Set 4 HONORS Supplemental Vocabulary Words

More Words From Myth

Mnemonic – adj(pronounced like KNEE-mon-ic)

• Memory assistance• To spell environment correctly, use this

mnemonic trick – there’s IRON in environment.

• From Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory

Narcissism- noun

• egoism, egocentrism (self-centered)

• That girl has severe narcissism; she spends most of the day looking at herself in the mirror.

• from Narcissus, a beautiful youth in Greek mythology who pines away for love of his own reflection and is turned into the narcissus flower (daffodil)

•Amethyst – nouna clear purple or bluish violet variety of crystallized quartz I have a lovely amethyst ring that I wear with purple outfits.Amethyst was a beautiful nymph changed into a gemstone to save her from Dionysus, who then gave the stone its purple to preserve the wearer from the effects of wine

Somnambulate - verb

• To walk while sleeping

• My brother has been known to somnambulate, but he never remembers anything after sleepwalking.

• From Somnus, the ancient Roman god of sleep

Venerate - verb

• to honor with a ritual act of devotion • Every year, to venerate my mother, I plant 500

spring-flowering bulbs.

• From venus love; assoc. with Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty (the Greek Aphrodite)