Name _______________________________________ Date ________________________ Period _________
LATIN AND GREEK ROOTS
Lesson 14
ROOT: SEQUI/SEC Latin “to follow”
1.
INCONSEQUENTIAL Having no effect or importance
syn: trivial
ant: essential
2.
CONSECUTIVE Following in order
syn: sequential
3.
EXECUTION The way something is done
syn: operation, performance
ROOT: CUR/COUR Latin “to run”
4.
COURIER One who carries and delivers
5.
INCUR To bring about
syn: acquire
ant: avoid
6.
RECURRENT Happening repeatedly
syn: habitual
ant: infrequent
ROOT: GRAD Latin “to step”
7.
GRADUALISM A policy which involves taking slow, measured actions
8.
REGRESS To go back to a less mature or less positive state syn: slip back
ant: improve
9.
DIGRESS To move away from the topic at hand; ramble
ant: continue
syn: depart
ROOT: AMBL/AMBUL Latin “to walk”
10.
AMBLE To casually walk; stroll
ant: hurry
11.
AMBULATORY Able to walk
12.
PREAMBLE A passage or speech which introduces another longer passage or speech
Lesson 14: Name ______________________________________ Period ________
_______________ 1. For fourteen ___ days, snow fell on the city.
_______________ 2. The speaker realized that he’d ___(d) from his intended subject when he noticed that his
audience was bored.
_______________ 3. The spectators were astonished at the skater’s perfect ___ of a difficult jump.
_______________ 4. At the town meeting, some residents complained about the ___ problem of reckless driving.
_______________ 5. After months of physical therapy, the patient was ___ again.
_______________ 6. When asked about how to deal with the nation’s economy, the Vice President recommended a
kind of ___.
_______________ 7. If you don’t want to ___ your English teacher’s anger, you should finish your homework.
_______________ 8. What once seemed like a major event in my life now seems entirely ___.
_______________ 9. Monique ___(d) up to the other children on the beach and asked what they were doing.
_______________10. Whenever the two adult brothers got together, they seemed to ___ to the age of thirteen.
_______________11. As a ___, Tom delivered packages to many interesting places.
_______________12. Writing a ___ to a speech is easy if you follow a general outline.
_______________13. Let’s ___ over to the park and relax on the bench.
_______________14. Charles believes that the grades he gets in English are ___ because he is going to major in biology.
_______________15. When the war began, the news anchor ___(ed) from his written script to comment on the events.
_____ 16. Although most of the patients on the sixth floor regained their coordination and became ___ again, a few
___ to a bedridden state.
A. consecutive; regressed
C. ambulatory; regressed
B. recurrent; digressed
D. digressed; incurred
_____ 17. The expenses we ___ from the flood were ___ compared to the emotional stress we suffered.
A. digressed; ambulatory
C. incurred; consecutive
B. regressed; recurrent
D. incurred; inconsequential
_____ 18. The successful ___ of the mission depended heavily on the ___ chosen to deliver the message.
A. execution; courier
C. preamble; consecutive
B. gradualism; amble
D. execution; regress
_____ 19. The ___ to the handbook took up six ___ pages.
A. preamble; consecutive
B. execution; gradualism
C. gradualism; preamble
D. courier; preamble
_____ 20. Professor Lee’s speech on evolution seemed to ___ along nicely until he ___ and began discussing his
personal beliefs.
A. regress; ambled
C. incur; regressed
B. amble; digressed
D. incur; digressed