Etymology lesson 2
Terms
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- obtrusive
- characterized by unwelcome butting-in; unpleasantly obvious
- loquacious
- talkative; chatty
- go yield stop
- cede, cess
- jurisprudence
- philosophy of Law; body system of law, and department of Law
- push shove
- trud trus
- light lift
- lev
- somniloquist
- sleep talker
- jurisdiction
- area of authority
- speak
- loqu locut
- protrusion
- the act of protruding or the state of protruded; stick out
- ludicrous
- ridiculous; laughable
- traduce
- betray; hand over
- colloquy
- formal discussion
- decedent
- dead guy
- collusion
- conspiracy; plotting
- lead
- duc duct
- come
- ven vent venu
- right law
- jur just
- deprecate
- to express disapproval of
- play mock
- lud lus
- injurious
- harmful
- levity
- light-heartedness
- circumvent
- get around; avoid by evasive action
- abstruse
- hard to understand; difficult
- beg pray
- prec
- judicious
- wise; showing good judgment
- ambiguous
- can be taken 2 ways
- precedent
- example
- imprecate
- curse;call a curse upon
- alleviate
- lighten; ease, unburden
- contravene
- com against; disagree with
- antecedent
- "that which goes before", the noun to which a pronoun refers
- inducement
- com-on/lure/bait
- conducive
- helpful; leading to an end
- circuitous
- roundabout; indirect
- obloquy
- cursing, ugly putdowns
- adjudicate
- judge; give judgment to
- precarious
- dangerous
- allusion
- uncited reference to a work of literature, historical event, current event, famous person, etc
- judgment
- judic
- circumlocution
- an indirect way of saying, a beating around the bush