Vocab lesson 5
Terms
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- pseudonym
- A ficticious name
- circumscribe
- To draw a line around, to encircle
- Onoma
- Greek: name
- alliteration
- The occurence of the same initial sound in several words in succession
- literal
- The explicit or primary meaning of a word or phrase
- nomenclature
- A system of naming, especially in the arts or sciences
- subscribe
- To pledge to pay for something or to contribute to something; to place an order by signing
- ignominious
- Shameful; disgraceful
- transcribe
- To make a copy of; to write out
- Scribo, Scribere, Scripsi, Scriptum
- Latin: to write
- Littera
- Latin: letter
- proscribe
- To denounce or condemn
- conscription
- A military draft
- Nomen
- Latin: name
- literate
- Able to read and write
- onomatopoeia
- A word that sounds like the thing it names
- acronym
- A word composed of the first letters or parts of a name or series of words
- obliterate
- To do away with completely; to wipe out; erase
- ascribe
- To attribute to a particular cause, source, or origin (used with "to")