VOA慢速英语:通过学习词根来扩展你的词汇量

confuse – v. to make someone uncertain or unable to understand something

spell – v. to say, write or print the letters of a word or name

idiom – n. an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a meaning of its own

like it's going out of style – idiom. done in a way that is much more than people normally do

comforting – adj. a state or situation in which you are relaxed and do not have any physically unpleasant feelings

unit – n. a single thing, person, or group that is a part of something larger

vocabulary – n. the words that make up a language

*The root words "struct-" and "stru-" mean "build."