Vocabulary Builder Course 5

Introduction
In this lesson, while reading about the dangers of overpopulation in "Too Many Deer," you learned ten new vocabulary words. They were agrarian, ameliorate, commissary, consternation, excise, gambol, prudent, rigorous, succulent, and tawny. Go on to the Internet to learn a little about the etymology of these new words.

Destination Title: Online Etymology Dictionary
Note: Clicking on the link above will launch a new browser window.

Directions
Go to the Online Etymology Dictionary Web site.

• Scroll down the page and glance through the ABBREVIATIONS section. (Hint: you may want to pull up a second browser window to leave on this section [PC press CTRL+N] so you can reference it while looking up words.)
• Go back and look up each of your vocabulary words by navigating through the appropriate letter ranges (not all vocabulary words are listed in their given forms, so you may be looking up alternate forms.)
• Answer the following questions.

1.		What Classic Latin phrase meant “the Roman law for the division of conquered lands?”
2.		Ameliorate as a verb came about in what year?
3.		Before it came to be used in the military sense in 1489, commissary was used more in what sense?
4.		What does the root word sternare mean?
5.		Where did English get the word, and idea, for the “excise” tax?
6.		Which animal was gambol associated with in Late Latin?
7.		The contemporary spelling of prudent was first recorded in 1382 in what language?
8.		What did the Classical Latin root “rigor” mean?
9.		What is the root Latin word that means “juice, sap?”
10.		Tawny, or “tauné” in Anglo-French, was originally associated with the brownish-yellow color of what?