session-21

Title

• more on equality

• not to be confused with horses

• hear voices

• Helping Words

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more on equality

The root aequus, is building block of

• equity: justice, fairness; ie, equal treatment

  • stocks in financial markets are equities

  • equitable (adj)

• inequity: injustice, unfairness

  • inequitable (adj)

• inequity: wickedness, sinfulness

  • iniquitous (adj)

• equinox: equal night (when day & night are of equal length, March 21, Sept 21 or 22)

  root:  aequus  +   nox, noctis
         (equal)      (night)

  • equinoctial (adj)

  • nocturnal: people, animal, or plants that are active or flourish at night rather than during daylight hours

    eg: cats, owls, moonflower, "night people"

  • nocturne: night music or or a painting of a night scene

• equanimity: equal mind

  root:  aequus  +   animus
         (equal)     (mind)

• equability: synonym of equanimity

  • A person of equable temperament is characteristically calm, serene, unflappable, even-tempered.

• equilibrium: equal balance

  root:  aequus   +    libra
         (equal)     (balance, weight, pound)

  Note: Libra is the seventh sign of the zodiac, represented by a pair of scales

  • equilibrist: a professional tightrope walker

Note: The equator divides the earth into equal halves, and words like equation, equivalent, equidistant, equiangular, and equilateral (from latin latus, lateris (side)) are self-explanatory.

not to be confused with horses

• equestrian (adj): someone on a horse (horseback riding)

• equestrienne: a woman on a horse

• equine: like a horse, as in appearance or characteristic, or descriptive of horses

  • (noun)^2^: a horse

  root:  equus    ---> equ- (English)
        (horse)

hear voices

• equivocal:

  root:  aequus  +  vox, vocis
        (equal)      (voice)

• vociferous: etymologically "carrying (much) much voice", hence loud, noisy, clamorous

  root:  vox, vocis  +  fero
          (voice)      (to bear or carry)

• if you are vocal, you express yourself readily and freely by voice

  • vocal sounds are voiced

  • vocal music is sung

  • vocal cords

• vocalize: to give voice to, or to sing the vocals

• vocalist: a singer

magnavox: [vox + magnus (large)] is the trade name for a brand of radios and TV sets

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Helping Words

• clamor(ous): a loud and confused noise, especially that of people shouting

• flourish: grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way

• vice:

  1. immoral or wicked behavior

  2. as a substitute for

• puritanical: having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence or sex.

  eg: his puritanical parents saw any kind of pleasure as the road to damnation

• evading: escape or avoid, especially by trickery

• aforethought: premeditated (thought out or planned beforehand)

• mug-wumps: someone who can not or will not decide which side they are on, especially in politics

• wumps: not quite a wuss, not quite a wimp, but somewhere in the middle

• callous(ly): showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others

• frailty: the condition of being weak and delicate