Roots lessons 9 and 10 Flashcards
Ars, artis
Art
Aoide
Song
Canto, cantare, cantavi, cantatum
To sing
Pingo, pingere, pinxi, pictum
To paint
Artifact
an object made by humans (usually a primitive tool or relic from an earlier period)
Artifice
Craftiness or trickery, cleverness or skill
Artless
Without deceit, natural, simple / crude, ignorant, uncultured
Ode
Poem addressed to a particular person, event, or object
Parody
A funny imitation of a book or movie/ to mimic something for comic effect
Rhapsody
A speech or writing that expresses great pleasure or enthusiasm
Incantation
The chanting or speaking of words to have magical power
Recant
To take a previously made statement back
Depict
To paint, draw, or express in a picture or sculpture / to describe, to picture in words
Pictograph
A picture or drawings representing words or ideas
Cresco, crescere, crevi, cretum
To grow or increase
Facio, facere, feci, factum
To make
Texo, texere, texui, textum
To weave
Accrue
To come to a natural increase or advantage
Crescendo
A gradual increase in sound, often referring to music
Excrescence
Abnormal growth or outgrowth
Beneficence
Doing good or causing good to be done, kind actions
Efficacious
Effective as a means or remedy
Facile
Acting, working, or proceeding with ease; fluent (sometimes superficial when something is done too easily)
Facsimile
Exact copy made of a book, paining, or document
Faction
A group or clique within a larger group, party, or government / conflict within an organization or nation
Mollify
To calm; to make gentler or softer in feeling
Context
The part before or after a word or statement that influences its meaning / the circumstances surrounding an event or situation
Pretext
A false reason put forward to conceal the true one
