备考GRE考试的同学们都知道，GRE不仅对词汇量的要求非常大，而且单词晦涩复杂，尤其是填空部分。所以考生备考时往往会花大量时间背单词，提高单词储备和熟练程度。然而在考场上，真正让考生们一筹莫展的有时候并不是长难单词，而是一些我们所熟知的单词。

近年来，ETS在出题时，除了考察词汇量外，更喜欢考察常用单词不常用的含义。这就是最让人头疼的“熟词僻义”，下面给大家举几个例子：

Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ______ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.

A. connoisseur B. critic C. friend D. scourge E. judge

正确答案：C。浅析：空格处应该填入一个名词，来表示Elizabeth对于艺术的关系。Because引导原因，后面说许多年轻的艺术家接受他的资助。所以空格填入对应patronage的词。Friend熟义是朋友，但是这里考察的是friend的僻义，即表示资助者，赞助者。

In order to emphasize the erect posture of his subject matter, the painstaking painter has startlingly contrasted it with the ______ of the windswept trees.

A. tilting B. instability C. uprightness D. perpendicularity E. exaggeration F. listing

正确答案：AF。浅析：空格处应填入一个与it指代的erect posture（笔直的姿势）形成对比的词。而A选项的tilt的意思是倾斜，与tilt意思一致的就是F选项list的僻义，即倾斜。所以熟词僻义考察的是我们日常单词中不熟悉的意思，这类词一定要在平时的练习中多积累，只要我们能准确知道选项中单词的含义，那么这类题型自然就会迎刃而解了～

下面小编为大家整理了一些GRE填空中常考熟词僻义的单词，大家可以马克收藏哦！~

1. climate

熟义：气候

僻义：思潮

例句：The flight from overcrowdedness affects the migration from snow belt to more bearable climates.

2. fix

熟义：固定

僻义：安排

例句：She went in to fix the sparse evening meal .

3. available

熟义：可得到的，可找到的

僻义：（人）有空的

例句：The worthy professor is now available.

4. about

熟义：关于

僻义：到处

例句：We spent the whole afternoon walking about town.

5. aggressive

熟义：好斗的，侵略的

僻义：进取的

例句：If he wants to succeed, he has to be aggressive.

6. close

熟义：关闭，接近

僻义：天气闷热的

例句：The weather is close.

7. approach

熟义：接近

僻义：方法，途径

例句：I have excluded him because，while his accomplishments may contribute to the solution of moral problems，he has not been charged with the task of approaching any but the factual aspects of those problems.

8. blanket

熟义：毯子

僻义：覆盖

例句：The whole village was blanketed with heavy snow.

9. absent

熟义：缺席的

僻义：茫然的，恍惚的

例句：He looked at me in an absent way.

10. Practice

熟义：练习

僻义：惯例；常规；准则

例句：Kids need plenty of practice delaying gratification and deploying effective organizational skills, such as managing time and setting priorities.

11. ache

熟义：疼痛

僻义：渴望

例句：He was aching for home.

12. divert

熟义：使转向，使绕道

僻义：娱乐的

例句：Charlotte Salomon's biography is a reminder that the currents of private life, however diverted, dislodged, or twisted by overpowering public events, retain their hold on the individual recording them.

13. against

熟义：反对，倚，靠

僻义：映衬

The picture looks nice against the white wall. prep.

14. arm

熟义：手臂

僻义：武装

例句：I armed myself with a baseball bat and went to investigate the noise.

15. Argue

熟义：争论，辩论

僻义：认为，主张，论证；说服

例句：The point is this：without agreement on the rights of people，arguing about the rights of animals is fruitless.

16. allow

熟义：允许

僻义：使可能

例句：This diet allows you one glass of wine a day.

17. build

熟义：修建

僻义：身材，体型

例句：The football player has a solid build.

18. betray

熟义：背叛，出卖

僻义：表现，表露

例句：She pursed her lips together, as though fearing to betray her.

19. interest

熟义：兴趣

僻义：利率，利息；利益

例句：Hopes of an early cut in interest rates bolstered confidence.

20. novel

熟义：小说

僻义：新颖的，珍奇的

例句：This series of product has a novel structure and perfective performance.