Vocabulary Stems

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Vocabulary Stems

• The base to your language!

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It gives you a leg to stand on!
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Vocabulary Origins

• English is the mixture of many languages.
• Its origins are Greek, Latin, French, Old
  English, and Middle English.
• English is a living language so it is constantly
  changing.

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Stems

• Beginnings prefixes
• Roots bases
• Endings suffixes
• Add them up to make words.
• Example in (into) spec (look) tion (act or
  state ) inspection (to look into)

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• Vocabulary Words 10-1

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Mit sent (Latin)

• Intermittent intermitente stopping and
  starting between intervals.
• Mitigate- mitigar to lessen in force or
  intensity, as with grief, harshness, or pain
• Remit mandato to send back
• Example During the intermittent rain, I hoped
  to mitigate the loss of our dog in between
  showers by remitting his ashes to the pond where
  he liked to swim.

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Prim first (Latin)

• Primal primaria original
• Primeval primitivo of or pertaining to the
  first age or ages
• Primitive primitivo being of the first or
  earliest in kind or existence.
• Example Primitive man made the primal cave
  drawings during the primeval or earliest known
  time periods.

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Proto first (Latin)

• Protocol protocolo the first of a document
• Protohistory protohistoria the study of a
  culture before its recorded history
• Protolithic protolithic relating to the very
  beginning of the Stone Age.
• Example During the Protolithic time period,
  there was not protocol, written history, only a
  oral history, which is protohistory.

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Tain hold (Latin)

• Abstain abstenerse to hold oneself back
• Detain - detener - to hold down
• Sustain mantener to support or hold
• Example To abstain from serious physical
  relationships, not only sustains ones self
  respect, it detains serious physical and
  emotional problems.

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Vert turn (Latin)

• Incontrovertible incontrovertible not open to
  question or dispute
• Revert volver to turn back
• Subvert subvertir to over thrown to ruin to
  turn against.
• Example In a desire to subvert the kings rule,
  the revolutionaries presented incontrovertible
  evidence that the king couldnt argue, proving he
  wanted to revert the citizens rights, making them
  slaves.

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Crazy Words

• Prim vert first turn
• Example I must take the primvert on the left to
  go to his neighborhood.
• Proto tain first hold
• Example Bob dropped his prototain and was
  thrown from the bull.
• Prim mit first send
• Example Primmitting a man into space was
  important during the 1960s.