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T o vacillate is to swing mentally or emotionally. To sway back and forth physically is

oscillate—again note the double l—(OS′-Ə-layt′), from Latin oscillum, a swing. A pendulum
oscillates, the arm of a metronome oscillates, and people who’ve had much too much to
drink oscillate when they try to walk. The noun? __________________.

REVIEW OF ETYMOLOGY

PREFIX, ROOT, SUFFIX MEANING

1. simulo to copy

ENGLISH WORD _____________

2. similis like, similar

ENGLISH WORD _____________

3. dis- pejorative prefix

ENGLISH WORD _____________

4. ad- (al-) to, toward

ENGLISH WORD _____________

5. levis light

ENGLISH WORD _____________

6. -ate verb suffix

ENGLISH WORD _____________

7. -ion noun suffix

ENGLISH WORD _____________

8. e- (ex-) out

ENGLISH WORD _____________

9. intimus innermost

ENGLISH WORD _____________

10. miser wretched

ENGLISH WORD _____________

11. vacillo to swing back and forth

ENGLISH WORD _____________

12. ambi- both