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【考法 1】 adj. 挥霍的： recklessly spendthrift
【例】 prodigal outlays for her clothes 买衣服时挥金如土
【近】 extravagant, profligate, squandering, unthrifty, wasteful
【反】 frugal, parsimonious, conserving, economical, economizing, penny-pinching, scrimping, skimping, thrifty
节省的，吝啬的
【派】 prodigality 浪费挥霍
【反】 penury, husbandry 贫困，节约
【考法 2】 n. 败家子： someone who spends money freely or foolishly
【例】 The million-dollar lottery winner was such a prodigal that his windfall was exhausted after only a few years.
靠彩票中了百万的赢家是个败家子，几年之内就把这笔意外之财全部花完了。
【近】 fritterer, high roller, profligate, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, waster, wastrel
【反】 economizer, penny-pincher 吝啬的人
prodigious
【考法 1】 adj. 巨大的： impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous
【例】 a prodigious supply of canned food kept in the basement 地下室贮存着大量罐头食品
【近】 colossal, elephantine, enormous, gigantic, titanic, tremendous
【反】 slight 微小的
【派】 prodigy n. 天才，神童
【考法 2】 adj. 惊人的，了不起的： causing wonder or astonishment
【例】 stage magicians performing prodigious feats for rapt audiences 舞台魔术师在全神贯注的观众们面前表演
【近】 amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, fabulous, miraculous, portentous, staggering, stunning,
stupendous, sublime, surprising
profane
【考法 1】 v. 亵渎： to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt
【例】 invading troops profaned the altar by playing poker on it 侵略军亵渎了祭坛，竟然在上面打扑克
【近】 defile, violate
【派】 profaned 被亵渎的
【反】 unviolated, inviolable 未被亵渎的，不可亵渎的
【考法 2】 v. 滥用： to put to a bad or improper use
【例】 profaned his considerable acting talents by appearing in some wretched movies 在一些烂俗的电影里面现简直就是浪费表演才华
【近】 abuse, misemploy, misuse, pervert, prostituteproffer
【考法 1】 v./n. 献出，提供： to offer for acceptance; tender
【例】 proffered her assistance in helping the two sides reach a compromise 她在斡旋双方达成妥协过程中尽了力
【近】 extend, give, proffer, tender, trot out
【反】 retain, withhold 保留
proficient
【考法 1】 adj. 熟练的，精通的： having or marked by an advanced degree of competence, as in an art, vocation,profession, or branch of learning
【例】 proficient in translating foreign languages 精通外语翻译
【近】 accomplished, complete, expert, skilled, versed, virtuoso
【反】 inept, incompetent, amateur, inexperienced, inexpert, jackleg, unprofessional, unseasoned, unskilled 无能的
profligate
【考法 1】 adj./n. 挥金如土的，挥霍的： recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant
【例】 leading a profligate life 过着骄奢淫逸的生活
【近】 extravagant, high-rolling, spendthrift, squandering, thriftless, unthrifty, wasteful
【反】 parsimonious, provident, thrift, economical, frugal, conserving 吝啬的，节俭的
【考法 2】 n. 败家子： someone who spends money freely or foolishly
【例】 profligate who could not really afford the grand style he maintained at Monticello, Jefferson died deeply in debt 再也支撑不了在蒙蒂塞洛之时的大手大脚的作风，败家子杰斐逊最终深陷债务危机
【近】 fritterer, high roller, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, waster, wastrel
【反】 economizer, penny-pincher 吝啬的人
【考法 3】 n. 堕落的人： a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard
【例】 a drunken profligate, he was given to wretched excess in every aspect of his life 一个喝醉的堕落的人，在生活的方方面面都日趋堕落
【近】 backslider, debauchee, debaucher, decadent, deviate, libertine, perv, pervert, profligate, rake, rakehell, rip profundity
【考法 1】 n. 深奥，深刻： something profound or abstruse
【例】 His books are a mixture of playfulness and profundity. 他的作品都是搞笑和深刻的结合体。
【近】 deepness, profoundness
【反】 superficiality 肤浅
profusion
【考法 1】 n. 丰富，大量： the state of being profuse; abundance
【例】 snow falling in profusion 雪量很大
【近】 abundance, mass, plentitude, scads, volume, wealth
【反】 paucity 极小量
【派】 profuse 丰富的
【反】 scanty 缺乏的
【考法 2】 n. 挥霍，浪费： the quality or fact of being free or wasteful in the expenditure of money
【例】 in giving gifts to his girlfriend, he was generous to the point of profusion 对于给女朋友的礼物支出一项，他慷慨到了几乎奢侈的地步
【近】 extravagancy, lavishness, prodigality, wastefulness
【反】 economy, frugality, penny-pinching
prohibitive
【考法 1】 adj. 禁止的；阻止的： tending to prohibit or restrain
【考法 2】 adj. （价格高得）抑制购买的： so high or burdensome as to discourage purchase or use
【例】 prohibitive prices 抑制购买的高价
proliferate
【考法 1】 vi. 快速繁殖，激增： to grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring
【例】 rumors about the accident proliferated on the Internet 关于事故的小道消息在网上迅速扩散
【近】 balloon, boom, build up, escalate, expand, mushroom, snowball
【反】 decrease in amount, dwindle, contract, decrease, diminish, dwindle, lessen, recede, wane 数量减少，缩小
