Roots lessons 9 and 10

Question 1

Ars, artis

Answer 1

Art

Question 2

Aoide

Answer 2

Song

Question 3

Canto, cantare, cantavi, cantatum

Answer 3

To sing

Question 4

Pingo, pingere, pinxi, pictum

Answer 4

To paint

Question 5

Artifact

Answer 5

an object made by humans (usually a primitive tool or relic from an earlier period)

Question 6

Artifice

Answer 6

Craftiness or trickery, cleverness or skill

Question 7

Artless

Answer 7

Without deceit, natural, simple / crude, ignorant, uncultured

Question 8

Ode

Answer 8

Poem addressed to a particular person, event, or object

Question 9

Parody

Answer 9

A funny imitation of a book or movie/ to mimic something for comic effect

Question 10

Rhapsody

Answer 10

A speech or writing that expresses great pleasure or enthusiasm

Question 11

Incantation

Answer 11

The chanting or speaking of words to have magical power

Question 12

Recant

Answer 12

To take a previously made statement back

Question 13

Depict

Answer 13

To paint, draw, or express in a picture or sculpture / to describe, to picture in words

Question 14

Pictograph

Answer 14

A picture or drawings representing words or ideas

Question 15

Cresco, crescere, crevi, cretum

Answer 15

To grow or increase

Question 16

Facio, facere, feci, factum

Answer 16

To make

Question 17

Texo, texere, texui, textum

Answer 17

To weave

Question 18

Accrue

Answer 18

To come to a natural increase or advantage

Question 19

Crescendo

Answer 19

A gradual increase in sound, often referring to music

Question 20

Excrescence

Answer 20

Abnormal growth or outgrowth

Question 21

Beneficence

Answer 21

Doing good or causing good to be done, kind actions

Question 22

Efficacious

Answer 22

Effective as a means or remedy

Question 23

Facile

Answer 23

Acting, working, or proceeding with ease; fluent (sometimes superficial when something is done too easily)

Question 24

Facsimile

Answer 24

Exact copy made of a book, paining, or document

Question 25

Faction

Answer 25

A group or clique within a larger group, party, or government / conflict within an organization or nation

Question 26

Mollify

Answer 26

To calm; to make gentler or softer in feeling

Question 27

Context

Answer 27

The part before or after a word or statement that influences its meaning / the circumstances surrounding an event or situation

Question 28

Pretext

Answer 28

A false reason put forward to conceal the true one