LandaBooks Word Quiz Answers: Jane M
- Jocular (from Latin joculus, little joke) means humorous. Jane’s jocular comments helped her friends slough off bad feelings from the slough of despond.
- Animosity (from Latin for mind, spirit, passion, wrath) is a feeling of strong dislike—he felt no animosity toward his political opponents.
- A nostrum (from Latin nostrum our, ours—because the seller often made the medicine, and referred to it as “ours”) is medicine of doubtful efficacy, as patent medicine or quack remedies.
- Eugenics (from Greek eu- good + genos birth) is the study, now discredited, of ways to improve living things (often in reference to humans) by selective breeding, control of mating.
- A magus (from Greek magos, word used for a member of the learned and priestly class) was a wise person (or one of the three magi, wise men).
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