Experience the wonder of words by focusing on the variety of vocabulary elements used in English with particular emphasis on those words that are derived from Latin and Greek sources.

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“Education is not only concerned with collecting information but also with the best ways of using information that has been collected.”

“Some countries want peace so badly that they will go to war to get it.”

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The results of a diagnostic test given to premedical students who were instructed to write short meanings for a list of medical terms.

artery, the study of paintings.

bacteria, the back door of a cafeteria.

barium, what doctors do when patients die.

bowel, a letter like a, e, i, o, or u.

caesarean section, a neighborhood in Rome.

cat scan, searching for a lost cat.

cauterize, making eye-contact with a girl.

coma, a punctuation mark.

dilate, to live a long time.

enema, not a friend.

enema, not a friend .

euthanasia, Chinese, Japanese, etc. adolescents.

fester, quicker.

fibula, a small lie.

genital, not a Jew.

hangnail, a coat hook.

impotent, distinguished, well known.

labor pain, getting hurt at work.

malfeasance, exorbitant charges for professional services.

medical staff, a doctor’s cane.

morbid, a higher offer.

nitrates, cheaper than day rates.

node, was aware of, knew.

nosography, 1. The art of writing using a pen or pencil stuck up one’s nose. 2. The writing done by a nasograph.

outpatient, someone who has fainted.

pap smear, a fatherhood test.

pelvis, a cousin of Elvis.

prophylactic, a person who favors birth control.

recovery room, place to do upholstery.

rectum, dang near killed ‘em.

secretion, hiding something.

seizure, famous Roman leader.

tablet, a small table.

terminal illness, getting sick at the airport.

tumor, more than one.

urine, opposite of “you’re out”.

vein, conceited.

Ponder These Quotations

“The next best thing to being witty one’s self,
is to be able to quote another wit.”

“The Magna Carta: England’s first reign check.”

The easy way to teach children the value of money
is to borrow it from them.”

The Five Animal Stages of the Life of a Man are

On Grrr-ammar

“Egotists are always me-deep in conversation”

“Don’t be jumping to confusions.”

“The mind—better read than dead!”

“The surprising thing about young fools is
how many survive to become old fools.”

“The greatest mental risks we face today are
becoming disabled, dying too soon, living too long.”

“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing them.”

“Words—so innocent and powerless as they are
when standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil
they become in the hands of the one who knows how
to combine them.”

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