Vocabulary Builder Course 5

Introduction
In this lesson, you learned ten new vocabulary words. They were cataclysm, decadence, decimate, depredate, expunge, interpolate, obliterate, putrefaction, stagnate, and wane. 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 are the meanings of the two Greek roots “kata” and “klyzein?”
2.		In what century did decadence begin to be applied to periods in art?
3.		Originally used in Rome as a punishment for rebellion, decimate technically means to destroy what?
4.		What does the root “præda” in depredation mean?
5.		Based on its Latin roots, what is the literal meaning of expunge?
6.		What do the Latin roots “inter” and “polire” mean?
7.		In obliterate, the Latin root “litera” implies the destruction of what, specifically?
8.		What language gave us our contemporary spelling of putrefaction?
9.		The original Latin stagnatum meant especially what would stagnate?
10.		Wane doesn't have any Latin roots because it evolved from which languages