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root((POLIS/POLIT))
politic
1、 Cleverly tactful.
2、 Wise in promoting a plan or plan of action.
🌱Anger is rarely a politic way to seek agreement, since it usually comes across as rude and self-righteous. 🌳Politic behavior in class always requires a respectful attitude toward your teacher. It's never politic to ask for a raise when your boss is in a terrible mood. And once teenagers learn to drive, they quickly learn the politic way to ask for the car—that is, whatever gets the keys without upsetting the parents. As you can see, politic can be used for many situations that have nothing to do with public politics. politicize To give a political tone or character to.
🌱By 1968 the Vietnam War had deeply politicized most of America's college campuses. 🌳Sexual harassment was once seen as a private matter, but in the 1980s and '90s it became thoroughly politicized, with women loudly pressuring lawmakers to make it illegal. So, at the same time, the issue of sexual harassment politicized many women, who began to take an interest in political action because of it. In other words, we may speak of an issue becoming politicized, but also of a person or group becoming politicized. acropolis The high, fortified part of a city, especially an ancient Greek city.
🌱On the Athenian Acropolis, high above the rest of the city, stands the Parthenon, a temple to Athena. 🌳The Greek root acro- means "high"; thus, an acropolis is basically a "high city." Ancient cities often grew up around a high point, in order that they could easily be defended. The Greeks and Romans usually included in their acropolises temples to the city's most important gods; so, for example, Athens built a great temple on its Acropolis to its protector goddess, Athena, from which the city took its name. Many later European cities cluster around a walled castle on a height, into which the population of the city and the surrounding area could retreat in case of attack, and even South American cities often contain a similar walled area on high ground. megalopolis 1、 A very large city.
2、 A thickly populated area that includes one or more cities with the surrounding suburbs.
🌱With its rapid development, the southern coast of Florida around Miami quickly became a megalopolis. 🌳A "large city" named Megalopolis was founded in Greece in 371 B.C. to help defend the region called Arcadia against the city-state of Sparta. Though a stadium seating 20,000 was built there, indicating the city's impressive size for its time, Megalopolis today has only about 5,000 people. Social scientists now identify 10 megalopolises in the U.S., each with more than 10 million people. The one on the eastern seaboard that stretches from Boston to Washington, D.C., where the densely populated cities seem to flow into each other all along the coast, is now home to over 50 million people. But it's easily surpassed by the Japanese megalopolis that includes Tokyo, with more than 80 million inhabitants.
2、 Wise in promoting a plan or plan of action.
🌱Anger is rarely a politic way to seek agreement, since it usually comes across as rude and self-righteous. 🌳Politic behavior in class always requires a respectful attitude toward your teacher. It's never politic to ask for a raise when your boss is in a terrible mood. And once teenagers learn to drive, they quickly learn the politic way to ask for the car—that is, whatever gets the keys without upsetting the parents. As you can see, politic can be used for many situations that have nothing to do with public politics. politicize To give a political tone or character to.
🌱By 1968 the Vietnam War had deeply politicized most of America's college campuses. 🌳Sexual harassment was once seen as a private matter, but in the 1980s and '90s it became thoroughly politicized, with women loudly pressuring lawmakers to make it illegal. So, at the same time, the issue of sexual harassment politicized many women, who began to take an interest in political action because of it. In other words, we may speak of an issue becoming politicized, but also of a person or group becoming politicized. acropolis The high, fortified part of a city, especially an ancient Greek city.
🌱On the Athenian Acropolis, high above the rest of the city, stands the Parthenon, a temple to Athena. 🌳The Greek root acro- means "high"; thus, an acropolis is basically a "high city." Ancient cities often grew up around a high point, in order that they could easily be defended. The Greeks and Romans usually included in their acropolises temples to the city's most important gods; so, for example, Athens built a great temple on its Acropolis to its protector goddess, Athena, from which the city took its name. Many later European cities cluster around a walled castle on a height, into which the population of the city and the surrounding area could retreat in case of attack, and even South American cities often contain a similar walled area on high ground. megalopolis 1、 A very large city.
2、 A thickly populated area that includes one or more cities with the surrounding suburbs.
🌱With its rapid development, the southern coast of Florida around Miami quickly became a megalopolis. 🌳A "large city" named Megalopolis was founded in Greece in 371 B.C. to help defend the region called Arcadia against the city-state of Sparta. Though a stadium seating 20,000 was built there, indicating the city's impressive size for its time, Megalopolis today has only about 5,000 people. Social scientists now identify 10 megalopolises in the U.S., each with more than 10 million people. The one on the eastern seaboard that stretches from Boston to Washington, D.C., where the densely populated cities seem to flow into each other all along the coast, is now home to over 50 million people. But it's easily surpassed by the Japanese megalopolis that includes Tokyo, with more than 80 million inhabitants.
POLIS/POLIT comes from the Greek word for "city." The ancient Greek city-states, such as Athens, Thebes, and Sparta, operated much like separate nations, so all their politics was local, like all their public policy—and even all their police!🌸