session-10

Title

• writing and writers

• aging and the old

• Helping words

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writing and writers

greek root: graphein
           (to write)

• graphologist: analyzes handwriting

• graphology (specialty)

• graphological (adj)

• chirographer: cheir (hand) + graphein (write)

• calligraphy: beautiful writing

  greek root: kallos + graphein
             (beauty)

  • calligrapher

  • calligraphic

• cacography: bad handwriting

  greek root:   kakos       +  graphein
             (bad or harsh)

  • cacographer

  • cacographic

• callipygian: one with shapely buttocks

• Grapein is found in other English words

  • cardiograph: heart writer

  • photograph: written by light

  • phonograph: sound writer

  • telegraph: distance writer (greek: tele (distance))

  • biography: life writing

aging and the old

greek root: geras
           (old age)

• geriatrician: specializes in the medical care of elderly

• gerontologist

• gerontology

• gerontological

Note: The Latin word for old is senex, the base on which senile, senescent, senior, and senate are built

• senile: showing signs of the physical and/or mental deterioration that generally marks very old age

  • senility (noun)

• senescent: agin, growing old

  • adolescent: growing into an adult

  • convalescent: growing healthy again

  • obsolescent: growing or becoming obsolete

  • senescence (noun)

• senior: older

  • seniority (noun)

• senate: originally a council of older, and presumably wiser, citizens.

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Helping words

• caprice: a sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior

• contemplate: look thoughtfully for a long time at

• uncanny: strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way

• assiduous: showing great care and perseverance

• susceptible: likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing

• prissy: fussily and excessively respectable

• calisthenics: gymnastic exercises to achieve bodily fitness and grace of movement

• furious: extremely angry

• enraged: extremely angry (synonymous to furious)

• plaguing: pester or harass (someone) continually

  • plague

• prophecy (noun): a prediction of what will happen in the future

• prophesy (verb)

• unconscionable: not right or reasonable

• consciously: in a deliberate and intentional way