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not the real McCoy

          derive from     [Latin]   derive from    [Latin]
simulate ------------->   simulo   ------------->  similis
                         (to copy)                (like or similar)

• simulation: copying the real thing, pretending to be the genuine by taking on a similar appearance.

• dissimulation:

  • when you dissimulate, you hide your true feelings by making a pretense of opposite feelings.

  • sycophants are great dissimulators

• dissemble: close synonym of dissimulate

  • dissemblance (noun)

hints and helps

Latin root: [ intimus (innermost) ]

• intimate (v)

• intimate (Adj)

• intimate (noun)

• intimation: contains a significance buried deep in the innermost core, only a hint showing.

• alleviate:

  root:  ad- (al-)  +       levis   	    + verb suffix
          (to)	      (not heavy; light)

  • if I alleviate your sadness, I make it lighter to bear.

  • alleviation

  • to alleviate is to relieve only temporarily, not to cure or do away with.

    • alleviative (Adj)

    e.g. aspirin is an alleviative drug.

• elevate: to raise out, or, actually raise up, as to elevate one’s spirits, make them lighter; or elevate someone to a higher position, which is what an elevator does.

• levitation: rising through no visible means. (Like in magic show, person rises in the air as if floating)

  • levitate (verb)

• levity: lightness in the sense of frivolity, flippancy, joking or lack of seriousness, especially when solemnity, dignity, or formality is required.

sharing someone’s misery

• commiserate:

  root:   con- (com-)      +     miser   	+   -ate
         prefix (together)    (wretched)	  (verb suffix)

  “I commiserate with you”, that means,

  “I am wretched together with you---- I share your misery.”

  • commiseration (noun)

swing and sway

• vacillate: swing mentally or emotionally

  Latin root: [ Vacillo (to swing back and forth) ]

  • vacillation (noun)

  • vacillatory (the person)

    vacillatory persons are also, usually, ambivalent

• ambivalent: both good and bad wish simultaneously.

  • ambivalence (noun)

• oscillate: to sway back and forth physically

  • oscillation (noun)