Six Week Review
Latin Derivatives
Week 1 Answers
1. Am, amat: love
a. Amateur
b. Amiable
c. Amity
Check your work!
An amateur golfer
plays for the love of
the game.
Friendly people are
amiable.
Warm friendship
between nations is
international amity.
Week 1 Answers
2. Ann, enn: year
a. Anniversary
b. Annuity
c. Perennial
Check your work!
Yearly income from a
fund is called an
annuity.
A plant that blooms
more than two years
is called a perennial.
Week 1 Answers
3. Aqu: water
a. Aquarium
b. Aqueduct
c. Aqueous
Check your work!
To make an aqueous
solution you dissolve
something in water.
Small fish may be
kept in an aquarium.
Week 1 Answers
4. Aud, audit: hear
a. Audition
b. Audience
c. Auditorium
Check your work!
After a successful
critical hearing, or
audition, a singer
might entertain an
audience in an
auditorium.
Week 1 Answers
5. Capit: head
a. Capital
b. Decapitate
c. Recapitulate
Check your work!
Newscasters
sometimes
recapitulate the
day’s news by
restating by headings.
In Paris, the capital
of France, King Louis
XVI got a sovereign
cure for headaches –
he was decapitated.
Week 2 Answers
6. Cent: hundred
a. Centennial
b. Centigrade
c. Centipede
Check your work!
There are one hundred
degrees between the
freezing and boiling
points of water on the
centigrade
thermometer.
A centenary, or
centennial is celebrated
after one hundred years.
Week 2 Answers
7. Cred, credit:
believe; trust
a. Accredit
b. Credentials
c. Incredulous
Check your work!
An accredited school
hires only those
teachers who have
proper credentials.
Sometimes news is
so amazing that you
are incredulous.
Week 2 Answers
8. Dic, dict: say
a. Edict
b. Predict
c. Indicative
Check your work!
To say what will
happen, or foretell, is
to predict.
An order issued by an
absolute ruler is an
edict.
The mood of a verb
that merely states a
fact is indicative.
Week 2 Answers
9. Duc, duct: lead
a. Aqueduct
b. Conducive
c. Ductility
Check your work!
Water is sometimes led
into a city through an
aqueduct.
The ability of a metal to
be led into various
shapes is called
ductility.
Bonus: Mussolini was
called II Duce, which
means “The Leader.”
Week 2 Answers
10. Fid: faith; trust
a. Confide
b. Confident
c. Diffident
Check your work!
To confide in a
stranger is an act of
faith.
A prizefighter who has
faith in himself is said
to be confident.
A lad who is shy and
lacks faith in himself
is said to be diffident.
Week 3 - Answers
11. Frater: brother
a. Confraternity
b. Fraternal
c. Fraternize
Check your work!
To mingle with
conquered people in
a social or brotherly
way is to fraternize
with them.
A brotherly group
devoted to a
charitable work is
sometimes called a
confraternity.
Week 3 - Answers
12. Greg: flock
a. Aggregation
b. Congregate (tion)
c. Segregation
Check your work!
A minister’s flock is
called a
congregation.
Separation from the
main group or flock is
segregation.
Bismuth is ineligible
to play with the
football aggregation.
Week 3 - Answers
13. Litera: letter
1. Literal
2. Illiterate
3. Literature
Check your work!
The person who reads
and writes is literate
and possibly enjoys
literature.
A person who can’t read
or write is unlettered, or
illiterate.
Translating letter for
letter results in a literal
translation.
Week 3 - Answers
14. Loc: place
a. Allocate
b. Dislocate
c. Locale
Check your work!
The locale of a train
wreck refers to the
place.
If your hip slips out of
joint, you have
dislocated it.
Week 3 - Answers
15. Loqu, locut: talk
a. Circumlocution
b. Colloquial
c. Loquacious
Check your work!
A loquacious child is
talkative.
Saying a thing in a
roundabout way is
known as
circumlocution.
Most people talk
informally, that is, in
colloquial English.
Week 4 - Answers
16.Mal: bad
a. Malevolent
b. Malnutrition
c. Malodorous
Check your work!
Goats don’t smell
good; they are
malodorous.
A badly nourished
child suffers from
malnutrition.
Evil wishers are
malevolent.
Week 4 - Answers
17.Man: hand
a. Manacles
b.Manicure
c. Manuscript
Check your work!
Hands with ugly
nails should be
given a manicure.
Manacles are
worn on the hands.
Week 4 - Answers
18.Mater, matr,
metr: mother
a. Matriarch
b.Matriculate
c. Metronymic
Check your work!
Henry Cabot Lodge
derived his middle
name from the
name of his mother;
therefore for him the
name is a
metronymic.
Our college is our
alma mater
(fostering mother).
To enroll is to
matriculate.
Week 4 - Answers
19.Mit, miss: send
a. Emissary
b. Intermittent
c. Missive
Check your work!
The diplomat we
send out is an
emissary.
A tourist usually
sends his hometown friends a
missive.
Shots sent out at
intervals are said to
be intermittent.
Week 4 - Answers
20.Mor, mort: death
a. Immortal
b.Mortality
c. Mortuary
Check your work!
If a custom never
dies, it is
immortal.
The mortician
operates a funeral
home, which is
known as a
mortuary.
Week 5 - Answers
21.Mov, mot, mob:
move
a. Emotions
b. Mobility
c. Motivation
Check your work!
Whatever moves
one to study is
one’s motivation.
You are often
moved, or stirred,
by emotions.
An army’s ability to
move is referred to
as its mobility.
Week 5 - Answers
22.Nov: new
a. Innovation
b. Novel
c. Renovate
Check your work!
An innovation is a
new idea or
custom.
A hint of something
new also occurs in
the word novel.
Our landlord
promised to
renovate our
apartment.
Week 5 - Answers
23.Omni: all
a. Omnipotent
b. Omniscient
c. Omnivorous
Check your work!
An omnipotent
ruler is allpowerful.
An omniscient
narrator knows
what all the
characters are
thinking.
An omnivorous
reader reads
practically
everything.
Week 5 - Answers
24.Ped: foot
a. Biped
b. Impediment
c. Pedestrian
Check your work!
A pedestrian
travels by foot.
A man has two
feet, and so,
according to
Aristotle, man is a
featherless biped.
An impediment is
literally something
that obstructs or
hinders the feet.
Week 5 - Answers
25. Pon, posit: place
a. Components
b. Dispose
c. Juxtaposed
Check your work!
Objects placed
alongside each
other are
juxtaposed.
You can put old
books in a
repository or
otherwise dispose
of them.
Study for your test!
Six Week Review
Parts of Speech
Week 1
Parts of Speech
Adjectives:
Adjectives modify nouns or pronouns by
answering questions such as how many, what
kind, or which one. In the sentence "We have
lived in five states," the word "five" describes
the word "states." Five is the adjective
describing states, the noun.
Adjectives can be used to compare people or
things. There are three degrees of
comparison: positive, comparative, and
superlative.
Week 1
Parts of Speech - Adjectives
A positive adjective describes one noun.
Examples: strong, careful, happy,
generous
A comparative adjective compares two
nouns. Examples: stronger, more careful,
happier, more generous
A superlative adjective compare more
than two nouns. Examples: strongest,
most careful, happiest, most generous.
Week 1
Parts of Speech - Adjectives
Most one syllable adjectives form their
comparative and superlative degrees by
adding "er" and "est" to the end of the
word.
Some two-syllable adjectives form their
comparative and superlative degrees by
adding "er" and "est," while others use
"more" and "most."
Adjectives of more than two syllables form
their comparative and superlative degrees
by using "more" and "most" or "less" and
"least."
Week 1
Parts of Speech – Adjectives
Example
1. Choose the answer that best
completes the sentence.
The north star is always
______________ than the planets.
A. bright
B. brighter
C. brightest
D. brightly
Week 2
Parts of Speech - Adverbs
Adverbs - H
Adverbs modify (describe) verbs, adjectives,
and other adverbs by answering questions
such as how, when, where, why, how often.
In the sentence, "The family ate their dinner
quickly," the word "quickly" describes how
the family ate; "quickly" is the adverb.
Week 2
Parts of Speech - Adverbs
Many adverbs are used to make
comparisons. The three degrees of
comparison are: positive,
comparative, and superlative.
Week 2
Parts of Speech - Adverbs
A positive adverb describes one thing.
Examples: fast, slowly
A comparative adverb compares two
things. Examples: faster, more slowly
A superlative adverb compares more
than two things. Examples: fastest,
most slowly
Week 2
Parts of Speech - Adverbs
Most one-syllable adverbs form their
comparative and superlative forms by
adding "er" and "est."
Adverbs of more than one syllable
usually form the comparative and
superlative forms by using "more" and
"most."
Week 2
Parts of Speech - Adverbs
It is important for students to understand
both adverbs and how they are used to
make comparisons. Have students make
a list of words that answer/describe how,
when, where, how often, or how much.
For example: quickly, later, repeatedly,
generously
Week 2
Parts of Speech - Adverbs Example
1. Choose the answer that best completes the
sentence.
Graduating seniors walked _____________
down the carpeted aisle to their seats.
A. happily
B. happier
C. happiest
D. more happy
Week 3 Parts of Speech - Verbs
A verb expresses action that may or may
not be visible. In "Samantha pushed the
bike," "pushed" is a visible action verb.
"Pushing" is something that can be
observed. In "Samantha needed a new
bike," "needed" is the verb, but it
expresses an invisible action.
Week 3 Parts of Speech - Verbs
Verb tense demonstrates the time of the
action indicated in a sentence. Verb tense
relays that an action has happened (past
tense), is happening (present tense), or
will happen (future tense). For example,
"run" is present tense. Past tense is "ran,"
and future tense is "will run."
Week 3 Parts of Speech - Verbs
The verb tense in a given sentence must
correspond in number to the subject of the
sentence. In the sentence, "John is tall,"
"John" is a singular noun and "is" is the
singular verb. However, in "They are tall,"
"They" is the plural noun, so a plural verb
must be used. In this sentence, the plural
verb is "are."
Week 3 Parts of Speech - Verbs
Example
1. Choose the word or phrase that best
completes the sentence.
A map ____________________ the
location of places.
A. show
B. will shows
C. shows
D. showen
Week 5
Parts of Speech - Verbals
A verbal is a word that is formed from a
verb, but it acts as another part of
speech. Verbal types are infinitives,
participles, and gerunds.
An infinitive verbal usually appears with
the word "to" before it. In the sentence
"We wanted to swim," "wanted" is the
past tense verb, and the word "swim,"
which is often used as a verb, is acting
as an infinitive.
Week 5
Parts of Speech - Verbals
A participle verbal always acts as an
adjective. In "Smiling, Don blew out
his birthday candles," the past tense
verb is "blew," and the word "smiling"
is acting as the participle. "Smiling" is
an adjective that is modifying the
noun "Dan."
Week 5
Parts of Speech - Verbals
A gerund verbal is used as a noun. In
"Running is my favorite activity," the
present tense verb is "is," and the
word "running" is acting as a gerund.
Although "running" is most often an
action word used as a verb, in this
case, "running" is a thing, so it is a
noun.
Week 5
Parts of Speech - Verbals
Example
1. Choose the word or phrase that best
completes the sentence.
Raul does not like __________.
A. driver
B. drove
C. to drive
D. driven
Study for your test!
Six Week Review
Words in Context
Week 1
Words in Context
It is important that you understand
how to use the context of a given
sentence to determine the meaning of
a specified word.
In other words, the sentence provides
clues to the definition of the word.
Week 1
Words in Context
1. Use the sentence to help you determine
the best meaning for the underlined word.
The opposing team's fans were taunting
our players, causing them to lose
concentration.
A. teasing
B. helping
Example
C. ignoring
D. scaring
Week 2
Words in Context
4. Use the sentence to help you determine the
best meaning for the underlined word.
Her strident voice added to the noise in the
cafeteria.
A. chatty
B. quiet
Example
C. harsh
D. smooth
Week 4
Words in Context
Antonyms
An antonym is a word that means the
opposite of a given word. For
instance, an antonym for the word
"under" is "over.“
Use what you have learned about
context clues to help you with the
following antonym questions.
Week 4
Words in Context
Antonyms
1. Choose the antonym for the underlined word.
The indigent family had difficulty meeting their
financial obligations.
A.
wealthy
B.
poor
Example
C.
struggling
D.
stingy
Week 5
Words in Context - Antonyms
1. Choose the antonym for the underlined
word.
The class deprecated the teacher's idea,
saying her plans for a field trip were boring and
juvenile.
A. approved
Example
B. protested
C. resisted
D. questioned
Study for your test!
Six Week Review
Language Mechanics
Week 1
Language Mechanics - Capitalization
Capitalize proper nouns. A proper noun is
the name of a particular person, place, or
thing.
Ex:
Mount Everest
Lemoore High School
Week 1
Language Mechanics - Capitalization
Capitalize proper adjectives. A proper
adjective is an adjective formed from a
proper noun.
Ex:
Victorian from Victoria
Irish from Ireland
Congressional from Congress
Week 1
Language Mechanics - Capitalization
Capitalize people’s names. Also capitalize
the initials or abbreviations that stand for
names.
Ex:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
F. D. Roosevelt
Week 1
Language Mechanics - Capitalization
Capitalize the titles used with people’s
names. Also capitalize the initials or
abbreviations that stand for those initials.
Ex:
Judge Ellen O’Brien
Gov. R. T. Alberg
Week 2
Language Mechanics - Capitalization
In a geographical name, capitalize the first
letter of each word except articles and
prepositions.
Example:
Glacier National Park
the Atlantic Ocean
Week 2
Language Mechanics - Capitalization
Capitalize sections of the country.
Example:
The West has several old
trading posts.
Week 2
Language Mechanics - Capitalization
Capitalize proper adjectives that come
from sections of the country.
Example: Midwestern town
East Coast company
Week 2
Language Mechanics - Capitalization
Do not capitalize directions of the
compass.
Example:
Drive east on Interstate 50
to New York.
Week 2
Language Mechanics - Capitalization
Do not capitalize adjectives that come
from words showing direction.
Example:
The parking lot is on the
north side of the building.
Week 1
Language Mechanics - Capitalization
Choose the answer that best completes the
sentence.
Marisa is going to travel around _______
for the summer.
A.
New england
B.
New England
C.
new England
D.
new england
Week 3
Language Mechanics - Comma
A comma is a punctuation mark used to
set apart ideas or segments of
meaning, and to set off dates,
addresses, and parts of a letter. At this
level, commas are used to separate
items in a series and to set apart an
introductory phrase.
Week 3
Language Mechanics - Comma
Commas with a series of items:
Incorrect: Kari is bringing candles
baskets napkins and plastic plates to the
park.
Correct: Kari is bringing candles,
baskets, napkins, and plastic plates to the
park.
Week 3
Language Mechanics - Comma
Commas with an introductory phrase:
Incorrect: Kari please bring candles to
the park.
Correct: Kari, please bring candles to
the park.
Week 3
Language Mechanics - Comma
Choose the answer that does not
contain a punctuation error.
A. He is a, friendly, helpful person.
B. He is a friendly, helpful person.
C. He is a friendly helpful person.
D. He is a; friendly, helpful person.
Week 4 Language Mechanics
Colons/ Semicolons
A colon is used to introduce lists of
items, after the greeting of a business
letter, and to separate hours and
minutes in time expressions.
Incorrect: The time is 216.
Correct: The time is 2:16.
Week 4 Language Mechanics
Colons/ Semicolons
A semicolon is used to join two related
sentences, each with balanced meaning.
Week 4 Language Mechanics
Colons/ Semicolons
Incorrect: The field trip to the park should
be fun we are all going to bring a game to
play.
Correct: The field trip to the park should
be fun; we are all going to bring a game to
play.
Week 4 Language Mechanics
Colons/ Semicolons
Which of the following sentences is written
correctly?
A.
Jose traveled to the store, Tom went to
the party.
B.
Jose traveled to the store; Tom went to
the party.
C.
Jose traveled to the store: Tom went to
the party.
D.
Jose, traveled to the store, and, Tom
went to the party.
Week 5
Language Mechanics Endmarks
Endmarks are the punctuation marks used
to end sentences. Endmarks include
periods, exclamation points, and question
marks. You should be able to discern
when a sentence is a simple statement
(which requires a period), an exclamation
(Look out!), or a question (Where is the
cat?).
Week 5
Language Mechanics Endmarks
Statement with period:
There is the red car.
Exclamation with mark:
Watch out for the falling rock!
Question with endmark:
Do we have to go to the movies?
Week 5
Language Mechanics Endmarks
Choose the answer which best
completes the sentence.
Everyone remain ___________ This is
not an emergency.
A. calm
B. calm:
C. calm?
D. calm.
Study for your test!