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Lesson 4
K 12 vocabulary from classical roots book C lessons 3 &4
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8th Grade
11/17/2009

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Puerile
Definition
Childish; immature
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Orthopedics
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Branch of medicine treating disorders of the skelatal system and tissues related to movement.
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Pedagogue
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A teacher.
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Pedant
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1.A person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding.

2. A scholarly show-off

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Entity
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Something that has a real or independent existence
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Nonentity
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1. A person or thing of no importance.

2. Something that does not exist only in the imagination.

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Essence
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1. The basic element, the identifying characteristic.

2. A substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug.

3. A perfume.

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Moribund
Definition
About to die or end.
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Mortify
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1. To shame.

2. To discipline oneself by denial.

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Postmortem
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An examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy.
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Euthanasia
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The act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy killing.
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Innate
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Possessed at birth; inborn.
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Naive
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1. Childlike; unsophisticated.

2.Gullible.

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Nascent
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Emerging; coming into existence.
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Renaissance
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1. A rebirth; a renewal

2. (capitalized) A revival of humanism in fourteenth-century to sixteenth-century Europe.

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