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8. Use intra-, within, to form words with the following meanings (all adjectives):

(a) within one state: __________________

(b) within one nation: __________________

(c) within one’s own person or mind: __________________

(d) within the muscles: __________________

(Answers in Chapter 18)

WORDS INFLUENCE YOUR THINKING

By now, you have thoroughly explored hundreds upon hundreds of valuable words and
scores upon scores of important Greek and Latin roots.
As you went along you stopped at frequent intervals to say aloud, think about, work
with, and recall the words you were adding to your vocabulary.
By now, therefore, the words you have been learning are probably old friends of yours;
they have started to in uence your thinking, have perhaps begun to appear in your
conversation, and have certainly become conspicuous in your reading. In short, they have

been effective in making changes in your intellectual climate.
Let us pause now for another checkup of the success of your study. In the next chapter,
you will nd a second Comprehensive Test. Take the test cold if you feel that all the
material is at your ngertips; or spend a little time reviewing Chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12 if
you believe such review is necessary.

(End of Session 37)

1 Incidentally, a word used with a derogatory connotation (bitch, piggish, glutton, idiot, etc.) is called a pejorative (pe-JAWR′-Ə-
tiv). Pejorative is also an adjective, as in, “She spoke in pejorative terms about her ex-husband.” The derivation is Latin pejor,
worse.