Word Within the Word Lesson 10
ped
mort
foot or
child
death
carn
flesh
psych soul
ethno race or
gen
culture
origin
nat
born
paleo old
curs
run
crypt hidden
cad
fall
capit
head
loqu
talk
sacro holy
uni
one
ness
quality
alt
high
ics
art
iso
equal
vert
turn
orthopedist. pedagogue, centipede,
expedition, pedestrian, pedestal
Latin
mortal, mortician, mortified,
immortality, mortuary
carnivorous, reincarnate, incarnate,
carnival, carnation, carnage
psychology psychic psychopathic
psychosis
ethnicity, ethnic ethnocentrism
ethnography
Latin
genetics hydrogen progeny gene
indigenous
prenatal native natural nativity
nation natal perinatal
paleozoic paleolithic paleontologist
paleography
cursive discursive incursion cursor
precursor cursory
cryptic cryptologist crypt encrypt
cryptogram
cascade cadaver cadence cadenza
decadent cadaverous
decapitate capital recapitulate
capitulation
loquacious circumlocution eloquent
soliloquy dialogue
sacrosanct sacred sacrifice
sacrament sacrilege consecrate
unicycle universe united union
uniform unison unique unicorn
softness redness politeness darkness
vagueness
altitude alto altimeter altar
altocumulus
politics economics aesthetics
graphics ethics calisthenics
isothermal isometric isotope isomer
isosceles
convert revert inverted divert vertex
controvert extrovert introvert
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English
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Word Within the Word Lesson 10
ate
cause
cor
heart
ess
female
muta change
fug
flee
domesticate implicate create
procreate placate dominate
core concord discord cordial
courageous
lioness empress princess baroness
seamstress governess
mutant mutation mutagenic mutable
transmutation immutable
centrifuge fugitive subterfuge refugee
fugue
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Word Within the Word Lesson 10
Using the context clues from the sentence and your understanding
of the root, define the underlined words in the following sentences.
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The orthopedist went on an African expedition.
The mortician was mortified at the sight of the mortal wound.
The carnivorous beasts of Venus are reincarnated after death.
The psychologist viewed the parapsychologist with suspicion.
Ethnocentrism is disturbing to all ethnic groups.
The geneticist’s hobby was studying pathogenic substances.
Prenatal care is important to natives in natural environments.
The paleontologist was an expert on the Paleozoic era.
The discursive speech gave only cursory attention to the problem.
The cryptologist worked all nigh to break up the enemy code.
The cadaver was discovered near the rushing cascade.
Decapitation was once a common form of capital punishment.
The loquacious bore answered every question with circumlocution.
The hero’s sacrifice was a sacrosanct memory.
The United Planets of the Universe soon celebrate their union.
The sky’s redness and the clouds’ softness were beautiful.
The broken altimeter no longer measured the altitude.
Computer graphics enhance books on politics and economics.
The isothermal piedmont region escaped the extremes of temperature.
The new convert soon reverted to his previous views about
advertisement.
To calibrate one’s response is to obviate one’s apology.
The extreme discordance of viewpoints prevented concord.
The lioness ate the empress but not the princess.
The post-war mutants lived in a mutagenic atmosphere.
“Tempes fugit,” said the escaped fugitive caught in the whirling
centrifuge.
Word Within the Word Lesson 10
Mystery Questions
1. Could you use circumlocution to avoid answering a question?
2. Could tempis fugit be a motto for most vacations?
3. Is a discursive speech interesting or boring?
4. Is a gregarious person an introvert or an extrovert?
5. Does a centrifuge fling things outward or inward?
6. Is an ingenious person crafty or naïve?
7. Are ethnocentric ideas tolerant and open-minded?
8. Was John the Baptist a precursor?
9. Can you duck a question with a subterfuge?
10. Were bronze tools in use during the Paleolithic Age?
Word Within the Word Lesson 10
Complete the following
analogies.
1. subterfuge : fugitive ::
circumlocution : orthopedist
politics : economics
lioness : empress
ingenuous : indigenous
6. ethnologist : ethnic group ::
entomologist : altimeter
psychologist : ethnography
paleontologist : tyrannosaurus
cryptologist : cryptogram
2. unicycle : unique ::
fugitive : refugee
soliloquy : solitude
extrovert : introvert
concord : discord
7. consecration : sacrilege ::
mutagenic : immutable
precursor : forerunner
nascent : moribund
paleozoic : paleontologist
3. dialogue : soliloquy ::
altimeter : altitude
mutagen : mutation
colloquy : monologue
aesthetics : graphics
8. eloquent : soliloquy ::
ingenuous : progeny
psychic : psychology
incarnate : carnival
grandiloquent : panegyric
4. domination : capitulation ::
decapitate : recapitulate
natal : perinatal
pedagogue : pedestrian
rule : surrender
9. softness : kindness ::
roughness : ingenuousness
somniloquy : discursive
decadence : cadence
cryptologist : encryption
5. aesthetics : ethics ::
convert : revert
sacrosanct : sacred
art : morals
economics : psychopathic
10. lioness : carnivorous ::
extrovert : loquacious
convert : introvert
sacrifice : sanguinary
alto : cadenza
Word Within the Word Lesson 10
In each case below, one of the choices was really the word used by the author.
Your challenge is to figure out which one—this is a game, because more than
one word may work…use your intuition to figure it out!
1. From Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables
I rejoice to hear so favorable and so
an account of
my cousin Clifford.
a. decadent
b. loquacious
c. ingenuous
d. mutable
2. From James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
His life had grown to be a tissue of
and falsehood.
a. Subterfuge
b. Circumlocution
c. Capitulation
d. Eloquence
3. From Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper
He then walked up and down the room to keep his blood in motion,
as before.
a. circumlocuting
b. soliloquizing
c. consecrating
d. placating
4. From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
How
our feelings.
a. mutable
b. unique
c. moribund
d. nascent
5. From Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
The tortoise and the frog are among the
heralds of this season.
a. ethnographies
b. pedagogues
c. pedestrians
d. precursors
and
Word Within the Word Lesson 10
1. deCAPITate
2. politICS
3. UNIted states
4. lionESS
5. CORe
6. MUTAtion
7. centriFUGe
8. creATE
9. LOQUacious
10. disCURSive
11. NATivity
12. PSYCHology
13. GENetics
14. CARNivore
15. ETHNOcentrism
16. orthoPEDist
17. ISOthermal
18. SACROsanct
19. PALEOzoic
20. redNESS
21. CADaver
22. CRYPTic
23. conVERT
24. MORTician
25. ALTimeter