Haotian+Fang


 * **The assignment of Week 1:**


 * **negotiate**(v.): to compromise with someone or to make a deal;
 * eg:** Never negotiate with evils, and what they do is to allure you into hell.
 * **labyrinth**(n.): a maze or a complicated situation to get rid off;
 * eg:** Life is like a labyrinth, as we are all lost in the lies.
 * **bewilder**(v.): to confuse or make somebody upset:
 * eg:** Witnessing all of his weird behavior, I'm bewildered.
 * **ambiguous**(adj.): an uncertain and doubtful meaning, or can be explained by two even more meanings;
 * eg:** There must be something under the surface, judging from his ambiguous words.
 * **mischief**(n.): a damage caused in purpose or a action to irritate someone;
 * eg:** These cute kids with their eyes full of mischief have too much chocolate without permission.
 * **specious**(adj.): have a beautiful appearance may attract a lot of attention but the truth turn out to be fake;
 * eg:** As we all know, fact is anything but truth is everything, sometimes we have a wrong impression by the specious appearance.
 * **shivery**(adj): delicate and frangible;
 * eg:** You'd better leave the shivery vase alone.
 * **hospitable**(adj.): welcome the guest with great generosity;
 * eg:** We're impressed deeply by their hospitable greetings.
 * **indulge**(v.): let someone addict to his/her inner desire or participate in something;
 * eg:** I want to indulge myself and sleep for the whole day.
 * **precocious**(adj.): a higher standard appear on the early time, mature;
 * eg:** Mozart is precocious and he has his first concert at the age of 12.
 * **humiliate**(v.): to tell something bad about someone in front of him/her;
 * eg:** It's a bad experience to be humiliated in public.
 * **affirmative**(adj.): announce the truth;
 * eg:** About this story, my answer is affirmative. I'm pretty sure she is lying.

Haotian - Good. Make sure you let me know the source of the word. Where did you find it?


 * The assignment of Week 2: **
 * ** decent ** (adj.): suitable, appropriate for the situation;
 * eg : He had a warm family, a decent salary and of course the happiness, but it happened and broke his life just all of a sudden. **
 * ** swift ** (adj.): moving,happening quickly or in a sudden and without delay;
 * eg: ** The swift arrow swished the face of tough soilder, and left a fresh scar.
 * ** spatter ** (v.): to splash little particals or drops on something;
 * eg: ** He is a kind teacher and we never saw him angry even when the naughty boys spattered him with cool water.
 * ** partriotic ** (adj.): love oneself's country and prepare to devote everything for it;
 * eg: ** It's a great honor for a partriotic fighter to die for his country.
 * ** shroud ** (v.): be covered; conceal or diguise something;
 * eg: ** Once I scramble seven cilff shrouded by the mist to find the light, maybe I still have to walk seven thousand miles to run away from the night.
 * **furious**(adj.): full of anger or violence;
 * eg: ** She is furrious at that behavior intending to deceive her.
 * **indignant**(adj.): feeling angry at an unfair treatment;
 * eg: **  The unresponsable announcement of the representive infuriated everyone, then the indignant crowd rushed to stroke the office buiding.
 * ** abbreviate  **  (v.): shorten i word;
 * eg: **  When we talk some chemistry elements we always abbreviate the name to a two-letters' word.
 * ** abrade  **  (v.): erode because of the long time using;
 * eg: **  The jade won't be article if it never abraded, as a tough spirit need to be exprience a lot.
 * ** prohibit  **  (v.); forbiden to do;
 * eg: **  There are someones we can call them slaves, and they are prohibitted from everything new by themselves because they are confided in minds.
 * ** exploit  **  (v.): make the most use of someone and usually by a means of deception in purpose;
 * eg: **  Exploiting is method, and the eager for money is the cause. Just like a wheel of tragedy.
 * ** poise  **  (v.): to adjust, hold, or carry in equilibrium;
 * eg:  **   As usual, he stepped in and poised a heavy cage in his hand.


 * The assignment of Week 3:  **
 * **  tangible   **   (adj.): can be touched; have actual physical existence;
 * eg:  **   As if the musician's feeling is tangible, when the sweet melody and rhythm flow through his fingers.
 * **  derive   **   (v.): to find the origin or source;
 * eg:  **   We are in the tides of time, derive our essence from the past.
 * **  perpetual   **   (adj.): ceaseless, incessant, eternal;
 * eg:  **   The wheel of history is a perpetual rotation, never stop.
 * **  simmer   **   (v.): stew or boiled;
 * eg:  **   Hearing the unrespectable and irresponsable speach uttered by the representive, miners are all simmering with rage.
 * **  prognostic   **   (adj.): predictive; the symbols of something will happen in the future;
 * eg:  **   It's prognostic atragedy! I should have warn them the risk entailing it.
 * **  perceptive   **   (adj.): can be understand, feel;
 * eg:  **   What we need now is a perceptive analysis of this project in detail.
 * **  triumph   **   (n.): success, achievement, victory;
 * eg:  **   The victory in Nomandy is a great triumph and a significant turing point in the world war two.
 * **  exile   **   (v.): banish someone out of where he belong; expulsion from one's native land;
 * eg:  **   We are exiled from our bless land, but our heart are always full of a feeling of home.
 * **  deprave   **   (v.): deteriorate, get worse;
 * eg:  **   All the pollution depraved our planet and we may faced with a vital situation.
 * **suppress**(v.): to prohibit an activity; to depress one's feeling;
 * eg:  **   Fail to have his feeling suppressed, he can't help laughing.
 * **  scarcely   **   (adv.): just a moment ago; hardly;
 * eg:  **   He can scarcely catch the train due to the bad weather.
 * **  solicitous   **   (adj.): anxious; eager to do;
 * eg:  **   Her solicitous eyes captivated the old man's mercy. He decide to give her a hand.


 * The assignment of Week 4:  **
 * **  prosecute   **   (vt.): keep doing something irresistablly; tell the secret;
 * eg:  **   The old man prosecuted his old working and kept gardening year after year.
 * **  vehement   **   (adj.): the situation of one's inner emotion surging;
 * eg:  **   The dusk sun is calm and red , which spread a vehement wave in the old man's heart.
 * ** idle ** (v.): spent one's time without purpose, hang and wander;
 * eg: ** Idling his whole youth, wrinkles carved in his face.
 * ** gorgeous ** (adj.): splendid; fansinated; radiant;
 * eg: ** The gorgeous painting performance is a perpetual beauty.
 * ** fabulous ** (adj.): just like living in fairy tales, incredible and meaningful;
 * eg: ** It's a fabulous miracle! The victims survived bury for 34 days caused by the earthquake.
 * ** redeem ** (v.): pay back for something; make up for the lose;
 * eg: ** The bachelar redeemed his jade after his success in the selection.
 * ** haughty ** (adj.): arrogent and self-centered; scorn others;
 * eg: ** The haughty lord watched his palace trumbling down in the fire, sitting on his throne.
 * ** obscure ** (v.): cover or shroud by darkness; confuse smoebody;
 * eg: ** Their achievements obscure the whole architect orgnizition, like twin star illuminating in eyes, like burning super novas shaking our emotions.
 * ** perch ** (v.&n): to roost; the place one roosts;
 * eg: ** Stepping in the middle-aged class, he comes off his perch, and concentrates on what he wants.
 * ** subdue ** (v.): conquer; make someone submit;
 * eg: ** After almost the whole life's captivated, the prisoner's subdued eyes still caught a light of hope.
 * ** tumultuous ** (adj.): rowdy and disordered;
 * eg: ** The spring festival comes! It's full of happiness and hope in the tumultuous crowd.
 * ** puerility ** (n.): the situation of obscure and extreme because of the youth;
 * eg: ** We are all young once, don't be disturbed by the shame of recalling the puerility once we are.


 * The assignment of Week 5: **
 * ** eminence ** (n.): excellence; famous experts;
 * eg: ** He was born in the family of eminence, and his name is Gaius Octavianus.
 * ** tedious ** (adj.): too long to be accepted; a waste of time;
 * eg: ** I'm tired of this tedious lecture! How I wish I can turn back time and do some reading this afternoon.
 * ** fraternal ** (adj.): like brotherhood; helpful; amiable and amicable;
 * eg: ** The fraternal love between the two country is perpetual, and it will never be alienate by some vicious words.
 * ** ominous ** (adj.): be prognostic to enroll a bad situation;
 * eg: ** It's a trap which is ominous and predict the tragedy from the beginning.
 * ** mesmerize ** (v.): appeal someone's attention and le them out of their mind;
 * eg: ** Suddenly the magician snaps of his fingers and mesmerizes the audience, catching the chance he has made by distracting their attention.
 * ** relinguish ** (v.): give up and retract;
 * eg: ** The rebel relinguished back from the plateau, leaving hundreds of corps.
 * ** grace ** (n.): charm, elegance and mercy;
 * eg: ** She did her best to be in his good graces, but it turn out to be that she is only an episode for him.
 * ** mirage ** (n.): fantasy; the phenomenon happen in the desert caused by the diverse temperature between the sands and air;
 * eg: ** Dreams are not mirages, the basic difference between them is that dream can be realized by efforts, but mirages are finally mirages.
 * ** savage ** (v.): attack without purpose, just venting to feel better;
 * eg: ** The noise make him crazy, and he began to cut up his savage now.
 * ** compel ** (v.): force someone to do;
 * eg: ** The slaves are compelled to do a lot of manual labor.
 * ** compelling ** (adj.): inviting; enchant or appeal someone's attention;
 * eg: ** This novel is so compelling that I can't help opening it.
 * ** keen ** (adj.): sharp; intense; fierce; eager;
 * eg: ** Audiences were all keen on the magician, and a cheer of applause filled up with the whole opera.


 * The assignment of Week 6: **
 * ** eliminate ** (v.): diminish; exile;
 * eg: ** Don't let the bugs bug you any more, the spray will eliminate all the insects in your home.
 * ** meditate ** (v.): take something into consideration; plan to do; plot and knit;
 * eg: ** After the failure of the first war, the general have kept meditating and shut himself up.
 * ** grudge ** (v.): envy; mean;
 * eg: ** It is like drinking a glass of toxci wine when you grudge others, and eventually you will be poisoned by it.
 * ** banal ** (adj.): mediocre and ordinary;
 * eg: ** He wants to make a difference because he is tired of the banal life he used to live.
 * ** sentimental ** (adj.): sensetive; full of feelings;
 * eg: ** She is such a sentimental person that even a butterfly can make her weep alone.
 * ** prose ** (n&adj.): monotonous and boring words;
 * eg: ** I can't sit with that guy for one more minute, his prose make me want to hit him on head.
 * ** palpable ** (adj.): too exposed to hide, and perceptive by all the others;
 * eg: ** I'm not born yesterday, and don't you think what you have done is palpable? Even a fool can understand what you mean.
 * ** enormous ** (adj.): huge and immense;
 * eg: ** The blessed land is always invaded, because of its enormous resources.
 * ** stunning ** (adj.): so radiant that make someone hold his breath;
 * eg: ** From that moment my heart is seized by your stunning ellegance.
 * ** contempt ** (n.): look down and scorn; regardless;
 * eg: ** His pride is suddenly crumbled, and it is his contempt that shatters his kingdom and collapses his life.
 * ** brace ** (v.): cheer up and be determined to do;
 * eg: ** Finally he braced, and keep forward to his goal.
 * ** audicious ** (adj.): reckless and shameless;
 * eg: ** Behave yourself! Your audicious action have made you thoroughly discredited.


 * The assignment of Week 7: **
 * ** observant ** (adj.): sharp at observing;
 * eg: ** You can't be too obsevant, the moment of the blossom is so fleeting, and it would be gone in a blink of eyes.
 * ** exasperate ** (v.): agitate, make someone angry;
 * eg: ** He was so deeply exasperated that he made a decision of perishing together.
 * ** grin ** (v.): smile with mouth open;
 * eg: ** The fate is so changable that he can only grin and bear.
 * ** reproach ** (v.): blame; humiliate and shame;
 * eg: ** He was reproached by his partner in public, which made him lose control.
 * ** dismal ** (adj.): gloomy;
 * eg: ** The dismal sky predict that it's going to rainstorm in a few minutes.
 * ** duplicate ** (v.): double the amount;
 * eg: ** The virus widely spread in the town and patients and duplicated.
 * ** cradle ** (v.): raise and bring up;
 * eg: ** The Yellow River cradle the ancient Chinese and their radiant culture.
 * ** destitute ** (adj.): poor and lack of everything;
 * eg: ** What should we do to deal with this destitute condition, it seems that waiting the only choice.
 * ** meticulous ** (adj.): focus too much on details; cautious;
 * eg: ** It's weird that such an meticulous person as him make that mistake.
 * ** witting ** (adj.): intend to do; mean to do;
 * eg: ** The witting hint easily attract the boy falling into the trap made for him.
 * ** thrusting ** (adj.): make a decision without discusion among the members;
 * eg: ** How thrusting and foolish you are to make all of us trapped in such a condition!
 * ** futile ** (adj.): in vain;
 * eg: ** All the stragedies he made and knitted turned ou to be futile.


 * The assignment of Week 8: **
 * ** witting ** (adj.): have a willing to do or do in purpose; intend to;
 * eg: ** The spy just brush pass the little kid, in a witting and weird method.
 * ** modulate ** (v.): adjust and adept at;
 * eg: ** Our piano is too old to play in the standard tune, let's find someone to modulate it.
 * ** scribble ** (v.): write too fast to make others understand; write in a inadvertence;
 * eg: ** His handwring is just like a drunk writing promiscuously, and I'm afraid even he can't understand the scribble he made.
 * ** concede ** (v.): give in and admit; hold position to wait an other oppotunity to step forward;
 * eg: ** Faced with such the irreversible failure, he has to concede his weakness.
 * ** insinuate ** (v.): sneak into; insert; hint;
 * eg: ** After the brief talk with him, doubt is insinuated into her mind.
 * ** drippy ** (adj.): sentimental; full of feeling;
 * eg: ** It is always pity and pain on the way of love, the only thing we can do is just watch the drippy rain soak the tough stone.
 * ** stiffen ** (v.): tight;
 * eg: ** Drakness shroud him one more time, now he is stiffen enough and ready to the following challenge.
 * ** thrill ** (v.): stimulate; make one feel afraid; a flash;
 * eg: ** An idea thrill in his head, smiling undetectedly.
 * ** petulant ** (adj.): irritable and fractious;
 * eg: ** There will be no next time, I can't tolarate his petulant bahavior.
 * ** hindsight ** (n.): recogenition through thick and thin;
 * eg: ** After a lot, our hindsight is different.