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from bbs.yuanda.org et(te), et(ta)=small circlet
N. small ring; band.
This tiny circlet is very costly because it is set with precious stones.
构词：circle + et (small) docket
n. program as for trial; book where such entries are made.
The case of Smith v. Jones was entered in the docket for July 15. also v.
构词：dock (document) + et (small) gazette
gaz+ette=small coin
N. official periodical publication.
He read the gazettes regularly for the announcement of his promotion.
构词：gaz (coin) + ette (small) lancet
N. small surgical tool for making incisions.
With the sharp tip of her lancet, Doctor Wheeler cut into the abscess, opening it to let it drain.
构词：lance（长矛）+ et (small) libretto
n. text of an opera.
The composer of an opera’s music is remembered more frequently than the author of its libretto.
构词：liber (letter) + et (small) palette
N. board on which a painter mixes pigments.
At the present time, art supply stores are selling a paper palette that may be discarded after use.
构词：pale (spade) + et (small) pallet
N. small, poor bed.
The weary traveler went to sleep on his straw pallet.
构词：pall (bed) + et (small) rivulet
=river + small
N. small stream.
As the rains continued, the trickle of water running down the hillside grew into a rivulet that threatened to wash away a portion of the slope.
构词：riv (river) + ul（补音）+ et (small) vignette
N. picture; short literary sketch.
The New Yorker published her latest vignette.
构词：vign (vine: 葡萄花边) + ette (small) trinket
N. knickknack; bauble.
Whenever she traveled abroad, Ethel would pick up costume jewelry and other trinkets as souvenirs.
构词：trink (?) + et (small) fy=make, v codify
v. arrange (laws, rules) as a code; classify.
We need to take the varying rules and regulations of the different health agencies and codify them into a national health code.
构词：code + fy (make) deify
=deity
v. turn into a god; idolize.
Admire the rock star all you want; just don’t deify him.
构词：dei (deity=god) + fy (make) edify
v. instruct; correct morally.
Although his purpose was to edify and not to entertain his audience, many of his listeners were amused and not enlightened.
构词：edi (educate) + fy (v) fructify
v. bear fruit.
This peach tree should fructify in three years.
构词：fruct (fruit) + fy (make) indemnify
v. make secure against loss; compensate for loss.
The city will indemnify all home owners whose property is spoiled by this project.
构词：in (not) + demn (injure) + fy (make) mollify
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v. soothe.
The airline customer service representative tried to mollify the angry passenger by offering her a seat in first class.
构词：moll (soft) + fy (make) mortify
v. humiliate; punish the flesh.
She was so mortified by her blunder that she ran to her room in tears.
构词：mort (death) + fy (make) pacify
v. soothe; make calm or quiet; subdue.
Dentists criticize the practice of giving fussy children sweets to pacify them.
构词：pac (peace) + fy (make) ratify
v. approve formally; confirm; verify.
Party leaders doubted that they had enough votes in both houses of Congress to ratify the constitutional amendment.
构词：rat (rate, reckon) + fy (make) graphy=writing calligraphy
N. beautiful writing; excellent penmanship.
As we examine ancient manuscripts, we become impressed with the calligraphy of the scribes.
构词：call (good) + graphy (writing) choreography
N. art of representing dances in written symbols; arrangement of dances.
Merce Cunningham has begun to use a computer in designing choreography: a software program allows him to compose arrangements of possible moves and immediately view them onscreen.
构词：chore (dance) + graphy (writing) topography
N. physical features of a region.
Before the generals gave the order to attack, they ordered a complete study of the topography of the region.
构词：top + graphy (writing)=描述地形的起伏 orthography
N. correct spelling.
Many of us find English orthography difficult to master because so many of our words are not written phonetically.
构词：orth (east—correct) + graphy (writing). mania(c)=狂 kleptomaniac
N. person who has a compulsive desire to steal.
They discovered that the wealthy customer was a kleptomaniac when they caught her stealing some cheap trinkets.
构词：klept (steal) + maniac (mad person)
参考词：wrestlemania maniacal
ADJ. raging mad; insane.
Though Mr. Rochester had locked his mad wife in the attic, he could still hear her maniacal laughter echoing throughout the house.
maniac, N.
构词：maniac (mad) + al (a) megalomania
N. mania for doing grandiose things.
Developers who spend millions trying to build the world’s tallest skyscraper suffer from megalomania.
构词：mega (great) + lo（补音）+ mania (madness) pyromaniac
N. person with an insane desire to set things on fire.
The detectives searched the area for the pyromaniac who had set these costly fires.
构词：pyro (fire) + maniac (mad person) ling=thing or person (esp. small)
weakling, hatchling, seedling, duckling, gosling fledgling
=fly.
ADJ. inexperienced.
While it is necessary to provide these fledgling poets with an opportunity to present their work, it is not essential that we admire everything they write, also N.
构词：fledg (fly) + ling (a) unfledged
ADJ. immature.
It is hard for an unfledged writer to find a sympathetic publisher.
构词：un (not) + fledg (fly) + ed (a) hireling
N. one who serves for hire (usually used contemptuously).
In a matter of such importance, I do not wish to deal with hirelings; I must meet with the chief.
构词：hire + ling (person) sibling
N. brother or sister.
We may not enjoy being siblings. but we cannot forget that we still belong to the same family.
构词：sib (kinsman) + ling (person) inkling
N. hint.
This came as a complete surprise to me as I did not have the slightest inkling of your plans.
构词：ink + ling (thing) cracy=rule, class aristocracy
N. hereditary nobility; privileged class.
Americans have mixed feelings about hereditary aristocracy. We say all men are created equal, but we describe particularly outstanding people as natural aristocrats.
构词：aristo (top贵族) + cracy (rule) bureaucracy
N. overregulated administrative system marked by red tape.
The Internal Revenue Service is the ultimate bureaucracy: taxpayers wasted so much paper filling out IPS forms that the IPS bureaucrats printed up a new set of rutes requiring taxpayers to comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act.
bureaucratic, ADJ.
构词：bureau (office) + cracy (rule) gerontocracy
N. government ruled by old people.
Gulliver visited a gerontocracy in which the young people acted as servants to their elders, all the while dreaming of the day they would be old enough to have servants of their own.
构词：geronto (old) + cracy (rule) ful=full of bountiful
bounty
ADJ. abundant; graciously generous.
Thanks to the good harvest, we had a bountiful supply of food and we could be as bountiful as we liked in distributing food to the needy.
构词：bount (abundant) + ful (full of) dutiful
=duty
ADJ. respectful; obedient.
When Mother told Billy to kiss Great-Aunt Hattie, the boy obediently gave the old woman a dutiful peck on her cheek.
构词：duty + ful (full of) fitful
ADJ. spasmodic; intermittent.
After several fitful attempts, he decided to postpone the start of the project until he felt more energetic.
构词：fit + ful (full of) willful
ADJ. intentional; headstrong.
Donald had planned to kill his wife for months; clearly, her death was a case of deliberate, willful murder, not a crime of passion committed by a hasty, willful youth unable to foresee the consequences of his deeds.
构词：bount (abundant) + ful (full of) wistful
=wish
ADJ. vaguely longing; sadly pensive.
With a last wistful glance at the happy couples dancing in the hall, Sue headed back to her room to study for her exam.
构词：wist (wish) + ful (full of) baleful
ADJ. deadly; having a malign influence; ominous.
The fortune teller made baleful predictions of terrible things to come.
构词：bale (bad) + ful (full of) ard=adj haggard
ADJ. wasted away; gaunt.
After his long illness, he was pale and haggard.
构词：hag + ard (a) laggard
ADJ. slow; sluggish.
The sailor had been taught not to be laggard in carrying out orders.
lag, N., v.
构词：lag + ard (a) rie, ry=place aerie
N. nest of a large bird of prey (eagle, hawk).
The mother eagle swooped down on the rabbit and bore it off to her aerie high in the Rocky Mountains.
构词：aer (air) + rie (place) apiary
N. a place where bees are kept.
Although he spent many hours daily in the apiary, he was very seldom stung by a bee.
构词：apia (bee) + ry (place)
aviary
N. enclosure for birds.
The aviary at the zoo held nearly 300 birds.
构词：avi (fly) + ry (place)
some=有些, a. irksome
ADJ. annoying; tedious.
He found working on the assembly line irksome because of the monotony of the operation he had to perform.
irk, v.
构词：irk (annoy) + some frolicsome
ADJ. prankish; gay.
The frolicsome puppy tried to lick the face of its master.
构词：frolic (gay) + some fulsome
ADJ. disgustingly excessive.
His fulsome praise of the dictator annoyed his listeners.
构词：ful (full) + some (log)ist=person, scholar ecologist
eco=surrounding
N. person concerned with the interrelationship between living organisms and their environment.
The ecologist was concerned that the new dam would upset the natural balance of the creatures living in Glen Canyon.
构词：eco (surrounding) + logist (person) suffragist
N. advocate of voting rights (for women).
In recognition of her efforts to win the vote for women, Congress authorized coining a silver dollar honoring the suffragist Susan B. Anthony.
构词：suffrage (voting right) + ist (person) epistemologist
N. phil osopher who studies the nature of knowledge.
“What is more important, a knowledge of nature or the nature of knowledge?” the epistemologist asked the naturalist.
构词：epistemo (knowledge) + logist (person) herpetologist
N. one who studies reptiles.
As a boy, Indiana Jones had a traumatic experience involving snakes; sensibly enough, he studied to be an archaeologist, not a herpetologist.
构词：herpeto (creep) + logist (person) 发信人 rltc (Randolph Language Training Center) |
