Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder

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• -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BELL comes from the Latin word meaning " war. " Bellona was the little-known Roman goddess of war, her husband, Mars, was god of war. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- antebellum: Existing before a war, especially before the American Civil War (1861- 1865). * When World War I was over, the French nobility found it impossible to return to their extravagant antebellum way of life. Often the word antebellum summons up images of ease, elegance, and entertainment on a grand scale that disappeared in the postwar years. That way of life in the American South depend... (查看原文)

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• -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUB means "under," as in subway, submarine, and substandard. A subject is a person who is under the authority of another. The word subscribe once meant "to write one's name underneath," and subscription was the act of signing at the end of a document or agreement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- subconscious: Existing in the mind just below the level of awareness. * After dropping three dishes in a week I began to think that there might be some kind of subconscious urge to destroy my case of butterfingers. We are generally not aware, or at least not fully... (查看原文)

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