Week One Vocab Quiz

Define "vivisect"

• To cut the living body of an animal

• To express or feel sympathy

• Amusement

• Failing to act as a result of moral weakness

Define "mirth"

• Amusement, especially expressed as laughter

• To revoke, cancel or repeal

• To prevent by taking action ahead of time

• Easily influenced, pliable

Define "rescind"

• To cut into a live animal

• A person lying face upward

• Easily influenced, pliable

• To revoke, cancel or repeal

Define "malleable"

• To prevent by acting ahead of time

• To revoke, cancel or repeal

• Easily influenced, pliable

• To express and share sympathy with others

Define "commiserate"

• Easily influenced, pliable

• To express or feel sympathy

• To revoke, repeal or cancel

• Amusement, especially expressed as laughter

Define "psychoanalysis"

• A method of explaining and treating mental disorders

• Amusement, especially expressed in laughter

• Lying on one's back, face upward

• To express sympathy

Define "forestall"

• Easily influenced, pliable

• to cut into a living animal

• to reveal, revoke or cancel

• to prevent by acting ahead of time

Define "supine"

• To reveal, revoke or cancel

• Failure to act in as a result of moral weakness

• Lying on one's stomach, face down

• To express sympathy

Based on your knowledge of the root "fore", what does the word "forbode" most likely mean in this sentence?

"The oracle forebode the coming of the warrior that would be strong enough to save the entire city,"

• Warned

• Reminded

• Explained

• Questioned

Based on your knowledge of the prefix "com", what does "committee" most likely mean?

"The committee has decided to dismiss him"

• One person

• Group of people

• Government laws

• What does "com" mean?