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Inveigle 解释 GRE 红宝书 ●v. 诱骗, 诱使 ●［英］v. 诱骗, 诱使 ( to lead on with deception; lure) ●［记］in ( 进入) +veigle可看作来自veil ( 面纱) - 盖上面纱 - 诱骗 Webster Collegiate transitive verb (~d; inveigling) ●Etymology: Anglo-French enveegler, aveogler, avogler to blind, hoodwink, from avogle, enveugle blind, from Medieval Latin ab oculis, literally, lacking eyes ●Date: 1539 ●1. to win over by wiles ; entice ●2. to acquire by ingenuity or flattery ; wangle ~d her way into a promotion ●Synonyms: see lure ●?~ment noun ●?~r noun ------ Inventory 解释 GRE 红宝书 ●n. 详细目录; 存货清单 Webster Collegiate I. noun (plural -ries) ●Etymology: Middle English inventarie, inventorie, from Anglo-French inventaire, inventorie, from Latin inventarium, from inventum thing found, topic, neuter of inventus ●Date: 15th century ●1. m a. an itemized list of current assets: as ■ (1) a catalog of the property of an individual or estate ■ (2) a list of goods on hand m b. a survey of natural resources m c. a list of traits, preferences, attitudes, interests, or abilities used to evaluate personal characteristics or skills ●2. survey, summary ●3. the quantity of goods or materials on hand ; stock ●4. the act or process of taking an ~ ●?inventorial adjective ●?inventorially adverb II. transitive verb (-ried; -rying) ●Date: 1602 ●to make an ~ of ; catalog ------ Inverse 解释 GRE 红宝书 ●adj. 相反的; 倒转的 ●［英］adj. 相反的 ( directly opposite) ; 倒转的 ( inverted) ●［记］in ( 反) +verse ( 转) - 反转 - 相反的 Webster Collegiate I. adjective ●Etymology: Middle English, turned upside down, from Latin inversus, from past participle of invertere ●Date: 15th century ●1. opposite in order, nature, or effect ●2. being an ~ function ~ sine II. noun ●Date: circa 1681 ●1. something of a contrary nature or quality ; opposite, reverse ●2. a proposition or theorem formed by contradicting both the subject and predicate or both the hypothesis and conclusion of a given proposition or theorem the ~ of “if A then B” is “if not-A then not-B”--compare contrapositive ●3. m a. ~ func