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nce (Fr. n. _province_ = Lat. _provin'cia_, literally, a conquered country). 218. VOCA'RE: vo'co, voca'tum, _to call_; Vox, vo'cis, _the voice_. VOCAT: voca'tion, literally, _calling, occupation_; voc'ative, _the case of a noun in which the subject is called, or addressed_; ad'vocate _to plead for_; convoca'tion, _an assembly, a meeting_; equivocate (Lat. adj. _e'quus_, equal), _to use words of doubtful meaning_; equivoca'tion; evoca'tion, _act of calling forth_; invoca'tion; provoca'tion; provo'cative; revoca'tion. VOC: vo'cable (Lat. n. _vocab'ulum_, that which is sounded with the voice), _a word_; vocab'ulary; vo'cal (-ist, -ize); vociferate, _to cry with a loud voice_; ad'vocacy, _a pleading for, a defense_; irrev'ocable. Voice (Fr. n. _voix_ = Lat. _vox), sound uttered by the mouth_; vouch, _to call out, or affirm strongly_; vow'el (Fr. n. _vouelle_, a voice-sound); advow'son, _right of perpetual calling to a benefice_; convoke', _to call together_; evoke'; invoke'; revoke'. 219. VOL'VERE: vol'vo, volu'tum, _to roll_. VOLV: circumvolve'; convolve', _to roll together_; devolve'; evolve'; involve'; revolve' (-ion, -ionist). VOLUT: circumvolu'tion; evolu'tion; revolution (-ary, -ist, -ize). Vol'ume (Lat. n. _volu'men_, a roll, or inscribed parchment sheet rolled up), _a single book_; volute', _a kind of rolled or spiral scroll_; vol'uble, literally, _rolling easily_: hence, _having great fluency of speech_; convol'vulus, _a genus of twining plants_; revolt'. 220. VUL'GUS, _the common people_. VULG: vul'gar; vul'garism; vulgar'ity; vul'gate, _a Latin version of the Scriptures_. Divulge', _to make known something before kept secret_; divulge'ment; promulgate (-ion). PART III.--THE GREEK ELEMENT. I.--GREEK PREFIXES. PREFIX SIGNIFICATION. EXAMPLE. DEFINITION a- = _without_; a-pathy state of being _without_ an- _not_ an-omalous feeling. _not_ similar. amphi- = _around_; amphi-theater place for seeing all _both_ amphi-bious _around_. living in _both_ land and water. ana- = _back_, ana-logy reasoning _back_. _throughout_ ana-lysis loosening _thro
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