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affluence
An abundance of wealth.
🌱The affluence of the city's northern suburbs is indicated by the huge houses there. 🌳Affluence comes from the Latin verb affluere,"to flow abundantly." Thus, someone or something blessed with affluence has received an incoming flood of riches. Since the affluent residents of suburbs often work in the central city but pay taxes back home, the wealth of some metropolitan areas tends to flow in one direction—out. effluent Polluting waste material discharged into the environment.
🌱The effluent from the mill had long ago turned this once-beautiful stream into a foul-smelling open-air sewer. 🌳Effluent comes from the Latin verb effluere,"to flow out." In an older meaning, an effluent was a stream flowing out of a river or lake. But nowadays effluent almost always means wastes that pour into our water and air. Liquid factory waste, smoke, and raw sewage can all be called effluents. An effluent filter keeps treated waste flowing out of a septic tank from clogging up its drainage pipes. confluence 1、 A coming or flowing together at one point.
2、 A place of meeting, especially of two streams.
🌱The confluence of several large economic forces led to the "perfect storm" that shook the world economy in 2008. 🌳The joining of rivers—as at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, where the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers flow together spectacularly—was the original meaning of confluence, and in its later meanings we still hear a strong echo of the physical merging of waters. So today we can speak of a confluence of events, a confluence of interests, a confluence of cultures, and so on, from which something important often emerges. mellifluous Flowing like honey; sweetened as if with honey.
🌱His rich, mellifluous voice is familiar to us from countless voice-overs for commercials, station breaks, and documentaries. 🌳With its root mel-, meaning "honey," mellifluous means literally "flowing like honey." The word usually applies to sound; it has often been used to describe voices such as Renee Fleming's or Barbra Streisand's, or pieces by composers such as Ravel and Debussy. The DJ on a radio station that plays soft music may have a voice so mellifluous that it almost puts the listener to sleep.
🌱The affluence of the city's northern suburbs is indicated by the huge houses there. 🌳Affluence comes from the Latin verb affluere,"to flow abundantly." Thus, someone or something blessed with affluence has received an incoming flood of riches. Since the affluent residents of suburbs often work in the central city but pay taxes back home, the wealth of some metropolitan areas tends to flow in one direction—out. effluent Polluting waste material discharged into the environment.
🌱The effluent from the mill had long ago turned this once-beautiful stream into a foul-smelling open-air sewer. 🌳Effluent comes from the Latin verb effluere,"to flow out." In an older meaning, an effluent was a stream flowing out of a river or lake. But nowadays effluent almost always means wastes that pour into our water and air. Liquid factory waste, smoke, and raw sewage can all be called effluents. An effluent filter keeps treated waste flowing out of a septic tank from clogging up its drainage pipes. confluence 1、 A coming or flowing together at one point.
2、 A place of meeting, especially of two streams.
🌱The confluence of several large economic forces led to the "perfect storm" that shook the world economy in 2008. 🌳The joining of rivers—as at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, where the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers flow together spectacularly—was the original meaning of confluence, and in its later meanings we still hear a strong echo of the physical merging of waters. So today we can speak of a confluence of events, a confluence of interests, a confluence of cultures, and so on, from which something important often emerges. mellifluous Flowing like honey; sweetened as if with honey.
🌱His rich, mellifluous voice is familiar to us from countless voice-overs for commercials, station breaks, and documentaries. 🌳With its root mel-, meaning "honey," mellifluous means literally "flowing like honey." The word usually applies to sound; it has often been used to describe voices such as Renee Fleming's or Barbra Streisand's, or pieces by composers such as Ravel and Debussy. The DJ on a radio station that plays soft music may have a voice so mellifluous that it almost puts the listener to sleep.
FLU comes from the Latin verb fluere,"to flow." So a flume is a narrow gorge with a stream flowing through it. A fluent speaker is one from whom words flow easily. Influence originally referred to an invisible fluid that was believed to flow from the stars and to affect the actions of humans. A mysterious outbreak of disease in 15th-century Italy led Italians to blame it on the stars' influenza—and the name stuck.🌸