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cavil

v.吹毛求疵 [find fault with unnecessarily; to raise trivial objection]

  ex. He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.

note:

cavil   v.吹毛求疵

civil  adj.市民的、彬彬有禮的 (有禮貌的人不會吹毛求疵)

cavity

cave-ity

n.洞;腔

cavort

v.歡躍  [To bound or prance(馬的騰躍) about in a sprightly manner]

cavort<> trudge

歡躍<> 艱苦跋涉

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~udge四人組

drudge  v.做苦工

grudge  v.吝嗇、勉強給

trudge   v.跋涉

smudge  v.弄髒 n.汙漬

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cede

v.割讓 to yield or formally surrender to another

   ex. to cede territory.

   ex. China ceded the island of Hong Kong to the British.

v.放棄

cede <> possess

放棄<> 擁有

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字根  ced    cess == go走、yield讓步

       ceed

cede      v.割讓、放棄 [做yield解]

cession  n.割讓

*cess-ation n.停止、中斷 [a temporary or complete stopping] (a cessation of the thunder)

concede        v.勉強承認 [做yield解]

concession     n.讓步

concessive  adj.讓步的

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來分清楚下面三個小字根吧~

celer    == swift 快速的

celeber == famous 有名的

cereber == brain 大腦

   celerity  n.快速

accelerate v.加速

decelerate v.減速

celebrate     v.慶祝

celebrated adj.有名的

celebrity       n.名人、知名度

cerebral   adj.大腦的

cerebrum    n.大腦

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celebrated

celeber(有名)-ated

adj.有名的

celebrity

celeber(有名)-ity

n.名聲; 名人

celebrity<>obscurity

名人<>(暗淡)or無名的人

celestial

celest(天空)-ial

adj.天空的 pertaining to the sky or visible heaven.

  ex.Planets are celestial bodies.

cellar

n.地窖 [ an underground room ]

n.酒窖

cello

n.大提琴

(a和o結尾的單詞一般都是源於意大利，有音樂的意思)

cement

n.水泥

v.黏牢

ps. cemetery    n.墳墓，公墓

ps. clement    adj.仁慈的;厚道的 [mild or merciful in disposition or character]

censor

v. 審查 ( 書、新聞、電影等，刪去其中在道德上、政治上不宜的內容 )

n. 審查官 an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.

censor·expurgate  審查·刪除無用的字or章節

census

n.人口普查[ an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.]

 census·population =  inventory·stock

戶口普查·  人口       =  存貨清單  ·  存貨 （前者為後者的清單）

centaur

n.【希神】半人半馬的怪物 Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.