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ELA VOCAB 1
525 tiny babies on canvas
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acious/cious (meaning and examples) | "full of" loquacious, tenacious, pugnacious |
| Carn | "flesh, meat" carnage, carrion, reincarnation |
| Loquacious | Talkative, likes to talk a lot |
| Tenacious | Keeping a firm grasp of something, clinging closely |
| Pugnacious | Eager or quick to argue/fight.🍤 |
| Carnage | Killing of a large number of people |
| Carrion | Decaying dead animals, roadkill |
| Reincarnation | To be reborn, put into a new body |
| col/com/con/cor/cum | "with, together, completely" coherent, collusion, commemorate |
| Coherent | Logical, clearly understandable |
| Collusion | Secret, illegal cooperation or conspiracy, aim is to deceive others |
| Commemorate | To recall and show respect for someone or something, to honor |
| Dis- | "away from, apart" dispel, dislodge, disband |
| Dispel | Make a doubt, a feeling, or belief disappear |
| Dislodge | Knock or force out of position |
| Disband | Break up or cause to break up |
| em/en | "inside, within" embodiment, enthrall, engender |
| Embodiment | A visible form of a concept, someone who embodies a specific trait. |
| Enthrall | To capture the fascinated attention of |
| Engender | Cause or give rise to a feeling, situation, condition |
| fall/falls | "deceive" fallacious, fallible, falsify |
| Fallacious | Based on a mistaken belief. |
| Fallible | Capable of making mistakes or being wrong. |
| Falsify | Alter (info or evidence) as to mislead. |
| for | "away, off" or "completely, utterly" forgo, forlorn, forsake |
| Forgo | To omit or decline something |
| Forlorn | Pitifully sad and abandoned and lonely. |
| Forsake | To abandon something |
| soph | "wise" sophisticate, sophistry, sophomoric |
| Sophisticate | To make something fancy |
| Sophistry | The use of deceptive, FALLACIOUS arguments, with the intention of deceiving. |
| Sophomoric | you know this one. |
| ami/amo | "love" enamored, amateur, amicable |
| Enamored | Be filled with love for |
| Amateur | A person who pursues something they like regardless of pay. |
| Amicable | Friendly, civil, good nature |
| anthrop | "human" anthropology, misanthrope, philanthrope |
| aud/audit | "hear" audit, auditorium, audience |
| Audit | Inspect (tion), survey, probe |
| Audience | People watching and hearing you. |
| cur/curs | "run" concur, cursory, discursive |
| Concur | Agree, be of the same opinion |
| Cursory | Hasty and rushed, like all my homework assignments. |
| Discursive | Jumping from subject to subject in writing or speech, a little like my mind |
| err | "wanderer" erratic, errant, erroneous |
| Erratic | Unpredictable |
| Errant | Straying from social standards or the law. |
| Erroneous | WRONG |
| fid | "faith" confidant, fidelity, infidel |
| Confidant | A person who people share secrets with, entrusted in them |
| Fidelity | Faithfulness for a cause, person, belief. |
| Infidel | An atheist or someone who believes another religion. |
| fore | "before, earlier, in front of, in advance" forefather, foreshadow, forecast |
| Forefather | An ancestor |
| Foreshadow | To hint at something |
| Forecast | To predict or estimate a future event. |
| fy | suffix that imparts a sense of action, makes into a verb. amplify, deify, rectify |
| Amplify | To increase the volume of sound |
| Deify | To regard something as a god. |
| Rectify | To put right or to correct. |
| Anthropology | The study of human sciences and culture. |
| Philanthrope | A person who seeks to promote the welfare of humankind, an activist. |
| Misanthrope | A human who hates humans |
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