3 How to talk about personality
2018-09-12 本文已影响17人
MrWisdom
How to talk about personality types?
Everyone's personality is determined by a combination of genetic and environment .
1. egoist:adjective
me first
- ego : Latin root, meaning I.
- egoistic :
adjctive
- egoistical :
adjective
- egoistically :
adverb
- egocentric
adjective
: You consider yourself the center of the universe. - egomaniac :
adjective
You carry egoism to such a extreme that your needs. - egomaniacal :
adjctive
2. egotist : adjective
the height of conceit.
3. altruist : noun
let me help you .
- alter : Latin root .
- altruism :
noun
Philosophy practiced by altruist . - altruistic :
adjective
- alternate :
adjective or noun
skip one and take other. - alternative :
adjective
other choice. - alteration :
moun
a change. - altercation :
noun
a verbal dispute .
4.introvert : adjective
leave me alone.
You may even be a genius ,or eventually turn into one.
- verto :
Latin root
, to turn . - in- :
prefix
,turn inward .
5. extrovert : adjective
Let's do it together .
- extro- :
prefix
, turn outward.
6. ambivert : adjective
neither extreme.
-
ambi- :
prefix
, in both directions. -
dexter :
Latin word
,right hand.-
ambidextrous :
adj
able to use both hands with equal skill. -
dexterous :
adj
skillful. -
dexterity :
noun
skill. -
dexter : right hand.
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sinister :
latin word
left hand.- sinister :
In English
,means threatening ,evil, dangerous.
- sinister :
-
gauche :
In French
, left hand. -
droit :
In French
, right hand.- adroit :
adj
skillful. - adroitness :
noun
- adroit :
7.misanthrope : adjective
people are no damn good .
- misein :
Greek root
, to hate . - anthropos :
Greek root
, mankind.- anthropology :
noun
the study of the development of the human race. - philanthropist :
noun
one who love mankind and shows such love by making substantial financial contributions to charitable or by donating time and energy to helping those in need.
- anthropology :
8 .misogynist : noun
women are no damn good .
- gyne :
root
women .- gynecologist :
noun
the medical specialist who treats female disorders.
- gynecologist :
9. misogamist : noun
"marriage is an institution -- and who wants to live in an institution?"
- gamos :
root
marriage.- monogamy : the custom of only one marriage.
- bigamy : two marriage.
- polygamy : many marriage.
- andros : male .
- poly- : many
- polygyny : male with a plurality of wives.
- polyandry : a woman has two or more husbands.
10. ascetic : adjective
living without any physical pleasures or comforts.
- asketes : monk or hermit .
- asceticism :
the practice
- ascetic :
adj
- asceticism :
a monk lives a lonely life --not for him the pleasure of the fleshpots, the laughter and merriment of convivial gatherings, the dissipation of high living. Rather, days of contemplation , study, and rough toil , nights on a hard bed in a simple cell, and the kind of self-denial that leads to a purification of the soul .