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Vocabulary Workshop Unit 3 Eytmologies
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12th Grade
09/15/2011

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abominate
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abominari = to shun as a bad omen
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acculturation
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ad- = to, toward

colere = to till, to cultivate

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adventitious
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adventicius = arriving (from the outside)
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ascribe
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ascribere = to add to in writing
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circuitous
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circumire = to go around
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commiserate
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commiserari = to pity
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enjoin
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injungere = to join to; impose
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expedite
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expedire = (literally) to free one caught by the feet; to hasten; to dispatch
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expiate
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expiare = to make satisfaction or atonement
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ferment
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fermentum = leaven(ing); yeast
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inadvertent
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in- = not

ad- = to, toward

vertere = to turn

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nominal
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nomen = name
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noncommittal
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non- = not

committere = to join, connect, entrust

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peculate
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peculium = private property
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proclivity
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pro- = before

clivus = slope

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sangfroid
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cold blood
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seditious
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seditio = dissension; civil discord
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tenuous
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tenuis = thin
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vitriolic
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vitrum = glass
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wheedle
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wedeln = to wag the tail; hence, to flatter
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