Vocabulary Book A Lesson 12

Vocabulary from Classical Roots Book A

ITER, ITINERIS

journey

VENIO, VENIRE, VENI, VENTUM

to come

TELE

at a distance

VIA

way, street, road, journey

itinerant (adj def)

adj. Traveling from place to place, especially to perform some duty or work; transient.

itinerant (adj sent)

Johnny Appleseed led an ________ life wandering through the Ohio Valley to give out apple seeds and saplings.

itinerant (n def)

n. A person who travels from place to place.

itinerant (n sent)

Members of most herding tribes are ________, constantly on the move to find fresh grazing lands.

itinerary (def)

n. 1. A route of travel. 2. A plan or record of a journey.

itinerary

As interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition, Sacajawea followed an ________ that took her along the Missouri River, across the Rocky Mountains, to the Pacific Ocean. The team planning to climb Annapurna drew up a detailed ________ of their route, base camps, and supply depots.

advent (def)

n. Arrival or coming into being.

advent

The change in foliage from green to red and yellow announces the ________ of autumn.

Advent (capitalized def)

The period beginning four weeks before Christmas; the birth of Christ.

Advent

During ________, Christians prepare to celebrate the birth of Christ.

circumvent (def)

tr. v. 1. To avoid; to evade by cleverness. 2. To avoid by passing around.

circumvent

Finding herself alone in a strange place, Viola in Twelfth Night ________s discovery of her identity by disguising herself as a boy. Freeways that ________ cities ease traffic congestion downtown.

convene (def)

tr. and intr. v. To assemble, especially for a meeting.

convene

The First Continental Congress, which________d in 1774 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, began drafting the Declaration of Independence.

intervene (def)

intr. v. 1. To occur between events or periods. 2. To come between, thereby easing a situation. 3. To interfere or to interrupt.

intervene

One year ________d between the launching of the Soviet satellite Sputnik (1957) and the American satellite Explorer (1958). Mary Poppins ________s in the lives of the Banks children to make medicine palatable and adventures frequent. In Treasure Island Long John Silver ________s just as the young hero Jim devises ways to outwit him.

telepathy (def)

n. Communication from one mind to another without speech, writing, or other sensory means.

telepathy

Although a continent apart, the twins insisted that they could communicate through ________.

deviate (def)

intr. v. To turn aside from a course, norm, pattern, or subject.

deviate

We try to get our English teacher to ________ from the lesson by asking about new books or movies.

devious (def)

adj. 1. Winding; roundabout. 2. Underhanded; deceptive.

devious

In Walkabout an aboriginal leads home by a ________ route two children lost in the Australian outback. The two detectives, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, are quick to identify ________ characters in Agatha Christie's mysteries.

impervious (def)

adj. 1. Not penetrable by light rays, moisture, etc. 2. Incapable of being influenced or affected.

impervious

The new raincoats are ________ to water. Florence Nightingale was ________ to her family's objections that a career in nursing was unladylike.

Adventure (def)

An exciting or remarkable experience; an enterprise involving financial risk; an action involving unknown risks or dangers.

Convent (def)

A local community or house of a religious order or congregation (especially for nuns).

Convenient (def)

Suited to personal comfort or to easy performance of some act or function; situated within easy reach.

Event (def)

Something that happens; an occurrence; a social occasion or activity.

Eventful (def)

Full of events; having great meaning or lasting effect; momentous.

Eventually (def)

At an unspecified later time; in the end.

Invent (def)

To produce (something, such as a useful device or process) for the first time through the use of the imagination or of ingenious thinking and experiment; to devise by thinking.

Invention (def)

A product of the imagination; a device, contrivance, or process originated after study and experiment.

Prevent (def)

To keep from happening or existing; to hold or keep back.

Venture (def)

To expose to hazard; to risk; a business enterprise or speculation in which something is risked in the hope of profit.

Venturesome (def)

Involving risk (hazardous); inclined to court or take risks.

Telecast (def)

To broadcast by television (a television program).

Telegram (def)

A message sent by telegraph.

Telegraph (def)

An apparatus or system for communication at a distance by coded signals; especially an electric device using wire or radio.

Telephone (def)

A device or system for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.

Telephoto (def)

Relating to or being a photographic lens or lens system used to produce a large image of a distant object.

Telescope (def)

A usually tubular optical instrument for viewing distant objects.

Television (def)

An electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving objects together with sound over a wire or through space.

Convey (def)

To bear or transport from one place to another; to impart or communicate by statement, suggestion, or appearance.

Obvious (def)

Easily discovered, seen, or understood; (archaic) standing in the way.

Previous (def)

Going before in time or order; preceding.

Via (def)

By way of; by means of.

Voyage (def)

A long journey especially by water to a distant or unfamiliar place; a course or period of traveling by other than land routes.

Adventitious (def)

Coming from another source and not an essential part; arising or occurring sporadically or in other than the usual location (e.g., adventitious roots).

Contravene (def)

To go or act contrary to; to violate. It can also mean to oppose in argument or contradict.

Conventional (def)

Formed by agreement or compact; according with, sanctioned by, or based on general custom or usage.

Revenue (def)

The total income produced by a given source; the gross income returned by an investment.

Venue (def)

The place from which a jury is drawn and in which a cause is tried; the locale for an event or action.

Telegenic (def)

Well-suited to the medium of television; especially having an appearance and manner that are markedly attractive to television viewers.

Telemeter (def)

An instrument for measuring the distance of an object from an observer; an apparatus for measuring a quantity, transmitting the result by radio as a signal, and there indicating or recording the quantity measured.

Telethon (def)

A long television program (such as one lasting many hours) usually held to raise money for a charity.

Teletypist (def)

A person who operates a teletype (a form of telegraphic typewriter).

Envoy (def)

A person delegated to represent one government in its dealings with another; a messenger or representative.

Trivium (def)

A group of studies consisting of grammar, rhetoric, and logic (Literally: "the place where three roads meet"). In Latin, it represents the three primary language arts—inputting data (grammar), processing data (logic), and outputting data (rhetoric)

Viaduct (def)

A long elevated roadway usually consisting of a series of short spans or arches for carrying a road or railroad over a valley or another road.

Peradventure (def)

(Adverb) Perhaps; possibly. (Noun) Doubt or uncertainty. It stems from the Old French per aventure, meaning "by chance."