Level 7-9 Vocabulary List

strange; weird; eccentric; bizarre

places of historic interest; historical sites

at all times and in all places (idiom)

simple and unadorned (of art, architecture etc)

people of ancient times; the ancients; extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis; (literary) deceased person

a share (in a company); stock

stock investor; share trader

stock market

diaphysis (long segment of a bone); fig. backbone

unyielding character; courageous spirit; integrity; moral backbone

to suffer a fracture; (of a bone) to break; fracture

to urge (an activity that may be beneficial, harmful or neutral); to encourage; to agitate; to instigate; to incite; to beat; to flap (wings, a fan etc)

heartening (news); to boost (morale)

admittedly (it's true that...)

obstinate; stubborn; to fixate on; to cling to

happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead

unable to change sth; unable to deal with

cannot attend to or manage

to take into consideration; to attend to

misgivings; apprehensions

to take the big picture into consideration (idiom); to work for the benefits of all

(gù) variant of 雇 | (gù) to employ; to hire; to rent

to employ; to hire

employee

employer

to partition; to divide up

melon seed; seeds of pumpkin, watermelon or sunflower etc, roasted and flavored, consumed as a snack

to be windy

widow

to couple; to link; to hook together; (fig.) (preceded by 与 + {entity}) to establish contact (with {entity}); (Tw) to collude (with {entity}); (fig.) to link (marketing efforts with production etc); to peg (welfare payments to inflation etc); to tie (remuneration to performance etc); hook (on which to hang sth); latch hook; coupling

to register (at a hospital etc); to send by registered mail

concerned

to report the loss of something

(of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal

clever (child); smart; lovable; cute

to go round a curve; to turn a corner; fig. a new direction

crutches; crutch; walking stick

no wonder!; so that's why!

monster; freak; eccentric person

monstrous; strange; strange phenomenon

to switch off; to shut off

joint (physiology); key point; critical phase

customs duty; tariff

juncture; moment

to take care; to keep an eye on; to look after; to tell; to remind

to observe; to survey; observation (scientific etc)

one's impressions; observations

to observe and emulate; to study (esp. following sb's example)

to look at sth with pleasure; to watch (sth marvelous); ornamental

to wait and see; to watch from the sidelines; to look around; to survey