Level 5 Vocabulary List

serious fire (in a city or a forest etc)

or; either one or the other

robot; android

(jī zhì) mechanism | (jī zhì) machine-processed; machine-made

muscle; flesh

base (of operations); industrial or military base; al-Qaeda

fund

even if; even though

group; bloc; corporation; conglomerate

to crowd in; to cram in; to force others aside; to press; to squeeze; to find (time in one's busy schedule)

to remember; to recall; memory

technical ability; skill

to inherit; to succeed to (the throne etc); to carry on (a tradition etc)

to heat

plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that

to speed up; to expedite

in addition; moreover; (used before a disyllabic verb to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned); to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb); to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth)

(jiā) to press from either side; to place in between; to sandwich; to carry sth under armpit; wedged between; between; to intersperse; to mix; to mingle; clip; folder; Taiwan pr. [jiá] | (jiá) double-layered; lined (garment) | (jià) Taiwan pr. used in 夹生 and 夹竹桃 | (jiá) variant of 夹

first of the ten Heavenly Stems 干; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 甲 system (old); ancient Chinese compass point: 75°

(jià) price; value; (chemistry) valence | (jie) great; good; middleman; servant

to pilot (ship, airplane etc); to drive

driver's license

firm; steady; staunch; resolute

indirect

shoulder; to shoulder (responsibilities etc)

difficult; hard; arduous

difficult; hard; challenging

to lighten; to ease; to alleviate

(Jiǎn) surname Jian | (jiǎn) scissors; shears; clippers; to cut with scissors; to trim; to wipe out or exterminate

scissors

clippers; scissors; shears

to inspect; to examine; to test

to construct; to build

to construct; building

robust; sound

key (on a piano or computer keyboard); button (on a mouse or other device); chemical bond; linchpin

keyboard

(jiāng) will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | (jiàng) (bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) | (qiāng) to desire; to invite; to request

will; shall; to be going to

to reward; reward (as encouragement)

to transfer (duties to sb else); to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth); to explain; to give an account; to brief; to confess; to account for oneself; (jocular) to come to a bad end

suburban district; outskirts; suburbs

adhesive tape; magnetic tape

glue

footstep; step

to touch; to contact; access; in touch with

on end; in a row; in succession

to remove; to sack; to get rid of; to relieve (sb of their duties); to free; to lift (an embargo); to rescind (an agreement)

to liberate; to emancipate; liberation; refers to the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949

to guard against; to exhort; to admonish or warn; to give up or stop doing sth; Buddhist monastic discipline; ring (for a finger)