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subconscious
Existing in the mind just below the level of awareness.
🌱After dropping three dishes in a week, she began thinking there might be some kind of subconscious agitation behind her case of butterfingers. 🌳We're rarely aware, or at least fully aware, of our subconscious mental activity. But subconscious thought does affect our feelings and behavior, and it's often revealed in dreams, artistic expression, and slips of the tongue. The subconscious mind can be a hiding place for anxiety, a source of creativity, and often the reason behind our own mysterious behavior. subjugate To bring under control and rule as a subject; conquer, subdue.
🌱The country's government claimed it was just trying to protect national security, but some saw its actions as an attempt to subjugate the news media. 🌳Since *jugus* means "yoke" in Latin, *subjugate* means literally "bring under the yoke." Farmers control oxen by means of a heavy wooden yoke over their shoulders. In ancient Rome, conquered soldiers, stripped of their uniforms, might actually be forced to pass under an ox yoke as a sign of submission to the Roman victors. Even without an actual yoke, what happens to a population that has come under the control of another can be every bit as humiliating. In dozens of countries throughout the world, ethnic minorities are denied basic rights and view themselves as subjugated by their country's government, army, and police. subliminal Not quite strong enough to be sensed or perceived consciously.
🌱A few worried parents claimed that some heavy-metal songs contain subliminal messages—in the form of words recorded backwards—that urge young fans to take up devil worship. 🌳Since the Latin word *limen* means "threshold," something subliminal exists just below the threshold of conscious awareness. The classic example of a subliminal message is "Eat popcorn" flashed on a movie screen so quickly that the audience doesn't even notice it consciously. Actually, no such advertising has ever been shown to work. But ordinary ads, both in print and on TV, do contain all kinds of images that shape our response to the product being advertised even when we don't realize it. Try looking carefully at some ads that you like, in order to discover how many ways they may be *subliminally* affecting you. subversion 1、 An attempt to overthrow a government by working secretly from within.
2、 The corrupting of someone or something by weakening their morals, loyalty, or faith.
🌱It's sometimes easier for a government to combat attack from outside than subversion from within. 🌳Subversion is literally the "turning over" of something. In the 1950s and '60s, many people worried about communist subversion of the U.S. government, though they often saw *subversive* activities where none existed. Nondemocratic governments often claim that anyone who disagrees with them or joins a demonstration is a *subversive*. But subversion isn't always quite so serious a matter; when words like *weekend*, *sandwich, job, * and *camping* started being used by the French, for example, some of them began claiming that America was *subverting* their language.
🌱After dropping three dishes in a week, she began thinking there might be some kind of subconscious agitation behind her case of butterfingers. 🌳We're rarely aware, or at least fully aware, of our subconscious mental activity. But subconscious thought does affect our feelings and behavior, and it's often revealed in dreams, artistic expression, and slips of the tongue. The subconscious mind can be a hiding place for anxiety, a source of creativity, and often the reason behind our own mysterious behavior. subjugate To bring under control and rule as a subject; conquer, subdue.
🌱The country's government claimed it was just trying to protect national security, but some saw its actions as an attempt to subjugate the news media. 🌳Since *jugus* means "yoke" in Latin, *subjugate* means literally "bring under the yoke." Farmers control oxen by means of a heavy wooden yoke over their shoulders. In ancient Rome, conquered soldiers, stripped of their uniforms, might actually be forced to pass under an ox yoke as a sign of submission to the Roman victors. Even without an actual yoke, what happens to a population that has come under the control of another can be every bit as humiliating. In dozens of countries throughout the world, ethnic minorities are denied basic rights and view themselves as subjugated by their country's government, army, and police. subliminal Not quite strong enough to be sensed or perceived consciously.
🌱A few worried parents claimed that some heavy-metal songs contain subliminal messages—in the form of words recorded backwards—that urge young fans to take up devil worship. 🌳Since the Latin word *limen* means "threshold," something subliminal exists just below the threshold of conscious awareness. The classic example of a subliminal message is "Eat popcorn" flashed on a movie screen so quickly that the audience doesn't even notice it consciously. Actually, no such advertising has ever been shown to work. But ordinary ads, both in print and on TV, do contain all kinds of images that shape our response to the product being advertised even when we don't realize it. Try looking carefully at some ads that you like, in order to discover how many ways they may be *subliminally* affecting you. subversion 1、 An attempt to overthrow a government by working secretly from within.
2、 The corrupting of someone or something by weakening their morals, loyalty, or faith.
🌱It's sometimes easier for a government to combat attack from outside than subversion from within. 🌳Subversion is literally the "turning over" of something. In the 1950s and '60s, many people worried about communist subversion of the U.S. government, though they often saw *subversive* activities where none existed. Nondemocratic governments often claim that anyone who disagrees with them or joins a demonstration is a *subversive*. But subversion isn't always quite so serious a matter; when words like *weekend*, *sandwich, job, * and *camping* started being used by the French, for example, some of them began claiming that America was *subverting* their language.
SUB means "under." So a subway runs under the streets, and a submarine moves under the ocean's surface. A subject is a person under the authority of another. A movie's subplot is lower in importance than the main plot. Subscribe once meant "to write one's name underneath," so subscription was the act of signing a document or agreement.🌸