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1. awkward clumsy Awkward: 指物体使用不便，指人暂时显得尴尬；或指人缺乏技巧，灵活性而显得笨拙。 Clumsy: 指人或动物固有的属性。修饰物体时，表示它显得笨重，指人或动物则表示行动笨拙的，迟钝的。 1). He felt so awkward among many important people that he fled away before the party was over. 2). The clumsy waiter has dropped four plates this week. 2. common general ordinary universal usual Common: 强调具有共同的属性 General: 强调普遍性和一致性 Ordinary: 指日常的，常见的 Universal: “普遍的”， 比“general”语气更强，有“全然没有例外”的意思。 Usual: 强调因为长时间的重复而形成的习惯。 1). It is an error quite common among students. 2). This is a topic of general interest. 3). We talked only of the most ordinary things. 4). Food is a universal need of the living. 5). It is usual with him to go to the office on foot. 3. rage anger fury Rage: 意为狂怒，往往含有对某人报复的欲望。 Anger: 意为生气，在程度上不如rage和fury严重，也不一定外露。 Fury: 意为暴怒，常伴有失去理智的疯狂举动。 1). In his rage at being publicly punished, he broke the teacher’s favorite vase. 2). He tried to conceal his anger. 3). In their fury the boys went through the streets wrecking cars. 4. last latest final terminal eventual ultimate Last: 指在一系列同一类事物中位列最后，也指时间上最近的。 Latest: 表示last的第二种含义“时间上最近的” Final: 通常指一个系列或某一过程的终点，具有决定性或结论性。 Terminal: 标志着某一过程的完成或结束。 Eventual: 指某些情况或因素必然会导致的结果。 Ultimate: 指人奋斗的目标，事物发展的终点，通常是最长远的或最重要的。 1). Their last child is now twenty years old of age. 2). The latest news of my parents is that all is well. 3). The final answer to this question is still to be found. 4). A bus arrived at the terminal station every ten minutes. 5). He never expected his carelessness would lead to the eventual failure. 6). In 1945 the Anti-Japanese War ended for us Chinese in ultimate victory. 5. hasty urgent instant prompt Hasty: 突发性的匆忙、仓促快速的意思，并由此引起慌乱，杂乱或疏漏。 Urgent: 强调注意的紧张感或强制性（如因迫切要求或激烈催促），它通常指需要立刻迅速行动（如回答问题，考虑需要或减轻痛苦时）。 Instant: 接近urgent, 并像它一样常暗示临时的压力，不同的是该词有坚持不懈或需要坚持不懈的含义。 Prompt: 指反应迅速敏捷，行动果断，但这种能力可能是也可能不是先天能力所使，在一般情况下还是因为有所准备（如经过训练）所能做出的。 1). An urgent seriousness underlay his words. 2). The need to study precision in writing has grown far more ins