LESSONS
I3 AND I4
Sports
rEssoN
13
Temþus \udmdi.
A time for playing.
accelerate
KeyWords
conglomeration
conjecture
celerity
discourse
abject
succor
incur
concur
CETER <1.
interjection
Precursor
"swift"
(ëk sël'e rãt') lac= ad,<L. "to"]
tr. and intr. u. To cause faster movement; to go faster.
l. accelerate
Heot coused the chemicol reoclion to occelerote.
Challenge Words
accelerando
accelerometer
acceleration, n.
2. celerity
n.
(se
lër'e
te)
Swiftness; quickness; speed.
Atolonlo, outrunning oll bul one who chollenged her ín o footroce, is o
mythologicol exomple of celerity.
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VOCABUTARY FROM CIASSICAL ROOTS
CURRO, CURRERE, CUCURRI,
CURSUM <1. "to run"
CURSOR, CURSORIS <1. "rurìrìer"
3. concur (ken kûr')
[con= cu,rn <L.'\,vith"]
intr. u. 1. To agree; to cooperate.
Conflicts orise when porents do not concur on methods of child-reoring.
2. To coincide; to happen simultaneously.
ln Shokespeore's ploys humon violence often concurs with storms ond
eorthquokes.
concrurence, n.i concurrent, adj.; conatrrently, adu.
Challenge Words
courler
cursory
hussar
recourse
4. discourse (dis'kôrs', dis kors')
ldis<L. "apart," "indifferent
directions"]
n. 1. Conversation.
Before the odvent of movies ond television, lively discourse wos
ulor omusement.
2. A
o pop-
formal discussion of a subject in speech
or writing.
Publ¡shed in 1543, Copernicus's discourse on
the orbit of the sun provided the bosis for
modern ostronomy.
intr. u. To talk; to discuss formally in speech
or writing.
Sometimes considered the most leorned
Americon womon of the nineteenth century,
Morgorel Fuller could discourse wilh scholors
on both sides of the Ailontic.
5. incur (în kûr') lin<L."in"f
tr. u. To meet with; to run into; to bring upon oneself.
The Greek hero Odysseus incurred the onger of the giont Polyphernus by
poking out his single eye with o burning stick.
incursion, z.
6. precursor (pri kûr'ser, prè'kûr' ser)
lþre <L. "before"]
n. Forerunner.
The precursor of Americon boseboll is the English gome of rounders
precursory,
ad,j.
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SPORTS
7. succor (sük'ar)
lsuc= sub <L. "under"]
n. Help in time of distress.
The Red Cross, founded by Cloro Borlon
in
1
BB
l,
gives succor to vic-
tims of flood, fire, ond fomine.
tr. u. To render helP to.
To succor her needy fomily, Jo Morch writes stories for mogozines ond
even sells her hoir in the novel Little Women-
ChallengeWord
agglomeration
GTOMUS <1.
"boll"
8. conglomeration (ken glöm'â rá'shen) lcon= cLLIn <L.'\^¡ith"]
n. A collection of unrelated things-
At the fleo morket we sifted through o conglomerotion of tools, lomps,
iewel¡y, ond clothing.
conglomerate, n. and adj.
JACIO, JACERE, JECI, JACTUM <1. "to throw"
9. ubj."j.. (äb'jëkt, áb jêkt') løb <L-jaway
from"|
adj. 1. Humiliating and miserable.
Sloves on their woy to the Americos endured
obiect condit¡ons in crowded, diseose-ridden
ships.
2. ContemPtible.
Challenge Words
Those who k¡ll boby seols to sell their skins ore obiect in the eyes of oni-
adjacent
mol lovers.
projectile
subjective
trajectory
abjection, n.; abjectlY, ada.
10. conjecture (kan jëc'cher) lcon=
".
cum
Ã. opinion formed from inconclusive
<L''\¡¡ith"l
evid,ence; a guess.
The number of goloxies in the universe is still o moìter of coniecture
tr.
and. i,ntr.
a. To conclude from insufficient evidence.
people hove coniectured for centuries obout the fote of the lost civilizotion
of Atlontis.
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VOCABUIARY TROM CI.ASSICAL ROOTS
ll. interjection (în
tèr jèk'shan) lintn <L. "between"]
n. A word or phrase sometimes inserted between other words,
often expressing emotion; a word not linked grammatically to
other words in a sentence.
"Oh!" ond "Ouch!" ore interlections.
interject,
EXERCISE
l3A
u.
Circle the letter of the best SIô{ON\{VI (the word or phrase most nearly
the same as the word in bold-faced tfpe).
l.
subjects a. be informed b. converse
c. medit¿te d. concur e. grow long-winded
2. abject poverty a. uplifting b. wretched c. endurable
d. undeserved e. severe
3. the celerity of their response a. rudeness b. emotion
c. conditions d. quickness e. importance
4. a conglomeration of artifacts a. creato b. box c. painter
d. collector e. collection
to discourse on many
Circle the letter of the bestANTONYM,(thew.ord or phr¿se most nqarly
opposite the word in bold-faced type).
5.
pace a. rushed b. slowed c. ignored
d. recorded e. quickened
6. a famous precursor a. forerunner b. successor c. champion
d. writer e. sprinter
7. an unwelcome interjection a. explosion b. grammar lesson
c. sudden word d. long discourse e. interference
accelerated the
TESSONS
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EXERCISE
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8t
SPORTS
Circle the letter of the sentence in which the word in bold-faced type is
used incorrectly.
1. a. The one-time
millionaire incurred financial ruin.
b. After studying hard, teenagers like to incur their friends and
relax.
reports told us about an incursion of Laotian troops into
Cambodia.
Snobbery in a new employee may incur resentment.
Great literature offers succor to readers through interpretation of
universal problems.
In the Biblical story the Good Samaritan økes a riskwhen he
gives succor to a stranger.
A Scotúsh woman known in San Francisco's Chinatown as the
White Devil succored girls by rescuing them from slavery.
When the shark took a large bite from the surfboard, the surfer
shouted, "Succor!"
The people trapped at the top of the burning building
conjectured themselves into the nets below.
That the world's climate is changing because of the "greenhouse
effect" is still only conjecture.
Some scientists conjecture that a tenth planet may be orbiting the
sun every 700 to 1,000 years.
Can you conjecture what your life will be like in tèn years?
Although the frightening creatures in Where the Will, Things Are at
first stiired controversy, readers of all ages now concur in the
excellence of the book.
After much bitter concuring the family finally agreed on an
itinerary from Seattle to Denver.
The concurrence in 1989 of movements in Europe toward
democracy after decades of communist rule surprised political
c. News
d.
2.
a.
b.
c.
d.
3.
a.
b.
c.
d.
4.
a.
b.
c.
5.
6.
observers.
d. The large theater provides concurrent showings of eight different
films.
a. When being introduced to royal persona$es one should be abject
and either curtsy or bow.
b. Millhands in nineteenth-century Britain worked in abject
conditions with long hours and low pay.
c. At the conclusion of World War I, Germany was abject in defeat.
d. After the Armenian earthquake, victims suffered abjectly from
their loss of food, shelter, and family.
a. In desert regions a season's first heavy rainfall sharply accelerates
the life of plants, sending them into afrenzy of growing.
b. Invading Spain in 711, the Moors accelerated the development
of literature, science, and the arts to heights never surpassed in
recorded history.
VOCABUTARY FROM CIASSICAL ROOTS
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c. Accelerating their voices, the cheerleaders could be heard
throughout the stadium.
d. Acceleration of winds from the hurricane sent high tides crashing
on lowland beaches.
EXERCISE
l3C
Fill in each blank with the most appropriate word from Lesson 13. Use
a word or any of its forms only once.
l.
In antique shops you can find a(n)
objects ranging from costly artifacts to uselessjunk.
of
2. Postal services promise
3.
and care in mail
delivery.
In the sentence, 'lVow! What a victory," the word wouis a(n)
4.
despair when they
The parents felt
discovered their child missing from the campground.
5.
Racers
in the Indianapolis 500 must
quickly and maintain high
.-speed
.6.
throughout the 500-mile course.
"Right and victory do not
Selden
-John
always-
."