Lesson 2 单词.doc

Lesson Two Work Your Way Through College 1. menial: menial work is boring, needs no skill, and is not important ---- a menial job ---- She did menial tasks about the house. 2. remunerative: making a lot of money 3. flabby: 1) having unattractive soft loose flesh rather than strong muscles ---- a flabby stomach 2) used to describe something that is weak or not effective ?opposite powerful --- intellectually flabby arguments ---- The band’s performance was tired and flabby. 4. prodigious: very large or great in a surprising or impressive way prodigious amounts/quantities of something ---- Some galaxies seem to release prodigious amounts of energy. ---- the artists prodigious output 5. waive: to state officially that a right, rule etc can be ignored ---- She waived her right to a lawyer. 6. bosh: something that you think is silly, not good, or not true 7. contribution: something that you give or do in order to help something be successful contribution to/towards --- Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to Quantum Theory. --- The school sees its job as preparing students to make a contribution to society. significant/substantial/valuable etc contribution ---- Wolko made outstanding contributions to childrens medicine. 8. epitome: the best possible example of something 9. contemporary: someone who lived or was in a particular place at the same time as someone else somebodys contemporaries ----- Oswald was much admired by his contemporaries at the Academy. 10. sift: sift through: to examine information, documents etc carefully in order to find something out or decide what is important and what is not --- Police are sifting through the evidence in the hope of finding more clues. sift something ? out phrasal verb to separate something from other things sift something ? out from ---- Its hard to sift out the truth from the lies in this case. 11. happenstance: chance, or something that happens by chance 12. vestige: 1) a small part or amount of some