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VCR Lesson 4
| PUER | <L. - "a male child" |
| puerile | adj. - childish, immature |
| PAIS, PAIDOS | <G. - "child", "boy" |
| orthophedics | n. - branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement |
| pedagogue | n. - a teacher |
| pedant | n. - a person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding; a scholarly show-off |
| SUM, ESSE,FUI, FUTURUM | <L. "to be" |
| entity | n. - something that has a real or independent existence |
| nonentity | n. - a person or thing of no importance; something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| essence | n. - the basic element; the identifying characteristic; a substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug; a perfume |
| MORIOR,MORI, MORTUUM | <L. - "to die" |
| moribund | adj. - about to die or end |
| mortify | verb - to shame; to discipline oneself by denial |
| postmortem | n. - an examination to determine the cause of death, autopsy; (informal) an analysis of something that is over |
| THANATOS | <G. - "death" |
| euthanasia | n. - the act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy killing |
| NASCOR, NASCI, NATUM | <L. - "to be born" |
| innate | possessed at birth; inborn |
| naive | adj. - childlike; unsophisticated; gullible |
| nascent | adj. - emerging; coming into existence |
| renaissance | n. - a rebirth, a renewal; (capitalized) a revival of humanism in fourteenth-century to sixteenth-century Europe |