Vocabulary Quiz: Caesar, Bk5: ch24-25

hiberna, -orum

winter camp

siccitas, -tatis

drought

praeficio, -ere, praefeci,praefectus

put in charge

praesum, praeesse, praefui

be in charge

praeter

except

existimo, -are, -avi, -atus

think

medeor, -eri (deponent)

cure, alleviate

inopia, -ae

scarcity

munio, -ire, munivi, munitus

fortify (as in fortify a camp)

moror, morari, moratus sum (deponent)

delay

mille passuum

one mile (thousand paces=one Roman mile

milia passuum

miles

palam

openly

defero, deferre, detuli, delatus

report

natus (from deponent verb nascor=be born)

having been born

opera, -ae

aid, service

vereor, vereri, veritus sum (deponent)

fear, be afraid (=timeo)

veritus

having feared

deficio, -ere, defeci, defectus

desert, revolt, rebel

factus est certior

he was made more/rather certain, he was informed