v. 使（某人）安静( pacify的现在分词 )，息怒，抚慰，在（有战争的地区、国家等）实现和平；

[例句] Is this a serious step, or is this just something to pacify the critics?...

[例句] She shrieked again, refusing to be pacified.

n. 拙劣的模仿( parody的名词复数 )，恶搞，滑稽的模仿诗文，表面上模仿得笨拙但充满了机智用来嘲弄别人作品的作品；v. 滑稽地模仿，拙劣地模仿( parody的第三人称单数 )；

[例句] 'The Scarlet Capsule' was a parody of the popular 1959 TV series 'The Quatermass Experiment'...

[例句] Throughout the Twenties, Lardner tried in vain to write a hit song, so at last he turned to parody.

v. 经历( plumb的第三人称单数 )，探究，用铅垂线校正，用铅锤测量；

[例句] She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions...

[例句] Magda had plumbed her own heart for answers.

n. 柩衣( pall的名词复数 )，墓衣，棺罩，深色或厚重的覆盖物；v. （因过多或过久而）生厌，感到乏味，厌烦( pall的第三人称单数 )；

[例句] Already the allure of meals in restaurants had begun to pall.

[例句] A pall of oily black smoke drifted over the clifftop.

adj. 恼怒的，不高兴的；v. （使）气恼，（使）焦躁，（使）愤怒( peeve的过去式和过去分词 )；

[例句] Susan couldn't help feeling a little peeved.

[例句] ...complaints from peeved citizens who pay taxes.

adj. 注定的；v. 预先确定( predestine的过去式和过去分词 )，预先指定，命定，注定；

[例句] His was not a political career predestined from birth...

[例句] He wished that he could be like other children instead of pursuing his lonely predestined path.

n. 舞步，舞蹈，爸( pa的名词复数 )；

[例句] 'Pa,' he said, 'I don't feel well.'...

[例句] Pa used to be in the army.

n. 百日咳；

n. 普鲁卡因（一种局部麻醉药）；

坚持，偏要，执；

n. 厚玻璃板（厚度5-8mm），板玻璃；

adj. 好色的，淫秽的，引起淫欲的；

[例句] We read the gossip written about them with prurient interest.

处死，杀死，处决，处以死刑，诛戮；

abbr. =post meridiem 下午；

[例句] The spa closes at 9:00 pm.

adj. 光敏的，感光的；

v. 凝视( peer的过去式和过去分词 )，盯着看，同等，比得上；

[例句] I had been peering at a computer print-out that made no sense at all...

[例句] He watched the Customs official peer into the driver's window.

v. 停顿( pause的过去式和过去分词 )，暂停，（按暂停键）暂停放音，暂停放像；

[例句] 'It's rather embarrassing,' he began, and paused...

[例句] He had to pause to clear his throat...

v. （沿街）叫卖( peddle的过去式和过去分词 )，兜售，宣传，散播；

[例句] His attempts to peddle his paintings around London's tiny gallery scene proved unsuccessful.

[例句] When a drug pusher offered the Los Angeles youngster $100 to peddle drugs, Jack refused.

n. 借口( plea的名词复数 )，（被告或被告律师的）抗辩，（法庭中的）理由，请愿；

[例句] Mr Nicholas made his emotional plea for help in solving the killing.

[例句] ...an impassioned plea to mankind to act to save the planet.

adj. 心理测量的，心理测量学的；

[例句] Psychometric testing is simply a way of measuring people's individual talents and capabilities.