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conscientious
1、 Governed by morality; scrupulous.
2、 Resulting from painstaking or exact attention.
🌱New employees should be especially conscientious about turning in all their assignments on time. 🌳Conscience and its adjective conscientious both come from a Latin verb meaning "to be aware of guilt." Conscientious indicates extreme care, either in observing moral laws or in performing assigned duties. A conscientious person is someone with a strong moral sense, who has feelings of guilt when he or she violates it. A conscientious worker has a sense of duty that forces him or her to do a careful job. A conscientious report shows painstaking work on the part of the writer. And a conscientious objector is someone who, for reasons of conscience, refuses to fight in an army. nescience Lack of knowledge or awareness: ignorance.
🌱About once every class period, my political-science professor would angrily denounce the nescience of the American public. 🌳This word, which means literally "non-knowledge," is only used by intellectuals, and the same is true of its adjective, nescient. We all have heard the remarkable facts: 40% of us believe that humans and dinosaurs lived on earth at the same time; 49% believe that the President can ignore the Constitution; 60% can't name the three branches of government; 75% can't find Israel on a map; and so on. Is it any wonder we Americans are sometimes called nescient? prescient Having or showing advance knowledge of what is going to happen.
🌱For years she had read the Wall Street Journal every morning, looking for prescient warnings about crashes, crises, and catastrophes on the horizon. 🌳Being truly prescient would require supernatural powers. But well-informed people may have such good judgment as to appear prescient, and prescient is often used to mean "having good foresight." Some newspaper columnists may seem prescient in their predictions, but we can't help suspecting that any apparent prescience is usually the result of leaks from people with inside knowledge. unconscionable 1、 Not guided by any moral sense; unscrupulous.
2、 Shockingly excessive, unreasonable, or unfair.
🌱When the facts about how the cigarette industry had lied about its practices for decades finally came out, most Americans found the behavior unconscionable. 🌳Something that can't be done in good conscience is unconscionable, and such acts can range from betraying a confidence to mass murder. For a five-syllable word, unconscionable is actually quite common. This is partly because it isn't always used very seriously; so, for example, a critic is free to call a fat new book "an unconscionable waste of trees." In law, an unconscionable contract is one that, even though it was signed by both parties, is so ridiculous that a judge will just throw it out.
2、 Resulting from painstaking or exact attention.
🌱New employees should be especially conscientious about turning in all their assignments on time. 🌳Conscience and its adjective conscientious both come from a Latin verb meaning "to be aware of guilt." Conscientious indicates extreme care, either in observing moral laws or in performing assigned duties. A conscientious person is someone with a strong moral sense, who has feelings of guilt when he or she violates it. A conscientious worker has a sense of duty that forces him or her to do a careful job. A conscientious report shows painstaking work on the part of the writer. And a conscientious objector is someone who, for reasons of conscience, refuses to fight in an army. nescience Lack of knowledge or awareness: ignorance.
🌱About once every class period, my political-science professor would angrily denounce the nescience of the American public. 🌳This word, which means literally "non-knowledge," is only used by intellectuals, and the same is true of its adjective, nescient. We all have heard the remarkable facts: 40% of us believe that humans and dinosaurs lived on earth at the same time; 49% believe that the President can ignore the Constitution; 60% can't name the three branches of government; 75% can't find Israel on a map; and so on. Is it any wonder we Americans are sometimes called nescient? prescient Having or showing advance knowledge of what is going to happen.
🌱For years she had read the Wall Street Journal every morning, looking for prescient warnings about crashes, crises, and catastrophes on the horizon. 🌳Being truly prescient would require supernatural powers. But well-informed people may have such good judgment as to appear prescient, and prescient is often used to mean "having good foresight." Some newspaper columnists may seem prescient in their predictions, but we can't help suspecting that any apparent prescience is usually the result of leaks from people with inside knowledge. unconscionable 1、 Not guided by any moral sense; unscrupulous.
2、 Shockingly excessive, unreasonable, or unfair.
🌱When the facts about how the cigarette industry had lied about its practices for decades finally came out, most Americans found the behavior unconscionable. 🌳Something that can't be done in good conscience is unconscionable, and such acts can range from betraying a confidence to mass murder. For a five-syllable word, unconscionable is actually quite common. This is partly because it isn't always used very seriously; so, for example, a critic is free to call a fat new book "an unconscionable waste of trees." In law, an unconscionable contract is one that, even though it was signed by both parties, is so ridiculous that a judge will just throw it out.
SCI comes from the Latin verb scire,"to know" or "to understand." The root appears in such common words as science, which originally meant simply "knowledge," and conscience, meaning "moral knowledge." And to be conscious is to be in a state where you are able to know or understand.🌸