Unit 45

congenial / congenital / genial / genesis

congenial adj. 友善的 (very friendly) / kənˈdʒiniəl/

• The meeting was marked by the congenial mood of the participants, with much smiling and friendly hand shaking.

congenital adj. 先天的，天生的 (existing since birth) / kənˈdʒɛnədl/

• Jesse needed several bypass operations because she was born with a congenital heart defect.

genial adj. 友好的 (marked by or diffusing sympathy or friendliness) /ˈjēnyəl/

• Troy's genial nature ensured that he made friends easily wherever he went.

genesis n. 起源 (the beginning of something) /ˈdʒɛnəsəs/

• The Wright brothers are commonly considered to have been responsible for the genesis of aeronautics by virtue of their experiments with winged bicycles.

figment / pigment

figment n. 虚构的事 (something produced by the imagination; something that does not really exist) /ˈfɪɡmənt/

• My little brother was too scared to go to bed until we convinced him that monsters were only a figment of his imagination.

pigment n. 色素，颜料 (a substance that gives color to something else) /ˈpɪɡmənt/

• We decided that our paint should be a deeper hue so we added a rich blue pigment to enhance it.