Enormity
What you think it means: Huge, enormous.你认为单词的含义是：巨大的，庞大的。
What it really means: Profoundly immoral or evil.单词的真正含义是：极其不道德的或邪恶的。
Don’t beat yourself up over this one because no one knows this one off the top of their head. Enormity sounds like enormous and as with many of our other examples, here we expect words that sound alike to have similar meanings. Enormity simply means really evil. An example of how to use it is the following: "The enormity of the crimes committed by the Nazis in World War II."It doesn’t mean the enormous crimes, it means the heinous crimes。不要因为用错这个单词而自责，因为没多少人能不假思索地知道这个单词。Enormity(穷凶恶极)的发音和enormous(庞大的)比较相近，正如先前提过的许多例子一样，对于发音相似的单词，人们也很容易认为它们的意思也一样。Enormity是指“极其邪恶”。举个例子来说明如何使用这个单词吧。“纳粹分子在二战中犯下的罪行是enormity(穷凶恶极的)。”它不是说enormous(庞大的)罪行，而是指十恶不赦的罪行。
