Word Pieces for Week Five
How to Talk about Liars and Lying
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Notus
Summus
Corrigo
Vetus
InChronos
Ana-, aConSyn-, sym
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AntiEn-, emGrex, gregis
Known
Highest
To correct, set straight
Old
Negative prefix
Time
Negative prefix
With, together
With, together
Verb suffix
In
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Herd, flock
Word Pieces for Week Five
How to Talk about Liars and Lying
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Out
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To, toward
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To know
Knowing
All
Before
Negative prefix
Apart
Noun suffix added to verb
Science, study
Words Associated with Lying
1. Notorious – famous, or infamous, for lying; tendency to
falsify is well-known
2. Consummate – great skill
3. Incorrigible – too far gone to be reformed, impervious
to rehabilitation
4. Inveterate – lying has become a deep-rooted habit
5. Congenital – lying had very early beginnings, as if from
birth
6. Chronic – over and over
7. Pathological – an irresistible compulsion to lie, often for
no rational reason; lying is a disease
8. Unconscionable – lack of regret or remorse
9. Glib – great smoothness
10. Egregious -viciousness of the lies
General Meaning of These Words
1.
Notorious – well-known for some bad quality, “ a notorious
whiner”
2. Consummate – perfect, highly skilled, “consummate artistry at the
keyboard”
3. Incorrigible – beyond reform, “an incorrigible pessimist”
4. Inveterate – long-accustomed, deeply habituated, “an inveterate
smoker”
5. Congenital – happening at or during birth, “a congenital deformity”
6. Chronic – going on for a long time, or occurring again and again –
“chronic appendicitis”
7. Pathological – diseased, “a pathological condition”
8. Unconscionable –without pangs of conscience, “unconscionable
cruelty to children”
9. Glib – smooth, suspiciously fluent, “a glib witness”
10. Egregious - outstandingly bad or vicious, “an egregious error”
1. Notorious
2. Consummate
3. Incorrigible
4. Inveterate
5. Congenital
6. Chronic
7. Pathological
8. Unconscionable
9. Glib
10. egregious
a) Beyond reform
b) Continuing over a long period of
time; recurring
c) Diseased
d) From long-standing habit
e) Suspiciously smooth
f) Without conscience or scruples
g) Outstandingly bad or vicious
h) Unfavorably known
i) From birth
j) Finished, perfect, artistic
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Do you people become notorious for good acts?
Is Beethoven considered a consummate musical
genius?
3. If a criminal is truly incorrigible, is there any point in
attempting rehabilitation?
4. Does an inveterate smoker smoke only occasionally?
5. Is a congenital deformity one that occurs late if life?
6. Is a chronic invalid ill much of the time?
7. Is a pathological condition normal and healthy?
8. If a person commits an unconscionable act of cruelty,
is there any regret, remorse, or guilt?
9. Is a glib talker awkward and hesitant in speech?
10. Is an egregious error very bad?
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Outstandingly vicious; so bad as to be in a class
by itself
2. Starting at birth
3. Happening over and over again; continuing for
a long time
4. Widely and infavorably known (as for antisocial
acts, character weaknesses, immoral or
unethical behavior, etc.)
5. Beyond correction
6. Smooth and persuasive; unusually, almost
suspiciously, fluent
7. Long addicted to a habit
8. perfect in the practice of an art; extremely
skillful
9. Unscrupulous; entirely without conscience
10. Diseased
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Egregious
Congenital
Chronic
Notorious
Incorrigible
Glib
Inveterate
Consummate
Unconscionable
Pathological
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This person has gambled, day in and day out, for as long as anyone can
remember – gambling has become a deep-rooted habit: A ___________
gambler.
2. Born with a clubfoot: A ____________ deformity.
3. Someone known the world over for criminal acts: A ____________
criminal.
4. An invading army kills, maims, and tortures without mercy, compunction,
or regret: _____________ acts of cruelty
5. The suspect answers the detective’s questions easily, fluently, almost too
smoothly: _____________ responses
6. A person reaches the acme of perfection as an actress or actor: A
__________________ performer
7. No one can change someone’s absurdly romantic attitude toward life: An
_________________ romantic
8. A mistake so bad that it defies description: An ___________ blunder
9. Drunk almost all the time, again and again and again – periods of sobriety
are few and very, very far between: A _________________ alcoholic
10. Doctors find a persistent, dangerous infection in the body: A
_______________ condition
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Notoriety
To consummate
Consummacy
Incorrigibility
Inveteracy
Genetics
Genealogy
Genesis
Hereditary
gene
a) State of artistic height
b) State of begin long established in a
habit
c) Beginning, origin
d) Science of heredity
e) Bring to completion; top off
f) Study of ancestry
g) Referring to characteristics passed on
to offspring by parents
h) Ill fame
i) Particle that transmits hereditary
characteristics
j) State of being beyond reform or
correction
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Does notoriety usually come to perpetrators of mass
murders?
2. Is the product of a consummately skillful counterfeiter
likely to be taken as genuine?
3. Is incorrigibility in a criminal a sign that rehabilitation is
possible?
4. Is a geneticist interested in our parents’ characteristics?
5. Does inveteracy suggest that a habit is new?
6. When you consummate a deal, do you back out of it?
7. Is a veteran actress long experienced at her art?
8. Do genes determine heredity?
9. Is a genealogist interested in your family origins?
10. Is the genesis of something the final point?
11. Are hereditary characteristics derived from parents?
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To complete
Wide and unfavorable reputation
Particle in the chromosome of a cell that transmits a
characteristic from parent to offspring
Completion
Inability to be reformed
The science that deals with the transmission of
characteristics from parents to children
Referring to a quality or characteristic that is
inherited
Beginning or origin
Student of family roots or origins
Height of skill or artistry
Transmitted by heredity
Quality of a habit that has been established over
many years
A person long experienced at a profession, art, or
business
Pertaining to a study of family origins
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Consummate
Notoriety
Gene
Consummation
Incorrigibility
Genetics
Hereditary
Genesis
Genealogist
Consummacy or
consummateness
Genetic
Inveteracy or
inveterateness
Veteran
genealogical
Bellringer
1. Chronicity
2. Anachronism
3. Incongruity
4. Chronology
5. Chronometer
6. Chronometry
7. Synchronization
8. Pathology
9. Sympathy
10. Telepathy
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something, or state of being, out of place
Timepiece; device that measures time very
accurately
Condition of continual or repeated
recurrence
Act of occurring, or of causing to occur, at
the same time
Calendar of events in order of occurrence
Something, or someone, out of time
Measurement of time
a sharing or understanding of another’s
feeling
ESP; communication from a distance
Disease; study of disease
Bellringer
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In order of time
Out of place
Lack of feeling
Measurer of time
Study of disease
Feeling of hostility or
dislike
7. To occur, or cause to
occur, at the same time
or rate
8. Study of disease
9. Evoking sorrow or pity
10. Something out of time
11. State of recurring again
and again
12. Extrasensory perception
13. Identification with the
feelings of another
14. Happening at the same
time or rate
15. Calendar of events in
time