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root((PLE/PLEN))
plenary
1、 Including all who have a right to attend.
2、 Complete in all ways.
🌱For the convention's plenary session, five thousand members gathered to hear a star speaker. 🌳Plenary often shows up in writing referring to the "plenary power" held by a government, and is particularly used for powers mentioned in a constitution. For example, under the U.S. Constitution, the Congress has plenary power to wage war, which means that no one else—not the courts, not the states, not the president—has any power whatsoever to second-guess Congress about warmaking. But in recent years, that hasn't stopped some presidents from starting conflicts that looked a lot like wars to most people. At a conference, the plenary sessions （unlike the various smaller "presentations," "workshops," "forums," and "seminars" that otherwise fill the day） try to bring everyone together in the same room. complement 1、 Something that fills up or makes perfect; the amount needed to make something complete.
2、 A counterpart.
🌱On the committee, the two young people provided an energetic complement to the older members. 🌳A complement fills out or balances something. We think of salt as the complement of pepper （maybe mostly because of their colors）, and the right necktie is a perfect complement to a good suit. Complement can also mean "the full quantity, number, or amount"; thus, a ship's complement of officers and crew is the whole force necessary for full operation. Complement is actually most common as a verb; we may say, for example, that a bright blue scarf complements a cream-colored outfit beautifully. Don't confuse complement with compliment, which means an expression of respect or affection. deplete To reduce in amount by using up.
🌱Years of farming on the same small plot of land had left the soil depleted of minerals. 🌳The de- prefix often means "do the opposite of," so deplete means the opposite of "fill." Thus, for example, a kitchen's food supplies can be rapidly depleted by hungry teenagers. But deplete often suggests something more serious. Desertions can deplete an army; layoffs can deplete an office staff; and too much time in bed can rapidly deplete your muscular strength. replete Fully or abundantly filled or supplied.
🌱The professor's autobiography was replete with scandalous anecdotes about campus life in the 1950s. 🌳Replete implies that something is filled almost to capacity. Autumn landscapes in New England are replete with colorful foliage. Supermarket tabloids are always replete with details of stars' lives, whether real or imaginary. And a professor may complain that most of the papers she received were replete with errors in grammar and punctuation.
2、 Complete in all ways.
🌱For the convention's plenary session, five thousand members gathered to hear a star speaker. 🌳Plenary often shows up in writing referring to the "plenary power" held by a government, and is particularly used for powers mentioned in a constitution. For example, under the U.S. Constitution, the Congress has plenary power to wage war, which means that no one else—not the courts, not the states, not the president—has any power whatsoever to second-guess Congress about warmaking. But in recent years, that hasn't stopped some presidents from starting conflicts that looked a lot like wars to most people. At a conference, the plenary sessions （unlike the various smaller "presentations," "workshops," "forums," and "seminars" that otherwise fill the day） try to bring everyone together in the same room. complement 1、 Something that fills up or makes perfect; the amount needed to make something complete.
2、 A counterpart.
🌱On the committee, the two young people provided an energetic complement to the older members. 🌳A complement fills out or balances something. We think of salt as the complement of pepper （maybe mostly because of their colors）, and the right necktie is a perfect complement to a good suit. Complement can also mean "the full quantity, number, or amount"; thus, a ship's complement of officers and crew is the whole force necessary for full operation. Complement is actually most common as a verb; we may say, for example, that a bright blue scarf complements a cream-colored outfit beautifully. Don't confuse complement with compliment, which means an expression of respect or affection. deplete To reduce in amount by using up.
🌱Years of farming on the same small plot of land had left the soil depleted of minerals. 🌳The de- prefix often means "do the opposite of," so deplete means the opposite of "fill." Thus, for example, a kitchen's food supplies can be rapidly depleted by hungry teenagers. But deplete often suggests something more serious. Desertions can deplete an army; layoffs can deplete an office staff; and too much time in bed can rapidly deplete your muscular strength. replete Fully or abundantly filled or supplied.
🌱The professor's autobiography was replete with scandalous anecdotes about campus life in the 1950s. 🌳Replete implies that something is filled almost to capacity. Autumn landscapes in New England are replete with colorful foliage. Supermarket tabloids are always replete with details of stars' lives, whether real or imaginary. And a professor may complain that most of the papers she received were replete with errors in grammar and punctuation.
PLE/PLEN comes from a Latin word meaning "to fill." It can be seen in the words plenty, meaning basically "filled," and complete, meaning "thoroughly filled."🌸