| A | B |
| aficionado | (from affect) Latin-ad=to+facere-to do; also, 1845 Spanish-devotee of bullfighting |
| browbeat | Old English-brow + beaton=beat-to beat over the head |
| commensurate | Latin-com=tomorrow + mensura = measure |
| diaphanous | Greek-dia=through + pas = all |
| emolument | Latin-e = out + molure + soften |
| foray | Old French-forrer + to forage |
| genre | Latin-genus = kind (type) |
| homily | Greek-homuos = assembly |
| immure | Latin-in + murus = wall |
| insouciant | French-in = not + soucer = to care |
| matrix | Latin-mater = mother |
| obsequies | Latin-obsequim = compliance (substituted for exsequide - funeral) |
| panache | Fr & Latin - pinna = feather |
| persona | Latin-person |
| Phillipic | Greek-phillippos = Macedonian King denounced by Demosthenes |
| prurient | Latin - sacer = sacred + sanctus = holy |
| systemic | Greek-syn = together + thistanal - to set |
| tendentrous | Greek - tendez = tendency |
| vicissitude | Latin - vicis = a turn |