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Vocab 20

Vocab 20. Using the context clues from the sentence and your understanding of the root, define the highlighted words in the following sentences. The gloomy soul was unable to overcome her melancholy . The vice president greeted the vice consul and vice versa .

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Vocab 20

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  1. Vocab 20

  2. Using the context clues from the sentence and your understanding of the root, define the highlighted words in the following sentences. The gloomy soul was unable to overcome her melancholy. The vice president greeted the vice consul and vice versa. Agent Orange was a toxic defoliant used in the Vietnam War. The atomizer was filled with a wonderful perfume. Orbicular leaves are circular and flat. Her multifarious nefarious deeds landed her in prison. The ignis fatuus seemed to ignite and hover over the swamp. We could do nothing to mollify the man’s anger. Quickly delineate your proposal. Hemiplegia is paralysis of one side of the body. The obsessed oologist painted his house robin’s-egg blue. We gradually became aware of the ship’s retrograde motion. The pneumococcus bacteria gave him pneumonia.

  3. Using the context clues from the sentence and your understanding of the root, define the highlighted words in the following sentences. 14. Skeletons of the microscopic radiolarians show radial symmetry. 15. The sponge expels water through its osculum. 16. The immense wall was impervious to cannon fire. 17. The convection current distributed the heat of the flames. 18. Houdini accomplished feats of prestidigitation. 19. The gymnasuin is the perfect place for gymnastics. 20. An Amoeba’s cytoplasm includes endoplasm and ectoplasm. 21. The nodding man was a narcotics addict but a victim of narcolepsy. 22. Vermin had gotten into the box of vermicelli. 23. Lignocellulose strengthens woody cells in plants. 24. The rhododendron fragments were useful to the dendrochronologist. 25. The cadet’s lachrymose pleadings did not move the drill instructor.

  4. Mystery Questions Does the earth’s interior heat produce igneous or sedimentary rocks? Is a pine tree a gymnosperm? Is lignite hard black coal or brown fibrous coal? If you saw vermicelli in your kitchen, would you exterminate it or put meat sauce on it? Is a lachrymose story hilarious? Do the dendrites of a nerve have a large number of branches? Does an obsequious person act like a fawning slave? Would you love to receive the obloquy of your peers? Do people osculate under mistletoe? Could you be arrested for narcolepsy?

  5. ligneous : igneous :: coal : wood fire : tree wood : fire ignis fatuus : lignocellulose obloquy : revile :: contumely : punishment ridiculous : derision discredit : infamy disgrace : condemn multifarious : multilateral :: omnifarious : many-sided nefarious : wicked polygon : polyhedron ambivalent : ambiguous obstinate : obdurate :: oblique : slanting vermicide : vermin intractable : incorrigible multiply : divide lachrymose : euphoric :: joyful : ecstatic tearful : miserable joyful : tearful tearful : joyful invective : eulogy :: diatribe : excoriation malevolence : benevolence obsequious : slavish mollify : soften prestidigitation : illusion :: defoliation : leaves convection : heat friction : heat pneumonia : pneumobacillus dendrochronology : age :: sonar : distance radar : technology narcolepsy : sleep chronometer : watch

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