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ambidextrous / ambidexterity
- dexterous skillful
- dexterity skill
- Both hand skillful
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- ous
- adjctive suffix
- famous dangerous perilous
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-ity
- noun suffix
- vanity guality simplicity
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southpaws lefties
- opposed to right hand
- left-handed (synonmy of awkward)
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sinister
- latin word for left hand
- in English : theratening, evil, dangerous
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gauche
- left hand in French
- If you call someone in English gauche, you imply clumsiness generally social rather than physical
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A gauche remark
tactless (不老练的)
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A gauche offer of sympathy
is so bumbling as to tactless
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gausherie
is an awkward clumsy tactless embarrassing way of saying things or of handling situations
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gauche person
is totally without finesse (手段)
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Droit
right hand in French
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adroit / dexterous
skillful
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gauche adroit adroitness
- these three words used figuratively
- adroit person is quickwitted, can get out of diffeicult spots cleverly, can handle situations ingeniously.
Adroitness is quite opposite of gaucherie
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misein
greek root : to hate
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misanthrope
hate mankind ( anthropos)
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philanthropist
one loves mankind shows such love by making substantial financial contributions to charitable organizations or by donating time and energy to helping those in need.
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gynecologist
medical specialist who treats female disorders
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monogamy bigomy polygamy
- Gamos (Marriage
- monogamy : custom of only one marriage at a time
- bigamy : unlaful act of contracting another marriage without divorcing one's current legal spouse
- polygamy: plural marriage either males or females
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polygyny polyandry
- polygyny : man have many wives
- polyandry : woman have many hansbuns
andros ( male)
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- -y :peactice attitude
- -ic : adj.
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asketes
- ascetic in English
- asketes is a Greek word
- means monk or hermit (隐士)
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ascetic
person who leads an existence voluntarily of course , that compares in austerity , simplicity and rigorous hardship with the life of a monk
- practice : asceticism
- adj. ascetic
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convivaial gatherings
convivial (善于交际)
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anthropocentric
- adj.
- anthropos --- mankind
- kentron ---- center
- -ic ---- adj. suffix (thinking assumptions reasoning)
see mankind as the central fact ultimate aim of the universe
- n. anthropocentrism
- anthropocentricity
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andromania
- andros --- male
- mania --- madness
- person: andromaniac : person who mad about men
- adj. andromaniacal
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gynandrous
- gyne : women
- andros : man
- a. plants in which the male and female organs are united in the same colums
- b. people who physically have both male and female sexual organs
- c. (a more recent meaning) people who exhibit, or are willing to own up to , the male and female emotional characteristics that everyone posseses
androgynous the same and gynandrous
- Hermaphroditic
- hermes -- the Greek god of messengeer
- aphrodite --- Greek goddess of love and beauty
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monomania
- is an obsession with one thing or absessiveness in one area
- person: monomaniac
- adj. monomaniacal
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misandrist
- misein --- hate
- androst --- male
hate male
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