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GRE词汇精选之高频形近字（14）
131. faction / fiction / factitious / fictitious
faction: A faction is an 第1页 /总页数 2 页
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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.
. 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 feeling