mindmap root((QUIS)) inquisition A questioning or examining that is often harsh or severe.
🌱The President's first choice for the job turned him down, fearing the Senate hearings would turn into an inquisition into her past. 🌳While an inquiry can be almost any search for truth, the related word inquisition suggests a long, thorough investigation that involves extensive and harsh questioning. Though the two words originally had about the same meaning, today inquisition tends to remind us of the Spanish Inquisition, an ongoing trial conducted by church-appointed inquisitors that began in the Middle Ages and sought out nonbelievers, Jews, and Muslims, thousands of whom were sentenced to torture and to burning at the stake. perquisite 1、 A privilege or profit that is provided in addition to one's base salary.
2、 Something claimed as an exclusive possession or right.
🌱A new car, a big house, and yearly trips to Europe were among the perquisites that made the presidency of Wyndam College such an attractive position. 🌳Though the Latin source of perquisite originally meant "something insistently asked for," the "ask" meaning has mostly vanished from the English word. A perquisite, often called simply a perk, is instead something of value that the holder of a particular job or position is entitled to, usually without even asking. The President of the United States, for instance, enjoys as perquisites the use of Camp David and Air Force One. Perhaps because perquisites are usually available to only a small number of people, the word sometimes refers to non-job-related privileges that are claimed as exclusive rights. acquisitive Eager to acquire; greedy.
🌱With each year the couple became more madly acquisitive, buying jewelry, a huge yacht, and two country estates. 🌳Unlike most tribal peoples and the populations of some older countries, we Americans live in an acquisitive society, a society devoted to getting and spending. And America often makes successfully acquisitive people into heroes; even Ebenezer Scrooge, that model of miserly greed and acquisitiveness, was once defended by a White House chief of staff. An acquisitive nation may seek to acquire other territories by force. But mental acquisition of specialized knowledge or skills—or new vocabulary!—doesn't deprive others of the same information. requisition A demand or request （such as for supplies） made with proper authority.
🌱The teachers had grown impatient with having to submit a requisition for even routine classroom supplies. 🌳Requisition was originally a noun but is now probably more common as a verb. So we either can speak of sending our office's purchasing department a requisition for computers, or of requisitioning more computers from the department. The word has an official sound to it. However, one of Hollywood's bittersweet love stories begins when Omar Sharif, playing a World War II freedom fighter, says to Ingrid Bergman, who is the owner of a stately old yellow Rolls Royce, "I've come to requisition your car."