Category: English Editing

We can hardly close our book on the words suggested by ingenuous without looking at the other side of the…

Adjectives go with or ‘qualify’ or ‘modify’ nouns, and sometimes pronouns. They are often used to describe the thing that…

Credo, to believe, is the origin of four other useful English words. 1.Credo – personal belief, code of ethics; the…

The Greek syn-, like the Latin com-, means ‘together’. Like many initial combining forms and prefixes, it may change slightly…

Latin vita, life, is the origins of: 1.Vital – essential to life; of crucial importance – a vital matter; also…

People tend to think that un- is solely a negative prefix. It is, of course, often used as such. And…

Theos, God, is also found in: 1.Monotheism – belief in one God. (Monos, one, plus theos, God.) 2.Polytheism – belief…

The basic meaning of per- is ‘through’. If you perambulate the grounds of a stately home, you walk around or…