PTE考试题材覆盖广泛，各个领域词汇的积累不可缺少。下面，墨尔本悉尼文波PTE培训学校的小编就通过《经济学人》和《卫报》中的几篇文章，为墨尔本PTE考生和悉尼PTE考生增加一些词汇和搭配储备。下面开始：

marauding /məˈrɔ:dɪŋ/ 抢劫的，猎食的

topsy-turvy /ˌtɔpsi’tə:vi/ 乱七八糟的

belligerence /bə’lɪdʒ(ə)r(ə)ns/ 好斗性，好战性

bogus /‘bəʊgəs/ 假冒的，假的

coercive /kəʊ’ɜːsɪv/  强制的

e.g. On the face of it, the action tells the government to stop enforcing coercive measures that force people to buy health insurance and are unpopular.

innermost 内心深处的

resuscitate /rɪ’sʌsɪteɪt/ 使苏醒，使复苏

e.g. resuscitate a country / the flagging economy 复兴一个国家／复苏萧条的经济

doldrums 抑郁，不景气，无精打采

e.g. ……fallen into the doldrums

hamstring n. 后脚腱；v. 挑断……的脚筋

e.g. to be hamstrung by something 因某事而无能为力

anathema /ə’næθəmə/ （天主教的）诅咒；令人厌恶的人或东西

e.g. Others are paying maths and science teachers more, which is anathema to unions, who want to treat all teachers the same.

wrath /rɒθ/ 盛怒

To identify which colleges are the best “engines of upward mobility”, Mr Chetty and his collaborators rank universities on their ability to move large numbers of students from the poorest 20% of the income distribution to the top 20%.

Elite universities justify steep rises in tuition fees by pointing totheir generous financial-aid programmes for poor students.

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