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61. obsolete
Indeed, your average computer is virtually obsolete by the time it is shipped from the factory to the retail store.

62. ominous
Observers are not surprised that the business is flourishing despite the ominous political situation.

63. ostensibly
At 3: 33 a. m. , it touched down at Marseilles, ostensibly for a refueling stop.

64. outspoken
When he (Magic Johnson) tried to make a comeback in the fall of ’92, the fears of some outspoken N. B. A. players forced him to call it off.

65. pending
According the chairman, there are dozens of suits pending against the company.
* accord: vt. 给予?

66. perpetual
California, locked in a perpetual automotive smog, requires that by 2003, 10% of the cars offered for sale in the state produce zero emissions …

67. persistent
A small but persistent group of critics, many of them supported by the oil and coal industries, still don’t buy it.

68. persuasive
Could it be that religious faith has some direct influence on physiology and health? Harvard’s Herbert Benson is probably the most persuasive proponent of this view.

69. pervasive
The local U. S. attorney, Eddie Jordan, has called corruption in the (police) department “pervasive, rampant and systemic.”

70. phony
A police raid on a Tokyo trading company netted 2,000 pieces of counterfeit Nike merchandise, including phony Air Maxes.

71. poignant
That’s sort of a poignant irony.

72. preliminary
The American Society of Travel Agents said in a preliminary estimate that as many as 10,000 of its 25,000 members could be put out of business.

73. previous
But it is known that Senator Kennedy gave a toast more poignant than the one the previous evening.

74. primary
Sigmund Freud dismissed religious mysticism as “infantile helplessness” and “regression to primary narcissism.”

75. primitive
The chances that a primitive creature secreted in this rock may survive such a journey are beginning to look surprisingly good.
* survive: vt. to live or persist through

76. profound
By creating breakthroughs in agriculture and disease-fighting, the manipulation of DNA should lead to profound improvements in human health.

77. prominent
Abe Lincoln was a prominent railroad lawyer in 1860, but he campaigned for the White House as the simple Midwestern rail-splitter.

78. promising
On the horizon are the remedies that may prove more promising.

79. radical
More than at any other time in the past 25 years, men are living in a state of radical disconnection from the women-and-children part of the human race.

80. rebel
Yeltsin ruled out direct peace talks with rebel leader Jokhar Dudayev.

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81. reckless
Sports equipment designed to make football safer encouraged more reckless moves and ended up making the sport more dangerous than unpadded, unhelmeted rugby.

82. reminiscent (of)
Last week 21 orphans and 13 Red Cross workers trying to guard them were murdered: in a scene reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the children were picked of a group of 500 simply because they looked like Tutsi.

83. renowned
With his boyish face and slender build, he (David Ho) could more easily pass for a teenager than for a 44-year-old father of three – or, for that matter, for a world-renowned scientist.

84. rigorous
The work component of the legislation is rigorous. Within two months of offering benefits, stats can require recipients to perform community service.

85. rugged
The men had previously completed (Army Ranger) training in rugged forest, desert and mountain terrains.

86. savage
And the old soldiers, rows of military medals pinned to their civilian clothes, are reminiscing about the war, the friends they lost and the savage, tragic history of the country they saved.

87. sensible
“Sensible” is not the criterion for a placard.

88. The following year, Woo’s A Better Tomorrow … introduced Chow Yun-fat as the sullen, brutal antihero and Cheung as his sensitive counterpart.

89. shrewd
Mailer’s research and his shrewd eye lead him to believe … that Oswald did kill Kennedy and that … he acted alone.

90. significant
The President’s ambition to stand taller in the world faces one significant U. S. made handicap: brutal cutbacks in funding American foreign policy.

91. sluggish
The Paris-based OECD predicted a sluggish rate of growth in 1994 for the G-7 leading industrialized countries.

92. sophisticated
Once the calling of wild-eyed Cassandras and 19th century writers and social scientists on the radical fringe, long-range forecasting has become a sophisticated and quite profitable industry.
“远期预测”----这种一度专属于诡秘的女预言家和19世纪激进的非主流作家和社会学家的工作----如今成为一项发展成熟且利润颇高的产业。

93. staggering
The Pope’s literary output is staggering. His letters, sermons, and speeches fill nearly 150 volumes.

94. strapped (for cash)
Because of reduced oil prices and Gulf War debt, Saudi Arabia is so strapped for cash that it barely met the deadline for its latest $375 million payment on its U. S. weapons contracts.

95. subject (to)
Offers of assistance from 60 countries, the U. N. and the World Health Organization poured in. Some were subject to endless bureaucratic wrangling.

96. substantial
In 1994, when he was 23, he plowed his substantial savings into creating WARP, to develop and publish video games.

97. subtle
Even when it seems beyond the reach of any one government, electronic information can be controlled, in ways both subtle and obvious.

98. sweeping
A House subcommittee … will vote next week on the Smoke-Free Environment Art, perhaps the most sweeping antismoking legislation Congress has ever seriously considered.

99. tangible
In fact, compared with more tangible assaults on the President’s character ---- namely Paula Jones’ pending sexual-harassment lawsuit and the federal investigation into White-water ---- words in a book can barely hurt him.

100. thriving
Most countries offer few opportunities for female soccer players, but Norway has a thriving women’s professional league, and the U. S. a burgeoning co-ed youth soccer movement.

yogurt4UID: 198389

有几个单词都比较难
如果不是比较熟悉的话
用起来危险性相当高

这个是老米作文最常用的几个吧

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很用功阿~`

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101. tremendous
Some 65 million years ago, a comet or asteroid at least five miles wide struck the earth and blasted out a tremendous crater.

102. tricky
Getting in and out of the fast lanes is always trick even today. It will be even trickier when you have to change lanes and hand off control to the computer at the same time.

103. unanimous
The 1993 Supreme Court decision was not unanimous.

104. unprecedented
In an unprecedented move, Zedillo chose a member of the opposition party as Attorney General.

105. urgent
All this suggests that sumo, the institution, is in urgent need of its own purification.

106. venerable
You could almost say this venerable institution with its great credibility and history has been infiltrated slowly by the type of people it was not intended to deal with.

107. vigorous
It's a signal as well that the U. S. economy may be starting to slacken after one of its most vigorous  years in a decade.

108. volatile
When properly combined, three volatile elements generate American celebrity: the media, the public and the spinmeisters who manipulate them.
如果运用得当，结合以下三个多变不定的因素就可以让人在美国成为名人：媒体、公众及善于利用媒体与公众的形象包装高手。

109. voluntary
It has been 16 months since Australia's Northern Territory became the first place in the world to legalize voluntary euthanasia.

110. vulnerable
The long time lag between the weapons' arrival and the Bosnians' training would leave them extremely vulnerable to snap Serb offensives ...
* snap: to retort or interrupt curtly and irritably

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这些词是1990-1997年间 Time 杂志中出现的高频词，多出自涉及时效事件的新闻体裁文章，与gre作文可能用到的高频词（如果存在）不等同。

又，例句皆可在google中搜到原文出处。

[ 本帖最后由 doit 于 2006-1-30 22:09 编辑 ]

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111. abandon
Zhu (Ming-jiang) was forced as a teenager to abandon his education and, like tens of thousands of other intellectual young Chinese during the 1960s and 70s, was sent to the countryside to be "re-educated" by peasant.

112. abolish
Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
* mortal 此处用来加强语气?

113. abuse
The term is much abused lately: in its strictest sense, virtual reality means creating an artificial environment so convincing it can't be distinguished from the real thing.

114. acknowledge
Johnson acknowledged that he has in the past taken AZT, the antiviral drug typically administered when a person's helper T-cell count drops to 500.
* administer: vt. to apply as a remedy
* count: n. 总数

115. acquire
Even very young children learn by imitation; by watching how others act when they see someone in distress, these children acquire a repertoire of sensitive responses.

116. adapt
John Woo believes the communists are too smart to kill a cash cow like the Hong Kong movie business, and that local moviemakers will adapt.

117. address
Scientists first raised alarms about climate change in the late 1980s, but the international community has taken few concrete steps to address the problem.

118. affect
They insist that the issue (work-family dilemma) be seen as affecting both men and women.

119. amount (to)
That morning in Seattle, addressing hundreds of analysts and media, Gates hit a rare rhetorical high, offering up what amounted to his new digital gospel.
* address: vt. 向...致辞
* high: n.高水准
* offer up:  贡献

120. appeal
In a letter released after his death, Dent appealed to those who attacked his decision: “If you disagree with voluntary euthanasia, then don't use it, but don't deny me the right to use it if and when I want to."

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121. appreciate
Patients appreciate the service, and the physicians seem to enjoy providing it.

122. arouse
Any stranger who wanted to buy a large amount of ANFO (ammonium nitrate and fuel oil) would immediately arouse suspicion.

123. assemble
Prosecutors sought to assemble a detailed chronology of the murder night with a parade of witnesses ...

124. assert
Finally, since quantum physics asserts that matter and energy are interchangeable, we are not individual beings at all but merely local expressions of an infinite, universal field of energy.
local: 局部的

125. assign
The new top officer of the Navy ... promised to speed up plans to assign women to all surface vessels and perhaps even allow them aboard submarines, the Navy's last all-male bastion.

126. associate
Comets have long been associated with war, upheaval and disaster.

127. assure
But even such battle-hardened successes do not assure victory for AmEx in its quest to reclaim the top standing it lost in 1989 in the $562 billion credit-card industry.

128. ban
Beijing bans overseas exhibits of pre-Ming dynasty paintings and calligraphy because of the  extreme vulnerability of the ancient brocade kill and paper.

129. betray
They take a soap-opera plot --- betrothed teenager falls for a stranger, perfect mother is betrayed by her neighbors, ex-prostiture tries to live an honorable life ...

130. boast
Boasts Mayor Bill Camp: "During the Olympics Atlanta will be the safest city in this country, certainly, and on the globe, probably."