GRE备考资料：韦士GRE核心词汇整理(A2)_GRE词汇

GRE备考资料：韦士GRE核心词汇整理(A2)

　　agronomy n. management of farmland; the science of producing crops

　　 For a farmer to get the most from his land, he needs to have some under-standing of agronomy.

　　 Agronomy teaches that rotating crops allows the land to replenish its essen-tial nutrients after theyve been used.

　　allegory n. a story in which people, things, and ideas have hid-den meanings, often used as a way of teaching values

　　 Aesops fables are probably the best-known allegories in all literature.

　　 An allegory always has a message apart from its obvious one, which in Aesops case is provided in the moral at the end.　　

　　alleviate vt. 1. to lighten; make less hard to bear; 2. to reduce or lessen pain

　　 Lloyd took one of the boxes of books from Arlene to alleviate the load that she was carrying.

　　 Tears often alleviate the burden of emotional stress.　　

　　allocate vt. 1. to earmark or set aside for a specific purpose; 2. to distribute; mete out

　　 The city allocated $200 million to improve mass-transit facilities.

　　 Having collected hundreds of donated winter coats, it was now up to the lodge to allocate them among the less fortunate.　　

　　alloy vt. 1. to fuse two or more metals to form one that possesses new properties; 2. to reduce the pureness of a rare metal by fusing it with a less precious one ―n. a metallic substance derived from the chemical fusion of two or more metals