

F, Y, V, U, W: Waw
I. Digamma – finger, club, hook
手指:
- We were all frisked in the airport.
- Lambs frisked in the fields.
forge, fend, five, four , fix, farm, feel, food, factory, figure, fight, finish, future, force, fort, festival, flirt, find,
II. F 流动感 / 拟声词 onomatopoeia = onoma (name + poeia = to make [poem] )
风/气:flurry, flow, fly, fan, flu, fall, free, fast, first, front,
火:fire, flame, fury, fry, fever, flash, fusion
水:fulfill, flow, fill, flood, fluid, float, ford, fluent,
缓慢动感:field, form, firm, fossil, father, family, friend
- to carry
- to bear children; to produce
forms:
- fer [b = p & ph = f]
- ber
- barrow [n. frame for carrying a load]
- bear
- bring
- bier
- birth
- burden [n. a load]
fer 手指延伸的地方, 双手伸开
prefer, transfer, refer, differ, infer, proliferate, indifferent, vociferous,
confer:
- “to bring together,” figuratively “to compare; consult, deliberate, converse/talk over,” “examine by comparison;” “consult together on some special subject;”
- “bestow as a gift or permanent possession,”
[intransitive] confer (with somebody) (on/about something) to discuss something with somebody, in order to exchange opinions or get advice
- He wanted to confer with his colleagues before reaching a decision.
- conference
[transitive] confer something (on/upon somebody) to give somebody an award, a university degree or a particular honour or right
- An honorary degree was conferred on him by Oxford University in 2019.
- conferment
defer:
- “to delay, put off, postpone,” [de- “away from” (see dis-) ]
- deferral = deferment [a putting off, postponement]
- “yield, offer, render,” “leave to another’s judgment or determination,” “refer (a matter) to someone” [ “down, away” (see de-) ]
- deference, deferential
euphoria
ferret, furtive
metaphor
suffering (trial of ordeal, tribulation)
- auriferous, aquifer, conifer, carboniferous
- circumference: “line that bounds a circle” (loosely, “any boundary line”); to lead around, take around, carry around
- periphery: “atmosphere around the earth,” “circumference, outer surface, line round a circular body,”
cumbersome: large and heavy; difficult to carry
proliferate, proliferation, pyrophoric, semaphore,
fest (feast, holidays) 手舞足蹈,喧闹
fete, feast, gabfest, fiesta, festoon, festal
*dhe-
*dhē-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to set, put.”
Latin facere “to make, do; perform; bring about;”
forms
- -the-
- fac
- hac
do (v.); doom; -dom; duma; deed; deem; indeed;
efface; facade; face; facet; facial; -facient; facile; facilitate; facsimile;
fact; faction (n.1) “political party;” -faction; factitious; factitive; factor; factory; factotum; faculty; fashion; feasible; feat; feature; feckless; fetish;
-fic; fordo; forfeit; –; hacienda; incondite; infect; misfeasance; multifarious; office; officinal; omnifarious; orifice; perfect; pluperfect; pontifex; prefect; prima facie; proficient; profit; recondite; refectory; sacrifice; salmagundi; samadhi;
sconce; suffice; sufficient; surface; surfeit;
synthesis; hypothecate; hypothesis; metathesis; antithesis; parenthesis; prosthesis;
- difficult = dif (dis) 否定 + fic (do) 干 + ult (极度)
- office = of 加强 + fic (宗教领域 – 政府机构 – 世俗场合); officer, official, officious, butt in, nosy
- sacrifice
affect (v.1) “make a mental impression on;”
- affect = af 加强 + fect, disaffect, disaffected, affective, affectionate, affectation, 【做作,动作本身】
- effect = af (ex) 出,出来 + fect, effective, effectuate, efficacy, efficacious, efficient, [做的结果]
- defect, defection, deficient,
- infect, infection, infectious
- perfect, perfection, confection
- fact, factoid, factor, factory, factual, factually, factitious, artifact = art 技能 + fact, manufacture, manufactory, olfactory, factotum,
- artifact; artifice;
- faction, factious, petrifaction, putrefaction, rarefaction
- beatific; benefice; beneficence; beneficial; benefit; benefactor, benefaction,
- malefactor; malfeasance;
- manufacture;
- deface; defeasance; defeat; defect; deficient; difficulty;
- facile, facility, facilitate
- facsimile
- profit, proficient, fiction, fictive, discomfit, comfit
- suffice, sufficient,
- magnificent,
- feat, feature, feasible,
- comfit; discomfit; confection; confetti; counterfeit;
- forfeit, counterfeit, surfeit, feign, feint
fig (shape): effigy, figment,
figur (form, shape): figure, configuration, figurehead, figurative, figurine, prefigure,
funct (perform, complete): function, defunct, fungible, perfunctory,
-fy (make, do): fy; gratify satisfy;, putrefy;, rarefy, stupefy amplify; certify; dignify; verify. qualify; rarefy; edifice; edify; rectify; justify; petrify; modify; mollify; notify; nullify;
fan: fanatic, fanaticism, profane
flu (flow, stream, glide): affluence, confluence, mellifluous, superfluous, fluorescent, flux, effluvia
foli (leaf): 风吹落叶 defoliate, exfoliate, foliage, portfolio
fortun (luck, chance): 风吹来的东西 fortune, fortuity, fortunate, fortuitous, fortuneteller
fug (flee) = f + u + g : refugee, fugitive, centrifugal, fugue, subterfuge
febr: fever, febrile, feverish
ferv (boil, be hot): fervor, fervid, effervesce, effervescent, fervent
fer (wild): fierce, ferocious, vociferous,
flagr (burn): flagrant, conflagration
flam (flame): aflame, inflame, inflammation, flamboyant, flamingo
fulg (shine, flash): refulgent, effulgent
fur (rage, be mad): fury, furious, furor, infuriate
felic: happy, lucky
felicity,
fin (end, form a boundary): finite, refine, define, confine, finesse, affinity, infinitesimal,
fili (daughter, son): filial, affiliate
form (shape): formative, formulate, nonconformist, format, formula, reform, cruciform, cuneiform, informant
fund (bottom, depths, basis): profound, flounder, profundity,
fut (check, restrain): refute, confute,
front: confront, affront (insult, atrocity), frontier, effrontery (impudence, impertinence)
fend: fend for oneself, fend off, parry off, ward off
van = one 第一, 前面,空 void, vain, vant, vac, vacu, wan
van, vanish, vanishing, vanity, advance, advantage, vanguard, vantage (shortage), vanward, vain, vainglory, vault, vaunt, vaunted, evanescent (vanishing, evaporating),
vac: vacuum, vacate, vacation, vacant, vacuity, evacuation, evacuate, vacuous, vacancy, vacant, evacuee.
void (empty space) : void, avoid, avoidance, devoid of (lacking), avoidable, avoidance,
wan (lessen) : wane, wanton, want, wanting
vent = wind;
- venīre, “to come.”
- vertere, “to turn.”
- vehere “to carry.”
风,来,去, 走, 转:
VENI VIDI VICI – Julius Caesar 我来了,我看见,我征服
风口=路口=来,去,走的地方
- invent, venture, venture capital, venturous,
- adverse, advertise, anniversary, divert, subvert, convert, versatile
- advent, appearance, emergence, dawn
- adventitious, adventure, adventurism, adventuresome, revenue,
- convent, convene (convoke), convener, convention,
- intervene, intervenor, intervention, intervening,
- venue, avenue,
- circumvent, circumvention,
- contravene, contravention,
- event, eventual, eventuate, eventuality, eventful,
- prevent, prevenient, provenance,
- ventilate, ventilator, vent-duct, convenient, souvenir, covenant, supervene,
via (way): trivial (three + way) [paltry – poor, nugatory], trifle, viaduct
vend, vendor, venal, venality
vad, vas 强行,闯入
invade, invasion, invasive, evade, invade, pervade, devastation, devastate (raze to the ground),
wad: 走路费劲,吃力地走
wade, wader, waddle,
vag (wander, roam, rove): 没有目的的走,溜达
vague, vagary. vagaries, vagarious, vagrant, vagrancy, vagabondage, vagabond, extravagant, extravaganza, divagate (stray, digress), divagation, noctivagant,
vec: vector, invective, convective, convection
veh: vehicle, inveigh against (fulminate), vehement, vehicular
vener (worship, revere, honor): venerate, venerable, veneration
ver (fear): revere, irreverent, reverent, reverend
ver (truth): aver, verity, very, verily, verify, verdict, veracious, veritable, verisimilitude, veracity
verg: converge, diverge, verge,
vert: advert, divert, convert, controvert, animadvert, pervert, extrovert, introvert, invert, vertigo, subvert (overturn), incontrovertible, vortex, revert, advertorial, inadvertent, avert,
vestig: footprint
- vestige: the last vestiges of colonialism
- investigate
- vestigial: He felt a vestigial flicker of anger from last night.
- “to speak.”
- “voice, sound, utterance, language, word;”
Forms:
- voc
- vac
- vacas-“word;”
epic: “a word; a tale, story; promise, prophecy, proverb; poetry in heroic verse”
vocabulary; vocal; vociferate; vociferous; voice; vouch; vox; vowel.
voc (call), vok (call, call upon): vocat (called, called upon), vouch (call, call upon)
- avocation, vociferate, vociferous, vocalize, voice, vocal, vocalization, vouch, vouchsafe, voucher
- equivocal, equivocation, univocal;
- convoke, convocation
- evoke; invoke; provoke; revoke;
- revoke, revocation,
- invoke (cite, adduce)
- evoke, evocation,
- provoke, provocative, provocation
volat (fly, move swiftly, speed): volley (barrage, bombardment), volatile
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volv 滚动,转动 (圆半径不变): evolve, evolvement, devolve (delegate), revolver, convolve, involve, involvement, involved,
volu 涡流,漩涡 (圆半径变大/小): voluble (wordy, verbose), volubility, volute, volution, convolute, involute, involution,
evolution, evolutional, evolutive, devolution, convoluted, circumvolution,
revolution, counterrevolution, revolute, revolutionary, revolutionize
volume, voluminous, voluminousness, volumetric
volt 卷: revolt, revolting,
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vor (eat): devour, voracious, voracity, omnivore, carnivore, herbivore, insectivore,
vot (promise, pledge) T-mark: vow, devote, voter, devout, votary
val (be strong, be of value): valid, available, valiant, valorous, prevail, ambivalent, equivalent, convalescent, evaluate, prevalent, valedictorian
vibr: vibe, vibrant, verve (zest, buoyant),
- vibrate: reverberate, resonate, resound, pulsate, pulse, palpitate, waver, quiver, thunder
verberare (to whip, to lash): verber, reverberate (resound, repel, echo, reflect),
vig (act, be lively): vigor, vigil, vigilance, vigilante, surveillance,
viv: vivacious, convivial (congenial, outgoing), vivify, revive, vivacity, viability
virt: virtue, virtuoso (master, prodigy)
vir (poison): viral, virus, virulent, retrovirus, virologist, virulence,
vic: vice, vicious, vitiate, vituperate (revile, upbraid, berate)
vin (win): evince (reveal, show), convince, victor, evict, invincible, vanquish, vindicate,
vin (wine): vintage, vignetter, vine, viniculture, vineyard,
view: purview
vulg (make common, publish):
- vulgar, vulgarize, vulgarism, vulgarity,
- divulge (reveal), promulgate, promulgation
vuls: convulse (jerk, go into spasms), convulsion, revulsion (repulsion, repugnance)
vap (steam, spoiled, flat – 气体无色无味): vapor, vaporize, vapid (insipid), vaporous, evaporate, evaporation
vari (different, diverse): vary, variegate, variation, variance, variety,
veil (curtain): veil, unveil, reveal
verb (word):
- verb, adverb,
- proverb, proverbial, verbiage, verbal, verbatim (word for word), verbose, verbosity, verbalize,
verd (green): verdant, verdure
vest: invest, vested, divest, travesty (distortion), divestiture,
veter: veteran, inveterate (hardcore), inveteracy, veterinary, veterinarian,
vid (see): provident, providential
vis (see): envision, proviso, provisional, visage, envisage, improvise,
vey (see, look at): survey, purvey (sell, provide), clairvoyant (seer, oracle/prophet, crystal gazer),
wast (desolate, laid waste): wastrel
vestig (footprint): after wind: vestige, vestigial, investigate
und (wave): inundate (deluge), redound (be conducive to), surround, abundance, redundant (glut – lot, superfluous, plethora), superabundance, abound, undulate, undulant,
us (use): usurp (abdicate, abjure, cede), peruse (scrutinize), usury,
util (useful): utilitarian, utilize