Slaughterhouse-Five Vocabulary:
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Prefix/Root/Suffix/Etymology
Prefix: an- not
Etymology : from the Greek
anekdota or “things
unpublished”
Greek: an- “not” + ek- “out”
+ didonai “to give”
Etymology: from Old French
azur, asur, a color name.
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Anecdote
Definition
N. a short amusing or interesting
story about a real incident or
person.
Root Share
N. an account regarded as
unreliable or hearsay.
Azure
N. the blue color of the sky.
N. the unclouded sky.
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Etymology: from French
bigoterie meaning
“santimoniousness”.
Etymology: from Latin
bucolicus from Greek
boukolikos meaning “pastoral,
rustic” or “cowherd,
herdsman”
From: bous “cow” + kolos
“tending”
Etymology: from Latin verb
cupere “long for, desire.”
Latin Root: fid- “faith, trust”
Latin Root: flor- “flower”
Latin Root: ciner- “ash”
Bigotry
N. bigoted acts or beliefs.
N. the state of mind of a bigot.
Bucolic
Bigot: a person who strongly and
unfairly dislikes other people or
ideas; a person who hate or
refuses to accept the members of
a particular group (such as a
racial or religious group).
ADJ. of or relating to the country
or country life.
ADJ. relating to or typical of rural
life.
Covetous
Diffident
ADJ. feeling or showing a very
strong desire for something that
you do not have and especially
for something that belongs to
someone else.
ADJ. lacking confidence; not
feeling comfortable around
people.
confidante, confidence,
faith, fealty, infidel, perfidy
Florid
ADJ. very careful about acting or
speaking.
ADJ. very fancy or too fancy.
Floral
Incinerate
ADJ. having a red or reddish
color.
V. to burn something completely.
Incineration
V. to cause to burn to ashes.
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Etymology: from Middle
English liste meaning
“pleasure, joy, delight”
10 Latin Root: magn- “great,
large”
Listless
11 Latin Root: palp- “touch”
Palpate
12 Greek Root: pneu- “air,
breath, lung”
Pneumatic
Magnanimity
ADJ. lacking energy or spirit;
characterized by lack of interest,
energy, or spirit.
N. the quality of being
magnanimous; loftiness of spirit
enabling one to bear trouble
calmly, to disdain meanness and
pettiness, and to display a noble
generosity.
magnanimous, magnate,
magnificent, magnify,
magnitude.
N. a magnanimous act.
V. to examine (part of the body)
by touching it.
palp, palpable, palpation,
ADJ. using air pressure to move
or work.
Pneumonia
ADJ. filled with air.
13 Etymology: from Latin rabidus
“raging, furious, enraged;
inspired; ungoverned; rabid”
Rabid
14 Etymology: from Anglo-French
rebuke “to repel, beat back”
Rebuke
15 Etymology: 1560s, “idle
vagrant,” perhaps shortened
form of roger (with a hard –g), thieves’ slang for a begging
vagabond who pretends to be
a poor scholar from Oxford or
Cambridge.
16 Greek Root: phren“diaphragm” or “mind”
17 Latin Root: loqu- or locut“speak”
18 Latin Root: sord- “dirt”
Roguish
ADJ. of a woman; having a body
with full, pleasing curves.
ADJ. affected with rabies.
ADJ. having or expressing a very
extreme opinion about or
interest in something.
V. to speak in an angry and
critical way to (someone).
V. to criticize sharply.
ADJ. to act like a person who is
dishonest or immoral.
ADJ. to act like a person who
causes trouble in a playful way.
Schizophrenic
ADJ. in the manner of someone
with a mental illness which keeps
him/her from behaving normally
and often is the result of
experience delusions.
Soliloquize
ADJ. seeming to have multiple
personalities.
V. to utter a soliloquy.
Sordid
V. to talk to oneself (usually
expressing emotions).
ADJ. very bad or dishonest.
ADJ. very dirty or inappropriate.
schizophrenia
circumlocution, colloquial,
elocution, eloquent
19 Etymology: from Latin
succumbere meaning “submit,
surrender, yield, be overcome;
sink down; lie under; cohabit
with”
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Succumb
21 Etymology: from Latin
tremulus meaning "shaking,
quivering."
Tremulous
22 Root: un- "not"
Unmitigated
V. to interest or excite (someone)
in an enjoyable and often erotic
way.
ADJ. shaking slightly especially
because of nervousness,
weakness, or illness.
ADJ. feeling or showing a lack of
confidence or courage.
ADJ. complete and total.
23 Latin Root: vil- "cheap"
Vile
ADJ. being so definitely what is
stated as to offer little chance of
change or relief.
ADJ. evil or immoral.
revile, vilify
24 Latin Root: vol- "will"
Voluptuous
ADJ. very bad or unpleasant.
ADJ. of a woman—very attractive
because of having large hips.
voluptuary, volition,
malevolence, volunteer
Xenophobic
ADJ. giving pleasure to the
senses.
ADJ. one unduly fearful of what is
foreign and especially of people
origin.
25 Greek Root: xen- "foreign"
Greek Root: phob- "fear"
V. to stop trying to resist
something.
V. to give in to something.
Titillate
xenoblast, xenogamy,
acrophobia,
claustrophobia,
hydrophobia