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pest ilent (ˈpɛstɪlənt)

pest-i-lent

adj. [destructive to life; deadly; poisonous.]

adj. [producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.]

ex. I'm glad to find another true-hearted loyalist in this pestilent city.

ps. Pestilence, one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse symbolizing plague (contagious disease) in some interpretations of the book of Revelation.

pester

v. [to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble]

ex. Don't pester me with your trivial problems.

ex. He told the photographers to stop pestering him.

聯想：蟲子會bother

pestle

n. [a tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar.]

ps. mortar

petal

n.花瓣 [any of the separate parts of the corolla of a flower: often brightly colored]

from wiki:

Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers. They often are brightly colored or unusually shaped to attract pollinators. Together, all of the petals of a flower are called a corolla. Petals are usually accompanied by another set of special leaves called sepals(花萼) lying just beneath the corolla. When the petals and sepals of a flower look similar they are called tepals.

ps.可review p.58

pedal n.腳踏板(腳踏車的)

pedestal n.柱腳 // plinth n.基座

petition

pet(seek)-it-ion

n. [a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit]

ex. a petition against closing the swimming-pool signed by hundreds of local residents 數百名當地居民聯合簽名反對關閉遊泳池的請願書

v. [to beg for or request (something).]

from wiki:

A "petition" is a written request to parliament for action, such as a need to change an existing law or to pass a new law. It is accompanied by a collection of signatures that shows the signatories to be concerned about the issue or problem and to support the specific request.

類似聯名的請願

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reveiew p.98

字根

pet == seek尋找 //c.f 字根 quer-->quir quest quisit == seek

compete v.競爭

compet-ent adj.勝任的

compet-ence n.勝任、能力

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petitioner

pet-itioner

n. [a person who presents a petition]

ps. A petitioner is a person who brings a legal case to a court of law.

The petitioner may seek a legal remedy if the state or another private person has acted unlawfully. In this case, the petitioner , often called a plaintiff , will submit a plea to a court to resolve the dispute.

petrify

petr(rock)-ify

v. [to convert into stone or a stony substance.]

ps. Petrified Forest National Park

from wiki. In geology, petrifaction, petrification or silicification is the process by which organic material is converted into stone by impregnation with silica. It is a rare form of fossilization. Petrified wood is the most well known result of this process, but all organisms from bacteria to vertebrates can be petrified.

A major ingredient in the cell walls of wood is cellulose. Under certain conditions the silica binds to the cellulose; when it crystallizes, it preserves the microscopic structure of wood even after the cellulose is gone.

ps.

petroleum 石油

petrol(rock)-eum

eum-a suffix occurring in some Latin scientific names