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remorse
A deep regret arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs.
🌱Remorse for the accident that occurred that night seems to have altered the course of the senator's life. 🌳In Latin, mordere means "to bite"; thus, remorse is something that "gnaws" at you over and over. In criminal court, judges are always looking for signs that a convicted felon is suffering remorse for his crime; if not, the judge may well lengthen his sentence or deny him parole after serving part of it. Remorse is stronger than mere regret; real remorse is the kind of thing that may last a lifetime. reiterate To state or do over again or repeatedly.
🌱At the end of every class, Professor Lewis reiterates that we should get an early start on our term papers. 🌳In Latin, iterum means "again," so reiterate has the basic meaning of "repeat over and over." Our word iteration is used a lot by computer programmers today, often meaning a repeated response to program instructions that gets something closer to its final form, but also often meaning a new version of something, such as a program. But a reiteration is simply a repeat or several repeats. rejuvenate To make young or youthful again; to give new vigor to.
🌱He was in bad shape after his wife's death, but everyone says he's been rejuvenated by his remarriage. 🌳Juvenis, Latin for "young," can be seen in a word such as juvenile. Rejuvenation is something that can be carried out on a creaky old house, a clunker of a car, a sluggish career, a weak economy, or a company that's lost its edge, but rejuvenate and rejuvenation are probably used most often for talking about our physical selves. Ads for lotions promise skin rejuvenation; diet-book covers show rejuvenated （or maybe just young） models bursting with health. We still seem to be searching for that "Fuente de la Juventud" that Juan Ponce de León failed to discover five hundred years ago. reconcile 1、 To make agree.
2、 To make friendly again.
🌱Now she has to reconcile her liking for her brother-in-law with the news that he was picked up for armed robbery last week. 🌳In Latin, conciliare means "to calm, soothe"; thus, reconcile means essentially "to calm again." Warring friends can often be reconciled by a nice note or apology. When you're faced with two things that don't square very well, you may have to reconcile them, the way a scientist might try to reconcile the differing results from two research projects. The U.S. House and Senate, in a process called reconciliation, try to produce one final bill from two different versions that they've passed separately. To reconcile yourself to something means to get used to it; thus, you may need to reconcile yourself to not getting to the beach next summer, or you may have reconciled yourself to the idea of your daughter in the Peace Corps marrying a Mongolian goat herder.
🌱Remorse for the accident that occurred that night seems to have altered the course of the senator's life. 🌳In Latin, mordere means "to bite"; thus, remorse is something that "gnaws" at you over and over. In criminal court, judges are always looking for signs that a convicted felon is suffering remorse for his crime; if not, the judge may well lengthen his sentence or deny him parole after serving part of it. Remorse is stronger than mere regret; real remorse is the kind of thing that may last a lifetime. reiterate To state or do over again or repeatedly.
🌱At the end of every class, Professor Lewis reiterates that we should get an early start on our term papers. 🌳In Latin, iterum means "again," so reiterate has the basic meaning of "repeat over and over." Our word iteration is used a lot by computer programmers today, often meaning a repeated response to program instructions that gets something closer to its final form, but also often meaning a new version of something, such as a program. But a reiteration is simply a repeat or several repeats. rejuvenate To make young or youthful again; to give new vigor to.
🌱He was in bad shape after his wife's death, but everyone says he's been rejuvenated by his remarriage. 🌳Juvenis, Latin for "young," can be seen in a word such as juvenile. Rejuvenation is something that can be carried out on a creaky old house, a clunker of a car, a sluggish career, a weak economy, or a company that's lost its edge, but rejuvenate and rejuvenation are probably used most often for talking about our physical selves. Ads for lotions promise skin rejuvenation; diet-book covers show rejuvenated （or maybe just young） models bursting with health. We still seem to be searching for that "Fuente de la Juventud" that Juan Ponce de León failed to discover five hundred years ago. reconcile 1、 To make agree.
2、 To make friendly again.
🌱Now she has to reconcile her liking for her brother-in-law with the news that he was picked up for armed robbery last week. 🌳In Latin, conciliare means "to calm, soothe"; thus, reconcile means essentially "to calm again." Warring friends can often be reconciled by a nice note or apology. When you're faced with two things that don't square very well, you may have to reconcile them, the way a scientist might try to reconcile the differing results from two research projects. The U.S. House and Senate, in a process called reconciliation, try to produce one final bill from two different versions that they've passed separately. To reconcile yourself to something means to get used to it; thus, you may need to reconcile yourself to not getting to the beach next summer, or you may have reconciled yourself to the idea of your daughter in the Peace Corps marrying a Mongolian goat herder.
RE is a prefix which, like pro- (See PRO,) has more than one meaning. In this section, we'll focus on the meaning "again." We use re- words with this meaning every day—redo, reheat, recheck, reread, resell, repaint, etc.—and we feel free to make up new ones as needed. But in plenty of other re- words, the meaning isn't so obvious.🌸