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• front and back - and uncles

• the noise and the fury

• to sleep or not to sleep - that is the question

• a walkaway

• back to sleep

• noun suffixes

• Helping Words

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front and back - and uncles

• ventriloquist: appears to talk from the belly

  root: venter, ventris + loquor
          (belly)

• ventral: the ventral side of an animal, for example, is the front or anterior side - the belly side.

• ventricle: hollow organ or cavity (belly)

  • one of the two chambers of the heart

  • one of the four chambers of the brain

  • belly

    Note: The ventricles of the heart are the lower chambers, and receive blood from the auricles, or upper chambers.

• auricle: somewhat ear-shaped (Latin: auris, ear), receives blood from the veins; and send the blood into ventricles, which in turn pump the blood into the arteries.

• ventricular or auricular (adj): having a belly-like bulge

NOUN	ADJECTIVE
clavicle	clavicular
cuticle	cuticular
vesicle	vesicular
testicle	testicular
uncle	avuncular

Note: The Latin word for uncle (actually, uncle on the mother's side) is avunculus.

• dorsal: the dorsal side the back side

  Latin: dorsum

• endorse (verb)

  1. If you endorse a check, you sign it on the back side.

  2. If you endorse a plan, an idea, etc, you back it, you express your approval or support

  3. endorsement (noun)

the noise and the fury

• vociferous:

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

  • vociferousness (noun)

  • vociferate (verb)

    • vociferation (noun)

to sleep or not to sleep - that is the question

• somniferous: carrying, bearing, or bringing sleep

  Latin root: somnus  +  fero
              (sleep)   (to bear or carry)

  • so a somniferous lecture is so dull and boring that it is sleep-inducing

• insomnia: the abnormal inability to fall asleep when sleep is required or denied

• insomniac: the unfortunate victim of insomnia

  • insomnious (adj)

• somnolent: sleepy, drowsy

  • somnolence or somnolency (noun)

• somnambulism: walking in one's sleep

  Latin root: somnus  +  ambulo
              (sleep)   (to walk)

  • somnambulist: person who sleep walk

  • somnambulistic (adj)

a walkaway

• ambulatory: a patient, as in hospital, is finally well enough to get out of bed and walk around.

• perambulator: a vehicle for walking an infant through the streets

  • a word used more in England than in United States, and often shortened to pram, is a baby carriage,

    root: per- (through)

• perambulate: etymologically, "to walk through"; hence, to stroll around

  • perambulation (noun)

• to amble (v): to walk aimlessly.

  an ambulance is so called because originally it was composed of two stretcher-bearers who walked off the battlefield with a wounded soldier.

• preamble: by etymology, something that "walks before", hence an introduction or introductory statement. [pre- (before, beforehand)]

  eg: preamble to the Indian Constitution

back to sleep

somnus is one Latin word for sleep - sopor is another

• soporific:

  • a soporific lecture, speaker, style of delivery, etc. will put the audience to sleep

  • a soporific is a sleeping pill

noun suffixes

• inarticulate: [Latin: articulus (a joint)]

  • inarticulateness

• articulate (adj): you join your words together easily, you are verbal, vocal, possibly even voluble.

• articulate (verb): to join (words), ie, to express your vocal sounds

  • articulation (noun)

• banal

  • banalness or banality (noun)

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Helping Words

• bulge

  • (noun): a rounded swelling which distorts an otherwise flat surface.

  • (verb): swell or protrude to an incongruous extent.

• clavicle: technical term for collarbone.

• cuticle:

  • the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail.

  • the outer cellular layer of a hair.

• vesicle: a small fluid-filled bladder

• drowsy: sleepy and lethargic; half asleep.

• esoteric: intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.

• trite: (of a remark or idea) lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse.

• bedridden: confined to bed by sickness or old age.

• aggravating: making a problem or offence worse or more serious.

• hem:

  1. turn under and sew the edge of (a piece of cloth).

  2. hem in (phrases) — surround and restrict the space or movement of someone or something. eg: "he was hemmed in by the tables"

  3. make a sound in the throat when hesitating or as a signal.