Latin and Greek Roots List 13 (AG)

What does "obviate" mean?

• delicate or gauzy, so as to be transparent

• to make something unnecessary

• penetratingly discerning or perceptive

• a servile or obsequious person who flatters somebody powerful for personal gain

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

What does "diaphanous" mean?

• penetratingly discerning or perceptive

• delicate or gauzy, so as to be transparent

• looking back over things in the past

• remaining unmoved and unaffected by other people's opinions, arguments, or suggestions

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does "perspicacious" mean?

• looking back over things in the past

• penetratingly discerning or perceptive

• delicate or gauzy, so as to be transparent

• remaining unmoved and unaffected by other people's opinions, arguments, or suggestions

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

What does "sycophant" mean?

• a servile or obsequious person who flatters somebody powerful for personal gain

• an appearance of a supposed ghost or something ghost-like

• to conceive of an contemplate a future possibility

• remaining unmoved and unaffected by other people

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

What does "apparition" mean?

• a servile or obsequious person who flatters somebody powerful for personal gain

• an appearance of a ghost or something ghost-like

• remaining unmoved and unaffected by other people's opinions, arguments, or suggestions

• looking back over things in the past

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does "envisage" mean?

• to claim to be something or somebody

• to conceive of and contemplate a future possibility

• to hold something out to somebody so that he or she can take or grasp it

• looking back over things in the past

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does "purport" mean?

• to conceive of and contemplate a future possibility

• to claim to be something or somebody

• to hold something out to somebody so that he or she can take or grasp it

• to make something unnecessary

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does "impervious" mean?

• delicate or gauzy, so as to be transparent

• penetratingly discerning or perceptive

• looking back over things in the past

• remaining unmoved and unaffected by other people's opinions, arguments, or suggestions

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

What does "proffer" mean?

• looking back over things in the past

• to hold something out to somebody so that he or she can take or grasp it

• remaining unmoved and unaffected by other people's opinions, arguments, or suggestions

• penetratingly discerning or perceptive

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does "retrospective" mean?

• penetratingly discerning or perceptive

• remaining unmoved and unaffected by other people's opinions, arguments, or suggestions

• looking back over things in the past

• delicate or gauzy, so as to be transparent

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C