HSK 7–9 — Advanced Levels of the New HSK 3.0 (page 37)

(v.) announce, publish

(v.) rob | (char.) coerce, compel; calamity, disaster

(v./m.) to cut; to stop, to check; section, length, chunk

(adj.) pure white, spotlessly white

(v.) hijack, kidnap

(adj.) frugal, thrifty, economical

(adj./v.) clean; cleanse

(n.) shortcut, bypass

(v.) do one's utmost, pull out all stops

(n.) solar term (a day marking one of the 24 divisions of the solar year in the traditional Chinese calendar)

(idiom.) be entirely different

(v.) get to know somebody, meet somebody for the first time, make a friend

(idiom.) to save on food and clothing

(v.) save, rescue

(v.) relieve one's thirst; quench one's thirst

(v.) free oneself from, extricate oneself, break away from

(v.) rescue from a siege, clearance kick; extricate

(v.) analyze, resolve

(v.) break off an engagement

(n.) border, boundary

(v./n.) to delimit, to define; definition

(v.) intervene, interpose, get involved

(adv.) at the appointed time

(n.) receipt for a loan, IOU

(n.) boundary line, borderline

(v.) take offense, mind(usually used in negative constructions)

(phr.) to borrow for one's own use, to use something for another purpose

(v.) be situated between, lie between, be between

(n.) tendon; muscle; veins that stand out under the skin; anything resembling a tendon or vein | (n.) (TCM) sinew

(phr.) be unable to bear or endure, cannot help but

(adj.) compact, terse, well-knit, tight

(n.) silk banner (as a gift or reward)

(adj.) in short supply; badly needed

(v.) reduce, tighten

(adv.) as early as possible

(n.) (often used with "r" sound) strength, energy; potency (of alcohol, medicine, etc.); vigor/vigour, zeal; manner,...

(v.) exhaust, use up, try one's best | (v.) try to reach the greatest extent | (adv.) entirely, totally, wholly;...

(n.) course, proceeding, process, progress

(v.) advance in rank

(n./v.) taboo, contraindication (medicine); abstain from