LesVocabulary from Classical Roots
Here
and There
Lessons
1
AP
Vocabulary: Focus on Classical Roots
Mrs.
Grossenbacher
KEY
WORDS
INTER
Latin
= between
1.
Interloper
Latin
– inter – between + loper – Dutch – runner
Noun
– One who intrudes by meddling or trespassing on the rights of others
Mrs.
Proudie, the bishop’s wife, is such an officious interloper in church matters that people sarcastically refer to her
as “the Bishop of Barchester.”
2.
Internecine
Latin
– inter – between + necare – to slay
Adj. – Definition #1:
Very destructive to both sides in a conflict; involving slaughter and carnage
Sentence
#1: the internecine cost of the victory of King Pyrrhus of Epirus over the Romans in 279 B.C. is remembered today in the phrase
“Pyrrhic
victory.”
Internecine
Definition
#2: Pertaining to struggle or conflict within a group, organization, or nation.
Sentence
#2: The internecine struggle of the American Civil War left the country devastated.
3.
Interpolate
Inter
– between + polire – to polish
Definition
#1: To insert or add something between other parts, especially in a text
or written work.
Sentence
#1: For the music lesson scene in The Barber of Seville, the composer, Gioacchino Rossini, let every singer in the role
of Rosina interpolate an aria of her choice.
3.
Interpolate
Definition
#2: To introduce material that severely alters, or falsifies, a text
Sentence
2: Eighteenth century acting companies freely interpolated new speeches, scenes, or denouements (endings) into plays
they were performing, even works by Shakespeare.
Interpolate
– other forms
4.
Interregnum
Inter
– between + regnum – reign
N.
Definition #1: Any period of time when a state is without a ruler or has a provisional government, especially between the
reign of a sovereign and a successor.
Sentence
#1: During the interregnum of 1649 to 1660, Oliver Cromwell and his Roundheads controlled the English government.
4.
Interregnum
Definition
#2: An interval between controlling elements; an interruption in an otherwise continuous function of a process.
Sentence
#2: “The old is dying and the new and cannot be born; in this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.”
--Antonio
Les. 1 & 2B: Putting in place
PONO, PONERE, POSUI, POSITUM
Latin = to put; to place
5. Interpose
Origin: inter (between) + pose (to put)
Verb: transitive and intransitive
Other form: Noun: interposition
Definition 1
Definition 2
6. Juxtapose
Latin: juxta = close together
Transitive verb
Other form: juxtaposition
Meaning and Sentence
Familiar Words – Look up any words you don’t
already know
Challenge Words
Prope & Propinquus
Prope: Near
Propinquus: Near
7. Propinquity
Latin – pro – forth
Noun
Pinquus - Meaning: Nearness; proximity
Propinquity Sentence
Propinquity is the province of cats. Living by accident,…cats take their chances, love by need or nearness
as long as the need lasts, as long as the nearness is near enough.
--Alastair Reid
Lesson 1&2C: Near
7. Propinquity
Meaning #2 – Kinship.
Sentence 2: Although the tempestuous relationship of
Catherine Earnshaw
and Heathcliff is unfulfilled,
it leads to the uneasy
propinquity
through
marriage of her daughter
and his son.
8. Rapprochement
Latin – to – toward
N
Definition: Reconciliation; restoration of cordial relations,
especially between two countries.
Sentence: After many centuries of conflict, the rapprochement
of Israel and the Vatican occurred when formal relations were established in 1993.
Lesson 1&2 C
Quiet and Rest
Roots:
9. Quiescent
9. Adj. Definition:
At rest; dormant, motionless
Sentence: Family members’ emotions in China in
the 1960’s may have appeared quiescent, but Ting Ling describes conflicts churning beneath calm
exteriors.
N. Quiescence
10. Acquiesce
10. Ac
= to; toward
Intransitive verb – Definition: To agree or consent
without any objection
Sentence:
“If the changes that we fear [in
language] be thus irresistible, what remains to acquiesce with silence…?”
--Samuel Johnson, Preface to a Dictionary of the
English Language
10. Acquiesce
Other forms:
A. Acquiescence
– noun
B. Acquiescent
- adjective
11. Requiem
Latin re: back; again
Noun – Definition: A mass or service for the repose
of departed souls; music, poetry, or other composition for the dead.
Sentence: Hamlet learns of Ophelia’s suicide when
he hears the priest say, “We should profane the service of the dead,/to sing a requiem, and such rest to her…”
-- William
Shakespeare
12. Unrequited
Un – Germanic – no
Adj; Definition: Not reciprocal; not given in payment
or returned in kind.
Sentence: In Arthurian legend, Elaine dies of a broken
heart because of her unrequited love for Lancelot, who is devoted to Queen Guinevere.
12. Unrequited
Other forms
A. Unrequitable – adj.
B. Requited - antonym
Nota bene
Although frequently used, the word unrequited does not
appear in most dictionaries; the meaning of the negative un form is implied. The word usually appears in the context of a
one-sided love relationship.
However…Unrequited can also mean “not avenged;
without retaliation for a wrong or injury”; for example Christian teaching advises letting a wrong go unrequited by
“turning the other cheek.”
Lastly…
Requite rarely turns up in contemporary speech, but one might way that polite guests requite their host’s hospitality with a
thoughtful gift.
Lesson 1 & 2 D
Latin: To PUSH
Trudo, trudere, trusi, trusum
Latin – “to push”
13. Abstruse
Ab – “away from”
Adj: Difficult to understand; complex
Sentence: Without some background in physics, an audience would find
a lecture on thermodynamics and entropy abstruse.
14. Extrude
Ex – “from,” “out of”
Transitive verb: Definition – To push or thrust out a liquid
or malleable substance that retains or solidifies into a predetermined shape.
14. Extrude
Sentence: The chambered nautilus extrudes a nacreous substance that
hardens into a shell of progressively larger chambers to accommodate the animal’s growth.
15. Obtrude
Latin: ob = off, against
15. Obtrude
Definition #2: To thrust or push out; to protrude noticeably, often in an undesirable way.
Sentence #2: During years when the water level of Mono Lake in California
dropped, tufas, irregular knobbed and spired formations of calcium carbonate, began to obtrude above the surface.
15. Obtrude
Definition # 1: to force
oneself insistently upon
others
Sentence: Pretending to be humble, Uriah Heep obtrudes in the business affairs of the Wickfields until
David Copperfield’s friends come to the rescue.
Challenge Word: Detrude
