Homework Help Forum: vocab

Posted by mike on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 1:06am.

how would you breakdown these words using root meanings, pretentious, evanescent, avarice, and astute.

• vocab - GuruBlue, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 8:04am

  Look them up in the dictionary; it will give you the root of the word. Example from the on line Merriam Webster Dictionary: pre·ten·tious Pronunciation: \pri-ˈten(t)-shəs\ Function: adjective Etymology: French prétentieux, from prétention pretension, from Medieval Latin pretention-, pretentio, from Latin praetendere Date: 1832

  
  

• vocab - Writeacher, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 8:20am

  GuruBlue is right. Any good dictionary will help you with these types of things. Another good place is an etymological dictionary, such as http://www.etymonline.com/

  
  

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