Gaokao Vocabulary

The side of a road or path

A pair of slender sticks used as eating utensils in East Asia

Showing kindness and compassion toward others

Having no flavor; lacking good taste or refinement

A structure where bees live; any very busy place; a tall dome-shaped women's hairstyle

The study of chemical processes in living organisms

A human figure made from stacked snowballs

Equipped with furniture or necessary items

Delicious; very pleasing to the taste

Goodbye; advancing in a competition without playing

A white or grey coastal seabird

A thick soft food made by boiling oats or grain in water or milk

A follower of Islam; relating to Islam

Informal word for grandmother; old-fashioned in style

A light jacket that protects against wind

In a careful and focused manner; with close attention

The punctuation mark (,) used to separate sentence elements

Diligent and industrious

A fellow student at the same school

Half of a circle

A person who reports or forecasts the weather

A woman engaged in business or commerce

A portable personal cassette player with headphones

To tell a story again, often in a different way

The shell of a marine mollusk

A dormant, inactive state that some animals enter during winter

A room with a toilet or sink; a bathroom

A racquet sport played with a shuttlecock hit over a net

A person with extraordinary or superhuman powers

A person who delivers and collects mail

To wind a tape or recording back to an earlier point

A very short skirt with hemline well above the knees

Whole; not divided or shared

The scientific study of plants

A room for children to play in

Polite good wishes; respect and esteem

A woman whose job is to sell goods

A timepiece used to measure elapsed time precisely

A marker for a page in a book; a saved link to a website; to save a webpage as a bookmark

A shop where books are sold

A layer of ice crystals on surfaces; freezing cold weather

Able to be changed; likely to change frequently

Protection from attack; a justification or argument; the defending side

Speaking words for transcription; a school listening-and-writing exercise

A circular road junction (n.); indirect or circuitous (adj.)

A severe tropical cyclone in the western Pacific

To spend winter in a dormant, inactive state

The arithmetic operation of finding the difference between two numbers