2015考研已经进入到了尾声，春节过后，同学们已经开始投入到2016考研复习中，研大考研英语老师为同学们准备了考研英语重点词汇及解析，同学们春季复习可以利用老师提供资料开始词汇的复习。

★ appreciate

v.为……表示感激，感谢;欣赏，评价

【例1】We appreciate the help of our friends.我们对朋友们的帮助心怀感激。

【例2】The professor quite appreciates her talent for literature.教授非常欣赏她的文学天赋。

【构词】ap-(加强)+preci(价值)+-ate(做)→对价值给予肯定→正确评价，赏识

【派生】appreciation n.感谢;欣赏，鉴赏

【真题1】Most of all, these new adults must feel that they are respected and supported by a family that appreciates them.最重要的是，必须要让这些刚刚长大的孩子感觉到他们受尊敬，并得到一个欣赏他们的家庭的支持。

【真题2】Sometimes years are required for truly novel discovery claims to be accepted and appreciated.有时候，真正新颖的科学发现被人们所接受和认可将会花好多年的时间。

★ terrify

v.使害怕，使惊恐

【例句】The ghost story terrified the children.那个鬼故事让孩子们非常害怕。

【同义替换】intimidate, frighten, horrify

【派生】terrified a.受惊吓的;感到恐惧的 terrifying a.使人惊吓的;使人感到恐惧的

【真题1】It is financially terrifying, psychologically embarrassing and you know that support is minimal and extraordinarily hard to get.它(失业)让你经济拮据、内心窘迫，你知道失业救济不仅很少，而且非常难申请到。

【真题2】For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of Terminally Ill law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition.对于居住于达尔文的现年54岁的肺癌患者利奥德·尼克森来说，这个法律意味着他可以平静地生活下去而无需整天惧怕即将来临的苦难：因呼吸困难而在煎熬中痛苦地死去。

★ vulnerable

adj.易受攻击的，易受伤害的;脆弱的

【例1】But for this very reason, authoritarian governments are infinitely more vulnerable to interval subversion than other ones.但正是由于这种原因，使得独裁主义政府比起其他政府来非常容易遭受内部颠覆。

【例2】As a result, when the property and stock markets decline, these investors are in an extremely vulnerable position.一旦房地产市场或股市下滑，这些投资者将处于极易受到伤害的地位。

【真题1】Large animals were vulnerable to the changing environment.大型动物容易受到环境变化的伤害。

【真题2】They are more vulnerable to changes in family economics.他们更容易受到家庭经济变化的伤害。

【同义替换】sensitive, susceptible

【派生】vulnerability=weak point弱点