1. Vocabulary Lists 25/26
Ms. Mendoza

2. Pel PEL: meaning to push
Example: appellation An appellation is a name or title given to a person, place, or thing.

3. Penta
Penta: five Example: pentagram (five-pointed star usually used for mystical purposes)

4. PEP
Pep: to digest Example: dyspepsey ( a type of indigestion)

5. Peri
Peri: meaning a boundary or outer edge of a place Example: peripheral vision (your side vision)

6. Pet Pet: to go for; attack; to go for
Example: PETULANT (a person who acts in a childish way when he or she doesn’t get their way)

7. Phem
Meaning: to say Example: euphemism (to say something that is sugar- coated because the original term is too uncomfortable)

8. Phas
Phas: Show Example: emphasize

9. Example: perplex (lacking clarity of meaning)
Plex: weave
Example: perplex (lacking clarity of meaning)

10. Polis
Polis: city Necropolis: Literally meaning “city of the dead”… a term used by the Greeks to describe cemeteries.

11. Phan
Phan: meaning to appear Example: Phantasm (a ghostly appearing figure)

12. Phon
Phon: meaning SOUND Example: cacophony (a series of unpleasant sounds)

13. phras
Phras: meaning to explain Example: paraphrase (to explain using a more concise manner)

14. publ
Publ: meaning people Example: republic (meaning a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them)

15. qu qu: meaning who, what, which
Example: Quorum (the smallest amount of people needed to make legal decisions)

16. rig
Rig: meaning stiffness Example: rigor mortis (third stage of death ...)

17. strat Strat: meaning covering or spread
Example: The Stratosphere Hotel.

18. sym
Sym: meaning together Example: Symmetry (having equal halves)

19. sup
Sup: meaning UNDER
Example: suppress (stopped in some way from occurring or kept in check in some way)

20. tac
Tac: meaning silent
Example: Tacit ( an agreement made between two people without saying anything)

21. tax
Tax: meaning placed in order