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carnage
Great destruction of life （as in a battle）; slaughter.
🌱Countries around the world appealed to all sides of the conflict to stop the carnage of the war in Bosnia. 🌳This word was taken over straight from French （a Latin-based language）, and has mostly referred to large-scale killing in wartime. But carnage needn't refer only to slaughter on the battlefield. With tens of thousands of people dying each year in automobile accidents, it's appropriate to speak of carnage on the nation's highways. And those concerned about the effects of the violence we see constantly on TV and movie screens may refer to that as carnage as well. carnal Having to do with bodily pleasures.
🌱The news stories about students on Spring Break tend to focus on the carnal pleasures associated with the annual ritual. 🌳In Christianity in past centuries, carnal was often used as the opposite of spiritual, describing what are sometimes called "the pleasures of the flesh." Thus, gluttony—the consumption of excessive food and drink—was a deadly carnal sin, whereas the holiest monks and hermits might eat hardly anything and never touch wine. Today carnal has a somewhat old-fashioned sound; when we use it, we generally mean simply "sexual." incarnate Given bodily or actual form; especially, having human body.
🌱For the rest of his life, he would regard his childhood nanny as goodness incarnate. 🌳Incarnate often has a religious ring to it, since for centuries it has been used in the Christian church, which regards Jesus as the incarnation of God—that is, as God made human. Surprisingly, neither word appears in Bible translations; instead, the Latin word incarnatus appears in the Christian creeds （basic statements of belief） and the Catholic Mass. Regardless, incarnate soon began to be used with various nouns: "the devil incarnate," "evil incarnate," etc. Notice that incarnate is one of the rare adjectives that usually, but not always, follows its noun. Incarnate is also a verb, though with a slightly different pronunciation: "This report simply incarnates the prejudices of its authors," "For her followers, she incarnates the virtue of selflessness," etc. reincarnation 1、 Rebirth in new bodies or forms of life.
2、 Someone who has been born again with a new body after death.
🌱Even as a child he struck everyone as a reincarnation of his grandfather, not in his features but in his manner and personality. 🌳It's easy to make fun of people who claim to be the reincarnation of Cleopatra or Napoleon, but they don't come from a culture that takes reincarnation seriously. In Hindu belief, a person must pass through a series of reincarnations—some of which may be as insects or fish—before fully realizing that the bodily pleasures are shallow and that only spiritual life is truly valuable; only then do the reincarnations cease. For Hindus, an "old soul" is a person who seems unusually wise from early in life, and whose wisdom must have come from passing through many reincarnations.
🌱Countries around the world appealed to all sides of the conflict to stop the carnage of the war in Bosnia. 🌳This word was taken over straight from French （a Latin-based language）, and has mostly referred to large-scale killing in wartime. But carnage needn't refer only to slaughter on the battlefield. With tens of thousands of people dying each year in automobile accidents, it's appropriate to speak of carnage on the nation's highways. And those concerned about the effects of the violence we see constantly on TV and movie screens may refer to that as carnage as well. carnal Having to do with bodily pleasures.
🌱The news stories about students on Spring Break tend to focus on the carnal pleasures associated with the annual ritual. 🌳In Christianity in past centuries, carnal was often used as the opposite of spiritual, describing what are sometimes called "the pleasures of the flesh." Thus, gluttony—the consumption of excessive food and drink—was a deadly carnal sin, whereas the holiest monks and hermits might eat hardly anything and never touch wine. Today carnal has a somewhat old-fashioned sound; when we use it, we generally mean simply "sexual." incarnate Given bodily or actual form; especially, having human body.
🌱For the rest of his life, he would regard his childhood nanny as goodness incarnate. 🌳Incarnate often has a religious ring to it, since for centuries it has been used in the Christian church, which regards Jesus as the incarnation of God—that is, as God made human. Surprisingly, neither word appears in Bible translations; instead, the Latin word incarnatus appears in the Christian creeds （basic statements of belief） and the Catholic Mass. Regardless, incarnate soon began to be used with various nouns: "the devil incarnate," "evil incarnate," etc. Notice that incarnate is one of the rare adjectives that usually, but not always, follows its noun. Incarnate is also a verb, though with a slightly different pronunciation: "This report simply incarnates the prejudices of its authors," "For her followers, she incarnates the virtue of selflessness," etc. reincarnation 1、 Rebirth in new bodies or forms of life.
2、 Someone who has been born again with a new body after death.
🌱Even as a child he struck everyone as a reincarnation of his grandfather, not in his features but in his manner and personality. 🌳It's easy to make fun of people who claim to be the reincarnation of Cleopatra or Napoleon, but they don't come from a culture that takes reincarnation seriously. In Hindu belief, a person must pass through a series of reincarnations—some of which may be as insects or fish—before fully realizing that the bodily pleasures are shallow and that only spiritual life is truly valuable; only then do the reincarnations cease. For Hindus, an "old soul" is a person who seems unusually wise from early in life, and whose wisdom must have come from passing through many reincarnations.
CARN comes from a Latin word meaning "flesh" or "meat." Carnation originally meant "the color of flesh," which was once the only color of the flower we call the carnation. In Christian countries, Lent is the period when the faithful traditionally give up something they love, often meat. The days leading up to Lent are known as the carnival season, from the Italian carnelevare, later shortened to carnevale, which meant "removal of meat"—though during carnival, of course, people indulge in just about everything, and the removal of meat only comes later.🌸