mindmap root((DUC/DUCT)) conducive Tending to promote, encourage, or assist; helpful.
🌱She found the atmosphere in the quiet café conducive to study and even to creative thinking. 🌳Something conducive "leads to" a desirable result. A cozy living room may be conducive to relaxed conversation, just as a boardroom may be conducive to more intense discussions. Particular tax policies are often conducive to savings and investment, whereas others are conducive to consumer spending. Notice that conducive is almost always followed by to. deduction 1、 Subtraction.
2、 The reaching of a conclusion by reasoning.
🌱Foretelling the future by deduction based on a political or economic theory has proved to be extremely difficult. 🌳To deduct is simply to subtract. A tax deduction is a subtraction from your taxable income allowed by the government for certain expenses, which will result in your paying lower taxes. Your insurance deductible is the amount of a medical bill that the insurance company makes you subtract before it starts to pay—in other words, the amount that will come out of your own pocket. But deduction also means "reasoning," and particularly reasoning based on general principles to produce specific findings. Mathematical reasoning is almost always deduction, for instance, since it is based on general rules. But when Dr. Watson exclaims "Brilliant deduction, my dear Holmes!" he simply means "brilliant reasoning," since Sherlock Holmes's solutions are based on specific details he has noticed rather than on general principles. induce 1、 Persuade, influence.
2、 Bring about.
🌱To induce him to make the call we had to promise we wouldn't do it again. 🌳Inducing is usually gentle persuasion; you may, for instance, induce a friend to go to a concert, or induce a child to stop crying. An inducement is something that might lure you to do something, though inducements are occasionally a bit menacing, like the Godfather's offer that you can't refuse. Induce also sometimes means "produce"; thus, doctors must at times induce labor in a pregnant woman. Notice that induct and induction are somewhat different from induce and inducement, though they come from the identical roots. seduction 1、 Temptation to sin, especially temptation to sexual intercourse.
2、 Attraction or charm.
🌱The company began its campaign of seduction of the smaller firm by inviting its top management to a series of weekends at expensive resorts. 🌳Seduction, with its prefix se-,"aside," means basically "lead aside or astray." In Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a large scarlet A, for "adulteress," after it is revealed that she's been seduced by the Reverend Dimmesdale. Seduction also takes less physical forms. Advertisements constantly try to seduce us （often using sex as a temptation） into buying products we hadn't even known existed.