce, decrease, decline这一组动词都有"减少,减轻"的意思。
alleviate ,缓和
The painkiller alleviated the 。
diminish ,在数量方面缓慢减少,也指在素质或者价值的下降。
The supply of oil has diminished because of the 。
reduce 。
He reduced the amount of money they could 。
decrease ;力量或者强度的减弱。
The population decreased a lot last 。
decline v. (数目、价格、比率)下降;谢绝,婉言推辞;衰退,衰落。
Last year, the crime rate in Chicago has sharply 。
He declined our invitation to 。
2. allocate, separate, detach, divide都有"分开"的意思。
allocate ,把……拨给。
The city government allocated money for schools and the police in this year's 。
separate ,使隔离开。
We separated the salad forks from the dinner 。
detach ;远离,疏远。
We need a carpenter to detach this bookshelf from the 。
divide 。
The huge corporation divided into 。
3. ambiguous, obscure, vague, unclear, dim "模糊"
ambiguous ,有歧义的,指因字、词、句有歧义而使人感到模糊不清、难以理解和把握。
His ambiguous directions confused us; we did not know which of the two roads to 。
obscure 。该词的引申意义可以表示语法、文字、记忆等因复杂、深奥、模棱两可而使人看不懂和无法理解。
The poetry of Ezra Pound is sometimes di