| A | B |
|---|
| abortive | Latin-aborire=miscarrry |
| bruit | Old French-noise, rumor |
| contumelious | Latin-contumelia=abuse |
| dictum | Latin-dicere=to say, speak |
| ensconce | Dutch-schans = small fort |
| iconoclastic | Greek-eikon= image + klalen = to speak |
| in media res | Latin - in the middle of it |
| internecine | Latin-inter = between + necare = kill |
| maladroit | Latin-malus = bad, ill + dirigere - lay straight |
| maudlin | ME-maudeleyne-after Mary Magdalene often seen as weeping |
| modulate | Latin-modus = a measure |
| portentous | Latin-por = forth + tendere = to stretch |
| prescience | Latin-prae = before + scire = to know |
| quid pro quo | Latin-this for that |
| salubrious | Latin - salus = health |
| saturnalian | festival of Saturn in Rome,beginning Dec. 17th |
| touchstone | Medevial-a stone formerly used to test the purity of gold or silver |
| vitilate | Latin-vitium-quice |
| traumatic | Greek-damage |
| waggish | Old English-waghalter=a joker |
