1.remedy n.药(物)(a medicine);v.补救(relieve);纠正(correct)
词根记忆:re+med(治疗)+y--治疗
例:sovereign remedy特效药//We don't know how to remedy the serious problem.//remedy a mistake纠正错误
2.reminiscent a.回忆的(marked by or given to reminiscence);使人联想的(tending to remind)
联想记忆:把remini当作remember+scent(香味)--记起过去香味的--回忆的
例:Leon Forrest's work is more reminiscent of Henry Miller's obsessive narratives and Toni Morrison's mythic languages than James Joyce's internal explorations.
派生词:reminiscence(n.回忆,怀旧)
3.remnant n.残余物,残迹(a usually small part, member, or trace remaining)
例:More than twenty supernova remnants have been detected in X-ray studies.
4.renaissance n.复兴,复活(rebirth, revival);( the Renaissance)文艺复兴(revival of art and literature in the 14th, 15th centuries based on classical forms)
词根记忆:re(重新)+naiss(=nas出生)+ance--新生--复兴
例:The renaissance of the feminist movement during the 1950's led to the Stasist school.(斯塔西学派是美国的一个学派,它反对走极端,主张东西部生活对妇女来说具有相似性)
5.renal a.肾脏的,肾的(nephritic)
例:renal lithiasis肾结石
6.render v.熔解(to melt down);提供(to give);使得(to make)
联想记忆:提供(render)后成为出借人(lender)
例:The paper can be rendered into paper pulp.//The Church rendered all sorts of educational and recreational activities.//Victorian prudery rendered all experience that was uniquely feminine unprintable.
派生词:rendition(n.演唱,表演)
7.renegade a.背弃的,离经叛道的(unconventional)
词根记忆:re+neg(否定)+ade--遭到否定的--背弃的
例:Oberlin College in Ohio was a renegade institution at its 1833 founding for accepting both men and women as students.
8.renounce v.声明放弃(to abdicate);拒绝承认(to refuse to follow, obey, or recognize any further)
词根记忆:re(反)+nounce(讲话,通告)--反过来宣布--拒绝承认
例:The King renounced his claim on the neighboring kingdom's land.// Eighteenth-century American peasants could not renounce the political objectives of the British Empire.
派生词:renunciation(n.放弃)
同根词:denounce(v.指责);enounce(v.发音;表达)
9.renovation n.整修( restoration);革新(renewing)
词根记忆:来自renovate(v.修复,革新)
例:The government provides one million dollars for the renovation of the famous large cathedral.//technical renovation披术革新
v. 拒绝
n. 垃圾,废物