SV12-Day+6

Vocabulary Day 6

> Example: anecdote: To give a short account of an interesting or humorous incident. > Sentence: My grandfather was always great for telling a witty anecdote at the dinner table.
 * 1. [|dos-, dot-]** (Greek > Latin: to give; to dose; a giving, a gift).

> Example: **celerity**: Swiftness, speed. > Sentence: I finished my grocery shopping with celerity and style, just as the store was closing.
 * 2. [|celer-]** (Latin: fast, speed, swift, rapid).

> Example: **dexterous:** skillful with hands > Sentence: The tiny woman secured the toys with her small dexterous hands.
 * 3. [|dexter-, dextra-, dextro-]** (Latin: right, right hand, to the right; therefore, "skillful

> Example:**Extraneous:** irrelevant, more information than necessary. > Sentence: The test proctor gave extraneous directions for the test, causing us to start a half hour later.
 * 4. extra-, extro: Latin: beyond, outside, external**

> Example: **incoherent**, incoherently, incoherentness: Without physical coherence or cohesion; consisting of parts which do not stick or cling together; unconnected, disjoined, loose. > Sentence: Her story was incoherent and I couldn’t follow who had done what.
 * 5. [|-her-, -hes-]** (Latin: stick to, cling to, cleave to).

> Example: **maladroit**: Lacking adroitness or dexterity; awkward, bungling, clumsy. > Hillary Duff is famous for playing a maladroit teenager, tripping her way to TV stardom.
 * 6. [|mal-]** (Latin: bad, badly, harsh, wrong; ill; evil; abnormal, defective

> Example: Pallid: pale > Sentence: I felt the pallid student’s forehead when she complained of feeling ill.
 * 7. [|livid-, liv-]** (Latin > French: bluish, livid; bluish color;

> Example: **presumptuous**: Characterized by presumption, sure of something without proof; cocky > Sentence: It was awfully presumptuous of you to get me ice cream without asking me first, but I’m glad you did.
 * 8. [|sump-, -sum-]** (Latin: a taking, to take up, select; to use, spend, consume).

> Example: **animosity**: A feeling or spirit of hostility and resentment; dislike. > Sentence: A quiet animosity had been simmering between the sisters for years, until the day of their volcanic argument.
 * 9. [|anima-, anim-]** (Latin: animal life; breath; soul; mind).

> Example: **archetype**: A typical, ideal, or classic example of something > Sentence: The wicked witch in //The Wizard of Oz// is the archetype of Halloween costumes to this day.
 * 10. [|arch-, archi-, -arch]** (Greek > Latin: chief, principal leader, first)