1. Caesar’s English Lesson VII

2. AMAT means love. An amorous feeling is full of love; an amateur is not a professional, but just someone who loves to do something; and amity is the loving friendship in a town!

3. LUNA means moon. A lunar landing is on the moon; a lunatic was once thought to be driven mad by the moon; and sublunar refers to things happening under the full moon!

4. GREG means group. To congregate is to group together; to segregate is to put a group apart; and gregarious means to stay in groups, as cattle do in a field.

5. CLAM means cry out. A clamor is a great outcry; an exclamation is a loud cry from someone; and to declaim is to make a speech noisily!

6. TANG means touch. A tangle is a mess in which everything is touching everything in a knot; a tangent is a line that touches a circle; and intangible job benefits are those you can not touch, such as being interested in your work!

7. Advanced Word: Gregarious
The adjective gregarious (greh-GAIR-ee-us) contains the stems greg (group) and ous (full of). Gregarious means sociable, and some species are more gregarious than others. Cattle are gregarious; we often see them in one corner of a field, or under one tree, together. Human beings are gregarious; we love to be together, and most of the time we don’t like to be alone. In speaking of the Fin-back whale in Moby Dick, Herman Melville wrote that “The Fin-back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters.”

8. Ancient Latin Stems, Lesson VII
stem meaning examples
amat (love) amorous, amateur, amity
luna (moon) lunar, lunatic, sublunar
greg (group) congregate, segregate, gregarious
clam (cry out) clamor, exclamation, declaim
tang (touch) tangle, tangent, intangible

9. Analogies GREGARIOUS : HERMIT :: tangent : circle cautious : amity
clamorous : crowd
sane : lunatic

10. Analogies GREGARIOUS : HERMIT :: tangent : circle cautious : amity
clamorous : crowd
sane : lunatic

11. Solve. CONGREGATE : GATHER :: segregate : exclude alternate : turn
contradict : support
silent : vociferate

12. Solve. CONGREGATE : GATHER :: segregate : exclude alternate : turn
contradict : support
silent : vociferate

13. Caesar’s Antonyms: Find the best opposite.
AMITY INTANGIBLE
equanimity a. tangled
hostility b. implied
conviviality c. tacit
bon vivant d. concrete

14. Caesar’s Antonyms: Find the best opposite.
AMITY INTANGIBLE
equanimity a. tangled
hostility b. implied
conviviality c. tacit
bon vivant d. concrete

15. Caesar’s Context: Find the best word to complete the sentence.
Marcus Aurelius was more interested in _______ benefits than riches.
lunar
clamorous
intangible
extravagant

16. Caesar’s Context: Find the best word to complete the sentence.
Marcus Aurelius was more interested in _______ benefits than riches.
lunar
clamorous
intangible
extravagant

17. Augustus looked down from his window at the ______ crowd clamoring below.
amorous
gregarious
benevolent
mollified

18. Augustus looked down from his window at the ______ crowd clamoring below.
amorous
gregarious
benevolent
mollified

19. The captured barbarians were ________ from the ordinary Roman citizens.
segregated
contradicted
congregated
declaimed

20. The captured barbarians were ________ from the ordinary Roman citizens.
segregated
contradicted
congregated
declaimed

21. Caesar’s Classic Words Challenge
From Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
The _________ animals had overcome the predaceous.
sublunar
gregarious
intangible
amorous

22. Caesar’s Classic Words Challenge
From Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
The _________ animals had overcome the predaceous.
sublunar
gregarious
intangible
amorous

23. A frenzied _________ of the kind would turn him into a worm.
2. From Stephan Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage.
A frenzied _________ of the kind would turn him into a worm.
declamation
exclamation
tangent
lunatic

24. A frenzied _________ of the kind would turn him into a worm.
2. From Stephan Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage.
A frenzied _________ of the kind would turn him into a worm.
declamation
exclamation
tangent
lunatic

25. 3. From Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
The ship had been a … ___________, physical symbol that linked them with the outside world.
sublunar
gregarious
tangible
amateur

26. 3. From Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
The ship had been a … ___________, physical symbol that linked them with the outside world.
sublunar
gregarious
tangible
amateur

27. The Grammar of Vocabulary: gregarious, an adjective.
The gregarious crowd laughed and clamored vociferously.
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