Lesson 16

Question 1

novus

Answer 1

new

Question 2

a star that increases thousand of times in brightness and then fades

Answer 2

nova

Question 3

a person new to any field, a beginner

Answer 3

novice

Question 4

VEOS

Answer 4

new (neos written in English) Know how to spell it in Greek.

Question 5

a revival of the literary, architectural, musical, and artistic forms that are considered a standard or model, and therefore “classical”

Answer 5

neoclassical

Question 6

a new word, phrase, or expression, or a new meaning for an old word

Answer 6

neologism

Question 7

a recent convert; a newly ordained priest or member of a religious order; a beginner, a novice

Answer 7

neophyte

Question 8

duro

Answer 8

to make hard, to endure

Question 9

stern, grim, gloomy

Answer 9

dour

Question 10

forced constraint, coercion against one’s will

Answer 10

duress

Question 11

stubborn, unyielding; hardened against good influence, impenitent

Answer 11

obdurate

Question 12

memoria

Answer 12

remembrance, memory

Question 13

going deep into the past before history, knowledge, or memory, primordial

Answer 13

immemorial

Question 14

(usually plural) a written account of events one has lived through; an autobiography

Answer 14

memoir

Question 15

things worthy of remembrance

Answer 15

memorabilia

Question 16

moror

Answer 16

to delay, to loiter, to tarry

Question 17

to raise an objection; to delay

Answer 17

demur

Question 18

deferment or delay of any action

Answer 18

moratorium

Question 19

senex

Answer 19

old, an elder

Question 20

senesco

Answer 20

to grow old

Question 21

growing old, aging

Answer 21

senescent

Question 22

flagrantly uncivil and ill- natured

Answer 22

surly