2016.10.06

 

🎪 1100 Words I need to know 🎪

🎓 Week 4~6

 

💠 Inane (adj.):

1. extremely silly or with no real meaning or importance

➡ He's always making inane remarks

👉 Related: (adv.) inanely

                   (n.) inanity

💠 Solace (v.)(n.):

1. help and comfort when you are feeling sad or worried

➡ Music was a great solace to me.

💠 Clandestine (adj.):

1. planned or done in secret, especially describing something that is not officially allowed

➡ She undertook several clandestine operations for the CIA.

👉 Related: (adv.) Clandestinely

💠 Belligerent (adj.): bellum "war" + gerere "to bear, to carry"

1. fighting a war

➡ The belligerent countries are having difficulties funding the war.

1. (disapproving) wishing to fight or argue

   ➡ a belligerent gesture

👉 Related: (n.) belligerence

         (adv.) belligerently

💠 Feint (n.):

1. especially in football and boxing, to pretend to move, or to make a move, in a particular direction in order to deceive an opponent

    ➡ Callas feinted to pass the ball and then shot it into the net.

    👉 Phrase: Feint to

    👉 Related: Feign (v.)

💠 Pugnacious (adj.):

1. wanting to start an argument or fight, or expressing an argument or opinion very forcefully

    ➡ I found him pugnacious and arrogant.

    👉 Related: (n.) pugnacity

De- : down, down from, from, off; concerning, off, away, from among

💠 Deride (v.): de- "down" + ridere "to laugh"

1. to laugh at someone or something in a way that shows you think they are stupid or of no value

➡He derided my singing as pathetic

👉 Phrase: Deride… as …

👉 Related: Derisory (adj.)

                   Derision (n.)

Com- : with, together, together with, in combination, beside, near, by

💠 Concur (v.): com- "together” + currere "to run"

1. If two or more events concur, they happen at the same time.
2. to agree or have the same opinion

       ➡ The new report concurs with previous findings.

       👉 Phrase: Concur with…

       👉 Related: (adj.) Concurring / Concurrent

                           (n.) Concurrence / Concourse

 

💠 Construe (v.): com "with, together" + struere "to pile up"

1. to understand the meaning, especially of other people's actions and statements, in a particular way

➡ Any changes to the plan would be construed as indecision

👉 Phrase: Construe sth. as sth.

👉 Related: (adj.) Construal / Construed

                   (n.) Construing

💠 Consternation (n.): com- "throw down, prostrate," + sternere "to spread out"

 

1. a feeling of worry, shock, or confusion

➡The prospect of so much work filled him with consternation.

 

Dis- : lack of, not, do the opposite of, apart, away

💠 Disdain (n.): dis- "do the opposite of" + deignier "treat as worthy"

1. the feeling of not liking someone or something and thinking that they do not deserve your interest or respect

      ➡He regards the political process with disdain.

      👉 Related: (v.) disdain

                         (adj.) Disdainful

                         (adv.) Disdainfully

💠 Distraught (adj.): dis- "away" + trahere "to draw"

1. extremely worried, nervous, or upset

➡The missing child's distraught parents made an emotional appeal for information on TV.

 

💠 Disparage (v.): des- "away" + parage "rank, lineage"

1. to criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect or value him, her, or it

       ➡The actor's work for charity has recently been disparaged in the press as an attempt to get publicity.

   👉 Related: (n.) Disparagement

                       (adv.) Disparagingly

Per- : through, throughout; thoroughly; entirely, utterly

💠 Perverse (adj.): per- "away" + vertere "to turn, turn back, be turned; convert, transform, translate; be changed"

1. strange and not what most people would expect or enjoy

      ➡ She took a perverse pleasure in hearing that her sister was getting divorced.

      👉 Related: (n.) pervert / perversity

                          (v.) pervert

 

💠 Perfunctory (adj.): per- "through" + fungi "perform"

1. done quickly, without taking care or interest:

➡ His smile was perfunctory.

👉 Related: Perfunctorily (adv.)

 

 

💠 Perceive (v.): per- "thoroughly" + capere "to grasp, take,"

1. to come to an opinion about something, or have a belief about something (Believe)

       ➡Women's magazines are often perceived to be superficial.

    2. to see something or someone, or to notice something that is obvious

  ➡I perceived a note of unhappiness in her voice.

       👉 Related: (adj.) Perceivable / Percipient / Perceptible / Perceptive

                           (n.) Perception / Percept / Apperception

 

 Ad- : "to, toward, near, at" in space or time

           "with regard to, in relation to,"

💠 Admonish (v.): ad- "to," + monere "advise, warn"

1. to tell someone that they have done something wrong to tell someone that they have done something wrong

       ➡ His mother admonished him for eating too quickly.

   2. to advise someone to do something

  ➡ His mother admonished him for eating too quickly.

      👉 Related: (adj.) Admonished

                          (n.) Admonishing

 Octo- : eight

💠 Octogenarian (n.): octo "eight" + -genaria "ten times,"

1. a person who is between 80 and 89 years old

 

Pre- : before

💠 Precocious (adj.): pre- "before" + coquere "to ripen"

1. (especially of children) showing mental development or achievement much earlier than usual

      ➡ A precocious child, she went to university at the age of 15

   2. ( disapproving ) A precocious child behaves as if they are much older than they are

      ➡ a precocious little brat

     👉 Related: (n.) Precociousness / Precocity

 

 

in- : not, opposite of, without

 

💠 Impunity (n.): in- "not, opposite of" + poena "punishment"

1. freedom from punishment or from the unpleasant results of something that has been done

       ➡ Criminal gangs are terrorizing the city with apparent impunity

 

       👉 Related: (adj.) Impune

 

                          (n.) Impunity

 

💠 Inexorable (adj.): in- "not, opposite of" + exorabilis "able to be entreated,"

1. continuing without any possibility of being stopped

       ➡ the inexorable progress of science

       👉 Related: (adj.) Inexorably

                           (adv.) inexorability