Vocab+Ch.+8

Word Definition Synonyms Antonyms Etymology (merriam-webster.com dictionary.com) Memory aid Sentence: Noun phrase: comma + noun + anything else except an -ing. Ex: The Buffalo Bill defeated the Browns, a lowly and wretched team, a sad-sack collection of misfits unable to throw or catch or run or tackle. Pictures Your name

revel definition-(v.)to take great pleasure in;(n.)a wild celebration synonyms-savor ,relish ,bask in ,carouse antonyms-abhor,loath etymology-c.1300, "riotous merry-making," from O.Fr. revel, from reveler "be disorderly, make merry," from L. rebellare "to rebel" (see [|rebel] ). The verb meaning "to feast in a noisy manner" is first recorded early 14c. The meaning "take great pleasure in" first recorded 1754. memory aid- revel sounds like rebel and rebels like to revel. sentence- the man blew-up his car,a tattered old piece of junk that wouldn’t run. picture-  Jacen McCreery

Word:  Commend <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Definition: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To praise, express approval,; to present as worthy of attention, to commit to care of. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Synonyms: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Applaud, entrust <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Antonym's: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Abhor, loathe <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Etymology: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">mid-14c., comenden, from L. commendare "to commit to the care or keeping (of someone), to entrust to; to commit to writing;" hence "to set off, render agreeable, praise," from com-, intensive prefix (see <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">[|com-] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">), + mandare "to commit to one's charge" (see <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">[|mandate] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">). In some senses, a shortening of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">[|recommend] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Memory aid: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Commend had the word mend in it which means to fix, and when you fix things you get praised. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sentence: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The boy had been commended for fixing the chair, a wooden object in which people sit on when they don’t feel like standing. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Picture: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chris Boker <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

Apathy <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Def: lack of interest, and emotion <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Syn: indifference, disinterest, detachment <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Ant: enthusiasm, fervor, ardor, concern <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Ety: c.1600, "freedom from suffering," from Fr. apathie (16c.), from L. apathia, from Gk. apatheia "freedom from suffering, impassability," from apathes "without feeling," from a-"without" + pathos "emotion, feeling, suffering" (see [|pathos]). Originally a positive quality; sense of "indolence of mind, indifference to what should excite" is from c.1733. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Memory Aid: think of someone in depression <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Sentence: The man is was never always apathy, a emotionless man, a once exhilarated man. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Picture: Allen Chan
 * Commend**
 * Def: To praise, express approval; to present as worthy attention**
 * Syn: Applaud, entrust**
 * Ant: Abhor, loathe**
 * Etym:** a prefix meaning “with,” “together,” “in association,” and (with intensive force) “completely,” occurring in loanwords from [|Latin] ( // commit // ): used in the formation of compound words before // b, p, m: combine; compare; commingle. //
 * //Memory aid: Recomend rhymes with commend, and you usually wouldnt recomend something that it not worthy// **
 * Sentence: The parents of the 4.0 student commended their child, a very smart and intelligent student.**
 * Ihsaan TAyeh**

DERIDE
def: to ridicule, laugh at with contempt syn: mock, scorn, disparage, jeer at ant: praise, extol, acclaim, applaud etymology: 1520s, from M.Fr. derider, from L. deridere "to ridicule, laugh to scorn" (see [|derision]). Related: Derided ; deriding. memory aid: deride had "-rid-" in it, and ridicule begins with "rid" sentence: The young boys derided the old men, a decrepit old gentlemen, a once stately man.

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Parsimonious (adj.) Definition—stingy, miserly; meager, poor, small Synonyms—frugal, niggardly, penny-pinching, cheap Antonyms—generous, openhanded Etymology-- 1590s, from L. (see [|parsimony]). Not originally with the suggestion of stinginess. Related: Parsimoniously. Memory aid—** p **arsimonious, ** p **oor and ** p **enny-** p **inching start with “** p **” Sentence—The parsimonious group of teens took advantage of good service, the waiter loathing his job, the need to vanish into a puff of smoke came more, a discrepancy in his life. Picture— Ali Ledel = condolence = = def- and expression of sympathy = = syn- commiseration, solace, sympathy = = etymology- "formal declaration of sympathy," 1670s, pl. of [|condolence]. Reason for the plural is unclear; earliest references are to expressions from groups of persons; perhaps the habit stuck. = = memory aid- sympathy is in both the definition and it is a synonym. = = sentence- The man gave his condolences to the boy after his fish died, he did not know it was really a dog named fish. = == = scott vining =

<span style="color: #5e0505; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Compatible <span style="color: #5e0505; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Definition- (adj.) able to get along or work well together <span style="color: #5e0505; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Synonyms- harmonious, inagreement, like-minded <span style="color: #5e0505; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Antonyms- mismatched, incongruous, antagonistic <span style="color: #5e0505; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Etymology- mid-15c., from M.Fr. compatible (15c.), from M.L. compatibilis, from L.L. compati (see [|compassion]). <span style="color: #5e0505; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Memory Aid- Compatible is like capable, and it is capable of working well together. <span style="color: #5e0505; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Sentence- The couple was considered to be compatible, a match that works well together. <span style="color: #5e0505; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Picture- <span style="color: #5e0505; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #5e0505; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Kevin To

Multifarious

Having great variety; numerous and diverse

Synonyms- Varied, manifold, heterogeneous

Antonyms- Unvaried, uniform, homogeneous

Etymology- 1590s, from L. multifarius "manifold," from multifariam "in many places or parts," perhaps originally "that which can be expressed in many ways," from multi- "many" + -fariam "parts," perhaps from fas "utterance, expression, manifestation," related to fari "to speak" (see [|fame]). Related: Multifariously.

Memoery aid- multifarious starts with m and so does many

Sentence- The multifarious octopus has many arms, long and jelly-like, many of those helps with catching prey and such.

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__ Word- Apprehensive __ __ Definition- (adj.) fearful or anxious, especially about the future __ __ Synonyms- worried, nervous, fretful, jittery __ __ Antonyms- unworried, assured, confident, certain __ __ Etymology- Middle English, from Late Latin apprehension-, apprehensio, from Latin apprehendere __ __ Memory aid- Apprehensive and anxious both start with an A. __ __ Sentence- The apprehensive boy was biting his nails, a bunch of dull stubs. __ __ Pictures  __

__ Aaron Blossey __

__ Definition- eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastes __ __ Synonyms- all-devouring, voracious __ __ Antonyms- N/A __ __ Etymology-<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">1650s, from L. <span class="foreign" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">omnivorus <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">"all-devouring," from <span class="foreign" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">omnis  <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">"all" (see   __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[|omni] __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">-) + <span class="foreign" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">vorare  <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">"devour, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">swallow" <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">(see  __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[|voracious] __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">). __ __ Memory Aid- Picture someone eating and going nomnomnom __ __ Sentence- The omnivorous panda ate everything at the grocery store, a creature that was not racist. __ __ Picture- __
 * Omnivorous **

__ Amy Lam __

<span style="color: #106c98; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Obsolete <span style="color: #106c98; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Definition: out-of-date, no longer in use <span style="color: #106c98; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Synonyms: outmoded, antiquated, passe, old hat <span style="color: #106c98; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Antonyms: current, up-to-date, brand-new <span style="color: #106c98; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Etymology: "grown old, worn out" <span style="color: #106c98; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Memory Aid: Old and Obsolete both start with O <span style="color: #106c98; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Sentence: The obsolete scrunchy had been long out-of-date, a hair accesory unable to be stylish or fashionable. <span style="color: #106c98; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Anjelica Kucinic

Consecrate Definition: To make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose Syn: Devote, dedicate, sanctify Atn: Desecrate, defile, profane, dishonor Etymology://late 14c., from L. consecratus, pp. of consecrare "to make holy, devote," from com- "together" (see [|**com-**]) + sacrare (see [|**sacred**]). Related: Consecrated ; consecrating .// Memory Aid: Consecr ate & Dedic ate both end with " ate " Sentence: The priest consecrated the newborn, the baby cried as the holy water ran down his forehead. Pic. Rachel Gerrick

__ Ingenuous __ __ Definition- innocent, simple; frank, sincere __ __ Synonyms- naïve, artless, guileless, candid __ __ Antonyms- artful, crafty, worldly, sophisticated __ __ Etymology- 1590–1600;  < L <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">// ingenuus //   native, free-born, honorable, frank, equiv. to <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">//in-//  [|in-]  __2__ + <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">// gen- //   (base of  <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">// gignere; //  see [|ingenious] ) + <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">//-uus//   deverbal adj. suffix; see [|-ous] Memory aid- Ingenuous and innocent both start with in- Sentence- The ingenuous child had his lunch money taken away from a bully, a youngster that no one liked. Pictures- Alex Konangi

<span style="color: #172e96; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">ant: desecrate, defile, profane, dishonor
<span style="color: #172e96; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">etymology: late 14c., from L. consecratus, pp. of consecrare "to make holy, devote," from com- "together" (see [|com-]) + sacrare (see [|sacred]). Related: Consecrated; consecrating. <span style="color: #172e96; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">memory aid: consecrate and scared both have "cr" <span style="color: #172e96; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">sentence: The family wanted to consecrate their grandfather's ashes, a way to show their respect for him. <span style="color: #172e96; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">pictures: <span style="color: #172e96; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ashley Zucker

** Suave ** (adj.) Smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses Syn: Sophisticated, urbane, polished Ant: crude, clumsy, unpolished, oafish, loutish [|**suave**] c.1500, "gracious, kindly," from M.Fr. //suave,// from L. //suavis// "agreeable," from PIE base //*swad-// (see [|**//sweet//**]). In ref. to persons, sense of "smoothly agreeable" first recorded 1815 (in //suavity// ). Memory aid: Suave and Smooth both start with the letter S Sentence: Mr. Gadget turned his hat into a Go-Go-Gadget, a mini helicopter, a type of airborne transportation used to fly up and away.

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Definition: to make ineffective or useless, cripple;to have a dulling effect on Synonyms: smother, stifle, neutralize, negate Antonyms: arouse, excite, inspire, stimulate Etymology dull Memory aid: Stultify and Smother both have “S”'s in the front. Sentence: The Chilean Miners were stultified while buried underground, their bodies unclean for months and reeking of pee and coal dust.
 * Word: Stultify

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Compatible (adj) Def: capable of living together in harmony Syn: agreeable, amicable, harmonious Ant: disagreeable, discordant, incompatable Etymology: mid-15c., from M.Fr. //compatible// (15c.), from M.L. //compatibilis//, from L.L. //compati// (see [|**//compassion//**]). Related: //Compatibility//. Memory aid: compatible and computer both start with comp, and computers need programs that are compatable with the computer. Sentance: the two co-workers did not work well together because they weren't compatible. Mario Campanalie

quandary a state of perplexity or doubt confussion, dilemma, predicament 1570–80; perh. fancifully < L // quand // ( //ō// ) when + // -āre // inf. suffix memory aid:quandary rhymes with laundry and sometimes you have so much to wash you doubt yourself that you can get it all done in one day. sentence:Drew found himself in mental quandary, he didnt know how to escape the maze, unless he ate his trix yogurt that morning.

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