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Word Power Chapter15

Kirklin and Bruley's Classes

QuestionAnswer
Enervate to be exhausted
Castigate to scold severely
Self abnegate
Recapitulate to repeat the main points
Vegetate to be mentally or intellectually stagnated
Simulate to pretend
Intimate to hint at
Alleviate to make something easier to bear or handle
Commiserate to show or share sympathy
Vacillate to waver indecisively
Ex out
Nervus nerve
En in
Ergon work
Erg term used in physics to describe units of energy
Syn with or together
Synergism/ Synergy the process by which two or more substances or people work together
Ab away
Nego to deny
Negate to deny the truth or existence of something
Caput, capitis head
Captain, capital come from this root
Decapitate to remove a head
Capitulum little head
Re again
Capitulate to arrange to give up, or arrange to surrender
Vegeto to live and grow
Simulo to copy
Similis like or similar
Dissimulation hiding your true feelings, while displaying false feelings
Dissemble hide true feeling by pretending the opposite
Dis against
Intimus innermost
Levis light
Ad to
Relieve to make light or easy again
Elevate to raise out or up
Levitation rising through no visible means
Levity joking or a lack of seriousness
Miser wretched
Con/m together or with
Miser, miserly, miserable all come from the root miser
Vacillo to swing back and forth
Ambivalent having conflicting and simultaneous emotions
Ambi both
Oscillum a swing
Oscillate to physically swing back and forth
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