inception: n. 开端，开始： an act, process, or instance of beginning
【考法1】n. 开端，开始： an act, process, or instance of beginning
【例】 This seemed like a good program at its inception, but it isn't working out as planned. 一开始这像是个不错的项目，但是它没有按照我们的预期发展
【近】 beginning, birth, commencement, dawn, genesis, kickoff, launch, nascence, onset, outset, start, threshold
【反】 close, conclusion, end, termination,omega 结束，终止
【派】 inceptive adj. 开端的，初生的
incendiary: 煽动者; One who creates or stirs up factionalism or sedition; an agitator
Incendiary : agitate = INSURGENT : REBEL
【考法1】n. 煽动者： a person who stirs up public feelings especially of discontent
【例】behind-the-scenes incendiaries who were intending to overthrow the government 企图****政府的幕后 煽动者
【近】demagogue, exciter, firebrand, fomenter, inciter, instigator, kindler, provocateur
【考法2】adj. 煽动性的： tending to inflame
【例】 an incendiary speech 煽动性的演说
【近】 agitational, instigative, provocative, seditious
【反】 conciliatory, pacific安抚性的
mendicant: a beggar
mendicant ------ (n.) beggar; (adj.) depending on begging for a living I believe he is a mendicant who I see every morning
mendicant adj.行乞的 n.乞丐
mendicant : beg
mendicant: confusion
mendicant ------ People who live off begging can be called mendicants. However, you probably wouldn't call your kids mendicants, even though they beg you for stuff, because the word mendicant also implies extreme poverty. The noun mendicant can also refer to a man belonging to a religious order, such as the Franciscan Friars who do not own personal property but live together in a monastery and survive off alms donated by others. As an adjective, mendicant describes someone who lives such an existence.
adjective - Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging.
noun - A beggar.
noun - A member of an order of friars forbidden to own property in common, who work or beg for their living.
hyponym - Carmelite, Augustinian, sannyasi, grey friar, panhandler, White Friar, beggarman, moocher, mooch, cadger
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