英语单词几乎是天天必背的，但一定要有计划性，有的人常常用整段的时间如整个上午来背单词，有时候又一天都不翻一下单词书，这是不可取的。2016考研的同学最好制定一个计划，多少天背完一遍，每天背多少个，每天什么时候背，规划地清清楚楚，效率也会高很多。

　　speculate

　　vi.思索;推测 v.投机;思索，推测

　　【例】The IMF is encouraging people to speculate with other people’s money.国际货币基金组织鼓励人们用别人的钱做投机买卖。

　　【同义替换】ponder, reflect; guess, conjecture, assume

　　【派生】speculative a.思索的;投机的 speculation n.思索，投机

　　【真题】But Dr. Uri Simonsohn speculated that an inability to consider the big picture was leading decision makers to be biased by the daily samples of information they were working with.

　　但是，乌里·西蒙逊博士却认为，缺乏考虑全局的能力会导致决策者因为每天处理的信息样本而产生倾向性。

　　proclaim

　　v.宣告;表明

　　【例】His accent proclaimed him a Scot.他的口音表明他是苏格兰人。

　　【构词】pro-(前)+ claim(呼喊)→在前面大叫→宣告，表明

　　【同义替换】declare, announce, pronounce; indicate, demonstrate, manifest

　　【派生】proclamation n.宣布;表明

　　【真题】Hofstadter says our country’s educational system is in the grips of people who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise.”

　　Hofstadter认为我们的教育制度掌握在这样一些人手中，“他们热烈而武断地宣称他们对学识的憎恶，同时竭力表明他们认同那些在学识方面最没有潜力的 孩子。”

　　brilliant

　　a.光辉的，灿烂的;卓越的，有才华的

　　【例】Moreover, to Hitler’s mind the sparse applause did not do justice to the brilliant performance.此外，希特勒认为，这样精彩的演出只博得稀稀拉拉的掌声是不公平的。

　　【同义替换】bright, intelligent, outstanding

　　【派生】brilliantly ad.辉煌地，灿烂地

　　【例】The changes that have taken place in air travel during the last sixty years would have seemed completely impossible to even the most brilliant scientist at the turn of the 19th century.

　　过去六十年中航空旅行发生的变化，在19世纪之交，哪怕是对最杰出的科学家来说，似乎都完全不可能发生。