vocabulary ch. 5 ETYMOLOGIES //english 11

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venerate

Latin: venerai (worship, “seek a god’s favor”), venus (love)

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malapropism

French: mal (badly), a propos ('“to the purpose,” appropriately),

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disparage

Latin: dis (away, apart), parage (rank, lineage)

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vegetate

Latin: vegetare (grow, enliven, flourish)

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adamant

Latin: adamas (hard substance); Greek: adamas (hard substance, unbreakable), a (not), damas (tame, subdue, breakdown, marry)

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conjugal

Indo-European: yug (join); Latin: jugum (yoke), con (with)

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abominable

Latin: ab (away), omen

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ominous

Latin: omen

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