テーマ 25
Size, Growth & Decline
帰国子女・インターナショナルスクール生のための、デジタルSAT の無料単語教材。独学で進められます。
読み込み中…
このテーマの全語です。定義を隠して、 よい意味・わるい意味・中立の三つに分けてみるのが、いちばん効く使い方です。 分け間違えた語が、そのまま自分の弱点になります。
Every word in this theme. The best use of it is to cover the meanings and sort the list into positive, negative and neutral. Whichever ones you put in the wrong pile are exactly your weak spots.
内訳：よい意味 4語 ／ わるい意味 4語 ／ 中立 13語。 強さはこのテーマの中での相対です—— テーマをまたいで比べる数字ではありません。
4 positive, 4 negative, 13 neutral. Strength is ranked within this theme only — the numbers are not comparable across themes.
| 語Word | 向き+/− | 強さStrength | 意味Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| abate v | 0 | ●● | to lessen or die down — 和らぐ |
| abridge v | 0 | ●● | to cut down or shorten — 短くまとめる |
| accretion n | 0 | ● | gradual growth by the piling up of material — 少しずつ積もる |
| aggrandize v | − | ●●● | to make something seem greater or more important — 誇大に見せるaugment は実際に増やしますが、aggrandize は実態以上に大きく見せることです。augment actually adds to a thing; aggrandize only makes it look bigger or more important than it really is. |
| atrophy v | − | ●●● | to waste away from disuse — 萎縮する |
| augment v | 0 | ●● | to add to and enlarge — 増やす |
| behemoth n | 0 | ●●● | something enormous and powerful — 巨大な怪物 |
| capacious adj | 0 | ●● | roomy — 容量が大きい |
| colossus n | ＋ | ●●● | a giant statue or towering figure — 巨像・巨人behemoth は大きく扱いにくい響きですが、colossus は称賛を込めて偉大な存在を指します。behemoth says only that something is enormous and powerful; colossus adds admiration for a towering figure people look up to. |
| commodious adj | ＋ | ●● | spacious and comfortable — 広くて快適capacious は容量の大きさだけを言い、commodious は広さに加えて快適さを含みます。capacious says only that a lot fits inside; commodious says the space is roomy and comfortable to be in. |
| cumulative adj | 0 | ●● | building on itself over time — 積み重なる |
| curtail v | 0 | ●● | to cut back — 切り詰める |
| diminutive adj | 0 | ●● | unusually small — とても小さい |
| distend v | − | ●● | to swell outward — 膨れ上がる |
| increment n | 0 | ● | one step in a series of increases — 一段階の増加accretion は少しずつ積もる過程で、increment は増加の一段階そのものです。accretion is the slow piling-up process itself; an increment is one single step of the increase. |
| nadir n | − | ●●● | the lowest point — どん底 |
| pinnacle n | ＋ | ●●● | the highest point — 頂点 |
| propagate v | 0 | ●● | to multiply and spread — 増殖し広がる |
| truncate v | 0 | ●● | to cut off the end of something — 末尾を切るabridge は内容を短くまとめ、truncate は末尾を切り落として途中で終わらせます。abridge shortens a work but keeps it whole; truncate cuts the end off so it stops partway. |
| wane v | 0 | ● | to shrink or fade gradually — 次第に衰えるabate は嵐や痛みが収まること、wane は影響力などが少しずつ細っていくことです。use abate for something intense dying down, like a storm or a pain, and wane for something like influence or light thinning away bit by bit. |
| zenith n | ＋ | ●●● | the highest point reached — 絶頂期pinnacle は到達した最高地点を指し、zenith は勢いが最も高まった時期を指します。pinnacle is the highest point of a thing; zenith is the highest point something actually climbed to, so it pairs with nadir at the bottom. |