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Designed to achieve two goals: to add a large number of words to your permanent working vocabulary, and to teach the most useful of the classical word-building roots to help you continue expanding your vocabulary in the future. Greek and Latin have been the sources of most of the words in the English Language. You could find much fun in this book that some of the fashion words are come from an elegent sources dated back to thousands of years. Also, you could enjoy the infinite discovery through reading it, which is not merely a dictionary, but a wonderful educational and enlightening book.

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Mary Wood Cornog is a contributor for Merriam-Webster Inc titles including: 'Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder'

Since 1937. Merriam-Webster is America's foremost publisher of language-related reference works. The company publishes a diverse array of print and electronic products, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition – America's best-selling desk dictionary – and Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster can be c***idered the direct lexicographical heir of Noah Webster. In 1843, the company bought the rights to the 1841 edition of Webster's magnum opus, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Corrected and Enlarged. At the same time, they secured the rights to create revised editi*** of the work. Since that time, Merriam-Webster editors have carried forward Noah Webster's work, creating some of the most widely used and respected dictionaries and reference books in the world.

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BELL comes from the Latin word meaning " war. " Bellona was the little-known Roman goddess of war, her husband, Mars, was god of war.

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antebellum: Existing before a war, especially before the American Civil War (1861- 1865).

* When World War I was over, the French nobility found it impossible to return to their extravagant antebellum way of life.

Often the word antebellum summ*** up images of ease, elegance, and entertainment on a grand scale that disappeared in the postwar years. That way of life in the American South depend...

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SUB means "under," as in subway, submarine, and substandard. A subject is a person who is under the authority of another. The word subscribe once meant "to write one's name underneath," and subscription was the act of signing at the end of a document or agreement.

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subc***cious: Existing in the mind just below the level of awareness.

* After dropping three dishes in a week I began to think that there might be some kind of subc***cious urge to destroy my case of butterfingers.

We are generally not aware, or at least not fully...

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VERB comes from the Latin verbum, meaning "word." A verb--or action word--appears in some form in every complete sentence. To express something verbally--or to verbalize something--is to say it o***rite it.

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verbose: Using more words than are needed; wordy.

* The writing style in government publicati*** has often been both dry and verbose--a deadly combination.

Americans brought up on fast-paced television have lost any patience they once had for verbosity. So most American writing is brisk, and American speakers usually don'...

Each of the important Roman gods and goddesses had many temples erected in their name. But in 27 B.C. a temple to all the gods togethe***as completed in Rome; twice destroyed, it was ultimately replaced by a third temple around A.D. 126. This extraordinary domed structure is still one of the important sights of Rome, and the burial place for the painters Raphael

and Carracci and two kings. In Paris, a great church was completed in 1789–90; named the Panthéon, it was announced as the future resting place of France's great figures, and the bodies of Victor Hugo, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, and many others now rest within its walls.

In the Middle Ages, the Muslim empires stretching around much of the Mediterranean were theocracies, and the pope ruled most of modern-day Italy. But theocracies are rare today. Modern Iran and Saudi Arabia (and perhaps half a dozen others) are usually regarded as theocratic governments, since, even though Iran's president is elected by popular vote and Saudi Arabia is ruled by a royal family, the countries' laws are religious laws. But when a government tries to follow all the teachings of a single religion, things usually don't work out terribly well, so U.S. C***titution and Bill of Rights forbid using religion as the principal basis for democracy.

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AG comes from the Latin word for "do, go, lead, drive." An agenda is a list of things to be done. An agent is usually someone who does things on behalf of another, just as an agency is an office that does business for others.

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agitate: (1) To move something with an irregular, rapid, violent action. (2) To stir up or excite.

* Philip found Louisa highly agitated at the new of her son's disappearance.

Agitate can mean to shake or stir something physically, but more often its meaning is emotional or political. Agitation for a c...

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Designed to achieve two goals: to add a large number of words to your permanent working vocabulary, and to teach the most useful of the classical word-building roots to help you continue expanding your vocabulary in the future. Greek and Latin have been the sources of most of the words in the English Language. You could find much fun in this book that some of the fashion words are come from an elegent sources dated back to thousands of years. Also, you could enjoy the infinite discovery through reading it, which is not merely a dictionary, but a wonderful educational and enlightening book.