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To rise above the limits of; overcome, surpass.
🌱His defeat in the election had been terribly hard on him, and it took two years before he finally felt he had transcended the bitterness it had produced. 🌳Great leaders are expected to transcend the limitations of politics, especially during wartime and national crises. A great writer may transcend geographical boundaries to become internationally respected. And certain laws of human nature seem to transcend historical periods and hold true for all times and all places. condescend 1、 To stoop to a level of lesser importance or dignity.
2、 To behave as if superior.
🌱Every so often my big brother would condescend to take me to a movie, but only when my parents made him. 🌳Back when society was more rigidly structured, condescend didn't sound so negative. People of higher rank, power, or social position had to overlook certain established rules of behavior if they wished to have social dealings with people of lower status, but such condescension was usually gracious and courteous. In today's more classless society, the term implies a manner that may be slightly offensive. A poor relation is unlikely to be grateful to a wealthy and condescending relative who passes on her secondhand clothes, and employees at an office party may not be thrilled when the boss's wife condescends to mingle with them. Often the word is used rather unseriously, as when a friend comments that a snooty sales clerk condescended to wait on her after ignoring her for several minutes. descendant 1、 One that has come down from another or from a common stock.
2、 One deriving directly from a forerunner or original.
🌱Though none of the great man's descendants ever came close to achieving what he had, most of them enjoyed very respectable careers. 🌳Descendant is the opposite of ancestor. Your grandparents' descendants are those who are descended from them—your parents, your brothers and sisters, and any children that any of you may have. It's been claimed that every person on earth is a descendant of Muhammad, and of every historical person before him—Julius Caesar, the Buddha, etc.—who started a line of descent. （Some of us still find this hard to believe.） And not all descendants are human; every modern thesaurus, for example, could be called the descendant of the one devised by Peter Mark Roget in 1852. ascendancy Governing or controlling interest; domination.
🌱China's growing ascendancy over Tibet was capped by the invasion of 1950. 🌳In the course of a year, the sun appears to pass through the twelve constellations of the zodiac in sequence, and all the planets also lie close to the solar path. The constellation and planet that are just rising, or ascendant, above the eastern horizon in the sun's path at the moment of a child's birth are said by astrologers to exercise a lifelong controlling influence over the child. This is the idea that lies at the heart of ascendancy, though the word today no longer hints at supernatural powers.
🌱His defeat in the election had been terribly hard on him, and it took two years before he finally felt he had transcended the bitterness it had produced. 🌳Great leaders are expected to transcend the limitations of politics, especially during wartime and national crises. A great writer may transcend geographical boundaries to become internationally respected. And certain laws of human nature seem to transcend historical periods and hold true for all times and all places. condescend 1、 To stoop to a level of lesser importance or dignity.
2、 To behave as if superior.
🌱Every so often my big brother would condescend to take me to a movie, but only when my parents made him. 🌳Back when society was more rigidly structured, condescend didn't sound so negative. People of higher rank, power, or social position had to overlook certain established rules of behavior if they wished to have social dealings with people of lower status, but such condescension was usually gracious and courteous. In today's more classless society, the term implies a manner that may be slightly offensive. A poor relation is unlikely to be grateful to a wealthy and condescending relative who passes on her secondhand clothes, and employees at an office party may not be thrilled when the boss's wife condescends to mingle with them. Often the word is used rather unseriously, as when a friend comments that a snooty sales clerk condescended to wait on her after ignoring her for several minutes. descendant 1、 One that has come down from another or from a common stock.
2、 One deriving directly from a forerunner or original.
🌱Though none of the great man's descendants ever came close to achieving what he had, most of them enjoyed very respectable careers. 🌳Descendant is the opposite of ancestor. Your grandparents' descendants are those who are descended from them—your parents, your brothers and sisters, and any children that any of you may have. It's been claimed that every person on earth is a descendant of Muhammad, and of every historical person before him—Julius Caesar, the Buddha, etc.—who started a line of descent. （Some of us still find this hard to believe.） And not all descendants are human; every modern thesaurus, for example, could be called the descendant of the one devised by Peter Mark Roget in 1852. ascendancy Governing or controlling interest; domination.
🌱China's growing ascendancy over Tibet was capped by the invasion of 1950. 🌳In the course of a year, the sun appears to pass through the twelve constellations of the zodiac in sequence, and all the planets also lie close to the solar path. The constellation and planet that are just rising, or ascendant, above the eastern horizon in the sun's path at the moment of a child's birth are said by astrologers to exercise a lifelong controlling influence over the child. This is the idea that lies at the heart of ascendancy, though the word today no longer hints at supernatural powers.
SCEND comes from the Latin verb scandere,"to climb." The staircase we ascend to our bedroom at night we will descend the next morning, since what goes up must come down.🌸