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Unit 20. Vocabulary Builder. NOM = Name. Latin A nominee is “named” or nominated to run or serve in office. Words to know: ignominious, misnomer, nomenclature, nominal. PATER/PATR = father. Greek & Latin A patron is one who assumes a fatherly role towards an institution or project.
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Unit 20 Vocabulary Builder
NOM = Name • Latin • A nominee is “named” or nominated to run or serve in office. • Words to know: ignominious, misnomer, nomenclature, nominal
PATER/PATR = father • Greek & Latin • A patron is one who assumes a fatherly role towards an institution or project. • Words to know: expatriate, paternalistic, patrician, patrimony
LEGA = to appoint or send as deputy • Latin • A legation is a group sent on a special mission. • Words to know: delegation, legacy, legate, relegate
GREG = herd or flock • Latin • Any creature that likes to live in herds or flocks are gregarious animals. • Words to know: aggregate, congregation, egregious, segregate
FLU/FLUCT = to flow • Latin • A flume is a narrow gorge with a stream flowing through it. • Words to know: affluence, effluent, fluctuation, mellifluous
PREHEND/PREHENS = to seize • Latin • For some derivatives, the d is changed to an s, as in apprehensive and comprehensive. • Words to know: apprehensive, comprehend, prehensile, reprehensible
TEMPER = to moderate or keep within limits or to mix • Latin • Tempered enthusiasm is enthusiasm that has cooled a bit. • Words to know: intemperate, temper, tempera, temperance
PURG = to clean or cleanse • Latin • Purging literature of passages that might be harmful to young readers has kept many editors busy. • Words to know: expurgate, purgative, purgatory, purge
NUMBER WORDS • MILL = one thousand or thousandth • Words to know: millefleur, millenarianism, millipede, millisecond • HEMI (Greek)/SEMI (Latin) = Half • Words to know: semitone, semicolon, hemiplegia, semiconductor