HSK 7–9 — Advanced Levels of the New HSK 3.0 (page 93)

(n.) political party

(phr.) positive energy

(n.) securities

(n.) witness

(v.) face squarely, meet head on, face up to

(adj.) frank, honest, upright

(v.) to weave; to knit; to criss-cross

(v./n.) know oneself, be intimate or close; intimate friend

(n.) stand, kickstand, support

(n.) sesame

(n.) intellectual, intelligentsia

(n.) limb, limbs

(v.) be content with one's lot

(n.) professional ranks and titles, professional title

(adj.) (of vehicles and planes) nonstop, through

(sep-v.) enforce the law

(n./adj.) direct observation; directly perceived through the senses, intuitive, audiovisual

(n.) intuition, instinct

(adj.) valuable, costly

(n.) helicopter

(v.) look straight at

(n.) municipality directly under the Central Government

(n./adj.) straight line, sharp; (chess) vertical line

(v.) be determined to, insist on

(prep.) till, until, up to

(n.) paper money, paper currency

(v.) halt, stop, go no farther

(v.) give directions, give advice; pick on sb, gossip about sb's faults

(adv.) by all means, not hesitate to

(v.) give advice

(v.) accuse, charge

(n.) guide, guidebook

(idiom.) talk about stratagems on paper (empty talk), be an armchair strategist

(idiom.) to make animated gestures while talking; to make indiscreet remarks or criticisms, to raise captious objections

(n.) (numerical, statistical) index

(n.) fingerprint

(v.) point towards, aim at

(v.) point the way to, guide, show

(v.) with the purpose of

(v.) put, place; set up; buy