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spirited
Full of energy or courage; very lively or determined.
🌱The team put up a spirited defense, but they were doomed from the start. 🌳You may see spirited used to describe a conversation, a debate, a horse, or a campaign. And it often shows up in such words as high-spirited （"bold and energetic"）, mean-spirited （"spiteful"）, and public-spirited （"generous to a community"）, all of which reflect the original meaning of spirit, a notion much like "soul" or "personality." dispiriting Causing a loss of hope or enthusiasm.
🌱It was terribly dispiriting for them to lose yet another game, and he had to reassure his daughter that she'd actually done a great job as goalie. 🌳Lots of things can be dispiriting: a bad job interview, an awful film, a relationship going sour. Maybe for that reason, dispiriting has lots of synonyms: discouraging, disheartening, demoralizing, depressing, etc. respirator 1、 A device worn over the nose and mouth to filter out dangerous substances from the air.
2、 A device for maintaining artificial respiration.
🌱His lungs had been terribly damaged by decades of heavy smoking, and he'd been living on a respirator for the last year. 🌳Respiration means simply "breathing." We usually come across the word in artificial respiration, the lifesaving technique in which you force air into the lungs of someone who's stopped breathing. Respirators can take several different forms. Scuba-diving equipment always includes a respirator, though it doesn't actually do the breathing for the diver. Medical respirators, which are used especially for babies and for emergency care and actually take over the job of getting oxygen into the lungs, are today usually called ventilators, so as to distinguish them from simple oxygen systems （which merely provide a steady flow of oxygen into the nostrils） and face masks. transpire 1、 To happen.
2、 To become known.
🌱We kept up our questioning, and it soon transpired that the boys had known about the murder all along . 🌳Since the prefix trans- means "through" （See TRANS,） transpire's most literal meaning is something like "breathe through." Thus, the original meaning of the English word—still used today—is to give off a watery vapor through a surface such as a leaf. From there, it came to mean also the gradual appearance of previously secret information, as if leaking out of the pores of a leaf （as in "It transpired that she was not only his employee but also his girlfriend"）. And soon it was being used to mean simply "happen" （as in "I wondered what had transpired in the cafeteria at lunchtime".
🌱The team put up a spirited defense, but they were doomed from the start. 🌳You may see spirited used to describe a conversation, a debate, a horse, or a campaign. And it often shows up in such words as high-spirited （"bold and energetic"）, mean-spirited （"spiteful"）, and public-spirited （"generous to a community"）, all of which reflect the original meaning of spirit, a notion much like "soul" or "personality." dispiriting Causing a loss of hope or enthusiasm.
🌱It was terribly dispiriting for them to lose yet another game, and he had to reassure his daughter that she'd actually done a great job as goalie. 🌳Lots of things can be dispiriting: a bad job interview, an awful film, a relationship going sour. Maybe for that reason, dispiriting has lots of synonyms: discouraging, disheartening, demoralizing, depressing, etc. respirator 1、 A device worn over the nose and mouth to filter out dangerous substances from the air.
2、 A device for maintaining artificial respiration.
🌱His lungs had been terribly damaged by decades of heavy smoking, and he'd been living on a respirator for the last year. 🌳Respiration means simply "breathing." We usually come across the word in artificial respiration, the lifesaving technique in which you force air into the lungs of someone who's stopped breathing. Respirators can take several different forms. Scuba-diving equipment always includes a respirator, though it doesn't actually do the breathing for the diver. Medical respirators, which are used especially for babies and for emergency care and actually take over the job of getting oxygen into the lungs, are today usually called ventilators, so as to distinguish them from simple oxygen systems （which merely provide a steady flow of oxygen into the nostrils） and face masks. transpire 1、 To happen.
2、 To become known.
🌱We kept up our questioning, and it soon transpired that the boys had known about the murder all along . 🌳Since the prefix trans- means "through" （See TRANS,） transpire's most literal meaning is something like "breathe through." Thus, the original meaning of the English word—still used today—is to give off a watery vapor through a surface such as a leaf. From there, it came to mean also the gradual appearance of previously secret information, as if leaking out of the pores of a leaf （as in "It transpired that she was not only his employee but also his girlfriend"）. And soon it was being used to mean simply "happen" （as in "I wondered what had transpired in the cafeteria at lunchtime".
SPIR comes from the Latin words meaning "breath" and "breathe." When we inspire others—that is, give them inspiration—it's as though we're breathing new energy and imagination into them. When you expire, or die, you "breathe out" your soul in your last breath. A license, membership, credit card, or free offer may also expire, at a time indicated by its expiration date.🌸