2017 -Preliminaries Flashcards
culinary
This word is from Latin.
(adjective) of or relating to the kitchen or cookery.
The early colonists used herbs for both _____ and medicinal purposes.
subtlety
This word went from Latin to French before becoming English.
(noun) the quality of being tenuous, intangible, indefinable, abstruse or remote.
When asking his mom for a favor, Gary preferred _____ to a more direct approach.
tout
This word is from English.
(verb) peddle in an annoyingly persistent manner.
Grace didn’t enjoy how the television host would always _____ his own products during every episode.
Please pay careful attention to the definition and part of speech. This word has a homonym or could be
confused with a word that has a similar pronunciation.
bowyer
This word is made up of English parts.
(noun) one that makes shooting bows.
Kinley’s archery coach was her grandfather, who had worked as a _____ for over fifty years.
Please pay careful attention to the definition and part of speech. This word has a homonym or could be
confused with a word that has a similar pronunciation.
sortilege
This word is from Latin.
(noun) the art or practice of divination by lots.
One example of _____ in the Bible is when the sailors cast lots to discover why God is angry and then
heave Jonah overboard.
reverberant
This word is from Latin.
(adjective) tending to continue or become repeated in or as if in a series of echoes.
We could hear the wolf ’s _____ call from the hills.
macaronic
This word is made up of an originally Italian word plus an originally Greek combining form.
(adjective) characterized by a mixture of two languages.
Peter’s conversations with his parents are a _____ affair, since his parents speak almost entirely in
Mandarin while he responds to them mostly in English.
filar
This word came from Latin plus an English combining form.
(adjective) possessing threads across the field of view.
Mrs. Jensen instructed the students to use a _____ microscope to take a more accurate measurement of
their specimen.
Please pay careful attention to the definition and part of speech. This word has a homonym or could be
confused with a word that has a similar pronunciation.
theriatrics
This word is from Greek.
(plural noun) the science of veterinary medicine.
Joanna bewildered all her friends when she said that her father is a specialist in _____.
phraseogram
This word is from Greek that passed into Latin.
(noun) a conventional combination of signs or letters representing a brief expression in certain
shorthand systems.
Curtis used the _____ meaning “insert a space” while he was editing the sports section of the school
newspaper.
achromatopsia
This word consists of four Greek parts.
(noun) a visual defect marked by total color blindness, the colors of the spectrum being seen in tones of
white-gray-black.
Scientists have found that _____ results from genetic mutations.
canaille
dulcet
a cinnamon roll OR a popular lullaby
baneful
harmThis word is from a Latin word that became Italian and then French.
(noun) a mob : a rabble : riffraff.
The _____ shouted for the prisoners to be freed.ful
schlepp
haul
