word study14
（一）Transmute, transmutable, transmutation; transmutationist; transmutative;Transmute vt.
(1) The drizzle has been transmuted into thin layers of mist.
To transmute water into electric power;
To transmute the abundant materials into finished products;
Transmute vi.
(2)Energy transmutes into matter and vice versa.
(3) Technological innovation is a transmutative force.
（二）Reveal vt. revelator, revelation; revealing, revelatory;
(1) Investigation has revealed him to be a confirmed criminal. （惯犯）
To reveal one’s secret
(2)Their faces revealed anger and alarm.
Reveal itself; revealable, revealability, revealableness;
Revealing adj. revealingly, revealingness;
(1) a revealing dress;
(2) a revealing conversation/experience; to draw on the revealing accounts in the press;
revelation
(1) The revelation of his scandalous past let to his resignation.
The revelation of his plagiarism led to his disgrace.
the revelation of the true facts;
(2) The revelation that John instead of Tom was the chief designer surprised us all.
the Watergate revelations;
(3) divine revelations from God;
(4) This is a story revelatory of adult human nature
（三）assume, assumption;
(1) Farmers will have a bumper harvest, ______( that) the weather is favorable. （假设）
(2) to assume one’s new responsibilities/ assume control/ assume a realistic attitude;（承担，采取）
(3) The problem is beginning to assume massive proportions. （呈现出）
The situation assumes a threatening character.
(4) assume a well-informed manner; assume ignorance; assume an injured air;
To talk with an assumption of ease; （假装）
(5) make an assumption; pure assumption; do on/under the assumption that;
The critics’ remarks have shaken the basic assumptions of his theory.
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