在托福备考中，词汇是基础。在托福阅读备考时，考生为了提高阅读速度，往往需要一段时间的词汇积累。但是参照以往的考生备考经验已经大多教师的建议，最高效的记忆托福阅读词汇的方法还是从阅读过程中积累。所以前程百利小编为了减轻大家在积累过程中的前期工作，为大家整理出TPO20-Fossil preservation中的所有有价值学习的词汇，分享给大家，希望大家可以学习一下，从一点一滴开始学习词汇。
| 核心词汇 | 音标 | 词性 | 释义 | 近义词 | 例句 |
| Preservation | [prezə'veɪʃ(ə)n] | n. | 保存，保留 | conservation | The campaign organizers say the Prophet promoted respect for the environment - encouraging water preservation, for example |
| decay | [dɪ'keɪ] | n. | 衰退，[核] 衰减 | decomposition | Is this really tolerance ? or is it rather a form of moral decay that has simply decided to abandon the search for truth ? and standards of judgment? |
| destruction | [dɪ'strʌkʃ(ə)n] | n. | 破坏，毁灭；摧毁 | disruption | This coral is not able to recover from the destruction as well as its staghorn relative |
| erosion | [ɪ'rəʊʒ(ə)n] | n. | 侵蚀，腐蚀 | corrosion | Plantings in the wetlands help hold down the soil against the forces of erosion, like wind and water. |
| agency | ['eɪdʒ(ə)nsɪ] | n. | 代理，中介；代理处，经销处 | intermediary | The World Health Organization, the United Nations health agency, uses a system of six phases to warn of possible influenza pandemics. |
| dissolution | [dɪsə'luːʃ(ə)n] | n. | 分解，溶解；（议会等的）解散 | solution | He was a Victorian historian preoccupied with the dissolution of Western civilization. |
| ornamentation | [ɔːnəmen'teɪʃ(ə)n] | n. | 装饰物 | adorning | The architects who designed facade ornamentation often relied on popular handbooks for traditional styles, like the classical or Gothic. |
| remarkable | [rɪ'mɑːkəb(ə)l] | adj. | 卓越的；非凡的；值得注意的 | excellent | He was a remarkable man. |
| geologic | [,dʒɪəʊ'lɒdʒɪk] | adj. | 地质的；地质学上的 | The best gauge of quake risk is the geologic record. | |
| marine | [mə'riːn] | adj. | 船舶的；海生的；海产的 | nautical | International students can also attend the Coast Guard Academy in New London,Connecticut, and the Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point,New York. |
| terrestrial | [tə'restrɪəl] | adj. | 地球的；陆地的，[生物] 陆生的 | earthly | Since forests hold half of all terrestrial carbon, this presents a huge threat. |
| crystal | ['krɪst(ə)l] | adj. | 水晶的；透明的，清澈的 | transparent | It is 1.7475. Conclusion: if I start to react sodium with chlorine, the result is a crystal, a three-dimensional array. |
| simultaneous | [,sɪm(ə)l'teɪnɪəs] | adj. | 同时的；联立的；同时发生的 | coinstantaneous | And so classical conditioning should be the strongest when these two are simultaneous and the response to one is the same as the response to the other. |
| precise | [prɪ'saɪs] | adj. | 精确的；明确的；严格的 | accurate | And this is the first time that the precise twenty-seven books that he lists are the twenty-seven books that we list. |
| iridescent | [,ɪrɪ'des(ə)nt] | adj. | 彩虹色的；闪光的 | irised | A complex pattern of iridescent dots and lines, perfectly symmetrical, runs over the body, almost following the lines of the nervous or circulatory system. |
| mineralize | ['mɪn(ə)rəlaɪz] | v. | 使含无机化合物；使矿物化 | Using water softeners to de-mineralize drinking water may reduce some of the potentially helpful effects. | |
| flourish | ['flʌrɪʃ] | v. | 繁荣，兴旺；茂盛；活跃 | flower | A White House statement issued Sunday says Washington is confident that the United States' partnership with Japan "will continue to flourish." |
| immerse | [ɪ'mɜːs] | v. | 沉浸；使陷入 | entrap | So with the problems, that is where you really will get your hands dirty and truly immerse yourself in this world of computer science and programming |
| engulf | [ɪn'gʌlf; en-] | v. | 吞没；吞食，狼吞虎咽 | devour | When they do that they can actually engulf the bacteria in a process called phagocytosis and break them down into antigens. |
| consume | [kən'sjuːm] | v. | 消耗，消费 | waste | The American Heart Association says most American women should not consume more than 100 calories of added sugars per day; |
| compress | [kəm'pres] | v. | 压缩，压紧；精简 | impact | You do it so quickly that the heat flow between the inside of the bicycle pump and the outside is too slow compared to the speed at which you compress. |
| sufficiently | [sə'fɪʃəntlɪ] | adv. | 充分地；足够地 | adequate | He adds to this image that is perfectly, sufficiently filled with grotesquery as it is -- he adds this next phrase: "and mad'st it pregnant." |
| marvelously | ['ma:vləsli] | adv. | 奇迹般地；不可思议地 | miraculously | It's an election hall of idiots, for idiots, and by idiots, and it works marvelously |
| 学术词汇 | 音标 | 词性 | 释义 |
| Fossil | ['fɒs(ə)l; -sɪl] | n. | 化石 |
| organism | ['ɔːg(ə)nɪz(ə)m] | n. | 有机体；生物体 |
| scavenger | ['skævɪn(d)ʒə] | n. | 食腐动物 |
| skeleton | ['skelɪt(ə)n] | n. | 骨架，骨骼 |
| invertebrate | [ɪn'vɜːtɪbrət] | n. | 无脊椎动物 |
| tar | [tɑː] | n. | 焦油 |
| petrifaction | [,petrɪ'fækʃən] | n. | 石化 |
| carbonate | ['kɑːbəneɪt] | n. | 碳酸盐 |
| aragonite | ['ærəg(ə)naɪt] | n. | [矿物] 霰石 |
| calcite | ['kælsaɪt] | n. | [矿物] 方解石 |
| silica | ['sɪlɪkə] | n. | 二氧化硅 |
| permineralization | [pɜː,mɪnərəlaɪ'zeɪʃən] | n. | [地质] 完全矿化 |
| carbonization | [,kɑ:bənai'zeiʃən,-ni'z-] | n. | [化学] 碳化 |
以上就是前程百利托福小编带来的从托福阅读TPO20-Fossil preservation中积累的阅读词汇。希望对正在备考托福考试的大家有所帮助。
