有趣的23000----整理（11）Q,S,T,V词根

• quer    询问
  • query   质问
  • acquisition   获得,获得物
    • The company's many acquisitions pratically gave it a monopoly in the market.
  • acquisitiveness   贪得无厌
  • inquisitive   过分好奇的,好奇的
    • Children are known to have inquisitive minds that are like sponges to new information.
• quest,quer   寻求,询问
  • querulous   抱怨的,多牢骚的
• quiet,quie   静止
  • quietude   平静,寂静
    • During the weekend people from the city like to escape to the quiteude of the country to relax.
  • acquiesce  默许
    • The bank manager acquiescedc to the robbers so that no one would get hurt.
• secut,sequ   跟随
  • persecute  迫害,不断困扰
    • Thousands of Jews were persecuted during the rea of the European Inquisition.
  • prosecute   告发,检举
    • The district attorney(检察官) plans to prosecuted her for burglary.
    • prosecution   起诉,控告
• spir  呼吸
  • dispirited   垂头丧气的
  • aspirant  有抱负的人,有野心者
    • These times of opportunity have invigorated a generation of aspirants.
  • aspiration   渴望,热望
• tempo,tempor   时间,时间引起的现象
  • extemporize   即兴(发言,创作,演奏,演说)
    • He is kind of speaker who is more effective whene he extemporizes than whe nhe reads from a prepared script.
  • extemporaneous   即兴的,临时的
    • He was surprised to have spoken so eloquently in the extemporaneous speech.
  • tempo   速度,拍子
    • Professional dancers can naturally move to the rhythm and tempo of the music.
  • tend,ten,tens   伸展
    • distend  (使)膨胀,胀大
      • The balloon distend almost to the bursting point.
    • ostensible   伪装的
      • My ostensible purpose for going to the library was to study,but I was really reading magazines.
    • ostentatious   虚荣的,炫耀的
      • The real hero is modest,,never ostentatious.
    • pretentious    自负的,自抬身价的
      • pretension   自命不凡
      • pretense    借口;虚假;自负
  • viv,vit    活泼的,生命
    • revive   苏醒,复活,复兴
    • revitalize  使复活,使新生
      • The president released a new plan t orevitalize the troubled economy.
    • vitalize   赋予...生命;鼓舞
      • The cartoonist vitalize the drawing of a mouse into one of the most famous icons in the world.
    • vitiate 削弱,损害;在(道德方面)败坏
      • Fraud will vitiate the contract(合同)
    • convivial   欢宴的,欢乐的 
      • The convivial celebrators of the victory sang their college songs.