Word Power Made Easy Review 8

此篇文章复习《word power made easy》的第11章，session 28-31。这章的主题是How to insult your enemies，单词多用于描述某些不讨喜的性格。

There are few of us who do not need warm and nourishing relationships to lead a fulfilled life. Psychology makes it clear that loving and being loved are important elements in emotional health, but also points out the necessity for expressing, rather than repressing, our hostilities.

• 严格执行纪律的人martinet: demand the strictest conformity to rules,however tyrannical; You are the very epitome of the army drill
• 马屁精sycophant: You toady to rich or influential people, catering to their vanity, flattering their ego.
  • 词根phanein to show
  • 词根dia- through diaphanous透明的(织物);
• 浅薄的涉猎者，半吊子dilettante
  • tyro 新手 virtuoso 大师 virtuosi(复数）在意大利语中以i结尾表复数
  • libretto(the story of an opera), libretti; concerto concerti
• 泼妇virago: You are a loud-mouthed, shrewish, turbulent woman.
  • Termagant Harridan
• 沙文主义者，盲目热爱自己所在团体chauvinist: Anything you own or belong to is better, simply because you own it or belong to it
  • patriotic爱国的
  • 词根 pater(father) mater(mother) mony(money）onyma(name) archein(rule)
  • patrimony遗产 patrimonial
  • 使用父亲的名字（例如Johnson）patronymic
  • synonym同义词 antonym反义词 synonymous
  • homonym同音词 homophone
  • paternity父亲的身份[地位] paternal paternalism家长式制度 paternalistic
  • patriarch家长，族长，元老
  • patricide 杀害某人的父亲 patricidal
  • patrician贵族的; 显贵的; （相貌等） 贵族似的
  • patron赞助人，资助人; 顾客，老主顾 patronize patronizing
  • padre 神父
  • matriarch maternity maternal matron alma mater(soul mother母校)
  • matrimony婚姻
  • 词根frater(brother) soror(sister) uxor(wife) maritus(husband) rex(king)
  • fraternal fraternity Members of the faculty often fraternized after school hours.
  • sorority(any women's social club)
  • uxorious溺爱妻子的; henpecked惧妻的
  • uxorial marital premarital sex
  • tyrannosaurus rex霸王龙 regal mansion regal reception regality
  • regalia王权; 徽章; 王位的标志（如王冠等）; （等级、社团等的） 标记;
  • suicide fratricide sororicide homicide manslaughter过失杀人; regicide
  • uxoricide mariticide infanticide genocide(灭族）parricide
• 偏执狂者monomaniac: You have a one-track mind and when you are riding a particular hobby, you ride it hard.
  - megalomania妄想自大狂; nymphomania satyromania
  - 词根phobia(fear)
  - 幽闭恐怖claustrophobia
  - 空旷恐惧agoraphobia
  - 恐高acrophobia
• 攻击传统观念的人iconoclast: You are violently against established beliefs, revered traditions, cherished customs.
• 无神论者atheist： There is no God
  • agnostic 怀疑论的
  • diagnosis prognosis
  • 词根theos(god) gnosis(knowledge)
  • monotheism polytheism pantheism theology
• 好色之徒lecher: You promiscuously attempt to satisfy your sexual desires with any woman within your arm's reach.
  • libidinous lascivious lubricious licentious lewd lustful
  • prurient pruritis
• 疑神疑鬼的hypochondriac: You are always sick though no doctoc can find an organic cause for your ailments.
  • 词根hypo over under
  • hypodermic皮下的 hypothyroid hypertension hyperactive hyperacidity hyperactive hypersensitive