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》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：
coax 哄骗，引诱
e.g. The firm needs to coax customers to pay more for premium products as ordinary ones get commoditised.
conglomerate 集团公司，砾岩；使聚集
woolly 不清晰的，混乱的，糊涂的
lucrative 赚大钱的
e.g. lucrative chip business
rhinoceros 犀牛
reminiscent 怀旧的，引人联想的
internecine 两败俱伤的，内讧的
e.g. Mr Bennett is good on the internecine warfare among Brexiteers.
canvass 拉票，兜售
sabotage 蓄意破坏
tenuous 纤细的，微弱的，脆弱的
It dwells in the world of ideas, tracing the arc of debates.
And the gains that China has made in its understanding of economics and, more fundamentally, in the lives of its people will not be easily undone.
a muckraking newspaper 揭发丑闻的报纸
gruelling 使人筋疲力尽的
e.g. on a gruelling snowy trip
plaudit 称赞，赞赏
perennial 持久的，反复出现的
paraplegic 截瘫的
shrapnel 飞溅的弹片
sanguine 乐观的，红润的
e.g. If lenders are too sanguine about risk, their estimated RWAs will be too low and their reported capital ratios misleadingly high.
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