10th Grade
SPELLING AND VOCABULARY –
UNIT 15
10th Grade
SPELLING AND VOCABULARY –
UNIT 15
1. posthumous adj. arising, occurring, or continuing
after one’s death
2. postulate v. to ask, demand, or claim
3. potency n. the state or quality of being powerful
4. precept n. a commandment or direction given as a
rule of action or conduct
5. preclude v. to prevent the presence, existence, or
occurrence of; make impossible
6. precursor n. a person, or thing, that goes before
something else
7. predispose v. to give a tendency or inclination to
beforehand
8. prelude n. any action or event that goes before
another
9. prepossess v. to possess or dominate mentally
beforehand; as a prejudice does
10. pretension n. a claim or title to something;
snobbishness
11. pretext n. something that is put forward to conceal a
true purpose or object
12. prevalent adj. widespread; of wide extent or
occurrence
13. prevaricate v. to speak falsely or misleadingly; lie
14. probation n. the testing or trial of a person’s
conduct, character, qualification, or the like
15. proboscis n. a long, flexible snout
1. posthumous adj. arising, occurring, or continuing
after one’s death
2. postulate v. to ask, demand, or claim
3. potency n. the state or quality of being powerful
4. precept n. a commandment or direction given as a
rule of action or conduct
5. preclude v. to prevent the presence, existence, or
occurrence of; make impossible
6. precursor n. a person, or thing, that goes before
something else
7. predispose v. to give a tendency or inclination to
beforehand
8. prelude n. any action or event that goes before
another
9. prepossess v. to possess or dominate mentally
beforehand; as a prejudice does
10. pretension n. a claim or title to something;
snobbishness
11. pretext n. something that is put forward to conceal a
true purpose or object
12. prevalent adj. widespread; of wide extent or
occurrence
13. prevaricate v. to speak falsely or misleadingly; lie
14. probation n. the testing or trial of a person’s
conduct, character, qualification, or the like
15. proboscis n. a long, flexible snout
WORD POWER
WORD POWER
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aud – hear, listen
loqu, loc, locut – speak, talk, speech
sci - know, knowledge
scrib, scriot - write
log – word, study
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17.
18.
19.
20.
aud – hear, listen
loqu, loc, locut – speak, talk, speech
sci - know, knowledge
scrib, scriot - write
log – word, study