Latin Roots #7

Roots & Derivatives1) Duc(t), Duce (to lead): Conduct, reduce, education, abduct, deductive, ductile, induction, deduce.
2) Fed(er), fide(e) (faith, trust): Federal, confidence, affidavit, infidel, bona fide, confide, confederate
3) Fine(e) (end, limit): Finish, confine, define, infinitesimal, affinity, infinity, finial
4) Flect, Flex (to bend): Deflect, reflex, reflector, flexibility, genuflect, flexor

Word List
1) Aqueduct: A large pipe or other conduit made to bring water from a great distance.
The Romans were one of the first empires with aqueducts.
2) Conductive: Tending to lead, help, assist, or result in.
Male lions tend to be quite conductive for they must assist other pride members through their obstacles. 
3) Definitive:  A completely accurate, reliable, and authoritative; decisive or conclusive.
His testimony proved to be definitive evidence in court.
4) Fidelity: A faithfulness to one's promises or obligations; steadfast faithfulness, technological faithfulness.
My mother has always shown fidelity in her promises.
5) Fiduciary: An individual who holds something in trust for another; a trustee.
We used a mutual friend as our fiduciary for our wager.
6) Finale: A "grand" conclusion, as of a performance; the last scene of a play.
After the finale all the actors came out and took a bow during a final applause.
7) Finite: A limited or bordered by time or by any measurement; measurable.
There is a finite number of oil as countries continue to fight for renewable energy. 
8) Flexuous: Winding in and out; bending or wavering.
The young sapling was quite flexuous during the storm.
9) Inducement: Anything used or given to persuade or motivate; an incentive.
With the promise of a money as inducement my parents could make me do anything.
10) Inflection: A slight change in tone or modulation of the voice, as in a point of emphasis. 
In an attempt to foreshadow what would happen next I changed my inflection for certain words in the story. 
11) Perfidious: Characteristic of one who would intentionally betray a faith or trust; treacherous.
I never try to be perfidious as I love to keep promises.
12)Traduce: To speak falsely of; to slander or defame; to disgrace another's good name; to vilify.
Hitler traduced the Jews in the 1930's

Diction Worksheets

Low or informal diction:

Example of Jargon: Awash; I only climbed on the spare spar

Elevated language or formal diction:

1.a).phosphorescent: of or relating to a type of light that glows softly in the dark and that does not produce heat

b).cadaverous: looking very thin & pale; resembling a corpse

c).elusive: hard to find or capture; hard to understand, define, or remember 

The side of the ship made a fuzzy belt of shadow on the darkling glassy shimmer of the sea. I saw at once something extended and white floating very close to the ladder. Before I could form a guess a small flash of shimmering light, which seemed to issue suddenly from the naked body of a man, flickered in the sleeping water with the quiet, quiet play of summer lighting in a night sky. With a gasp I saw revealed to my stare a pair of feet, the long legs, a broad livid back shot right up to my neck in a greenish pale glow. As he hung by the ladder, like a resting swimmer, the sea lighting played about his limbs at every spin, and he appeared in it terrible, silvery, fishlike.

 

3. Elevated language allows the passage to have a deeper meaning to its details and message. Paraphrased language opens up the passage to be understood by a broader audience.

Abstract & concrete diction:

4.a saw

b).climbed 

c).raised  

d).dropped

5.The authors chose to leave everything nameless to get the readers thinking and on their toes on who said what. Also, no names would allow readers to believe they are the nameless person since a title isn't in place.

Denotation & connotation: 

6.  The Secret Sharer denotation is defined as, a person who shares their possessions mysteriously or hides it from everyone else 

Chart:

Word: 

1.cadaverous:

Denotation- looking very thin or pale

Connotation- mysterious eerie  

2.darkling:

D-in the dark

C- object that prefers the dark lurks there

3.pale:

D-light skinned

C-ghostly near death 

4.phosphorescence:

D-luminescence that is caused by the absorption of radiations

C-few lights, eerie

5.ghastly:

D-very shocking or horrible

C- terrifying supernatural

6.headless:

D-having no head

C-mindless or can't think the subconscious  

7.fishlike:

D-acting or feeling like the characteristics of a fish

C-an object coming from the sea wet