innate: applies to qualities and characteristics that are part of one's inner essential nature: a person with an ~ sense of superiority.


inborn: suggests a quality or tendency actually present at birth OR so marked and deep-seated as to seem so: her ~ love for rugged, outdoorsy life.


inbred: suggests something acquired from parents, either by heredity or nurture, or deep-rooted and ingrained: a man with ~ extremist political views.


congenital: applies to things acquired before or at birth during fetal development: a baby with ~ heart murmur.


hereditary: applies to things acquired before or at birth and transmitted from one's ancestors: eye color is ~.


innate天生的天性的: 表示内在的本质的属性, inborn天生的: 表示天生的或像天生一样地深刻持久(marked,deep-seated中性)的，inbred: 来自父母遗传影响或根深蒂固(ingrain多负面)， congenital先天: 胚胎发育时形成的特征, hereditary遗传: 继承自组先的特征(注意先天congenital和遗传hereditary的区别）


记忆方法：1) 首字母联想，III CH: 爱中文<--天生爱中文。

            中文Chinese缩写是CH             英文English缩写是EN

           2）天生的意思是非后天获得mean not acquired after birth.