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6个Magoosh填空视频。session结束，做了4轮的quiz才总算有一轮60%的正确率。。


1.Tossing about in a tempest, the fishing vessel sent a message that was so ____________ as to be incomprehensible.
错误答案Urgent
正确答案Garbled
我想的是因为发得很急所以不容易理解，但是其实这并没有关系，一个消息很急也可以很简单很清楚。还是要记住“By definition”，而不要脑补 。


词汇不认识。
potentate-powerful ruler；autodidact - self-taught；renegade - rebel
extropolate 估算。
timid-胆小的，laconic-brief and to the point，ribald-humorously vulgar/a ribald person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language
glib - to speak in smooth manner, impertinent - rude, obliging- helpful, obsequious - one who acts as a slave
repast - a meal, umbrage - annoyance, dander is one’s temper

mavericks are known for their revolutionary ideas, pugilists are boxers, a doyenne is a woman holding a senior position in a certain field, consiglieres are advisers

glum [adj.]showing a brooding ill humor；moody and melancholic

With no economic recovery in sight, the job applicant became even more glum over his lack of prospects.





A 15th century Florentine monk was branded a(n) ____________ , not so much because he decried corruption and immorality, but because he directed his censure at the church.


文中词汇不熟。branded有负性，a heretic is one who attacks the church


That the psychopharmacological journal had already published the findings of the clinician’s experiment rendered ____________ any prior misgivings she had regarding the validity of her control group.
文中词不熟。misgiving-担心。moot: \"having no practical significance\"


Revolutions do little to cure a nation’s ____________ – the very agitation that allowed for a change in previous rule often precludes the formation of a viable government.
这题我又脑补了，觉得前面的空是对应后面的viable government的，但是其实是对应的the very agitation的，确实，不然这个agitation出现的太突兀了。