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Vocabulary From Classical Roots Book C Lesson 8
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concoct
tr. v. 1. To mix ingredients, as in cooking.
2. To invent or devise.
cuisine
n. A characteristic style of cooking.
precocious
adj. Showing unusually early devolpment, especially mentally.
carnivorous
adj. Meat-eating.
herbivorous
adj. Plant-eating
voracious
adj. 1. Extremely hungry; greedy.
2. Eager for some activy or interest
mellifluous
adj. Sweet as honey (referring to a voice or words).
saline
adj. Having to do with salt
imbibe
tr. v. To drink.
potable
adj. Fit to drink
potion
n. A liquid fro drinking, especially a medicinal, magic, or poisonous drink.
allude
intr. v. To make an indirect reference to.
collusion
n. A secret agreement for a deceitful purpose; conspiracy.
delusion
n. 1. A false belief or opinion, especially one held in spite of contradictory evidence.
elude
tr. v. 1. To avoid or escape from cunning; to evade.
2. To escape detection; to baffle.
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VOCABULARY
Study the entries and answer the questions that follow. The root fort means "strong." The root graph means "writing." The root gen means "born," "to produce," or "kind" (type). The prefix mono means "one." List all the words you can think of that contain the roots graph and gen.
VOCABULARY
From (he list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. $$ \begin{matrix} \text{resign} & \text{genocide} & \text{foray} & \text{quintessential}\\ \text{faux} & \text{conjecture} & \text{manifesto}\\ \end{matrix} $$ Few outsiders knew for sure the condition of the city in the days following the violent uprising, but most _____ portrayed a place of rampant looting and lawlessness after the rebels ______ into the capital city. Winston, the nearest correspondent, traveled to the city to report the situation, and what he found shocked him. Poor-quality copies of the revolutionaries ______ hung on bullet-riddled walls. Orphaned children and distraught mothers roamed the streets as remnants of the near ______ that had occurred in the weeks leading to the uprising. Most of the combatants ______ themselves to simple survival, considering themselves lucky that food and water were in good supply for the moment.
VOCABULARY
From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. Charisma, efface, advocate, mesmerize, gist, bandy, ogre. Joan, who _____ the cleanup of the James River, is always trying to gain supporters for her cause. The usual _____ of her speech focuses on the effects of the river's pollution on future generations. Her eloquent speech _____ audiences, and her ______ helps her to win the hearts of people who are not even affected by the pollution. Joan hopes someday to ______ the consequences of the irresponsible dumping practices that continue to foul the James River.
VOCABULARY
From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. renown, forte, confute, brinkmanship, dynasty, recumbent, tribulation. Damian mounted his new _____ bicycle, but he immediately crashed into a light pole because he was not used to sitting back while riding a bike. After a few minutes of _____, though, he was able to ride around in the parking lot without falling down. Damian's friends _____ his decision to spend a lot of money on what they called a novelty item, but Damian was _____ for wasting money on things that sat in the basement and collected dust when he tired of them. His credit card sprees would stop eventually. Damian was bound to lose his game of financial _____, in which he waited to pay his bills until he received threatening notices from the bank.
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