词根：tempor = time, age, season

  来源于拉丁语的tempus 意为time,age,season。同义词根有来源于拉丁语的ev和来源于希腊语的chorn。

1. contemporary（和时间、时代、现代同时 con<com(=together) + tempor (=time)）
  adj.现代的，当代的；同时代的
  n. (pl.)同时代的人；当代人；同龄人
  contemporaneous adj.同时发生的，同时代的
  Many contemporary poets can't make enough money to sustain them by writing poetry. 许多现代诗人都无法靠写诗来赚钱维持生计。

2. extemporary (ex出+tempor时间或时间引起的现象+ary……的→超出时间安排的,没时间准备好)
  adj.即席的，即兴的

3. extempore (ex出+tempor时间或时间引起的现象+e→超出时间安排的→即席,当场)
  adv./adj.即席地（的），即兴地（的），无准备地（的）
  speak extempore 即兴发言

4. extemporaneous
  adj.即席的，即兴的，无准备的；临时的；权宜之计的
  extemporaneous speech 即席讲话
  extemporaneous death 当场死亡
  extemporaneous shelter against a storm 为躲避暴风雨而得时搭建的避难所

5. temporary (tempor时间或时间引起的现象+ary……的→有时间性的→临时的)
  adj.临时的，暂时的，一时的
  temporarily adv. 暂时地，临时地
  temporary employment 临时雇用
  temporary job 临时工作
  temporary measures 权宜之计

6. temporal (tempor时间或时间引起的现象+al……的→adj.时间的,世俗的)
  adj.时间的；世俗的，现世的；暂时的 n.颞部
  temporal power of the Pope 教皇处理世俗事务的俗权
  temporal affairs 世俗之事

7. temporality
  n.暂时性；(pl.) 宗教团体的不动产
  temporalty n.<古>[总称]俗人
  temporalities of the Church 教会的不动产

8. temporize (tempor时间或时间引起的现象+ize……化→时间化→拖延时间)
  v. 拖延（决定、答复等）；（为争取时间而）敷衍；迎合潮流

9. temporizing
  adj.（为争取时间而）敷衍的；顺应时势的，迎合潮流的

10. tempestuous
  adj.暴风雨的；暴风般的；剧烈的；骚动的
  in a tempestuous mood 心情激动的
  tempestuous political meeting 喧闹的政治集会

词根词缀：carpo-, carp-, -carpals, -carpus (wrist)

【来源及含义】Greek: wrist [literally, "that which turns"]

【同源单词】carpal, carpale, carpectomy, carpitis, carpocarpal, carpopedal

词根词缀：nepot-, nepo-

【来源及含义】Latin: nephew; grandson, grandchild; descendant [family member]; nepotism, et al.

【相关描述】Said to be used in the Middle Ages by Catholic popes to show favoritism to their illegitimate children for positions of power. The use of  "nephew" was a euphemism for their "out-of-wedlock" offspring.

【同源单词】nepotal, nepotic, nepotious, nepotism, nepotist

词根词缀：peri-

【来源及含义】Greek: around, enclosing, surrounding, about, near, close; often used as a prefix

【相关词根词缀】 Related "around, round, surrounding" units: ambi-; ampho-; circ-; circum-; cyclo-, -cycle; gyro-.

【同源单词】abdominal fascia, adominoperineal, aeroperitonia, anoperineal, colpoperineoplasty, colpoperineorrhaphy

词根词缀：perine-, perineo-

【来源及含义】Greek: space between the scrotum or mons veneris and the anus

【同源单词】adominoperineal, anoperineal, colpoperineoplasty, colpoperineorrhaphy, episioperineoplasty, episioperineorrhaphy

词根词缀：-pexy, -pexia, -pexes, -pexic, -pexis, -pex

【来源及含义】Greek: a suffix; fixing [of a specified part]; attaching to, a fastening

【相关描述】Used in medical nomenclature to denote "a surgical fixation" of that which is specified by the combining root.

【同源单词】adipopexis, calcipexis, cecopexy, cholecystopexy, chromatopexis, colopexy

词根词缀：vati-

【来源及含义】from Latin vates, seer, prophet; sooth-sayer; prophesy, prophecy; which should not be confused with Vatican, "Pope's palace in Rome" or Vaticanism, "doctrine of papal supremacy and infallibility"

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "divination, diviner; seer, soothsayer, prophecy, prophesy, prophet": augur-; auspic-; fa-, fate; Fates in action; futur-; -mancy; omen; -phemia; sorc-, sorcery.

【同源单词】vatic, vatical, vaticide, vaticinal, vaticinate, vaticination