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root((CENTR/CENTER))
eccentric
1、 Not following an established or usual style or conduct.
2、 Straying from a circular path; off-center.
🌱She keeps a dozen stray cats in her house and is rather eccentric, but her neighbors say she's very pleasant and completely harmless. 🌳An eccentric wheel spins unevenly, and an eccentric person is similarly a little off-center. Most eccentricities are inoffensive to others, and some may even do some good. For instance, riding a bicycle to work might be considered eccentric by some people, but it's good exercise and it cuts down on pollution. Some eccentrics are just ahead of their time. epicenter 1、 The location on the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
2、 The center or focus of activity.
🌱The destruction caused by Mexico City's earthquake was extensive because the city was at the quake's epicenter. 🌳The meaning of epi- in epicenter is "over," so the epicenter of an earthquake lies over the center or "focus" of the quake. Epicenter can also refer to the centers of things that may seem in their own way as powerful—though not as destructive—as earthquakes. Wall Street, for example, might be said to lie at the epicenter of the financial world. egocentric Overly concerned with oneself; self-centered.
🌱He's brilliant but completely egocentric, and the only things he'll talk about are his own life and work. 🌳Ego means "I" in Latin. To an egocentric person, Iis the most important word in the language. Great artists and writers are often egocentrics; such people can be hard to live with, though their egocentricity, an unfortunate side effect of their talent, is often forgiven. But ordinary egocentricity, which shows up as selfishness, lack of sympathy, and lack of interest in other people, usually has little to do with any personal talent or success. ethnocentric Marked by or based on the attitude that one's own group is superior to others.
🌱Some reviewers criticized the ethnocentric bias that came through in the way the film portrayed immigrants. 🌳The Greek word ethnos means "nation" or "people." So ethnocentricity shows itself in a lack of respect for other ways of life, and an ethnocentric person feels that his or her own nation or group is the cultural center of the world. Ethnocentric describes the kind of person who behaves badly when traveling in foreign countries, often called an "Ugly American" （from a book and movie of the same name）. Whenever you hear someone making fun of the way a foreigner speaks English, just remember that it's the foreigner, not the person laughing at him, who actually can speak a foreign language.
2、 Straying from a circular path; off-center.
🌱She keeps a dozen stray cats in her house and is rather eccentric, but her neighbors say she's very pleasant and completely harmless. 🌳An eccentric wheel spins unevenly, and an eccentric person is similarly a little off-center. Most eccentricities are inoffensive to others, and some may even do some good. For instance, riding a bicycle to work might be considered eccentric by some people, but it's good exercise and it cuts down on pollution. Some eccentrics are just ahead of their time. epicenter 1、 The location on the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
2、 The center or focus of activity.
🌱The destruction caused by Mexico City's earthquake was extensive because the city was at the quake's epicenter. 🌳The meaning of epi- in epicenter is "over," so the epicenter of an earthquake lies over the center or "focus" of the quake. Epicenter can also refer to the centers of things that may seem in their own way as powerful—though not as destructive—as earthquakes. Wall Street, for example, might be said to lie at the epicenter of the financial world. egocentric Overly concerned with oneself; self-centered.
🌱He's brilliant but completely egocentric, and the only things he'll talk about are his own life and work. 🌳Ego means "I" in Latin. To an egocentric person, Iis the most important word in the language. Great artists and writers are often egocentrics; such people can be hard to live with, though their egocentricity, an unfortunate side effect of their talent, is often forgiven. But ordinary egocentricity, which shows up as selfishness, lack of sympathy, and lack of interest in other people, usually has little to do with any personal talent or success. ethnocentric Marked by or based on the attitude that one's own group is superior to others.
🌱Some reviewers criticized the ethnocentric bias that came through in the way the film portrayed immigrants. 🌳The Greek word ethnos means "nation" or "people." So ethnocentricity shows itself in a lack of respect for other ways of life, and an ethnocentric person feels that his or her own nation or group is the cultural center of the world. Ethnocentric describes the kind of person who behaves badly when traveling in foreign countries, often called an "Ugly American" （from a book and movie of the same name）. Whenever you hear someone making fun of the way a foreigner speaks English, just remember that it's the foreigner, not the person laughing at him, who actually can speak a foreign language.
CENTR/CENTER comes from the Greek kentron and the Latin centrum, meaning "sharp point" or "center point of a circle." A centrifuge is a spinning machine that throws things outward from the center; the apparent force that pushes them outward is called centrifugal force.🌸