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Vocab. lesson 9&10
Vocabulary from classical roots
Term | Definition |
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Cresco, crescere, crevi, cretum | To grow <L / To increase |
Accrue | To come as a natural increase or advantage |
Crescendo | A gradual increase in sound, often referring to music |
Excrescence | Abnormal growth or outgrowth |
Facio, facere, feci, factum | To make <L |
Beneficence | Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action |
Efficacious | Effective as a means or remedy |
Facile | Acting, working, or proceeding with ease |
Facsimile | An exact copy of a book |
Faction | A group or party or clique |
Mollify | To calm, to make gentler or softer in feeling |
TEXO, TEXERE, TEXUI, TEXTUM | <L to weave |
Context | the parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning. 2. The circumstances surrounding an event or situation |
Pretext | A false reason put forward to conceal a true one |
ARS, ARTIS | <L art |
Artifact | An object made by human beings, often refers to a primitive tool or other relic from and earlier period |
Artifice | Craftiness, trickery. 2. Cleverness, skill |
Artless | Without deceit or cunning, natural, simple. 2. Crude, ignorant, up cultured |
Artisan | A skilled craftsman |
AOIDE | <G song |
Ode | A poem usually addressed to a particular person, object, or event that has stimulated deep and noble feelings in the poet. |
Parody (noun) | A humorous imitation of a piece of literature or music |
Parody (tr. verb) | To mimic in a style, plot, or idea for comic effect |
Rhapsody | Speech or writing expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm 2. Musical composition of irregular form. |
CANTO, CANTARE, CANTAVI, CANTATUM | <L. To sing |
Incantation | The chanting or speaking of words seeming to have magical power or used to create a magical spell |
Recant | To take back a formal statement or belief previously made known. |
PINGO, PINGERE, PINXI, PICTUM | <L. To paint, to embroider |
Depict | To paint, draw, or express in a picture of sculpture 2. To describe, to picture in words. |
Pictograph | A picture or drawing representing words or ideas |