Orthography Part 6

3. An _aqueduct_ is a _lead_way or artificial channel for conveying _water_.

4. A guide _conducts_ a traveler when he goes _with_ him and, in a sense, _leads_ him along a safe route.

5. To _deduct_ is to take _from_; to _draw_ away.

6. A _ductile_ metal is one _capable of_ being _drawn_ into wire; as, copper, platinum, steel, etc.

8. To develop mentally and morally by instruction. _Educate_ literally means to _lead_ forth, to _draw out_.

11. An _introduction_ is the initial step which _leads_ people _into_ one another's acquaintance.

14. (1) To _lead_ or bring _back_ to a former state; as,

"It were but right And equal to _reduce_ me to my dust."

(2) To bring to any specific state or form.

#fac, fact# = do, make.

(fec, fic, fy, fea, fash are variations.)

1. fact 2. fact _ory_, place where 3. facil _ity_, quality of 4. _bene_ fact or, good 5. _manu_ fact ure, hand 6. _ef_ fect, (ex.) out 7. _per_ fect, thoroughly 8. _im_ perfect, not 9. _arti_ ficial, skill 10. _bene_ ficial, good 11. _sacri_ fice, sacred 12. _paci_ fic, peace 13. feat 14. _de_ feat, un 15. feas _ible_, capable of 16. fashion.

1. A _fact_ is something _done_ or brought to pa.s.s.

3. _Quality_ of being easily _done_.

5. _Manufacture_ formerly meant to _make_ by _hand_.

6. An _effect_ is something worked _out_, or _done_.

7. A thing is _perfect_ when _thoroughly made_, or _finished_.

11. _Sacrifice_ literally means to _make sacred_; to set apart as sacred.

12. _Pacific_ means pertaining to _peace_; suited to _make_ or restore peace.

13. A _feat_ is an act, a deed, an exploit; something _done_.

14. To _defeat_ means to overcome or vanquish. Literally to _un do_.

16. The _fashion_ of a thing is, in a sense, the _make_ of it.

NOTE.-_fy_, meaning to make, is found as a suffix in derivatives too numerous to mention; as, purify (to _make pure_), rarefy (to _make rare_), cla.s.sify (to _make_ or put into a _cla.s.s_), etc.

#fer, ferr# = carry, bear, bring.

1. _circ.u.m_ fer ence, around 2. _con_ fer, together 3. _dif_ fer, apart 4. fert _ile_, capable of 5. _of_ fer, (ob) near.

6. _pro_ (f)fer, forth 7. _re_ fer, back 8. re fer _ee_, one who 9. _suf_ fer, (sub) under 10. _trans_ fer, across

1. See first month, page 10.

2. When two or more persons _confer_ they _bring together_ opinions and facts on some special subject.

3. See second month, page 13.

5. To _bring near_ to; to present for acceptance; as, to _offer_ one's services.

6. To _bring_ or put _forward_; to hold _forth_ so that a person may take; as, to _proffer_ a gift.

7. To direct for information. Literally, to _carry back_; as, "Mahomet _referred_ his new laws to the angel Gabriel, by whose direction he gave out they were made."

9. To _suffer_ is to _bear under_; to undergo.

NOTE.-_Ferr_ is an irregular Latin verb the princ.i.p.al parts of which are: _fero_, _ferre_, _tuli_, _latus_. The last form is found in a number of English words; as, dilate, elate, legislate, relate, superlative, translate. The meaning of the root in these words, as in the ten given above, is _bear_, _carry_, or _bring_.

#fest# = feast.

1. fest _al_. _Pertaining to_ a _feast_, a holiday or celebration.

2. fest _ive_. _Pertaining to_ or becoming a _feast_; festal, joyous, gay.

3. festival. A time of _feasting_ or celebration.

4. festivity. Joyousness, gayety, such as becomes a _feast_.

5. festoon. Originally an ornament for decoration at a _feast_.

6. fete. Modern French, equivalent of _feast_.

FOURTH MONTH.

#uni# = one.

1. unit, one 2. un _ity_, ness 3. un _ion_, state of being 4. unite 5. _dis_ unite, not 6. _re_ unite, again 7. un _anim_ ous, mind 8. unanim _ity_, state of being 9. uni _corn_, horn 10. uni _form_, form 11. uni _son_, sound 12. uni _verse_, turn 13. unique 14. onion

9. The _unicorn_ is a fabulous _one-horned_ animal.

12. The _universe_ consists of all things considered as _one_ whole.

13. A thing is _unique_ when it is the only _one_ of its kind.

14. _Onion_ comes from the Latin _unio_, which means _oneness_; also a single pearl of large size resembling the onion.