A Modern Approach to Verbal Reasoning

(Steven Felgate) #1
Biology :- Study of living

things

Biochemist :- Student of

the chemistry of living

things

breve short

Brevity :- Briefness

Abbreviate :- Shorten

Breviloquent :- Marked by

brevity of speech

cad , cas to fall

Decadent :- Deteriorating.

Cadence :- intonation ,

musical movement

Cascade :- Waterfall

cap , capt , cept , cip to take

Capture :- Seize

Participate :- Take part

Precept :- Wise saying

(Originally a command)

capit , capt head

Decapitate :- Remove (cut

off) someone's head

Captain :- Chief

carn flesh

Carnivorous :- Flesh

eating

Carnage :- Destruction of

life

Carnal :- Fleshly

ced , cess to yield , to go

Recede :- Go back ,

withdraw

Antecedent :- That which

goes before process , go

farward

celer swift

Celerity :- Swiftness

Decelerate :- Reduce

Swiftness

Accelerate :- Increase

Swiftness

cent one hundred

Century :- One hundred

years

Centennial :- One

hundredth anniversary

Centipede :- Many –

footed ,wingless animal

chron time

Chronology :- Timetable

of events

Anachronism :- A thing

out of time sequence

Chronicle :- Register

events in order of time

cid , cis to cut , to kill

Incision :- A cut (surgical)

Homicide :- Killing of a
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