HSK 6 — Vocabulary, Translation and Exam Prep (page 28)

(n./adj.) prison, jail; firm, durable, fast | (char.) enclosure for animals; sacrificial animal (used in ancient ceremony)

(v.) snatch, seize | (char.) to win, prevail over; to strip or deprive; make decision

(v.) bury, cover up; (fig.) conceal, hide | (char.) blame somebody (for something); complain (about) (not used alone)

(n.) cotton; things like cotton-wool

(v.) sprain, wrench; twist; turn round; swing, wriggle; grapple with | (char.) crooked, not straight

(v.) throw, toss; abandon; show, appear; sell in large quantities or at low prices

(char.) pretty, remarkable (not used alone) | (v.) bleach; rinse | (v.) float, drift | (v.) (dialect) come to nothing, fall through

(v.) float, drift; swim; move in the air | (adj.) frivolous, flighty | (char.) being on the surface; excessive; void; temporary, provisional; movable

(v./adj./n.) to bend, to bow; bent, curved; unjust; bend (of a river); remote area; leaven, yeast | (n.) tune, song, melody; music (of a song); a type of verse for singing (popular in the Yuan Dynasty)

(v.) disperse, break up; distribute; remove, get rid of | (v./adj./n.) to become loose, to fall apart; loose, free; scattered; (TCM) medicinal powder

(adj.) rude, rough; untamed, undomesticated; unrestrained | (char.) open country, wild land; being out of office; illegal; boundary

(n.) mud, mire, soil; mashed mass | (v./adj.) plaster, cover; bigoted, obstinate

(n.) field, farmland; open area abundant in mineral resources | (n.) Tian (a surname) | (radical.) field

(v.) spit, throw up; give unwillingly | (v.) spit (out); say, tell; put forth

(v.) pull, drag, haul; hang down; delay; (of voice) trail; linger; encumber

(v.) dig, excavate; discover (after a search); (dialect) scratch with fingernails

(v./adj.) go back on one's word; to shift the blame onto sb else; to blame; depend on; hold on in one place; (oral) good

(v./n.) to apply weight to; to cool with ice or in cold water; town, township; trading center | (char.) calm, quiet; to daunt, to deter; to suppress; to guard; garrison post or town

(v.) to face upwards; to admire; to depend on

(v.) to soak; to flood; (of sweat or tears) to irritate the skin

(n.) coupon, ticket, voucher, certificate

(v.) to prop, to open, to maintain, to keep up; fill to the point of bursting

(v.) become swollen, to swell

(v.) drill; go through, penetrate; study intensively; secure personal gain, take advantage of... | (n.) diamond, jewel; drilling device

(v./m.) to turn round and round, to spin; rotation, turn | (v.) turn, shift, change; pass on transfer | (v.) stroll around and have a look | (v.) embellish one's speech with literary quotations (to show off one's knowledge)

one by one; one after another

one breath | in one breath | at a stretch

together

region; area

a period of time | a while | for a short while | temporary | momentary | at the same time

(idiom) exactly alike; identical | also pr. [yi1mo2-yi1yang4]

a series of | a string of

whole body | from head to toe | single person | a suit of clothes

together

a burst | a fit | a peal | a spell (period of time)

to rise to power (in politics) | to go on stage (in the theater)

to hit the market (of a new product) | to float (a company on the stock market)

first third of a month

aforementioned | above-mentioned

variant of 下工夫[xia4 gong1 fu5]