Vocab 6-8 Etymology

Question 1

avarice

Answer 1

[L, avere, desire]

Question 2

avid

Answer 2

[L, avere, desire]

Question 3

badger

Answer 3

[uncertain, poss. animal]

Question 4

baffle

Answer 4

[uncertain]

Question 5

banal

Answer 5

[OF, ban, summons to military service]

Question 6

belligerent

Answer 6

[L, bellum, war + gerere, wage]

Question 7

benign

Answer 7

[L, bene, well + genus, birth;race]

Question 8

bicker

Answer 8

[ME, bikeren, thrust/attack]

Question 9

bizarre

Answer 9

[Basque, beard]

Question 10

bland

Answer 10

[L, blandus, smooth/soft-spoken]

Question 11

bleak

Answer 11

[ON, bleikr, white/pale]

Question 12

blight

Answer 12

[unknown]

Question 13

blithe

Answer 13

[OE, blithe, sweet/happy]

Question 14

boisterous

Answer 14

[ME, boistous/boistres, violent/fierce]

Question 15

bombastic

Answer 15

[Turkish, pambuk, cotton]

Question 16

boorish

Answer 16

[Dutch, boer, farmer]

Question 17

boycott

Answer 17

[Charles C Boycott]

Question 18

brash

Answer 18

[unknown]

Question 19

bravado

Answer 19

[S, bravo, brave/boastful]

Question 20

brusque

Answer 20

[Italian, brusco, sharp/sour]

Question 21

bungle

Answer 21

[unknown, maybe Swedish, bangla, work poorly]

Question 22

bureaucracy

Answer 22

[F, bureau, desk/office + G, kratos, rule]

Question 23

buttress

Answer 23

[OF, bouter, strike against/butt]

Question 24

cajole

Answer 24

[F, cajoler, to chatter like a jay in a cage]

Question 25

callous

Answer 25

[L, callus, hard skin]

Question 26

calumny

Answer 26

[L, calumnia, trickery/slander]

Question 27

candid

Answer 27

[L, candere, glisten]

Question 28

cantankerous

Answer 28

[Norman F, contek, strife]

Question 29

captious

Answer 29

[L, captio, seizure/deception]

Question 30

catholic

Answer 30

[G, kata, according to + holos, whole + ikos, pertaining to]