gre词汇精选：2012年GRE考试重点词汇精讲一
n. 放縱： carefree, freedom from constraint
added spices to the stew with complete abandon 肆無忌憚地向燉菜裡面加調料
unconstraint, uninhibitedness, unrestraint
v. 放縱：to give (oneself) over unrestrainedly
abandon oneself to emotion 感情用事，abandon herself to a life of complete idleness 放縱自己過著閒
散的生活
indulge, surrender, give up
v. 放棄：to withdraw from often in the face of danger or encroachment
abandon the ship/homes 棄船，離家
salvage 救援
v. 停止做某事：to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)
the bad weather forced NASA to abandon the launch 壞天氣迫使NASA 停止了發射
abort, drop, repeal, rescind, revoke, call off
keep, continue, maintain, carry on 繼續
abase
v. 降低（地位、職位、威望或尊嚴）：to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem
was unwilling to abase himself by pleading guilty to a crime that he did not commit 不願意屈就自己去承
認一個莫須有的罪名
debauch, degrade, profane, vitiate, discredit, foul, smirch, take down
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elevate, ennoble, uplift, aggrandize, canonize, deify, exalt 使高貴，使有聲望
abash
vt. 使尷尬，使羞愧：to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of ,disconcert, embarrass
Nothing could abash him. 沒有什麼可以使他感到難堪。
discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, faze, fluster, nonplus, mortify
embolden使大膽
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