Lesson 4

Question 1

PUER

Answer 1

Latin. “a male child”

Question 2

puerile

Answer 2

adj. Childish; immature.

Question 3

PAIS, PAIDOS

Answer 3

Greek. “child,” “boy”

Question 4

orthopedics

Answer 4

n. Branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement.

Question 5

pedagogue

Answer 5

n. A teacher.

Question 6

pedant

Answer 6

n. 1. A person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding.
2. A scholarly show-off.

Question 7

SUM, ESSE, FUI, FUTURUM

Answer 7

Latin. “to be”

Question 8

entity

Answer 8

n. Something that has a real or independent existence.

Question 9

nonentity

Answer 9

n. 1. A person or thing of no importance.

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

Question 10

essence

Answer 10

n. 1. The basic element; the identifying characteristic.
2. A substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug.
3. A perfume.

Question 11

MORIOR, MORI, MORTUUM

Answer 11

Latin. “to die”

Question 12

moribund

Answer 12

adj. About to die or end.

Question 13

mortify

Answer 13

tr. v. 1. To shame.

2. To discipline oneself by denial.

Question 14

postmortem

Answer 14

n. 1. An examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy.
2. (informal) An analysis of something that is over.

Question 15

THANATOS

Answer 15

Greek. “death”

Question 16

euthanasia

Answer 16

n. The act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy killing.

Question 17

NASCOR, NASCI, NATUM

Answer 17

Latin. “to be born”

Question 18

innate

Answer 18

adj. Possessed at birth; inborn.

Question 19

naive

Answer 19

adj. 1. Childlike, unsophisticated

2. Gullible

Question 20

nascent

Answer 20

adj. Emerging; coming into existence.

Question 21

renaissance

Answer 21

n. 1. A rebirth; a renewal.

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