Unit 1
PAC: peace and agree
pacific ocean: peaceful ocean pacify: to soothe anger or agitation
it took the police hours to pacify the angry demostrators and protesters. agitation: a state of anxiety or nervous excitement soothe: gently calm
pacifist: a person opposed to war or violence, especially sb. who refuses to bear arms or to fight, on moral or religious grounds pacifism:
words from mythology and history
cicerone: a guide, especially one who takes tourists to museums, monuments, or architectural sites and explains what is being seen.
The Roman statesman and orator Cicero was renowned for his elegant style and great knowledge. then 18th-century Italians seems to have given the name cicerone to the guides who would show well-educated foreigners around the great cultural sites of the ancient Roman empire.
hedonism: an attitude or way of life based on the idea that pleasure and happiness should be the chief goal
in her new spirit of hedonism, she went out for a message and made a date with an old boy friends he is a hedonistic person
stentorian extremely loud, often with especially deep richness of sounds
Even without a microphone, his stentorian voice was clearly audible in the last rows of the auditorium Stentor was a warrior in the Iliad, and his unusually powerful voice made him the natural choice for delivering announcements to the army, in an era when there was no way of artificially increasing the volume of a voice
Unit 2
mania: madness
egomaniac: someone who is extremely self-centered and ignores the problems and cencerns of others
he's a completely unimpressive person, but that doesnot keep him from being an egomaniac ego in Latin means I
cept: take,seize
reception: the act of receiving intercept: to stop, seize, or interrupt before arrival
In baseball football, players try to intercept the ball as it's being passed by the other team The explosices had been intercepted by police just before being loaded onto the jet an intercepted email isn't actually stopped, but simply read secrectly by a third party.
preceptible: noticeable or able to be felt by the senses
per- menas through, so the word refers to whatever can be taken in through the senses. A perceptive person picks up minor changes, small clues, or hints and shades of meaning that others can not perceive.
susceptible:(1) open to some influence;responsive (2) able to be submitted to an action or process
sus- means up the word refers to something or someone that takes up or absorbs like a sponge. A sickly child may be susceptible to colds or the flu. A lonely elderly person may be susceptible to what a con man tells him or her on the phone. students are usually susceptible to the teaching of an imaginative professor.
fin: end, boundry
final finish
confine: (1) to keep within limits (2) to hold in a location
someone confined to a bedroom or a wheelchair is too ill or disabled to be anywhere else. A person under house arrest is confined to his or her house by goverment. At a bussiness meeting, the disscussion can be confined to a single topic. someone confined to a state prison for 20 years has probably committed quite a serious crime.
definitive: (1) authoritative and final (2) specifying perfectly or precisely
something definitive is complete and final. A definitive example is the perfect example. A definitive answer is usually a strong yes or no;
finite: having definite limits
her ambitions were infinite, but her wealth was finite The car brand named infiniti, can help you to remeber this word
infinitesimal:extremely or immeasurably small
looking more closely at the research data, he now saw an odd pattern of changes so infinitesimal that they hadn't been noticed before.
ject:throw, hurl
to reject something is to throw it back, to eject something is to throw it out, to inject something is to throw it into something else, hurl: throw with great force
the doctor injects a drug to his body many types of rock are ejected from volcanoes as solid, fragmentary material I seized Nathan and hurled him into the lobby
interject: to interrupt a conversation with a comment or remark
interrupt ought to mean literally throw between
conjecture: to guess
formed with the prefix con-, together, conjecture means literally to throw together, that is, to produce a theory by putting together a number of facts. Columbus conjectured from his calculations that he would reach asia if he sailed westward.
projection: an estimate of what might happen in the future based on waht is happegning now ,
trajectory: the curved path that an object makes in space, or that a thrown object follows as it rises and falls to earth
formed with part of the prefix trans-, ‘across’, trajectory means a hurling across. By calculating the effect of gravity and other forces, the trajectory of an object launched into space at a known speed can be computed precisely. the word is used most often in physics and engineering, but not always, we can also say , that the trajectory of a whole life may be set in a person's youth, or that a new book traces the long trajectory of the french empire.
tract:drag or draw
something attractive draws us toward it, something distracting pulls your attention away; when you extract something from behind the sofa, you drag it out.