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June10-12 20 minutes
June 13 35minutes

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June 16 , 42minutes , 已掌握２１.%

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总是背一天忘两天阿啊

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June 17, 39 minutes

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June 17, 39 minutes

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Sep 前几天有两天每天半小时单词

今天写了Argu 55，31分钟，500字。

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昨天写了issue 33，30分钟，450字= =。如何是好。

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本来不想拉长线如今感觉不知不觉拉长线的孩子前来加油！~

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Calcifer.wuie 发表于 2013-9-30 12:29
本来不想拉长线如今感觉不知不觉拉长线的孩子前来加油！~

其实能突击是最好的了～不过我现在就是没有办法每天花太多时间在GRE上，都是泪。

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今天做了magoosh free trial的数学

16题错了3题 = =

两道题是读题不仔细，一道题是没读懂题目= =。

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OG2 Practice 2, math section (5).

19分钟全对，检查出一个错误来。

做了magoosh的填空，13个只对了5个，单词还是不行啊泪目。


dispensation 分配/特免
perusal 精读
temerity 鲁莽
opulence 丰富
Philistine 俗气的人
secularist 世俗论的
aesthete 审美家
eloquence 口才
prevarication 支吾， 说谎
intimation 暗示

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最近状态很不好。准备无论怎样都要分半个小时来准备GRE，学累了就换换脑，做做GRE题。

今天买了Magoosh，看了关于单词的介绍，讲GRE考的是如何使用一个词，而不仅仅是单词的意思，觉得非常对，本科的时候刷红宝，怎么记都记不住，就是这样死记硬背的方式根本不适合自己。

下载了magoosh的Vocabulary Book，认真看看,其实词汇的提高也能加快阅读速度，与平常的学习也并不冲突了。

近日计划:
每日读一篇The Economist。
每天5个单词！就5个！要求不多吧！查意思与例句。

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今天才开始
The Economics- America’s health-care upheaval， Will it get better?

gusto
-enjoyment or vigor in doing something; zest.
-New York, led by a Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, has implemented the president’s health-care plan with gusto.

toil
- laborious effort, to work very hard for a long time
-The group she works for, Enroll America, is a non-profit organisation toiling to convey a simple message: Obamacare is here and it will help you.

atrocious
-very evil or cruel
-Obamacare, they claim, will bring fiscal ruin, squash individual liberties, kill jobs and make America’s health system more like those atrocious schemes they have in Europe.


obliterate
-to destroy completely so that nothing is left
-The main challenge, however, has been political. It is hard to implement a law when opponents want it obliterated.

reckon
-to think or suppose (something)/ to guess
-Rand Paul, a senator from Kentucky, reckons that “everybody is going to pay more” for insurance.

tumult
- a state of noisy confusion or disorder/a state of great mental or emotional confusion
-Doctors, hospitals and clinics are in a state of upheaval. Many hospitals are responding to the tumult by getting bigger.

clout
-the power to influence or control situations/a hit especially with the hand
-Less promisingly, big hospital companies also have the clout to drive up health bills.

perverse
-wrong or different in a way that others feel is strange or offensive
-First, insurers are trying to scrap health care’s perverse incentives.

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感觉TE跟平常的reading很类似，而很少接触更文学化的阅读，所以再加读New Yorker

WASHINGTON DRAMAS
BY MARGARET TALBOT
OCTOBER 14, 2013

swarm
-a large number of insects moving together （很有趣的比喻）
-Solitary joggers replaced the noisy busloads of kids who would ordinarily be swarming the Mall.

ram
-[v.]to strike with great force
-Thursday afternoon, a driver who had rammed a barricade outside the White House led police on a high-speed chase.

flout
-to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt/a disdainful, scornful, or contemptuous remark or act; insult; gibe.
-To hold up a budget and shut down the government in order to sabotage a law you don’t like is not just nose-thumbing at the government; it’s flouting the will of the people.

epithet
-any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality/a word, phrase, or expression used invectively as a term of abuse or contempt, to express hostility, etc.
-In the meantime, the diehard opponents of the bill in Congress remain a faction within their own party, whom fellow-Republicans seem determined to identify by more and more outlandish epithets.

lemming
美国旅鼠 ：）
-And what the mainstream Republicans fear the most is that voters will blame them for letting the lemmings run the show.

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Goldman Sachs
Reform school for bankers

crunch
to make the loud sound of something being crushed/to process (numbers, information, etc.) : to examine and analyze (numbers, information, etc.)/a tight or critical situation
Rumours of a cash crunch and hidden losses on derivatives start flying.

venal
willing to do dishonest things in return for money
Lights in the room brighten and about 100 vice-presidents of Goldman Sachs’s London business blink into it, reaching for answers that will neither make them look stupid in front of their peers nor venal in the eyes of their superiors.

luminary
a very famous or successful person
It is preceded by an emotive documentary on the history of Goldman Sachs, filled with interviews of luminaries and former executives, each hammering home the virtues that supposedly make the firm distinctive

guffaw
a loud or boisterous burst of laughter
Critics of the firm, of which there are many, would doubtless guffaw at this theatre.

squid
鱿鱼

heft
n.weight or heaviness、importance or influence
v.to lift (something) up
It has since pulled back on pure prop trading, but Goldman’s investing heft remains formidable.

defuse
to make a situation more relaxed by making people feel less angry or less worried/to stop a bomb from exploding by removing its fuse
Instead of eliminating conflicts of interest, Goldman hopes to rely on greater disclosure and the wits of its people to defuse them.

The New Yorker
HOW COLD WAR GAME THEORY CAN RESOLVE THE SHUTDOWN

taunt
a sarcastic challenge or insult/to say insulting things to (someone) in order to make that person angry
For three days, they zagged along the edge of Soviet airspace, taunting Moscow.

calamity
an event that causes great harm and suffering
Surely worldwide economic calamity is a worse outcome for everyone than compromise.

caucus
a meeting of members of a political party for the purpose of choosing candidates for an election

vengeance
the act of doing something to hurt someone because that person did something that hurt you or someone else
This system, “Dead Hand,” gave Moscow the ability to take vengeance after a preëmptive American nuclear attack.

seismic
of, relating to, or caused by an earthquake/very great or important
It would then check to determine, through seismic readings and other data, whether nuclear weapons had struck the country.

rogue
a man who is dishonest or immoral/causes trouble in a playful way
A rogue commander might also hold off just a bit longer before taking out a nuclear-armed Stratofortress.