2014年5月18日 星期日

regress, proper, societal , social, blood-curdling

The old "heartland" is comparatively small now, and deeply disadvantaged, not only economically but politically, too. For this deliberate and comprehensive societal exclusion, its denizens are blamed. I wonder how many years of hung parliaments – their texture changed only by the ebb and flow of property prices – it will take to create a party happy just to stand for those people, gaining enough seats not to win elections, but to be a force that represents their interest truthfully and eloquently, so they cannot be decently ignored.

societal ills


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After 21 rejections, "Lord of the Flies" was finally issued in 1954 as his first published book, and it remains his most popular.
It portrays a group of proper British schoolboys who, when marooned on a deserted island by a plane crash during a global atomic war, lose their societal inhibitions and regress into blood-curdling tribal savagery.




 Why women's right in China are regressing?



societal

Line breaks: so|ci¦etal
Pronunciation: /səˈsʌɪɪt(ə)l
 
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adjective

Derivatives

societally

adverb 
 
 
 

social

Line breaks: so¦cial
Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊʃ(ə)l
 
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adjective

  • 1 [attributive] Relating to society or its organization: alcoholism is recognized as a major social problem the social structure of Europe had become more fluid
  • 1.1Relating to rank and status in society: a recent analysis of social class in Britain her mother is a lady of the highest social standing
  • 2Needing companionship and therefore best suited to living in communities: we are social beings as well as individuals
  • 2.1Relating to or designed for activities in which people meet each other for pleasure: Guy led a full social life staff facilities included a social club and leisure complex

noun

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Derivatives

sociality

Pronunciation: /ˌsəʊʃɪˈalɪti/
noun

socially

adverb
the charity supports families who are socially disadvantaged

Origin

late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin socialis 'allied', from socius 'friend'.

regress

Syllabification: re·gress

verb

Pronunciation: /riˈgres
 
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  • 1 [no object] Return to a former or less developed state: art has been regressing toward adolescence for more than a generation now
  • 1.1Return mentally to a former stage of life or a supposed previous life, especially through hypnosis or mental illness: [no object]: she claims to be able to regress to the Roman era [with object]: I regressed Sylvia to early childhood
  • 2 [with object] Statistics Calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of (a variable) against or on another variable.
  • 3 [no object] Astronomy Move in a retrograde direction.

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈrēˌgres
 
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  • 2 Philosophy A series of statements in which a logical procedure is continually reapplied to its own result without approaching a useful conclusion (e.g., defining something in terms of itself).

Origin

late Middle English (as a noun): from Latin regressus, from regredi 'go back, return', from re- 'back' + gradi 'walk'.


blood-curdling

(blŭd'kûrd'lĭng) pronunciation
adj.
Causing great horror; terrifying.

bloodcurdlingly blood'cur'dling·ly adv.




proper
(prŏp'ər) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Characterized by appropriateness or suitability; fitting: the proper knife for cutting bread; not a proper moment for a joke.
  2. Called for by rules or conventions; correct: the proper form for a business letter.
  3. Strictly following rules or conventions, especially in social behavior; seemly: a proper lady; a proper gentleman.
    1. Belonging to one; own: restored to his proper shape by the magician.
    2. Characteristically belonging to the being or thing in question; peculiar: an optical effect proper to fluids.
  4. Being within the strictly limited sense, as of a term designating something: the town proper, excluding the suburbs.
  5. Ecclesiastical. For use in the liturgy of a particular feast or season of the year.
  6. Mathematics. Of or relating to a subset of a given set when the set has at least one element not in the subset.
  7. Worthy of the name; true: wanted a proper dinner, not just a snack.
  8. Out-and-out; thorough: a proper whipping.
adv.
Thoroughly: beat the eggs good and proper.

n. Ecclesiastical also Proper
The parts of the liturgy that vary according to the particular feast or season of the year.

[Middle English propre, from Old French, from Latin proprius.]
properly prop'er·ly adv.
properness prop'er·ness n.

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