GRE詞匯精選：高頻形近詞(14)
131. faction / fiction / factitious / fictitious
faction: A faction is an organized group of people within a larger group, which opposes some of the ideas of the larger group and fights for its own ideas.
e.g. A peace agreement will be signed by the leaders of the country's warring factions.
factitious: produced by humans rather than by natural forces
fictitious: Fictitious is used to describe something that is false or does not exist, although some people claim that it is true or exists.
132. calamity / calumny
calamity: A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress. (FORMAL)(=disaster)
calumny: Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them. (FORMAL)(=slander)(污蔑，誹謗(的話))
133. team / teem
teem: If you say that a place is teeming with people or animals, you mean that it is crowded and the people and animals are moving around a lot. (=swarm)
134. callow / callous
callow: A callow young person has very little experience or knowledge of the way they should behave as an adult.
callous: A callous person or action is very cruel and shows no concern for other people or their feelings.
135. contrite / contrive / connive
contrite: If you are contrite, you are very sorry because you have done something wrong. (FORMAL)(= apologetic)
contrive: If you contrive to do something difficult, you succeed in doing it. (FORMAL)
connive: If one person connives with another to do something, they secretly try to achieve something which will benefit both of them.
136. discrete / discreet
discrete: Individually separate and distinct:
discreet: Careful and prudent in one’s speech or actions, especially in order to keep something confidential or to avoid embarrassment:
137. impressive / impressionable
impressionable : easily influenced
