M-W Vocabulary builder: Unit 4

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vor

carnivorous
herbivorous (herbivorous humans are called vegetarians)
insectivorous
voracious: She is a really voracious reader.

carn
carnation: initially the color of flesh
carnival: removal of meat
carnage: The horrible accident is a real carnage.
carnal: carnal pleasure ~= sexual pleasure
incarnate: She is an evil/goodness/kindness/generosity incarnate.
reincarnation: Fathers hope their sons to be their reincarnations.  

cred
credulous/credulity: She has a childish credulity and is too ready to believe any far-fetched and non sequitur theories.
credence: gain credence over new evidence/new evidence gives credence to their claim/their claim lacks credence/the newly discovered evidence lends badly needed credence to their case.
credible: The judge will grant restraining order against the defendant, if she believes there is a credible threat. A schizophrenic man can hardly be a credible witness to the crime.
credo: google's credo is "don't be evil".

Fid
fidelity
infidel
affidavit: sworn statement.
diffident: She used to be too diffident to make public speeches.
fiduciary: It is his fiduciary duty to guarantee the best possible legal outcome for his client.
perfidy: It is considered a great perfidy to elope with your best friend's husband.

curr/curs
cursory: He took a cursory look at the affidavit and signed at the bottom.
concurrent: I am ambivalent about which session to go to, since both my favorite sessions run concurrently.
discursive: I can not standing reading discursive essays - the long rambling style usually puts me to sleep after 15 minutes.
precursor: After finding out the precursor to the his anger outburst to be heavy drinking, the kids would go to bed early on those day.

ped
pedal; pedicure; pedestal
pedestrian: someone walking on foot; A life of mindlessly following the path of others is deadly pedestrian to me.
pedigree; genealogy; She gloats about her fiance's pedigree at every chance.
impediment; My lack of technical skills will impede my further development in this area down the road.
quadruped: A pig is a quadruped.

flect
reflective: He is a really reflective person - he thinks a lot about past life events; The polished copper makes a reflective surface.
inflection - a change in tone
genuflect: He made an exaggerated gesture to genuflect, attracting the stares from several passers-by.
deflect: The press made continual inquiries into her past; but she deflected their questions by working hard on her charity work.


post
postmodern: an architecture style mixing many styles.
posterior - anterior
posthumous: a posthumous award to the dead author; Bill Clinton is a posthumous child to his father who died in an automobile accident.  
postmortem:验尸/After the conclusion of each project we always make a postmortem to see what worked and what didn't.

Words from mythology
calypso:印度风格的歌唱，经常是即兴创作的ad lib
sybil 女先知
siren song
odyssey: we dream of making a cross continent odyssey next spring.
. ΧProcrustean: people were made to fit to the Procrustean bed - made to conform to the same unrealistic standards, with no regard for their differences.
palladium
Penelope: In Ancient Chinese culture, wives are all required to be Penelopes.
protean: Someone who plays several kinds of sports is considered a protean athlete.