mindmap root((VEST)) divest 1、 To get rid of or free oneself of property, authority, or title.
2、 To strip of clothing, ornaments, or equipment.
🌱In protest against apartheid, many universities in the 1980s divested themselves of all stock in South African companies. 🌳If you decide to enter a monastery, you may divest yourself of most of your possessions. When a church is officially abandoned, it's usually divested of its ornaments and furnishings. A company that's going through hard times may divest itself of several stores, and investors are constantly divesting themselves of stocks that aren't performing well enough. And when it turns out that athletes have been using steroids, they're usually divested of any awards they may have won. investiture The formal placing of someone in office.
🌱At an English monarch's investiture, he or she is presented with the crown, scepter, and sword, the symbols of power. 🌳In its original meaning, an investiture was the clothing of a new officeholder in garments that symbolized power. The Middle Ages saw much debate over the investiture of bishops by kings and emperors. These rulers felt that high religious offices were theirs to give as rewards for someone's loyal service or as bribes for someone's future support; the popes, on the other hand, regarded these investitures as the improper buying and selling of church offices. The investiture struggle caused tension between popes and monarchs and even led to wars. transvestite A person, especially a male, who wears the clothing and adopts the mannerisms of the opposite sex.
🌱In Handel's operas, the heroic male leading roles are today often sung by female transvestites, since he originally wrote them for the soprano range. 🌳Transvestite includes the prefix trans-,"across," and thus means literally "cross-dresser." In the theater, from ancient Greece to Elizabethan England, transvestism was common because all parts—even Juliet—were played by men. Traditional Japanese Kabuki and Noh drama still employ transvestism of this sort. In everyday life, it's now so acceptable for women to wear men's clothing that the word transvestite is generally applied only to men. The much newer word transgender describes people who think of themselves as having changed sex, or who simply don't believe in the idea that they're either one sex or the other. travesty 1、 An inferior or distorted imitation.
2、 A broadly comic imitation in drama, literature, or art that is usually grotesque and ridiculous.
🌱The senator was shouting that the new tax bill represented a travesty of tax reform. 🌳The word travesty comes from the same prefix and root as transvestite.Since cross-dressing often isn't very convincing, the word has usually referred to something absurd. So a verdict that angers people may be denounced as a "travesty of justice." Saturday Night Live specializes in dramatic travesties mocking everything from political figures and issues to popular culture—"disguised" versions intended for entertainment. Travesty may also be a verb; thus, Mel Brooks has travestied movie genres of all kinds—westerns, thrillers, and silent films, among others.