mania(c)=狂
kleptomaniac
N. person who has a compulsive desire to steal.
They discovered that the wealthy customer was a kleptomaniac when they caught her stealing some cheap trinkets.
构词：klept (steal) + maniac (mad person)
参考词：wrestlemania
maniacal
ADJ. raging mad; insane.
Though Mr. Rochester had locked his mad wife in the attic, he could still hear her maniacal laughter echoing throughout the house.
maniac, N.
构词：maniac (mad) + al (a)
megalomania
N. mania for doing grandiose things.
Developers who spend millions trying to build the world’s tallest skyscraper suffer from megalomania.
构词：mega (great) + lo（补音）+ mania (madness)
pyromaniac
N. person with an insane desire to set things on fire.
The detectives searched the area for the pyromaniac who
had set these costly fires.
构词：pyro (fire) + maniac (mad person)
ling=thing or person (esp. small)
weakling, hatchling, seedling, duckling, gosling
fledgling
=fly.
ADJ. inexperienced.
While it is necessary to provide these fledgling poets with an opportunity to present their work, it is not essential that we admire everything they write, also N.
构词：fledg (fly) + ling (a)
unfledged
ADJ. immature.
It is hard for an unfledged writer to find a sympathetic publisher.
构词：un (not) + fledg (fly) + ed (a)
hireling
N. one who serves for hire (usually used contemptuously).
In a matter of such importance, I do not wish to deal with hirelings; I must meet with the chief.
构词：hire + ling (person)
sibling
N. brother or sister.
We may not enjoy being siblings. but we cannot forget that we still belong to the same family.
构词：sib (kinsman) + ling (person)
inkling
N. hint.
This came as a complete surprise to me as I did not have the slightest inkling of your plans.
构词：ink + ling (thing)
cracy=rule, class
aristocracy
N. hereditary nobility; privileged class.
Americans have mixed feelings about hereditary aristocracy. We say all men are created equal, but we describe particularly outstanding people as natural aristocrats.
构词：aristo (top贵族) + cracy (rule)
bureaucracy
N. overregulated administrative system marked by red tape.
The Internal Revenue Service is the ultimate bureaucracy: taxpayers wasted so much paper filling out IPS forms that the IPS bureaucrats printed up a new set of rutes requiring taxpayers to comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act.
bureaucratic, ADJ.
构词：bureau (office) + cracy (rule)
gerontocracy
N. government ruled by old people.
Gulliver visited a gerontocracy in which the young people acted as servants to their elders, all the while dreaming of the day they would be old enough to have servants of their own.
构词：geronto (old) + cracy (rule)
ful=full of
bountiful
bounty
ADJ. abundant; graciously generous.
Thanks to the good harvest, we had a bountiful supply of food and we could be as bountiful as we liked in distributing food to the needy.
构词：bount (abundant) + ful (full of)
dutiful
=duty
ADJ. respectful; obedient.
When Mother told Billy to kiss Great-Aunt Hattie, the boy obediently gave the old woman a dutiful peck on her cheek.
构词：duty + ful (full of)
fitful
ADJ. spasmodic; intermittent.
After several fitful attempts, he decided to postpone the start of the project until he felt more energetic.
构词：fit + ful (full of)
willful
ADJ. intentional; headstrong.
Donald had planned to kill his wife for months; clearly, her death was a case of deliberate, willful murder, not a crime of passion committed by a hasty, willful youth unable to foresee the consequences of his deeds.
构词：bount (abundant) + ful (full of)
wistful
=wish
ADJ. vaguely longing; sadly pensive.
With a last wistful glance at the happy couples dancing in the hall, Sue headed back to her room to study for her exam.
构词：wist (wish) + ful (full of)
baleful
ADJ. deadly; having a malign influence; ominous.
The fortune teller made baleful predictions of terrible things to come.
构词：bale (bad) + ful (full of)
ard=adj
haggard
ADJ. wasted away; gaunt.
After his long illness, he was pale and haggard.
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