Vocabulary List 9 11/3/22

• Root: fund/fus
• Meaning: to pour out or to melt   * Diffuse -v-     * To spread freely, to scatter     * The heat was diffused   * Effusive -adj-     * Given to excessive displays of emotion     * Mr. Shear is not an effusive person   * Profusion -n-     * A great abundance, or a great amount of something     * There was a profusion of blood
• Root: verb
• Meaning: word   * Verbose -adj-     * Overly wordy     * His emails are verbose   * Verbatim -adj-     * In the exact word for word     * The students copied the notes verbatim   * Proverb -n-     * A brief, repeated statement that expresses a “truth”     * Old people constantly express proverbs
• Root: flect/flex
• Meaning: to bend   * Deflect -v-     * To turn aside, especially from a straight course     * Superman can deflect bullets   * Genuflect -v-     * To kneel on one knee and then rise as a sign of respect     * The knight genuflected before his king
• Root: pac/peas
• Meaning: peace   * Pacify -v-     * To soothe anger or agitation     * The screaming baby had to be pacified   * Appease -v-     * To make peaceful and quiet     * Sometimes parents appease their children
• Extra Word   * Impecunious -adj-     * Poor     * The homeless man was impecunious

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