Caesar

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Caesars English II Lesson XI
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GRAT (PLEASING) GRATIFICATION, INGRATIATE,
GRATUITOUS

• GRAT means pleasing.
• Gratification is when you are pleased to
  ingratiate yourself with someone means trying to
  please him and win him over and a gratuitous
  assumption is unfounded it is one that might
  please you, but it has no good reason or
  evidence, so it is pleasing, but probably false!
• Spanishgratificación

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curr (run) current, recur, incur

• CURR means run.
• A current runs in a stream something recurs when
  it happens again, like a rerun and to incur
  costs means to run into them!
• Spanishincurrir

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trans (across) transfer, transfusion, transcendent

• TRANS means across.
• To transfer means to move things across from here
  to there a transfusion moves blood across from a
  person or bottle to another person and
  transcendent things are superior--they cross
  beyond anything previously done.
• Spanishtranscendente

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migr (wander) migrate, migratory, transmigration

• MIGR means wander.
• To migrate is to wander or move to a new place
  migratory birds fly south for the winter, as
  though they were wandering through the skies and
  the transmigration of souls is the idea that
  souls wander to a new being at death!
• Spanishtransmigración

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rupt (break) abrupt, corrupt, disrupt

• RUPT means break.
• An abrupt change is a sharp break in an event a
  corrupt official has broken morals and to
  disrupt an event is to break it up!
• Spanishabrupto

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Advanced Word Gratuitous

• The adjective gratuitous means unfounded or
  unmerited. It might be pleasing to you, but it is
  not necessary or based on evidence. In Thomas
  Hardys 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, he
  wrote that A gratuitous ordeal was in store for
  her in the matter of her handwriting. Henry
  David Thoreau used gratuitous in his 1854 Walden,
  to say that we should care for our neighbor We
  should feed and clothe him gratuitously
  sometimes.

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Caesars English II Lesson XI

• Stem meaning Example
• GRAT PLEASING gratitude
• CURR RUN current
• TRANS ACROSS transfer
• MIGR WANDER migrate
• RUPT BREAK interrupt

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• Toady Ingratiate
• current event
• corrupt crime
• transfuse blood
• bird migrate

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• Toady Ingratiate
• current event
• corrupt crime
• transfuse blood
• bird migrate

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• Transfer Goods
• hunger gratify
• corrupt money
• transfuse blood
• costs incur

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• Transfer Goods
• hunger gratify
• corrupt money
• transfuse blood
• costs incur

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• Find the best opposite.
• INCUR
• avoid
• recur
• current
• transfer

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• INCUR
• avoid
• recur
• current
• transfer

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• GRATUITOUS
• transcendent
• justified
• corrupt
• disrupted

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• GRATUITOUS
• transcendent
• justified
• corrupt
• disrupted

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• Caesar believed that his military abilities were
  ___________.
• ambuscaded
• current
• transcendent
• disrupted

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• Caesar believed that his military abilities were
  ___________.
• ambuscaded
• current
• transcendent
• disrupted

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• The senators believed that Caesars decision was
  merely __________.
• recurring
• omniscient
• migratory
• gratuitous

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• The senators believed that Caesars decision was
  merely __________.
• recurring
• omniscient
• migratory
• gratuitous

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• Barbarian uprisings ____________ in Gaul
  throughout the decade.
• recurred
• transfused
• transmigrated
• reiterated

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• Barbarian uprisings ____________ in Gaul
  throughout the decade.
• recurred
• transfused
• transmigrated
• reiterated

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The Grammar of Vocabulary gratuitous, an
adjective.

• Cicero delivered a diatribe of gratuitous
  insults.
• ________________________________________
• ________________________________________
• ________________________________________
• ________________________________________

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Caesars Classic Words Challenge

• From Charles Dickenss David Copperfield
• This was entirely a __________ assumption.
• recurrent
• corrupt
• gratuitous
• transcendent

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• From Charles Dickenss David Copperfield
• This was entirely a __________ assumption.
• recurrent
• corrupt
• gratuitous
• transcendent

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• From James Hiltons Lost Horizon
• Shangri-La was interesting enough to _________
  these attitudes.
• disrupt
• incur
• transmigrate
• transcend

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• From James Hiltons Lost Horizon
• Shangri-La was interesting enough to _________
  these attitudes.
• disrupt
• incur
• transmigrate
• transcend

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• From Joseph Conrads Lord Jim
• He kept on trying to __________ himself with all.
• ingratiate
• transfer
• disrupt
• migrate

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• From Joseph Conrads Lord Jim
• He kept on trying to __________ himself with all.
• ingratiate
• transfer
• disrupt
• migrate