WebGRE Vocabulary的29(红宝书韦氏词典版).doc

Pediatrics 解释 GRE 红宝书 ●n. 小儿科 ●［英］n. 小儿科 ( a branch of medicine dealing with diseases of children) ●［记］ped ( 儿童) ＋iatrics ( 医学科) - 儿科学 ●［同］参考: podiatrics ( 足病学) ;psychiatrics ( 精神病学) Webster Collegiate noun plural but singular or plural in construction ●Date: 1884 ●a branch of medicine dealing with the development, care, and diseases of children ------ Pedigree 解释 GRE 红宝书 ●n.家系, 祖先 ●［英］n.家系, 祖先 ( ancestry; lineage) ●［例］a pedigre registration certificate ( 纯种系谱登*记证明) Webster Collegiate noun ●Etymology: Middle English pedegru, from Anglo-French pé de grue, literally, cranes foot; from the shape made by the lines of a genealogical chart ●Date: 15th century ●1. a register recording a line of ancestors ●2. m a. an ancestral line ; lineage m b. the origin and the history of something; broadly background, history ●3. m a. a distinguished ancestry m b. the recorded purity of breed of an individual or strain ●?~d or ~ adjective ------ Peer 解释 GRE 红宝书 ●n. 同等之人, 同辈 ●［英］n. 同等之人, 同辈 ( one belonging to the same societal group) ●［例］A student of high caliber, he easily exceled his peers. Webster Collegiate I. noun ●Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French per, from per, adjective, equal, from Latin par ●Date: 13th century ●1. one that is of equal standing with another ; equal; especially one belonging to the same societal group especially based on age, grade, or status ●2. archaic companion ●3. m a. a member of one of the five ranks (as duke, marquess, earl, viscount, or baron) of the British ~age m b. noble 1 ●?~ adjective II. transitive verb ●Date: 14th century ●archaic rival, match III. intransitive verb ●Etymology: perhaps by shortening alteration from appear ●Date: 1580 ●1. to look narrowly or curiously; especially to look searchingly at something difficult to discern ●2. to come slightly into view ; emerge partly ------ Peerless 解释 GRE 红宝书 ●adj.无可匹敌的 Webster Collegiate adjective ●Date: 14th century ●matchless, incomparable ------ Peevish 解释 GRE 红宝书 ●adj. 坏脾气的, 易怒的 ●［英］ad