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root((PREHEND/PREHENS))
prehensile
Adapted for grasping, especially by wrapping around.
🌱The squid has eight short "arms" but also two long prehensile tentacles that it uses for catching its prey. 🌳Howler monkeys are among the American monkeys with prehensile tails. Famous for their booming howls, howlers can wrap their tails around a nearby branch while using their prehensile feet and hands for picking lice from their fur or lobbing a coconut at an unwelcome tourist. Our own hands are prehensile, of course. Our feet are not; on the other hand, they're much better for running than the prehensile feet of a monkey or ape. apprehend 1、 Arrest, seize.
2、 Understand.
🌱It was a few minutes before she managed to apprehend the meaning of what she had just seen. 🌳To apprehend is to seize, either physically or mentally. So to apprehend a thief is to nab him. But to apprehend a confusing news story, or to apprehend a difficult concept in physics, is to understand it—that is, to "grasp" it mentally. If you're apprehensive about something that's about to happen, it means you've grasped all the unpleasant possibilities and are waiting with anxiety or dread. comprehend 1、 To grasp the meaning of; understand.
2、 To take in or include.
🌱In the days following the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the public slowly began to comprehend the fact that the nuclear age had arrived. 🌳To comprehend is to mentally grasp something's complete nature or meaning. Comprehend is thus often a bit stronger than understand: for example, you may understand the instructions in a handbook without completely comprehending their purpose. Comprehend's second meaning is much less common. Using that sense of the word, we could say that good manners comprehends （that is, includes） more than simple table etiquette, for example, or that true courage comprehends more than just physical showing off. And something comprehensive includes a great deal: so a comprehensive exam, for instance, includes all the material that was studied in the course. reprehensible Deserving stern criticism or blame.
🌱Whether or not he ever broke the law, his treatment of his first wife was thoroughly reprehensible. 🌳From its prefix re-, meaning "back," reprehend would mean literally "to hold back, restrain"; but even the Latin version of the verb had come to mean "to scold, blame"—in other words, to restrain bad behavior by expressing disapproval. Reprehensible is applied to both things and people—that is, both the sin and the sinner. So a senator might be scolded for reprehensible conduct, but might also be called a thoroughly reprehensible person. And most of us would call dogfighting morally reprehensible, and would use the same word to describe those who put the dogs up to it.
🌱The squid has eight short "arms" but also two long prehensile tentacles that it uses for catching its prey. 🌳Howler monkeys are among the American monkeys with prehensile tails. Famous for their booming howls, howlers can wrap their tails around a nearby branch while using their prehensile feet and hands for picking lice from their fur or lobbing a coconut at an unwelcome tourist. Our own hands are prehensile, of course. Our feet are not; on the other hand, they're much better for running than the prehensile feet of a monkey or ape. apprehend 1、 Arrest, seize.
2、 Understand.
🌱It was a few minutes before she managed to apprehend the meaning of what she had just seen. 🌳To apprehend is to seize, either physically or mentally. So to apprehend a thief is to nab him. But to apprehend a confusing news story, or to apprehend a difficult concept in physics, is to understand it—that is, to "grasp" it mentally. If you're apprehensive about something that's about to happen, it means you've grasped all the unpleasant possibilities and are waiting with anxiety or dread. comprehend 1、 To grasp the meaning of; understand.
2、 To take in or include.
🌱In the days following the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the public slowly began to comprehend the fact that the nuclear age had arrived. 🌳To comprehend is to mentally grasp something's complete nature or meaning. Comprehend is thus often a bit stronger than understand: for example, you may understand the instructions in a handbook without completely comprehending their purpose. Comprehend's second meaning is much less common. Using that sense of the word, we could say that good manners comprehends （that is, includes） more than simple table etiquette, for example, or that true courage comprehends more than just physical showing off. And something comprehensive includes a great deal: so a comprehensive exam, for instance, includes all the material that was studied in the course. reprehensible Deserving stern criticism or blame.
🌱Whether or not he ever broke the law, his treatment of his first wife was thoroughly reprehensible. 🌳From its prefix re-, meaning "back," reprehend would mean literally "to hold back, restrain"; but even the Latin version of the verb had come to mean "to scold, blame"—in other words, to restrain bad behavior by expressing disapproval. Reprehensible is applied to both things and people—that is, both the sin and the sinner. So a senator might be scolded for reprehensible conduct, but might also be called a thoroughly reprehensible person. And most of us would call dogfighting morally reprehensible, and would use the same word to describe those who put the dogs up to it.
PREHEND/PREHENS comes from the Latin verb prehendere,"to seize." Most of the English words where it appears are closely related to the ones discussed below.🌸