# session-44

### 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)


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