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MANIA

MANIA：meaning ‘madness’, a mental illness

  • kleptomaniac: a mental illness in which a person has a strong desire to steal things. ‘klepto’ means ‘to steal’
  • dipsomaniac: a person who has strong desire to drink. ‘dipso-‘ means ‘thirst’
  • megalomaniac: a mental disorder marked by feelings of great personal power and importance
  • egomaniac: someone who is extremely self-centered and ignores the problems and concerns of others

PSYCH

PSYCH: meaning ‘breath, soul, life’

  • psyche: soul, personality, mind. nation’s psyche
  • psychedelic: of or relating to drug that produces abnormal and often extreme mental effects
  • psychosomatic: caused by mental or emotional problems rather than by physical illness. she has psychosomatic problems
  • psychotherapist: / psychiatrist

CEPT

CEPT: meaning to take, to seize

  • reception: the act of receiving; a social gathering where guests are formally welcomed
  • intercept: to stop, or interrupt
  • perceptible: noticeable or able to be felt by the senses
  • susceptible: open to some influence; able to be submitted to an action or process

FIN

FIN: meaning end or boundary

  • confine: to keep someone or something within limits; to hold someone in a location
  • definitive: specifying perfectly or precisely
  • finite: having definite limits | | infinite
  • infinitesimal: extremely small

JECT

JECT：meaning “throw” or “hurl”

  • interject: to interrupt a conversation
  • conjecture: to guess, together to throw
  • projection: an estimate of what might happen
  • trajectory: “trans” meaning across, so we can say the trajectory of bullet

TRACT

TRACT: meaning “drag” or “draw”

  • traction: the friction
  • retract: to pull back
  • protracted: continued or extended
  • intractable: not easily handled, led, taught

DUC/DUCT

DUC/DUCT: to lead

  • conducive: tending to promote, encourage, or assist
  • deduction: subtraction
  • induce: bring about
  • seduction: attraction or charm

SEQU

SEQU: to follow

  • sequential: arranged in order or in a series
  • subsequent: following in time, subsequent days/years，subsequently(finally)
  • consequential: resulting, important
  • non sequitur: it does not follow

Words from Mythology

  • Apollonian: ordered, rational, calm, harmonious, Apollonian style
  • bacchanalian: frenzied(frenzied crowd), orgiastic(frenzied 是情绪发疯狂乱；orgiastic 是肉体 / 感官纵情放纵。), bacchanalian style
  • delphic: unclear, ambiguous, or confusing, delphic comments
  • dionysian: 狂热的（哲学层面）
  • jovial: jolly, good-natured, Jove or jupiter , the roman counterpart of greek’s zeus
  • mercurial: having rapid and unpredictable change of mood, mercury(水银)
  • olympian: lofty, superior, and detached
  • venereal: having to do with sexual intercourse or disease transmitted by it, Venus was the roman goddess of love, the equivalent of the Greek Aphrodite(阿佛洛狄忒), venereal disease

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