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Vocab #9
for honors english
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| affront | to intentionally, to offend or embarrass noun |
| Capitalist | a person who has invested personal wealth in business noun |
| Capitulation | surrender, ending resistance noun |
| cerebral | pertaining to the brain adjective |
| cerebration | the action of thinking, thought noun |
| confront | to stand or come directly in front of verb |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of, to behead verb |
| deface | to mar or spoil the appearence or surface of something verb |
| efface | to wipe out, to make less clear as if rubbing out verb |
| effrontery | flippant or insulting boldness, audacity noun |
| facade | a face of a building noun |
| facet | one aspect of a situation or of a tooth noun |
| precipice | a very steep or vertical face of a cliff or rock noun |
| precipitate | to throw down from a great height noun,verb,adj |
| recapitulation | the restatement of a main idea noun |
| Caput, capitis | head |
| cerebrum | brain |
| facies | face, form, shape |
| Frons, Frontis | front, forehead, face |
| what is the root of affront | Frons, Frontis |
| what is the root of capitalist | Caput, capitis "head" |
| what is the root of capitulation | Caput, Capitis "head" |
| what is the root of cerebral | Cerebrum "brain" |
| what is the root of cerebration | Cerebrum "brain" |
| what is the root of confront | Frons, Frontis "front""forehead""face" |
| what is the root of decapitate | Caput,Capitis "head" |
| what is the root of deface | Facies "face""form""shape" |
| what is the root of efface | Facies "face""form""shape" |
| what is the root of effrontery | Frons, Frontis "front""forehead""face" |
| what is the root of facade | Facies "face form shape" |
| what is the root of facet | Facies "face form shape" |
| what is the root of precipitate | Caput, Capitis "head" |
| what is the root of precipice | Caput, Capitis "head" |
| what is the root of recapitulation | Caput, capitis "head" |