English Honors Week 2

Intervene re-intervene, un-intervening

Part of Speech: Verb

Definition: 1. to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate. 2. to occur or be between two things. 3. to occur or happen between other events or periods 4. to occur incidentally so as to modify or hinder:

Sentence: He intervened in the argument.

Trick: “ven” sounds like vine and vines go in between two things.

Interlude: interludial

Part of Speech: Noun

Definition: 1. an intervening episode, period, space, etc. 2. a short dramatic piece, especially of a light or farcical character, formerly introduced between the parts or acts of miracle and morality plays or given as part of other entertainments.

Sentence: The director announced there would be a short interlude.

Trick: A lude sounds like a lullaby which is a song.

Intramural: intramurally

Part of Speech: Adjective

Definition: 1. involving only students at the same school or college: 2. within the walls, boundaries, or enclosing units, as of a city, institution, or building.

Sentence: They only offer intramural sports.

Trick: I almost did intramural flag football.

Intravenous

Part of Speech: Adjective

Definition: 1. within a vein. 2. of, pertaining to, employed in, or administered by injection into a vein

Sentence: She was put on an intravenous drip.

Trick: venous sound like vein because they both start with a V.

Extraneous: extraneously, extraneousness, extraneously, non-extraneous, non-extraneousness, un-extraneous, un-extraneously

Part of Speech: adjective

Definition: introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; external; foreign:

Sentence: The extraneous item in the pile was the toothbrush.

Trick: “neous” kind of sounds like “new us” and it describes a out of place or new thing.

Extrapolate: extrapolation, extrapolative, extrapolatory, extrapolator, over extrapolation

Part of Speech: Verb

Definition: 1. to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture. 2. Statistics. to estimate (the value of a variable) outside the tabulated or observed range.

Sentence: It would be dangerous to extrapolate trends from this data.

Trick: “extrapo” kind of sounds like extract, and you are inferring a variable that you might need to extract from the data.

Gratuitous: gratuitously, gratuitousness, non-gratuitous, non-gratuitousness, un-gratuitous, un-gratuitousness

Part of Speech: adjective

Definition: 1. being without apparent reason, cause, or justification: 2. given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; complimentary. 3. Law. given without receiving any return value.

Sentence: There is plenty of violence in the film, but it is not gratuitous.

Trick: “gratuit” sounds like gratuity, and people might be grateful if what they get is a good thing.

Audacity

Part of Speech: Noun

Definition: 1. boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions. 2. effrontery or insolence; shameless boldness:

Sentence: His questioner's audacity shocked the lecturer.

Trick: Enough craziness to shock a whole city.

Emulate: emulative, emulatively, emulator, non-emulative, over emulative, un-emulative

Part of Speech: Verb

Definition: 1. to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass. 2. to rival with some degree of success

Sentence: The man tried to emulate the artists painting.

Trick: They are recreating it too late.

Nepotism: nepotic, nepotist, anti-nepotism

Part of Speech: Noun

Definition: patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics:

Sentence: The company's hiring practices were criticized for nepotism, as top positions were often given to family members rather than the most qualified candidates.

Trick: Nepotism, they are not adding any new people to the “pot”, just family members.

Conundrum

Part of Speech: Noun

Definition: 1. a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words 2. anything that puzzles.

Sentence: He faced his biggest conundrum yet.

Trick: Conundrum, Confused.

Disingenuous: disingenuously, disingenuousness, non-disingenuousness, non-disingenuously, non-disingenuous

Part of Speech: Adjective

Definition: lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere

Sentence: Her excuse was rather disingenuous.

Trick: Disingenuous contains ingenuous, but it is the opposite because of the dis. This means it is not ingenuous and it is fake.

Dubious: dubiously, dubiousness, super dubious, super dubiously, super dubiousness, un-dubious, un-dubiously, un-dubiousness

Part of Speech: Adjective

Definition: 1. doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: 2. of doubtful quality or propriety; questionable 3. of uncertain outcome

Sentence: He was dubious of the plan.

Trick: Dubious, they are uncertain about what that should do!

Morose: morosely, moroseness, super morose, super morosemess, un-morose, un-moroseness

Part of Speech: Adjective

Definition: 1. gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood. 2. characterized by or expressing gloom.

Sentence: She was a very morose lady.

Trick: Morose sounds like rose and roses have thorns on them. When you get pricked by a rose, you get morose.

Fortuitous: fortuitously, fortuitousness, non-fortuitous, non-fortuitously, non-fortuitousness, un-fortuitous, un-fortuitously, un-fortuitousness

Part of Speech: Adjective

Definition: 1. happening or produced by chance; accidental: 2. lucky; fortunate

Sentence: It was quite fortuitous that the king left the castle that day.

Trick: Fortuitous sounds like fortunate and when you are fortuitous you have fortune.