凝镜君：
【林淑君20180428Day20词汇分享】
【同义词辨析】admit， confess，， concede这几个动词都有承认"的意思。
admit 指由于说服、再三追问而”承认"某一事实或过错。
【辨析】If you admit that something bad, unpleasant, or embarrassing is true, you agree, often unwillingly, that it is true.
【例证】I admit that you have a point。我承认你有理
confess 供认(罪行、过错等)，含有”坦白、招认"的意思。
【辨析】to admit, especially formally or to the police, that you have done sth wrong or illegal
【例证】He confessed his crimes to the judge。他向法言供认了他的罪行。
concede 指曾想隐瞒或不愿意承认某一错误，但由于证据确凿而不得不勉强虽承认，还可以指以退为进"的承认。
【辨析】( rather formal ) to admit, often unwillingly, that sth is true or logical 指承认（常指不情愿地承认某事属实或合乎逻辑）
【例证】The man who caused the accident finally conceded to the police that he had done it
造成这次交通事故的人最终向警察承任他是肇事人。
echo.xiao：
【Echo20180428Day9词汇分享】
sullen [sʌlən]
【解词】
最初来源于拉丁语”solus”,表示“一个人，独自” → soul 单一的、单身的→古法语“solain”，表示“孤独的”→盎格鲁法语“solein”→中世纪英语“soleyn”，表示唯一的、独特的、单身的→sullen
【释义】
- Angry and silent, especially because you feel life has been unfair to you. .
同义句：morose, cross, moody, sour - literary a sullen sky or sea is dark and looks as if bad weather is coming.
【字典例句】
- Bill sat in sullen and silence and refused to eat his lunch.
- The girl was sullen and uncooperative.
- The little children were crying constantly, and the older ones were sullen and withdrawn.
Many of them remained sullen and resentful.
收获：
关联词: sullenly; sullenness.
刚开始看到这个词觉得很熟悉，但是不认识，其实是因为它跟suddenly很像，所以这两个词记忆的时候可以放在一起对比。对于我来说印象会更深刻一些。
素谊：
【Susie20180428Day9词汇分享】
loom /lu:m/
【释义/字典例句】
vi.
- to appear as a large unclear shape, especially in a threatening way耸现，出现
搭配：loom up/out/ahead etc
Suddenly a mountain loomed up in front of them. - (a problem or difficulty) likely to happen very soon迫近，逼近，即将发生
An economic crisis is looming on the horizon.
cn.
- a frame or machine on which thread is woven into cloth织机，织布机
The old woman was weaving on her loom.
【短语】
loom large: (especially a problem or worry) occupies a lot of one's thoughts and seems important.（尤指问题或忧虑）挥之不去，萦绕心中，显得突出
The terrible problem of armed crime now looming large in our society.
李洪彬：
【Ben20180428Day9词汇分享】
serendipity/ˌser.ən'dɪp.ɪ.ti/
【解词】由英国艺术史学家，文学家，辉格党政治家霍勒斯·渥波尔在给人写一封信时造的一个词。据传这个词来自波斯的一个童话故事"The Three Princes of Serendip"，当中的主人公总是在无意中，从那些他们本没计划追寻的事情上有意想不到的发现。
【释义】Serendipity is the luck some people have in finding or creating interesting or valuable things by chance.
(意外发现或发明新奇或有价值事物的)运气,走运,机缘凑巧
【例句】
Some of the best effects in my garden have been the result of serendipity. 我园子里最珍贵的几件物品是机缘巧合之下意外所得。
收获：这个词是我一直很喜欢的一个词。在今天比较疲惫时，做了这个笔记，给自己打打鸡血。每时每刻都不要随意给自己设限，这样才会有源源不断的serendipity。
pei：
【黎佩婷20180428Day18词汇分享】
inflation
【解词】来自拉丁语inflationem "a puffing up; flatulence,"
【释义】
n.
- a general and progressive increase in prices;
- (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
- lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- the act of filling something with air
【例句】.Specialists see various reasons for the recent surge in inflation.
专家们认为目前通货膨胀加剧有多种原因.
【造句】As a result of inflation, mountains of people lost their jobs.
