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Vocabulary Lesson 49: Even More
Today’s roots: ad- to scribere to write
post- after augere to increase❑ annex(v) to attach; to acquire land to expand an existing country (ad-to+nectareto attach)
When Hitler annexedPoland, the dictator’s imperialist designs should have been clear.
Synonyms:acquire, appropriate, append Antonyms:disengage, dissociate❑ addendum(n) something added; a supplement to a book (ad-onto)
After he completed the story, the author wrote an addendumexplaining why he finished it the way he did.
Synonyms:appendix, supplement❑ postscript(n) a message added after the completion of a letter (P.S.) (post-after+scriberto write)
After my wife signed the postcard, she remembered something else she wanted to say and wrote a postscript.❑ epilogue(n) an extra chapter added onto the end of a novel (epi-Gr in addition +logiawords)
In the epilogue,the author described what the characters of the novel did 15 years after the main narrative.
Synonyms:afterword, postlude Antonyms:prelude, forward, preface, prologue❑ append(v) to affix something; to add on (ad-to+pendereto hang)
The publishers appendedan index to the end of the text to help the reader find things more easily.
Synonym:annex❑ adjunct(adj) added in a subordinate capacity (ad-to+jungereto attach)
Although principally a biologist, Dr. Carter was also an adjunctprofessor in the zoology department.
Synonyms:subordinate, subsidiary❑ augment(v) to add onto; to make greater (augereto increase)
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Synonyms:enlarge, enhance, amplify, boost, strengthen Antonym:diminish❑ cession(n) the act of surrendering or yielding (cessareto yield)
Synonyms:capitulation, relinquishment❑ affix(v) to attach (ad-to+figereto fasten)
Synonyms:annex, append❑ appropriate(v) to take another’s work or possessions as one’s own (ad-to+propriusone’s own)
❑ encore(n) an extra performance at the end of a show (encoreFr again)
Synonym:curtain call❑ appendix(n) supplementary material at the end of a text (ad-to+pendereto hang)
Synonym:addendum❑ supplement(v) to add something to complete or strengthen a whole (supplereto complete)
❑ circumscribed(adj) having distinct boundaries or limits (circum- around scribereto write)