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Latin: one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion.


Pagus (Latin)= rural district. Paganus taken from pagus= villager, rustic, civilian.

French: of little value, small, trifling


Pikk(French)=beat, referring to coining of coppers .

English: an unconverted individual of a people that do not acknowledge the God of the Bible; a person who is neither a Jew, Christian, nor Muslim.Heath

(English)=untitled land, track of wasteland + en (English suffix)= made of, of the nature of.

English: related to Heide(German), heithingi (old Norse) and haithno (Gothic)

sanskrit: Svastika-s (Sanskrit) = being fortunate, from svasti-s well-being luck, from su -well + as -, root of asti (he) is from root of Latin esse to be.

Algonquian: A shoe made of soft leather worn by the American Indians

French/Italian: Absence of quantity

Latin: highest point

Norse: distructively or irrationaly violent

Latin: to reduce drastically especially in number; to cause great destruction or harm to

Latin: a mechanical tool

This word was used to describe ingenuity or a trick, but evolved into devices and machines as technology advanced.

Old English/gothic: believe, accept as true.


Originally used before the 12th century as to believe, accept as true; now used as to acquire possession

Persian: a dull yellowish-brown, a fabric made from this color.


Word was taken from the Persians as a word for dust, but transformed into dusty, and then to describe the color that the clothes were made out of

Sanskrit: five, for it originally having five ingredients.

Old English: something strange or generally has to do with the supernatural.

originally meant to control a person’s fate or destiny.

Sanskrit: action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation.

Modern english/Greek/Neo-Latin: a person who suffers from a mental disorder, psychotic reactions and mental disturbances.

Spanish: to go around.

Greek: Large system of stars.

Meant brilliant assembly of persons, the technical astronomical sense emerged in 1848, then passed through Latin and Greek.

Latin: A god or godess.

devine being

Spanish:cocodilian of the genus alligator.

el lagarto= the lizard

annual, biennial

We light fireworks annually, in July, to commemorate Bastille Day.

bellicose, belligerent

He was very belligerent-- always ready to fight over nothing.

(two, twice)

binary, bilingual

The Dogon tribe, in Mali, always knew Sirius was a binary star system

(hundredth)

centennial, centenarian

Front Range is not old enough to celebrate its centennial yet.

(to cry out)

exclaim, proclaim

The master of ceremonies proclaimed us graduates!

(to say)

dictionary, diction, dictate

The teacher dictated the spelling words to the students.

(two)

dualistic, duel

She was like Janus, always two-faced or dualistic.

(equal, even)

equate, equilateral

Do not equate aid with kindness, if strings are attached.

- (faithful)

fidelity, infidel

Fidelity is important in any relationship

- (flower)

floral, flora

Tulips and daffodils make a lovely spring floral display.

(to flow)

fluctuate, fluid

The temperatures fluctuate wildly, here, in the winter.

- (heavy, serious)

gravitate, gravity

He did not understand the gravity of the situation.

- to throw

reject, eject, trajectory

The professor ejected the brat from the class.

- (judgment)

judicial, judicious

One responsibility of the board was to be judicial in student cases.

- (to speak)

eloquent, elocution

She was ultra-loquacious, talking all the time!

- (hand)

manual

You can open the can manually, if the electricity is off.

- (motherly)

maternal, maternity

The sheep was very maternal towards the orphaned puppy.

- (death)

mortal, mortality

Later in life, one comes to know his own mortality.

- (to be born)

nascent, nativity

Every year, there is disagreement over the nativity display.

- (nine)

November

November should be the ninth month, but it is the eleventh!

- (strong)

valor, covalent, ambivalent

The Silver star is awarded for uncommon valor in the military.

- (away, from)

• Absent, abscond
• abstain

- (both, around)

• ambivalent
• ambidextrous

- (before, in front of)

• antebellum
• anteroom

- (around)

• circumnavigate
• circumference
• circumspect

-(able to be)

reliable, dependable, servile

- (tending to)

• loquacious
• liquid
• fluid
• fabulous
• propitious
• celebratory

- (quality of being or inclined to)

vivacity

- (quality of being or having)

democracy

- (pertaining to)

• mortuary
• judicial
• annual

(water)

Aqualung, aquatic, aqua

Jacques Cousteau invented the aqualung, so divers could breathe under water.

- (well, good)

Beneficial, beneficiary

Abiding by laws is beneficial to the entire society.

- (flesh)

carnage, carnal, carnivore

Animals that only eat meat are carnivorous

- (heart)

Accord, concordance

The diplomats were in accord on how to approach the problem.

- (body)

Corpse, corporation, corps

The Peace Corps was started by JFK in 1961.

- (to break)

fracture, fringe

The child fractured her clavicle by jumping from a tree.

- (to step, to go)

Gradual, transgress, graduation

Our evolution is gradual. Sometimes, it does not seem to be happening at all.

- (to join)

Junction, juncture

At the junction of the two highways, we turned south towards Colorado.

- (middle)

Medium, mediocre

The restaurant was billed as fabulous, but we found it to be quite mediocre.

- (to mix)

Miscellaneous,

There were miscellaneous items belonging to my deceased uncle in the drawer, including his reading glasses.

- (to change)

Mutate, mutable

Harry Potter could mutate into various animals, depending on the spell chosen.

- (name, noun)

nomenclature, name, nom de plume

The woman’s nom de plume was George Sand.

- (father)

Paternity, paternal

The child’s paternity was determined via DNA.

- (foot)

Pedestrian, pedal

The crosswalks on streets are for pedestrians.

- (to drive)

expulsion, expel, compel

He was compelled to madness by great tragedy in his life.

- (to break)

erupt, disrupt

The angry student disrupted class by throwing his textbook at the door.

- (blood)

sanguine, sanguinary, consanguineous

Sanguine refers to blood, but it also refers to cheerfulness

- (to touch)

tactile

The bee sting tingled after the initial bite.

- (to see)

video, visual, vision

Some students are visual learners and only learn by seeing illustrations.

- (to roll)

revolve, involve

The entire crux of the story revolved around the character’s origins remaining mysterious.

(with, together, very)

Concurrent, community, cooperate

- (against)

Contradiction, contrary, contrast

- (down, off, thoroughly)

Detoxification, demystify, deduction

- (out, from, completely)

Exit, erode, efface = erase

- (within)

Introduction

- (not)

Non-violent, nonsense, non-partisan

- (eight) - (eighth)

octogenarian, octave, octopus

A musical scale consists of several octaves.

- (to carry)

transport, export, porter

The porter at the railway station carried my bags to the train.

- (to prick, point)

puncture, punctuation

Tarragon is a pungent herb that stings the nostrils when sniffed.

- (to write)

scribble, transcribe, inscribe, inscription, scribe

Medieval scribes painstakingly wrote out copies of books by hand.

- (half, partly)

semi-sweet, semi-annual

The chocolates are only semi-sweet.

(seven, seventh)

September

September used to be the seventh month, but now it is the ninth.

- (to know)

science, omniscient

Science is the art of knowing.

- (one and a half)

sesquicentennial

Texas recently celebrated its sesquicentennial. It was its 150th year of statehood.

- (sixth, six)

Sextet, sextuplets

There was a string sextet playing in the lobby during dinner.

- (to look)

spectrum, inspect, suspicious

We inspected the crate for bugs.

- (to breathe)

aspirate, conspire, expire

If someone expires, he does not draw breath anymore.

- (time)

temporary, temporal, contemporary

One of Hitler’s contemporaries was Stalin.

- (to twist)

contort, torque, retort

The contortionist could bend in half and fit in a small box.

- (three)

triangle, triumvirate, triad

Always triangulate the data to make sure it is good.

- (one)

unify, unit

A family is a single unit.

(true)

verity, verify

She ran more tests to verify the age of the pottery.

- (word, verb)

verbal, verbose

The man was verbose, using too many words to say very little.

- (to turn)

revert, convert, avert

The boy reverted to his calm state after the dog left.

- (way, road)

viaduct

The viaduct under I-70 is often flooded from sudden rain storms.

- (to live)

vivid, vivacious, vivacity, Vivian

The child was vivacious, so Vivian was a good name for her

- (back, again)

Rethink, re-do, return

- (backwards, behind)

Retroactive, retrospective

- (below, beneath)

Infrastructure, infrared

- (between, among)

International, internal

- (under, up from under, secretly)

Subterranean, subway, subversive

- (above, over)

Super-imposed, superman, super-human