Av'enue (Fr. n. _avenue_, an approach to); contravene'; convene'; conven'ient (Lat. pres. part, _conve'niens, convenien'tis_, literally, coming together), _suitable_; conven'ience; cov'enant _an agreement between two parties_; intervene'; rev'enue; supervene', _to come upon, to happen_.
212. VER'b.u.m, _a word_.
VERB: verb (-al, -ally, -ose, -osity); ad'verb; prov'erb.
Verba'tim (Lat. adv. _verba'tim_, word for word); ver'biage (Fr. n.
_verbiage_, wordiness).
213. VER'TERE: ver'to, ver'sum, _to turn_.
VERT: advert'; inadver'tent (literally, not turning the mind to), _heedless_; ad'vertise, _to turn public attention to_; adver'tis.e.m.e.nt; animadvert' (Lat. n. _an'imus_, the mind), _to turn the mind to, to censure_; avert'; controvert', _to oppose_; convert', _to change into another form or state_; divert'; invert', literally, _to turn the outside in_; pervert', _to turn from the true purpose_; retrovert'; revert'; subvert'.
VERS: adverse' (-ary, -ity); animadver'sion; anniver'sary, _the yearly_ (Lat. n. _an'nus_, a year) _celebration of an event_; averse', _having a dislike to_; aver'sion; con'troversy; converse' (-ant, -ation); conver'sion; diverse' (-ify, -ion, -ity); ob'verse; perverse' (-ity); retrover'sion; reverse' (-al, -ion); subver'sion; subversive; tergiversa'tion (Lat. n. _ter'gum_, the back), _a subterfuge_; transverse', _lying or being across_; u'niverse (Lat. adj. _u'nus_, one), _the system of created things_; univer'sal (-ist); univer'sity, _a universal school in which are taught all branches of learning_.
Verse (Lat. n. _ver'sus_, a furrow), _a line in poetry_; ver'sify; versifica'tion; ver'sion, _that which is turned from one language into another, a statement_; ver'satile (Lat. adj. _versat'ilis_, turning with ease); vertex (pl. ver'tices), _the summit_; vertical; vertebra (pl.
ver'tebrae); ver'tebrate; ver'tigo; vor'tex (Lat. n. _vor'tex_, a whirlpool); divorce' (Fr. n. _divorce_), _a separation_.
214. VE'RUS, _true_; Ve'rax, vera'cis, _veracious_.
VER: ver'dict (Lat. n. _dic'tum_, a saying), _the decision of a jury_; ver'ify, _to prove to be true; _verifica'tion; ver'ity (Lat. n. _ver'itas_, truth); ver'itable; verisim'ilar, _truth-like_; verisimil'itude; aver', _to declare truer_; aver'ment; ver'ily; ver'y.
VERAC: v'era'cious; verac'ity.
215. VI'A, _a way_.
VIA: vi'aduct (Lat. v. _du'cere, duc'tum_, to lead); viat'ic.u.m (Lat. n.
_viat'ic.u.m_, literally, traveling money), _the sacrament administered to a dying person_; de'viate (-ion); de'vious; ob'viate, _to meet in the way, to remove_; ob'vious; per'vious, _affording a pa.s.sage through_; imper'vious.
Voy'age (Fr. n. _voyage_); convoy', _to escort_; en'voy (Fr. v. _envoyer_, to send), _one sent on a special mission_; triv'ial (Lat. n. _triv'ium_, a cross road), _trifling_; trivial'ity.
216. VIDE'RE: vi'deo, vi'sum, _to see_.
VID: ev'ident, _clearly seen; _ev'idence; invid'ious, literally, _looking against_: hence, _likely to provoke envy_; provide', _to look out for, to supply_; prov'idence; prov'ident.
VIS: vis'ible; vis'ion (-ary); advise'; advis'able, _expedient_; im'provise, _to compose and recite without premeditation_; provis'ion; revise' (-al, -ion); supervis'ion; supervis'or.
View (Fr. v. _voir_, to see, _vu_, seen); review'; in'terview; vis'age (Fr.
n. _visage_, the countenance); vis'it (-ant, -or, -ation); vis'or, _part of a helmet perforated to see through; _vis'ta (It. n. _vista_, sight), _a prospect as seen through an avenue of trees _; advice'; en'vy (Fr. n.
_envie_ = Lat. _invid'ia_, from _invide're_, to see against); in'voice (It.
n. _avviso_, notice), _a priced list of goods_; peruse' (Lat. v.
_pervide're, pervi'sum_, to look through); provi'so, _a stipulation_; pru'dent (Lat. adj. _pru'dens _from _prov'idens_); pru'dence; purvey', _to look out for in the way of buying provisions_; purvey'or; survey' (-or).
217. VIN'CERE: vin'co, vic'tum, _to conquer_.
VINC: vin'cible; invin'cible; convince'; evince', _to show clearly_
VICT: vic'tor; vic'tory (-ous); convict', _to prove guilty of crime_; evict', _to dispossess_; evic'tion.
Vanquish (Fr. v. _vaincre, vaincu_ = Lat. _vin'cere_); prov'ince (Fr. n.
_province_ = Lat. _provin'cia_, literally, a conquered country).
218. VOCA'RE: vo'co, voca'tum, _to call_; Vox, vo'cis, _the voice_.
VOCAT: voca'tion, literally, _calling, occupation_; voc'ative, _the case of a noun in which the subject is called, or addressed_; ad'vocate _to plead for_; convoca'tion, _an a.s.sembly, a meeting_; equivocate (Lat. adj.
_e'quus_, equal), _to use words of doubtful meaning_; equivoca'tion; evoca'tion, _act of calling forth_; invoca'tion; provoca'tion; provo'cative; revoca'tion.
VOC: vo'cable (Lat. n. _vocab'ulum_, that which is sounded with the voice), _a word_; vocab'ulary; vo'cal (-ist, -ize); vociferate, _to cry with a loud voice_; ad'vocacy, _a pleading for, a defense_; irrev'ocable.
Voice (Fr. n. _voix_ = Lat. _vox), sound uttered by the mouth_; vouch, _to call out, or affirm strongly_; vow'el (Fr. n. _vouelle_, a voice-sound); advow'son, _right of perpetual calling to a benefice_; convoke', _to call together_; evoke'; invoke'; revoke'.
219. VOL'VERE: vol'vo, volu'tum, _to roll_.
VOLV: circ.u.mvolve'; convolve', _to roll together_; devolve'; evolve'; involve'; revolve' (-ion, -ionist).
VOLUT: circ.u.mvolu'tion; evolu'tion; revolution (-ary, -ist, -ize).
Vol'ume (Lat. n. _volu'men_, a roll, or inscribed parchment sheet rolled up), _a single book_; volute', _a kind of rolled or spiral scroll_; vol'uble, literally, _rolling easily_: hence, _having great fluency of speech_; convol'vulus, _a genus of twining plants_; revolt'.
220. VUL'GUS, _the common people_.
VULG: vul'gar; vul'garism; vulgar'ity; vul'gate, _a Latin version of the Scriptures_.
Divulge', _to make known something before kept secret_; divulge'ment; promulgate (-ion).
PART III.--THE GREEK ELEMENT.
I.--GREEK PREFIXES.
PREFIX SIGNIFICATION. EXAMPLE. DEFINITION
a- = _without_; a-pathy state of being _without_ an- _not_ an-omalous feeling.
_not_ similar.
amphi- = _around_; amphi-theater place for seeing all _both_ amphi-bious _around_.