mindmap root((GREG)) aggregate A collection or sum of units or parts.
🌱His lawyers realize that the aggregate of incriminating details is now pointing toward a conviction. 🌳An aggregate is often an example of something being greater than the sum of its parts. For instance, even if no individual element in a person's background would assure a criminal career, the aggregate of factors could make a life of crime seem unavoidable. Aggregate is often used in the phrase "in the aggregate," as in "Her achievements were, in the aggregate, impressive enough to earn her a scholarship." Aggregate is also an adjective, meaning "total"; so, for instance, economists often discuss aggregate demand for goods and services in the country's economy, just as you yourself might speak about your father's aggregate income from his three jobs. congregation 1、 A gathering of people, especially for worship or religious instruction.
2、 The membership of a church or temple.
🌱That Sunday the congregation was especially large, and the minister delivered one of his best sermons. 🌳The verb congregate may be used for spontaneous gatherings. A crowd quickly congregates at the scene of an accident, for example, just as cows, sheep, or horses tend to congregate during a storm. And under military rule, citizens are often forbidden to congregate on street corners or anywhere else. But a congregation is generally a group that has gathered for a formal purpose, usually in church. The Congregational Church was originally the church of the Puritan settlers, in which each congregation governed its own church independent of any higher authority. egregious Standing out, especially in a bad way; flagrant.
🌱Many of the term papers contained egregious grammatical errors. 🌳Since egregious begins with a short version of ex-, meaning "out of," the word should mean literally "out of the herd." So something egregious possesses some quality that sets it apart from others. Originally, that distinguishing quality was something good, but by the 16th century the word's meaning had taken a U-turn and the word was being applied to things that were outrageously bad. This has remained the most common sense. Thus, an egregious fool is one who manages to outdo run-of-the-mill fools, and egregious rudeness sets a new standard for unpleasant salesclerks. segregate 1、 To separate from others or from the general mass; isolate.
2、 To separate along racial lines.
🌱Some schools are experimenting with gender segregation, claiming that both sexes learn better in classrooms from which the other sex is absent. 🌳The prefix se- means "apart," so when you segregate something you set it apart from the herd. The word typically means separating something undesirable from the healthy majority. During the apple harvest, damaged fruit is segregated from the main crop and used for cider. In prisons, hardened criminals are segregated from youthful offenders. Lepers used to be segregated from the general population because they were thought to be highly infectious. The opposite of segregate is often integrate, and the two words were in the news almost daily for decades as African-Americans struggled to be admitted into all-white schools and neighborhoods.