Vocabulary Builder Course 6

Introduction
In this lesson, while reading about "Acids and Bases," you learned ten new vocabulary words. They were: allay, assuage, bland, combustion, condiment, denude, gastronomic, impunity, premier, and therapeutic. Go on to the Internet to learn a little about the etymology of these new words.

Destination Title: Online Etymology Dictionary

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Directions
Go to the Online Etymology Dictionary website.

• Scroll down the page and glance through the ABBREVIATIONS section.
• Go back and look up each of your vocabulary words by navigating through the appropriate letter ranges (not all vocabulary words are listed in their given forms, so you may be looking up alternate forms.)
• Answer the following questions.

1.		Allay was often confused with what word that meant, in an obsolete sense, “to lighten”?
2.		The Classical Latin roots of assuage, “ad” and “suavis”, mean what, respectively?
3.		In Old French “bland”, somewhat ironically, meant what?
4.		“Combustion” in its contemporary spelling came to English from what language?
5.		Given that so many condiments are pickled, it is fitting that the root “condire” meant what?
6.		Denude is from what two Classical Latin roots meaning “away” and “to strip”?
7.		See Gastric – “Gastronomy” was originally coined as “Gastronomie” to be the title of what?
8.		Impunity came from the Latin word “impunis”, which meant what?
9.		In the US, “premier” formerly was occasionally applied to whom?
10.		Therapeutic was probably shortened from what in the 17th century?