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Yellow List 22. Word Within The Word. Mollify icthyologist. To make soft. It can be difficult to mollify someone’s anger. Your turn:. Scientist who studies fish. Up splashed a water-logged icthyologist . icthy - having to do with fish ology - study of ist - an expert.
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Yellow List 22 Word Within The Word
Mollify icthyologist • To make soft. • It can be difficult to mollifysomeone’s anger. • Your turn: • Scientist who studies fish. • Up splashed a water-logged icthyologist. • icthy- having to do with fish • ology- study of • ist- an expert
Polyglot diaphanous • One who speaks multiple languages. • Multi-linguist • She is a brilliant polyglot who speaks seven languages. • Semi-transparent. • Dia- Through • Phaineine- to show • Her diaphanous gown blew around her in the breeze.
Somniferous sinecure • Bringing sleep. • The teacher’s lecture was positively somniferous! • ZZZZZ…..are you awake? • An easy, lucrative job. • He has a comfortable sinecure at his uncle’s law firm.
Soliloquy adherent • A speech to one’s self. • Hamlet’s famous soliloquy is the question. • Supporter • Noah is an adherent of Team Jacob.
Abjure caustic • Renounce • To abjure one’s former beliefs is stressful. • Burning • The smoldering tires gave off a caustic, acrid smell. • The caustic comments hurt her feelings. • Sounds like….cauterize.
Confluence depose • A flowing together. • When I hiked Buckskin Gulch, I was very grateful to reach the Confluence of rivers. • To topple from power. • The deposed dictator went into hiding in South America.
Egomania egregious • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x1K5UH2nek • Self-obsession • NOAH KOCH is egomaniacal. • Blatant • The data clerk made an egregious error which cost the company millions.
Analgesic chiromancy • Painkiller • After this class, I could really use an analgesic. • Palm-reading • Professor Trelawney attempts to divine the future through the art of chiromancy.
Oligarchy intractable • Government by a few • Solitude • The corrupt Greek oligarchy kept control. • Stubborn • The bigot’s intractable opinions were unchangeable.
Intransigent perfidious • Not compromising • The intransigent, true believers, still wait for Santa Claus. • http://www.videodetective.com/titledetails.aspx?PublishedID=632682 • Treacherous • His perfidious cowardice made him infamous.
Perspicuous ingenuous • Brilliantly clear • Her perspicuous essay won her the scholarship. • Innocent and naïve • Ingenue • The ingenuous- but not ingenious- girl believed it.
Circumlocution gregarious • Talking in circles • He used circumlocution to avoid answering the question. • Sociable • Syn: extroverted • He has a friendly, gregarious personality.
discursive • Rambling • It was a rambling, discursive speech.