词根：rap, rav(rep) = to take, to snatch（攫取）

  来自拉丁语的rap,rav意为to take,to snatch。rap中元音弱化后变成rep。同义词根有来自拉丁语的prehend/prehens,pris,cap/capt/cept/ceiv(cip,cup,ceit),empt/em,sump/sumpt,lab/lep等。
  （*拉丁文rapere(=to snatch,to seize,to grasp)——英文字根字典）

同源词：

1. surreptitious（向下抓住、采用的sur<sub(=under) + rep<rap(=take)
  adj.秘密的；鬼鬼祟祟的
  That handsome dude over there is stealing surreptitious glances at you.那边那个帅哥正在向你暗送秋波呢

2. ravage（被抢夺或被夺取的状态 rav(=take,seize)
  n.破坏；荒废；(pl.)破坏后的残迹
  vt.破坏，使荒废；（军队等）劫持
  The lion ravaged the zebra until nothing was left but bones.狮子将一匹斑马吞食得只剩下骨头。

3. rape
  n./v.抢夺；强奸
  rapist n.强奸犯

4. rapaclous
  adj.（尤其指对金钱）贪婪的，掠夺的
  rapacity n.贪婪

5. rapid
  adj.（速度）快的；陡峭的
  n.(pl.)急流
  rapidity n.迅速，急速
  rapidly adv.快地，迅速地

6. rapine
  n.抢夺，掠夺

7. rapt
  adj.着迷的，埋头的
  with rapt attention 全神贯注地
  rapt in a book埋头读书的

8. rapture
  n.狂喜，高兴；着迷
  rapturous adj.狂喜的
  go into raptures over着迷于...

9. enrapture
  v.使狂喜 *en(=make)

10. raven
  n.渡鸦（通常被看做不吉利的鸟）
  adj.（毛发等）乌黑的
  v.掠夺
  raven locks 乌黑的头发
 
11. ravening
  adj.空腹觅食的；狼吞虎咽的
  ravening wolf 觅食的饿狼

12. ravenous
  adj.狼吞虎咽的，非常饥饿的；贪婪的
  ravenous appetite 极好的胃口
  ravenous hunger 极度的饥饿
  ravenous for power贪图权力的

13. ravine
  n.峡谷

14. ravish
  v.使狂喜；使陶醉；掠夺
  ravishingly adv.狂喜地；陶醉地
  ravishment n.陶醉；狂喜
  ravishing view 令人陶醉的景色
  ravished with her beauty 被她的美貌逮住

词根词缀：harpago-, harpag-; harpacto-, harpact-; harpaxo-, harpax-

【来源及含义】Latin: seize, snatch, plunder; grappling hook, drag; seizure, robbery, rapine, booty; ravish

【同源单词】harpacticid, harpacticoid, Harpacticoida, harpactophagous, harpago, Harpagomyia splendens

词根词缀：pil-

【来源及含义】Latin: to gather, to pillage, to plunder, to rob, to steal, to snatch, to heap up (as stones) and to carry off

【相关描述】Don't confuse the words in this pil- unit with the pil-, pilo- or "hair" group of words.

【同源单词】compellation, compilation, compilatory, compile, compiled, compilement

词根词缀：rap-, rav-

【来源及含义】Latin: tearing away, seizing, swift, rapid; snatch away, seize, carry off; from Latin rapere, "to seize by force and to carry off"

【同源单词】correption, enrapt, enrapture, enraptured, fluviraption, nonusurping