mindmap root((CAD)) cadaver A dead body, especially one that is to be dissected; a corpse.
🌱The cadaver she was given to work on, from the Manhattan morgue, was that of an unclaimed homeless woman. 🌳Since a corpse is a body that has "fallen down dead," the root cad- seems at home here. For most of us, cadaver has an impersonal sound, and indeed the word is often used for a body whose identity isn't important: most medical students probably don't spend much time wondering who they're dissecting. Someone with cadaverous features looks like a corpse before he or she is dead. decadent Marked by decay or decline, especially in morals.
🌱The French empire may have been at its most decadent just before the French Revolution. 🌳To be decadent is to be in the process of decay, so a powerful nation may be said to be in a decadent stage if its power is fading. But the word is more often used to speak of moral decay. Ever since the Roman empire, we've tended to link Rome's fall to the moral decay of its ruling class, who indulged in extreme luxuries and unwholesome pleasures while providing the public with cruel spectacles such as the slaughter of the gladiators. But not everyone agrees on what moral decadence looks like （or even how it might have hastened the fall of Rome）, though most people think it involves too many sensual pleasures—as, for instance, among the French and English poets and artists of the 1880s and '90s called the Decadents. These days, for some reason, people have decided decadent is the way to describe rich chocolate cakes. cadence 1、 The close of a musical phrase, especially one that moves to a harmonic point of rest.
2、 The rhythmic flow of sound in language.
🌱As the piano came to a cadence, the singer ascended to a beautiful high note, which she held for several seconds until the piano came in again in a new key. 🌳Most of us hear the ending of a piece of music as a fall to a resting place, even if the melody ends on a high note. And that's the way endings were being heard way back in the 16th century, when cadence first began to be used in English for musical endings. Most cadences are harmonic "formulas" （standard harmonic patterns that we've all heard thousands of times） and we don't expect them to be original; so whether you're consciously aware of it or not, a cadential passage is usually quite recognizable. When cadence means "speech rhythm," its cad- root refers to the way the accents "fall." cadenza A virtuosic flourish or extended passage by a soloist, often improvised, that occurs shortly before the end of a piece or movement.
🌱Each of her arias was greeted with greater applause, but it was the brilliant improvised cadenza of her final number that brought down the house. 🌳A concerto is a large piece for an instrumental soloist （usually playing piano or violin） and orchestra. Concertos are often extremely demanding for the soloist, but the most difficult part of all may be the cadenza, when the orchestra drops out completely, leaving the soloist to dazzle the audience with a set of flourishes, often completely original, right before a movement ends. Cadenzas are also heard in many vocal arias, especially those of the 18th century. The word, borrowed from Italian, originally meant "cadence"; thus, the cadenza, even if it lasts for a couple of minutes, is essentially a decoration of the final important harmonic cadence of the piece.