Vocabulary Set 9

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Vocabulary Set 9

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Root Nom

• Comes from the Latin word for name.

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Ignominious

• Definition (1) Marked with shame or disgrace
  dishonorable. (2) Humiliating or degrading.
• Sentence For the Greek heroes, nothing was worse
  than dying and ignominious death at the hands of
  an enemy.

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Misnomer

• Definition A wrong name, or the use of a wrong
  name.
• Sentence Calling the aboriginal peoples of the
  western hemisphere Indians was one of the great
  misnomers in recorded history.

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Nomenclature

• Definition (1) A name or designation, or the act
  of naming. (2) A system of terms or symbols used
  in biology, where New Latin names are given to
  kinds of groups of animals and plants.
• Sentence Naming newly discovered plants or
  animals requires close study of the system of
  nomenclature.

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Nominal

• Definition (1) Existing in name or form only and
  not in reality. (2) So small as to be
  unimportant trifling or insignificant.
• Sentence The actor was the nominal author of the
  book of memoirs, but 90 percent of the writing
  was the ghostwriters own prose.

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Root Pater/Patr

• From the Greek and Latin word for Father.

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Expatriate

• Definition (1) Living in a foreign land. (2) One
  living in a foreign land.
• Sentence As he got to know his fellow
  expatriates in Morocco, he found himself
  wondering what had made them leave America.

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Paternalistic

• Definition Tending to supply the needs of or
  regulate the activities of those under ones
  control.
• Sentence Some still accused the university of
  being too paternalistic in regulating student
  living arrangements.

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Patrician

• Definition A person of high birth or of good
  breeding and cultivation an aristocrat.
• Sentence They passed themselves off as
  patricians, and no one looked too closely at
  where their money came from.

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Patrimony

• Definition Property or anything else passed down
  from ones father or ancestors heritage.
• Sentence Conservationists regard wilderness
  areas as part of our national patrimony, which we
  must pass on to future generations as we found
  them.

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Root Lega

• Comes from the Latin Legare, meaning to appoint
  or to send as a deputy.

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Delegation

• Definition A group of people chosen to represent
  the interests or opinions of others.
• Sentence Each of the American colonies sent a
  delegation to the Continental Congress.

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Legacy

• Definition (1) Something left to a person in a
  will. (2) Something handed down by an ancestor or
  predecessor or received from the past.
• Sentence The Stradivarius family of violin
  makers left a priceless legacy of remarkable
  instruments.

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Legate

• Definition An official representative, such as
  an ambassador or envoy.
• Sentence Every significant European power sent
  legates of some kind to international peace
  conference.

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Relegate

• Definition (1) To remove or assign to a less
  important place. (2) To refer or hand over for
  decision or for carrying out.
• Sentence As first-year students, we were
  relegated to the back of the line so all the
  older classes could eat first.