1.consult v.咨询(to ask the advice or opinion of)；(with)商议(to confer)

联想记忆：不顾侮辱(insutt)，不耻请教(consult)

例:The employees' job functions required them to consutt at least once a day with employees from other companies.

派生词：consultant(n.顾问，咨询者)；consulting(a．咨询的)

2.consultant n.顾问(one who gives professional advice or services)；咨询者(one who consutts another)

词根记忆：来自consult(v.咨询)

例:For some reason the new consultant treats his clients like idiots.

派生词：consultancy(n．咨询工作)

同根词：consultive(a．咨询的)

3.consumption n．消耗（量）,消费（量）(the utilization of economic goods)

例:The annual number of fish caught for human consumptron has not increased.

4.contaminate v.污染(to pollute)；感染(to corrupt or infect by contact)

词根记忆：con+tamin（接触）+ate--接触脏东西--污染

例:Dental researchers discovered that toothbrushes can be contaminated with bacteria.

派生词：contaminant(n.污染物)

5.contamination n.污染，玷污；污染物(a state of being contaminated)

词根记忆：来自contaminate(v.污染)

例:Extensive use of chemicals in numerous future full-scale solar ponds would lead to contaminalion of the Dead Sea, which now enjoys a lucrative tourist trade.

同根词：contaminative(a．污损的)

6.contemplate v.沉思( to ponder)；打算，预期（to view as probable or as an intention)

联想记忆：con+ templ(看作temple庙)+ate--在庙里打坐沉思--打算

例:After the date all actions contemplated in the treaty are to be complete.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
困难只是穿上工作服的机遇。

——美国实业家凯泽(H.J.Kaiser, American businessman)