1. Vocabulary Set 6
English 3

2. ROOT: Ev
Comes from the Latin word aevum meaning “age” or “lifetime.”

3. Coeval
Definition: Having the same age or lasting the same amount of time; contemporary.
My brother’s graduation from High School was coeval to my freshman year.

4. Longevity
Definition: (1) A long duration of life. (2) Length of life; long continuance.
Sentence: Shakespeare’s writing has had an incredible longevity.

5. Medieval
Definition: (1) Relating to the Middle Ages of European history, from about A.D. 500 to (2) Extremely out-of-date.
Sentence: Some of the most beautiful architecture in Europe is from the Medieval time period.

6. Primeval
Definition: (1) Having to do with the earliest ages; primitive or ancient. (2) Existing from the beginning.
Sentence: Some sections of the rainforest is still very primeval and untouched by human hands.

7. ROOT: Tang/Tact
Comes from the Latin verb tangere meaning “to touch.”

8. Intact
Definition: Untouched by anything that harms; entire, uninjured.
Sentence: The crystal vases made it from Europe completely intact.

9. Tactile
Definition: (1) Able to be perceived by touching. (2) Relating to the sense of touch.
Sentence: The blind man used his tactile sense to read brail.

10. Tangential Definition: Touching lightly, incidental.
Sentence: As class moves on, each new subject is mostly tangential to the last.

11. Tangible
Definition: Able to be perceived, especially by touch, physical, substantial.
Sentence: The leaves on the ground was tangible evidence that it was fall.

12. ROOT: Grad
Comes from the Latin noun gradus meaning “step” or “degree.”

13. Degrade
Definition: (1) To lower in status or level. (2) To bring into disrepute or corrupt morally or intellectually.
Sentence: Being talked down to by anyone can seem quite degrading.

14. Gradation
Definition: (1) A series made up of successive stages. (2) A step in an ordered scale.
Sentence: The change of colored belts shows gradation while taking Karate.

15. Graduate
Definition: (1) To separate into degrees, grades, classes, or intervals. (2) To receive an academic degree or diploma; to pass from one stage to the next.
Sentence: Most students can not wait to graduate.

16. Retrograde
Definition: (1) Moving or performed in a direction that is backward or opposite to the usual direction. (2) Moving toward a worse or earlier state.
Sentence: The old group Criss-Cross used to wear their clothes in a retrograded fashion