1.cultivation n.教化(refinement)；耕種（the act or art of cultivating or tilling）

詞根記憶：來自cultivate(v.培養；陶冶)

例:Not all of the acreage in Teruvia currently planted with rice is well suited to the cultivation of rice.

同根詞：cultivator(n.耕者)

2.cumbersome a．累贅的(burdensome);麻煩的(troublesome)

詞根記憶：cumber(妨礙)+some一妨礙的一麻煩的

例:Insulin must still be administered by the cumbersome procedure of injection under the skin.

3.cupidity n.貪婪，貪心(greed)

詞根記憶：Cupid(丘比特)是羅馬神話中的愛神，愛神引起人們對愛情的“貪婪”。

注意：covet(v.貪求)

例:The woman gazed at the silverware and jewels with cupidity.

4.curb n．路邊(an edging built along a street to form part of a gutter);v.控制 (to control, to check)

例:The containers will be placed at the curb twice a week for trash collection.//They propose a way to curb illegal digging while benefiting the archaeological profession.

5.curiosity n.好奇，好奇心(desire to know);珍品，古董(antique)

詞根記憶：curio(古董)+sity --對罕見的古董充滿了好奇心--好奇；古董

例:In 1905 Bela Bart6k and Zoltan Kodtily began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary armed only with an Edison phonograph and insatiable cunosity.

同根詞：curious(a．好奇的)

6.currency n.流通(circulation);貨幣(something as coins treasury notes, and banknotes that is in circulation as a medium of exchange)

例:Predictions of slower economic growth sometimes trigger declines in currency value.//currency exchange rates外匯匯率

7.curriculum n.全部課程（the courses offered by an educational institution）

例:Mathematics and history are required courses in the high school curriculum.

8.cursorial a．適于行走的，善于奔跑的(adapted to or involving running)

例:Two opposing scenarios, the "arboreal" hypothesis and the "cursoriar' hypothesis, have traditionally been put forward concerning the origins of bird flight.

9.curtail v.縮減(to shorten)

詞根記憶：把cur看作cut, tail是尾巴之意，整個詞可以理解為把尾巴削了，即“截短，縮短”之意

例:lf we are to reduce the risk of an oil spill without curtailing our use of oil, we must invest more in offshore operations.

10.customize v.定制，定做(to make or alter according to the buyer's or owner's wishes)

例:customized computer software定制的計算機軟件