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dystopia
An imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives.
🌱For a 10-year-old British boy, boarding school could be a grim dystopia, with no comforts, harsh punishments, and constant bullying. 🌳Dystopia was created from Utopia, the name of an ideal country imagined by Sir Thomas More in 1516. For More, the suffix -topia meant "place" （See TOP,） and u- （from the Greek root ou meant "no," but also perhaps "good" （See EU.）In other words, More's Utopia was too good to be true. It's probably no accident that dystopia was first used around 1950, soon after George Orwell published his famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and 16 years after Aldous Huxley published Brave New World.These two are still the most famous of the 20th century's many depressingly dystopian novels. And what about all those bleak futuristic films: Blade Runner, Brazil, The Matrix, and the rest? What does it mean when no one will paint a picture of a happy future? dyslexia A disturbance or interference with the ability to read or to use language.
🌱She managed to deal with her dyslexia through careful tutoring all throughout elementary school. 🌳Dyslexia is a neurological disorder that usually affects people of average or superior intelligence. Dyslexic individuals have an impaired ability to recognize and process words and letters. Dyslexia usually shows itself in the tendency to read and write words and letters in reversed order; sometimes similar reversals occur in the person's speech. Dyslexia has been shown to be treatable through patient instruction in proper reading techniques. dyspeptic 1、 Relating to or suffering from indigestion.
2、 Having an irritable temperament; ill-humored.
🌱For decades the dyspeptic columnist served as the newspaper's—and the city's—resident grouch. 🌳Dyspepsia comes from the Greek word for "bad digestion." Interestingly, the Greek verb pessein can mean either "to cook" or "to digest"; bad cooking has been responsible for a lot of dyspepsia. Dyspepsia can be caused by many diseases, but dyspeptic individuals are often the victims of their own habits and appetites. Worry, overeating, inadequate chewing, and excessive smoking and drinking can all bring on dyspepsia. Today we generally use dyspeptic to mean "irritable"—that is, in the kind of mood that could be produced by bad digestion. dysplasia Abnormal development of cells or organs, or an abnormal structure resulting from such growth.
🌱The infant was born with minor hip dysplasia, which was fixed by a routine operation. 🌳Of the dozens of medical terms that begin with the dys- prefix, dysplasia （with the suffix -plasia, meaning "development"） is one of the more common, though not many nondoctors know it. Structural dysplasias are usually something you're born with; they often involve the hip or the kidneys. But cell dysplasia is often associated with cancer. And a dysplastic mole—a mole that changes shape in an odd way—is always something to be concerned about.
🌱For a 10-year-old British boy, boarding school could be a grim dystopia, with no comforts, harsh punishments, and constant bullying. 🌳Dystopia was created from Utopia, the name of an ideal country imagined by Sir Thomas More in 1516. For More, the suffix -topia meant "place" （See TOP,） and u- （from the Greek root ou meant "no," but also perhaps "good" （See EU.）In other words, More's Utopia was too good to be true. It's probably no accident that dystopia was first used around 1950, soon after George Orwell published his famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and 16 years after Aldous Huxley published Brave New World.These two are still the most famous of the 20th century's many depressingly dystopian novels. And what about all those bleak futuristic films: Blade Runner, Brazil, The Matrix, and the rest? What does it mean when no one will paint a picture of a happy future? dyslexia A disturbance or interference with the ability to read or to use language.
🌱She managed to deal with her dyslexia through careful tutoring all throughout elementary school. 🌳Dyslexia is a neurological disorder that usually affects people of average or superior intelligence. Dyslexic individuals have an impaired ability to recognize and process words and letters. Dyslexia usually shows itself in the tendency to read and write words and letters in reversed order; sometimes similar reversals occur in the person's speech. Dyslexia has been shown to be treatable through patient instruction in proper reading techniques. dyspeptic 1、 Relating to or suffering from indigestion.
2、 Having an irritable temperament; ill-humored.
🌱For decades the dyspeptic columnist served as the newspaper's—and the city's—resident grouch. 🌳Dyspepsia comes from the Greek word for "bad digestion." Interestingly, the Greek verb pessein can mean either "to cook" or "to digest"; bad cooking has been responsible for a lot of dyspepsia. Dyspepsia can be caused by many diseases, but dyspeptic individuals are often the victims of their own habits and appetites. Worry, overeating, inadequate chewing, and excessive smoking and drinking can all bring on dyspepsia. Today we generally use dyspeptic to mean "irritable"—that is, in the kind of mood that could be produced by bad digestion. dysplasia Abnormal development of cells or organs, or an abnormal structure resulting from such growth.
🌱The infant was born with minor hip dysplasia, which was fixed by a routine operation. 🌳Of the dozens of medical terms that begin with the dys- prefix, dysplasia （with the suffix -plasia, meaning "development"） is one of the more common, though not many nondoctors know it. Structural dysplasias are usually something you're born with; they often involve the hip or the kidneys. But cell dysplasia is often associated with cancer. And a dysplastic mole—a mole that changes shape in an odd way—is always something to be concerned about.
DYS comes from Greek, where it means "bad" or "difficult." So dysphagia is difficult swallowing, and dyspnea is difficult or labored breathing. Dysphasia is an inability to use and understand language because of injury to or disease of the brain. Dys- is sometimes close in meaning to dis- (See DIS,) but try not to confuse the two.🌸