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广告招租，e-mail:yesize@hotmail.com Unit1 BELL comes from the Latin word meaning "war." Bellona was the little-known Roman goddess of war; her husband, Mars, was the god of war. Antebellum, bellicose, belligerence, rebellion PAC/PEAS is related to the Latin words for "agree" and "peace." The Pacific Ocean-that is, the "Peaceful Ocean"-was named by Magellan because it seemed so calm after the storms near Carp Horn. (He obviously never witnessed a Pacific hurricane.) Pacify, pacifist, pact, appease, HOSP/HOST comes from the Latin word hopes and its stem hospital- meaning both ’host’ and ’guest.’ Many words based on it came to English through French, which often dropped the -pi-, leaving host-. Hospitality was once a house for religious pilgrims and other travelers, or a home for the aged. Hostage, hospice, hostile, inhospitable AM/IM comes from the Latin word amare, ’to love.’ Amiable means ’friendly or good-natured, ’ and amigo is Spanish for ’friend.’ Amicable, enamored, inimical, paramour CRIM comes from the Latin for ’fault or crime’ or ’accusation,’ and produces such English words as crime and criminal. Criminology, decriminalize, incriminate, recrimination PROB/PROV comes from the Latin words for ’prove or proof’ and ’honesty or integrity.’ To prove a statement is to ’make it honest,’ and probate court is where the genuineness of the wills of deceased people must be proved. Approbation, disprove, probity, reprobate GRAV comes from the Latin word meaning ’heavy, weighty, serious.’ Thus, a grave matter is serious and important. Gravid, gravities, gravitate, gravity LEV comes from the Latin adjective levis, meaning ’light’ and the verb leaver, meaning ’to raise or lighten.’ Levitation is the magician’s trick in which a body seems to rise into the air by itself. And a lever is a bar used to lift something by means of leverage. Alleviate, elevate, leavening, levity
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