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alleviate
To lighten, lessen, or relieve, especially physical or mental suffering.
🌱Cold compresses alleviated the pain of the physical injury, but only time could alleviate the effect of the insult. 🌳Physical pain or emotional anguish, or a water shortage or traffic congestion, can all be alleviated by providing the appropriate remedy. But some pain or anguish or shortage or congestion will remain: to alleviate is not to cure. elevation 1、 The height of a place.
2、 The act or result of lifting or raising someone or something.
🌱Her doctor is concerned about the elevation of her blood pressure since her last visit. 🌳When you're hiking, you may be interested in knowing the highest elevation you'll be reaching. Psychologists use the term "mood elevation" to mean improvement in a patient's depression, and some leg ailments require elevation of the limb, usually so that it's higher than the heart for part of each day. *Elevation* can also mean "promotion"; thus, a vice president may be *elevated* to president, or a captain may be elevated to admiral. cantilever A long piece of wood, metal, etc., that sticks out from a wall to support something above it.
🌱The house's deck, supported by cantilevers, jutted out dramatically over the rocky slope, and looking over the edge made him dizzy. 🌳Cantilevers hold up a surface or room without themselves being supported at their outer end. Many outdoor balconies are *cantilevered*, and theater balconies may be as well. A cantilevered bridge may have a huge span （as long as 1,800 feet） built out on either side of a single large foundation pier. Architects sometimes use cantilevered construction to produce dramatic effects; Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house, which extends out over a rocky river, is a famous example. But the Grand Canyon's "Skywalk" has become perhaps the best-known piece of cantilevered construction in America. levity Lack of appropriate seriousness.
🌱The Puritan elders tried to ban levity of all sorts from the community's meetings, but found it increasingly difficult to control the younger generation. 🌳Levity originally was thought to be a physical force exactly like gravity but pulling in the opposite direction, like the helium in a balloon. As recently as the 19th century, scientists were still arguing about its existence. Today *levity* refers only to lightness in manner. To stern believers of some religious faiths, levity is often regarded as almost sinful. But the word, like its synonym *frivolity*, now has an old-fashioned ring to it and is usually used only half-seriously.
🌱Cold compresses alleviated the pain of the physical injury, but only time could alleviate the effect of the insult. 🌳Physical pain or emotional anguish, or a water shortage or traffic congestion, can all be alleviated by providing the appropriate remedy. But some pain or anguish or shortage or congestion will remain: to alleviate is not to cure. elevation 1、 The height of a place.
2、 The act or result of lifting or raising someone or something.
🌱Her doctor is concerned about the elevation of her blood pressure since her last visit. 🌳When you're hiking, you may be interested in knowing the highest elevation you'll be reaching. Psychologists use the term "mood elevation" to mean improvement in a patient's depression, and some leg ailments require elevation of the limb, usually so that it's higher than the heart for part of each day. *Elevation* can also mean "promotion"; thus, a vice president may be *elevated* to president, or a captain may be elevated to admiral. cantilever A long piece of wood, metal, etc., that sticks out from a wall to support something above it.
🌱The house's deck, supported by cantilevers, jutted out dramatically over the rocky slope, and looking over the edge made him dizzy. 🌳Cantilevers hold up a surface or room without themselves being supported at their outer end. Many outdoor balconies are *cantilevered*, and theater balconies may be as well. A cantilevered bridge may have a huge span （as long as 1,800 feet） built out on either side of a single large foundation pier. Architects sometimes use cantilevered construction to produce dramatic effects; Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house, which extends out over a rocky river, is a famous example. But the Grand Canyon's "Skywalk" has become perhaps the best-known piece of cantilevered construction in America. levity Lack of appropriate seriousness.
🌱The Puritan elders tried to ban levity of all sorts from the community's meetings, but found it increasingly difficult to control the younger generation. 🌳Levity originally was thought to be a physical force exactly like gravity but pulling in the opposite direction, like the helium in a balloon. As recently as the 19th century, scientists were still arguing about its existence. Today *levity* refers only to lightness in manner. To stern believers of some religious faiths, levity is often regarded as almost sinful. But the word, like its synonym *frivolity*, now has an old-fashioned ring to it and is usually used only half-seriously.
LEV comes from the Latin adjective levis, meaning "light," and the verb levare, meaning "to raise or lighten." So a lever is a bar used to lift something, by means of leverage.And levitation is the magician's trick in which a body seems to rise into the air by itself.🌸