An example of what we will be working on below.
PART 1: Dictionary Entries
1.
What type of animal is a wren?
2.
A zither
is a musical instrument. Is it a string
instrument or a wind instrument?
3.
If you were on a brig, what type of vehicle would you be on?
4.
How are an emu
and a grouse similar?
5.
What part of speech is the word narcissus?
6.
What is the origin of the word filose?
Filose
(fi’los’) adj. 1. Threadlike. 2.
Having or ending in a threadlike part.
[From Latin filum,thread]
7.
What is the origin of the word deceit?
de·ceit [dih-seet] n.
1.the act or practice of deceiving;
concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading;
duplicity; fraud; cheating: Once she exposed their deceit, no one ever trusted
them again.2.an act or device intended to deceive; trick; stratagem.3.the
quality of being deceitful; duplicity; falseness: a man full of deceit. [Middle
English deceit(e), from Old French,
from Latin decepta]
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Infallible
– in-ˈfa-lə-bəl\ adj. 1. incapable
of error 2. not liable to mislead, deceive, or disappoint. Example: I never
claimed to be infallible. Middle English, from Medieval
Latin infallibilis, from Latin in- + Late
Latin fallibilis fallible
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Which of these parts of the entry shows the origin of the
word infallible?
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A
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infallible adj.
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B
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Infallible \in-ˈfa-lə-bəl\
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C
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Middle
English, from Medieval Latin infallibilis, from Latin in- +
Late Latin fallibilis fallible
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D
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I never claimed to be infallible.
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