REA 0002 REA 0002 Vocabulary Vocabulary

Chapters 11 and 12Chapters 11 and 12

clandestine• The criminals held a clandestine

meeting before they robbed the bank.

• Done in secret • Concealed• Kept hidden

contingency• I have a contingency fund just in

case I have an emergency.

• A possibility• A possible future event that must

be prepared for or guarded against

egocentric• The athlete was very egocentric.

He thought the team couldn’t do anything without him.

• Self-involved• Self-centered• Conceited• Seeing everything in terms of oneself

exonerate• The soldier was hoping the court

would exonerate him after they investigated the mishap.

• Clear of an accusation• Free from blame or charges• Prove innocent

incongruous• It wasn’t really incongruous for a former

general to join the peace movement. He had seen the horrors of war.

• Contradictory, • Out of place• Inconsistent• Having parts that are not in harmony or

that are inconsistent

indigenous• The Seminoles are part of the indigenous population in Florida.

• Native• Living, growing or produced in a

particular place

liability• Not being able to read fluently can

be a liability.• a handicap• A disadvantage • A drawback• Something that acts as a

disadvantage

prolific• Stephen King is a prolific author.

• Producing many works, results, or offspring

• Fertile• Creating abundantly

reinstate• I was able to reinstate the

student in class. • To put back, • To restore• To restore to a previous position or

condition• Bring back into being or use

superfluous• In the phrase “rich millionaire,”

the word rich is superfluous.• Unnecessary• Extra• Beyond what is needed, wanted,

or useful

a - an- (prefix)• Harold is completely apolitical. He

never votes and never even seemed to know who the candidates are.

• Without• Lacking• Not

bibl- biblio- (prefix)• We had to prepare a bibliography

for the paper we wrote.

• Book• Pertaining to books

fid (root)• He names his dog Fido which

means “faithful one”.

• Loyalty• Trust• Faith

-ism (suffix)• Judaism and Hinduism are forms of

religion.

• Doctrine• Set of beliefs• System• Practice of

nov (root)• That was a novel idea. No one

has ever written about it before.

• Original• New• fresh

pan- (prefix)• We traveled the Pan American

Highway all the way from Alaska to Mexico.

• Entire• All

prim, prime (root) • She read from her primer. This

was the first book in the reading series.

• First (in order of importance)

rect (root) • He had to rectify the situation

that he had caused by lying to his mother.

• To make straight• To make right

sym-, syn- (prefix)• One symptom or the syndrome

was that the muscles in her legs would not function.

• With • Together

ver (root)• We waited patiently for the verdict.

• True• Real

EXTRA CREDIT• Complete pages 73 – 74 – Unit

Two: Test 4 for extra credit.

• Study all of the words 7 – 11 for the Unit Two test.