GRE词汇解析：torpor torpor
torpor: 麻木, 迟钝; a state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility
1) extreme mental and physical sluggishness
2) a state of mental and physical inactivity accompanied by a loss of feeling; a lack of energy
3) a condition of dormancy; sluggishness; temporary (either partial or total) loss of sensation or motion; stupor;
4) dullness or apathy
相近词汇：apathy, dullness, lethargy, sluggish, lacking movement, languor, stupor
torpor <> alertness, EXULTANT, vigilance, ardor, ebullient, vivacity, animation, ebullience, zeal, animation, alert, extreme excitability
torpor <> ardor
1. After surgery, the patient experienced torpor until the anesthesia wore off.
2. During my illness, the fever did not trouble me so much as the torpor—I hate to be slowed down!
3. After 24 hours of sleeplessness, torpor is likely to set in.
4. Torpor is characteristic among those who spent hours before their TVs in the old days watching the political conventions from gavel to gavel.
VEHEMENCE 热情的<>tepidity/ torpor 慢热的
aloof : reserve :: sluggish : torpor
torrid adj.热带的