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這篇我覺得好難.....生字太多!

1. Burnish: (v) If you burnish something such as your public image, you take action to improve it and make it more attractive.

2. Contentious: (adj) causing or likely to cause disagreement

3. Architect: (n) a person whose job is to design new buildings and make certain that they are built correctly

4. Pillory: (v) to severely criticize someone, especially in a public way

5. Glorify: (v)

1)      to praise and honour God or a person

2)      to make something seem splendid or excellent, often when it is really not

6. propaganda: (n) information, ideas, opinions or images, often only giving one part of an argument, which are broadcast, published or in some other   way spread with the intention of influencing people's opinions

7. organ: (n)

1)      a part of the body of an animal or plant which performs a particular job

2)      a newspaper or broadcasting station produced by a particular organization and giving only the opinions of that organization

8. contorted (v) to (cause something to) twist or bend violently and unnaturally into a different shape or form

  ※contorted: (adj)

9. Ignite: (v)

1)      to (cause to) start burning or explode

2)      to cause a dangerous, excited or angry situation to begin

10. commission: (v) to formally choose someone to do a special piece of work

 11. jut: (v) to (cause to) stick out, especially above or past the edge or surface of something

      jut out: 突出;伸出

12. taper: (v) to become gradually narrower at one end, or to make something do this

     ※    tapering: (adj)

13. distort: (v) to change something from its usual, original, natural or intended meaning, condition or shape

14. repress: (v) to not allow something, especially feelings, to be expressed ((太久沒看過又忘了....))

15. menacing: (adj) making you think that someone is going to do something bad

16.mundane: (adj) very ordinary and therefore not interesting

17. plinth: (n) a square block, especially of stone, on which a column or a statue stands

18. monolithic: (adj) too large, too regular or without interesting differences, and unwilling or unable to be changed

19. montage:( (n) a piece of work produced by combining smaller parts, or the process of making such a work

20. collide: (v) (especially of moving objects) to hit something violently

21. rhomboid: (n) a type of parallelogram (= flat shape with four sides and opposite sides of equal length)

in which the sides next to each other are not of equal length but the sides opposite each other are. ((中文: 長菱形的; 長斜方形))

22. skylight: (n) a shape or pattern made against the sky, especially by buildings

23. tilt: (v) to (cause to) move into a sloping position

24. vertiginous: (adj) causing or experiencing the feeling that everything is spinning round

25. disgorge: (v) to send many people out of a place or vehicle at the same time

26. staircase: (n) a set of stairs inside a building usually with a bar fixed on the wall or onto vertical poles at the side for you to hold on to

    ((簡單講就是樓梯嘛! 但平常不是只用stair嗎!!))

 27. lounge: (n) a room in a hotel, airport, theatre, etc. where people can relax or wait

((lounge bar大家都知道，但我想還是很多人不知道lounge的意思到底是什麼!))

28. sequence: a series of related things or events, or the order in which they follow each other

    ※ a sequence of

29. descend: to go or come down

30. cavernous: (adj) If something is cavernous, there is a very large open space inside it

31. clash: (v)

1)      to fight or argue

   2)      If two opinions, statements or qualities clash, they are very different from each other

32. allusion: (n) something that is said or written that is intended to make you think of a particular thing or person

通常和to連用 + N

33. allegory: (n) a story, play, poem, picture or other work in which the characters and

events represent particular qualities or ideas, related to morals, religion or politics

((中文: 寓言;諷喻; 象徵))

34. testament: (n) proof