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megalopolis, megabyte (1 million bytes of information storage in a
computer), megacycles, and megohms.
z Colloquially, mega is often tacked onto the front of words to convey
the meaning “very large.” For example, if you just won the lottery,
you might say that you’re rolling in megabucks!
Commodious (adjective)
Comfortably or conveniently spacious; roomy.
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meaning “convenient,” but it wasn’t until the 16th century that it
began carrying the current meaning of “roomy and spacious.”
z The original Latin commodus passed into French as commode,
meaning “convenient, suitable,” and was used to refer to both a tall
headdress for a woman and a chest of drawers. In the 18th century,
English borrowed this French word for a chest of drawers. It wasn’t
until 1851 that commode started to be used for a chair housing a
chamber pot.
Capacious (adjective)
Capable of containing a great deal; spacious and roomy.
z Like commodious, capacious means spacious and roomy, but
according to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Synonyms,
capacious stresses the ability to hold more than the ordinary
container can hold.
z Capacious comes from the same Latin origin as capable. In your
vocabulary notebook, highlight the capa in capacious and connect