Vocab #4

Gregarious
My guess: outgoing
Definition: being sociable or fond of company
Context: team roles test
Mnemonic device: Greg is an social person
Own sentence: The gregarious boy went around to each of the booths, introducing himself and making new friends.

Fidelity
My guess: honesty
Definition: being faithful to a person, cause or belief
Context: health project
History: 1375-1425; late Middle English fidelite (< Middle French) < Latin fidēlitās, equivalent to fidēli- (stem of fidēlis loyal, equivalent to fidē(s) faith
Connotation: neutral

Melancholy
My guess: sad
Definition: a gloomy state of mind
Context: A Modest Proposal
Own Sentence: The church held a group of melancholy people, as the funeral went on.
Example: Meanwhile, the bandsmen of his captive army played a “melancholy” tune on drums and fifes. (Brendon)

Cultivate
My guess: create
Definition: to prepare and work on in order to raise crops
Context: A Modest Proposal
Mnemonic device: Like farmers, Shay's rebellion was kind of like a cult, cultivate
Connotation: neutral

Prolific
My guess: significant
Definition: producing offspring
Context: A Modest Proposal
Own sentence: The young, prolific women sat together discussing the struggles of being a mother.
History: 1640-50; < Medieval Latin prōlificus fertile

Banality
My guess: ridiculous
Definition: lacking freshness and originality
Context: vocab hand out
History: 1861, triteness, from French banalité "banality, commonplace," from banal
Own sentence: The singing group was a perfect example of banality, as they copied each of the bands before them and blended in to the background.

Amo
My guess: weapons
Definition: love
Words: amicable, amateur, amour, amorous, amity

Syn
My guess: at the same time
Definition: with, together
Words: sync, synonym, synthetic, syntax, syndicate

Sol
My guess: alone
Definition: sun
Words: solar, solstice, solveig, Sunday, sowilo rune

Digitus
My guess: fingers
Definition: finger
Words: digits, prestidigitation, digitalis, digital, digitigrade