vocabulary ch. 6 ETYMOLOGIES // english 11

despotic

Greek: despotes (family head), domos (house), posis (husband, master)

gullible

Latin: gula (throat)

guile

Frisian: wiglia (sorcery, witchcraft)

exonerate

Latin: exonerare (offloading), ex (off), onus (burden)

cliché

French: clicher (to click); Greek: stereo (solid, three-dimensional)

trite

Latin: tritus (rubbed away, worn out)

melancholy

Greek: melan (black)

sanguine

Latin: sanguis (blood)