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