Weekly Words Etymology and Other Forms Quiz

Calumny

Latin - calvi (to trick, deceive)

Ascertain

Old French - acertener (to assure, certify)

Pious

Latin - purus (pure, clean)

Indignant

Latin -  in (not, opposite of) + dignus (worthy, proper, fitting)

Effrontery

Latin - ex (out) + frontem (brow)

Sublime

Latin - sub (up to) + limen (lintel, threshold, sill)

Rankled

Latin - draco (serpent, dragon)

Theocracy

Greek - theos (god) + kratos (a rule, regime, strength)

Calumny

• Calumnious (adj) -defamed   

• Calumniation (n) - defamation

Cosmology

• Cosmological (adj) - universal

• Cosmologically (adv) - universally

Ascertain

• Ascertainable (adj) - learnable

• Ascertainment (n) - learning

Inert

• Inertness (n) - sluggishness

• Inertly (adv) - sluggishly

Parochial

• Parochially (adv) - stubbornly  

• Parochialism (n) - stubbornness

Canny

• Cannily (adv) - cleverly

• Canniness (n) - cleverness

Contempt

• Contemptible (adj) - Despicable 

• Contemptibly (adv) - Despicably

Subservient

• Subservience (n) - submissiveness 

• Subserviently (adv) - submissively 

Pious

• Piousness (n) - devoutness

• Piously (adv) - devoutly 

Indignant 

• Indignance (n) - anger

• Indignantly (adv) - angrily

Befuddled

• Befuddle (v) - to confuse

• Befuddlement (n) - confusion

Sublime

• Sublimeness (n) - majesty

• Sublimely (adv) - majestically

Purge 

• Purger (n) - One who rids 

Dally

• Dallier (n) - One who lingers 

Rankle

• Rankled (adj) - irritated

Scourge

• Scourger (n) - punisher 

Theocracy 

• Theocratic (adj) - empirical

• Theocratically (adv) - empirically

Vindictive 

• Vindictiveness (n) - revenge

• Vindication (n) - Justification

Sniveling 

• Snivel (v) - to run at the nose

• Sniveler (n) - one who cries