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Etymology Unit 6 Flashcards

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Equable

Adj

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Balaced, calm, not extreme mood swings

Mrs Aiken is the opposite of equable.

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Equ

Equality

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Equal

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Equilibrium

Noun

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Emotional calmness
Balance

The equilibrium of the class can never be found.

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Equinox

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The day where day and night are the same length

The equinox went by and made no impact on my life.

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Adequacy

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Being enough to equal the requirement

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Quis, quit, ques

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To seek or obtain

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Inquisition- noun

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A harsh questioning or interrogation

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Perquisite- noun

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In the past it meant something asked for, now it is something received.
Perks of a job.

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Acquisitive- adj

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To obtain all the things. Greedy people

Alla was acquisitive obtain gall the time in class to be yelled at.

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Requisition- noun

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Demand or request, a formal request

My requisition was denied.

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Plen-ple

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To fill

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Plenary-adj

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Filling a purpose

The pep rally was the plenary gathering

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Complement- noun or verb

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An expression of respect or affection

The old mans compliment weirded me out.

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Deplete- verb

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Reducing amount by using it up

I depleted the fridge which resulted in diabetes.

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Replete-adj

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Back again replenished

The fridge is replete.

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Metr, meter

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Measure

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Metric-noun or adj

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Relating to metric system

I don’t like the metric system. Stupid Brits

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Meter- noun

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39 inches

The line at kings island was 5000000009 meters long

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Odometer- noun

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Measures the distance

My odometer reached 100000 miles

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Tachometer- noun

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Measures the speed of rotation

My tachometer reached 8000 rpm before I flipped it into fourth.

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Aud

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Hearing

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Auditor- noun

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One who listens listening to financial account

My auditor yelled at me for my terrible credit score.

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Auditory-adj

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Perceived or experienced through hearing

Mrs Aiken was auditory and I went deaf.

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Audition-noun

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Tryout

My audition went great, I got the part.

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Inaudible-noun

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Incapable of hearing.

Mrs Aiken is Inaudible when Allah is talking.

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Son

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Sound

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Sonic

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Having to do with sound

The was a sonic boom that came from mrs aikens class when alla started talking

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Dissonant- adj

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Clashing or discordant, especially in music.

The music we learned had lots of flats so it was dissonant

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Resonance- noun

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The continuing of echoing sound

Morgan Freeman’s voice resonated in my head forever an ever.

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Ultrasonic-adj

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Having a frequency higher than what can be heard by human ears

The dog whistle was ultrasonic.

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Err

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To wander or to stay

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Errant-adj

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Wandering or moving about aimlessly or straying outside proper boundaries

The kid was errant and got hit by a car and lived to tell the tell the tale

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Aberrant-adj

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Staying or differing from the right , normal or natural type

The criminal was aberrant.

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Erratic-adj

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Having no fixed course or lacking in consistency

The road trip was erratic and we got stuck in a ditch in south Ohio.

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Erroneous-adj

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Mistaken, incorrect

The kid was erroneous and got an F on his ap world test.

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Ced

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To proceed or yield

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Cede-verb

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To give up especially by treaty; yield

Their 90 year old grandpa ceded his financial things to his children.

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Concede- verb

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To admit grudgingly; yield

The south conceded the civil war

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Accede-verb

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To give in to a request or demand.

Obama acceded Michelle’s stupid rules.

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Precedent- adj

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Something done or said that May be an example or rule to guide later acts of a similar kind.

I lied to my friends about the gift not being precedent.

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