【Unit 2】Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder

韦氏词根/小绿书/单词书，词根词缀构词学习的思维导图整理；包括每个单元词根释义、引申出的单词英文释义及例句。本期内容包括：Mania、Psych、Cepyt、Fin、Ject、Tract、Duc/Duct、Sequ、Word from mythology and history。

Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder

• Unit 2
  • Mania
    • 释义：madness
    • kleptomania
      • 释义：a mental illness in which a person has a strong desiere to steal things
      • 例句：kleptomania leads its sufferers to sreal items od litthle value that they don't need anyway.
    • dipsomaniac
      • 释义：a person with an extreme and uncontrollable desire for alcohola
      • 例句：she did't like the word alcoholic being applied to her, and liked dipsomaniac even less.
    • megalomaniac
      • 释义：a mental disorder marked by feeling of great personal power and importance
      • 例句：when the governor started calling for arming his National Guard with nuclear weapons, the voters finally realized they had elected a megalomaniac.
    • egomaniac
      • 释义：someone who is extremely self-centered and ignores the problem and concerns of others
      • 例句：He's completely unimpressive person, but that does't keep him from being an egomaniac
  • Psych
    • 释义：breath, life, soul
    • psyche
      • 释义：soul, personality, mind
      • 例句：analysts are constantly trying to understand the nation's psyche and why the U.S. often behaves so differently from other country.
    • psychedelic
      • 释义：(1)of or relating to a drug(such as LSD)taht produces abnormal and often mental effects such as hallucinations.(2)imitating the effects of psychedelic drugs.
      • 例句：in her only psychedelic experience, back in 1970, she had watched with horror as the walls began crawling with bizzarely colored creatures.
    • psychosomatic
      • 释义：caused by mental or emotional problems rather than physical illness
      • 例句：her doctor assumed her stomach problems were psychosomatic but gave her some harmless medication anyway.
    • psychotherapy
      • 释义：one who treats mental or emotional disaorder or related bodily by psychological means.
      • 例句：he's getting medication from a psychiatrist, but it's his sessions with the psychotherapist that he really values.
  • Cept
    • 释义：take,seize
    • reception
      • 释义：(1)the act of receiving.(2) A social gathering where guests are formally welcomed
      • 例句：although the reception of her plan by the the board of directors was enthusiastic, it was months before anything was done about it.
    • intercept
      • 释义：to stop,seize, or interrupt(something or someone)before arrival
      • 例句：the explosives had been intercepted by police just before being loaded onto the jet.
    • perceptible
      • 释义：noticeable or able to be felt by the senses
      • 例句：her changes in attitude toward him was perceptical, and he couldn't be sure he wasn't just imagining it.
    • susceptible
      • 释义：(1)open to some influence;responsive;(2)able to be submitted to an action or processs.
      • 例句：she impressed everyone immediately with her intelligence, so they're now highly susceptible to her influence and usually go along with anything she proposes.
  • Fin
    • 释义：end or boundary
    • confine
      • 释义：(1)to keep (somebody or something) within limits.(2)to hold(someone) in a location;
      • 例句：he had heard the bad news from the CEO, but when he spoke to his employees his remarks to a few hints that sales had slipped.
    • definitive
      • 释义：(1)authoritative and final;(2)specifying perfectly or precisely
      • 例句：the team's brilliant research provided a definitive description of the virus and its strange mutation patterns.
    • finite
      • 释义：having definite limits
      • 例句：her ambitions were infinite, but her wealth was finite.
    • infinitesimal
      • 释义：extremely or immeasurablely small
      • 例句：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
    • 释义：throw or hurl
    • interject
      • 释义：to interrupt a conversation with a common or remark
      • 例句：his anger was growing as he listened to the conversation, and every so often he would interject a crude comment.
    • conjecture
      • 释义：to guess
      • 例句：he was last heard of in Bogota, and they conjectured that he had met his end in the Andes at the hands of the guerrillas.
    • projection
      • 释义：an estimate of what might happen in the future based on what is happening now
      • 例句：the president has been hearing different deficit projections all week from the members of his economic team.
    • trajectory
      • 释义：the curved path that an object makes in space, or that a thrown object follows as it rised and falls to earth.
      • 例句：considering the likely range, trajectory, and accuracy of a bullet fired from a cheap handgun at 100 yards, the murder seemed incredible.
  • Tract
    • 释义：drag or draw
    • traction
      • 释义：the friction that allows a moving thing to move over a surface without slipping.
      • 例句：the spinning wheels were getting no traction on the ice, and we began to slip backward down the hill.
    • retract
      • 释义：(1)to pull back (something) into something larger .(2) to take back (something said or written)
      • 例句：she was forced to retract her comment about her opponent after it was condenmed in the press.
    • protracted
      • 释义：drawn out, continued, or extended
      • 例句：no one was looking forward to a protracted struggle for custody of the baby.
    • intractable
      • 释义：not easily handled, led, taught, or controlled
      • 例句：corruption in the army was the courtry's intractable problem, and for many years all foreign aid had ended up in the colonels' pocket.
  • Duc/Duct
    • 释义：to lead
    • conducive
      • 释义：tending to promote, encourage, or assist; helpful
      • 例句：she found the atmosphere in the quiet cafe conducive to study and even to creative thinking.
    • deduction
      • 释义：(1)substraction.(2)the reaching of a conclusion by reasoning
      • 例句：foretelling the future by deduction based on a political or economic theory has proved to be extremely difficult.
    • induce
      • 释义：(1)persuade, influence;(2)bring about
      • 例句：to induce him to make the call we had to promise we wouldn't do it again.
    • seduction
      • 释义：(1)temptation to sin, especially temptation to sexual intercourse.(2)attaction or chaim
      • 例句：the company began its campaign of seduction of the smaller firm by inviting its top management to a series of weekends at expensive resorts
  • Sequ
    • 释义：to follow
    • sequential
      • 释义：(1)arranged in order or in a series.(2)following in a series.
      • 例句：in writing the history of the revolution, his challenge was to put all the events of those fateful days in proper sequential order.
    • subsequent
      • 释义：following in time, order, or place;later
      • 例句：through all her subsequent love affairs, she never stopped thinking about the man who got away.
    • consequential
      • 释义：(1)resulting.(2)important
      • 例句：none of our discussions thus far has very consequential, next week's meeting will be the important one.
    • non sequitur
      • 释义：a statement that dose not follow logically from anything previously said.
      • 例句：rattlely by the question, his mind went blank, and he blurted out a non sequitur that fetched a few laughs from members of the audience.
  • Word from Mythology and History
    • Appllonian
      • 释义：harmonious, ordered, rational, calm
      • 例句：after a century of Romantic emotion, some composers adopted a more Apollonian style, producing clearly patterned pieces that avoided extremes of all kinds.
    • bacchanalian
      • 释义：frenzied, orgiastic
      • 例句：the bacchanalian partying on graduation night resulted in three wrecked cars, two lawsuits by unasumed pattern, and more new experiences than most of participations could remember the next day.
    • delphic
      • 释义：unclear, ambiguous, or confusing
      • 例句：all she could get from the strange old woman were a few delphic comments that left her more confused than ever about the missing documents.
    • Dionysian
      • 释义：frenzied, delirious
      • 例句：only in the tropics did such festivals become truly Dionysian, he said, which was why he was booking his fight to Rio.
    • jovial
      • 释义：jolly, good-natured
      • 例句：their grandfather was as jovial and sociable as their grandmother was quiet and withdrawn.
    • mercurial
      • having rapid and unpredictable changes of mood
      • 例句：his mother's always mercurial temper became even more unpredictable, to the point where the slightest thing would trigger a violent fit.
    • Olympian
      • 释义：lofty, superior, and detached
      • 例句：now 77, he moved slowly and spoke the the younger lawyers in Olympian tones, but his college friends could remember when he was a brash, crazy risk-taker.
    • venereal
      • 释义：having to do with sexual intercourse or diseases transmitted by it
      • 例句：in the 19th century syphilis especially was often fatal, and venereal diseases killed some of the greatest figures of the time.