--Combine and define artifice + ial; artifice + al + ity. Give
the opposite of "artificial."
7. AUDI'RE: au'dio, audi'tum, _to hear_.
Radicals: AUDI-, and AUDIT-.
1. AU'DIBLE: audi + ble = that may be heard.
2. AU'DIENCE: audi + ence = literally, the condition of hearing: hence, an
assemblage of hearers, an _auditory_.
3. AU'DIT: from _audit(um)_ = to hear a statement: hence, to examine
accounts.
4. AU'DITOR: audit + or = one who hears, a hearer.
OBS.--This word has a secondary meaning, namely: an officer who
examines accounts.
5. OBE'DIENT: through _obediens, obedient(is)_, the present participle of
_obedire_ (compounded of _ob_, towards, and _audire_): literally, giving
ear to: hence, complying with the wishes of another.
EXERCISE.
(1.) "Audible" means that can be heard: what prefix would you affix to it
to form a word denoting what can _not_ be heard?--What is the adverb from
the adjective "audible"?--Write a sentence containing this word.
(2.) What is meant when you read in history of a king's giving _audience_?
(3.) Write a sentence containing the word "audit." MODEL--"The committee
which had to _audit_ the accounts of Arnold discovered great frauds."--How
do you spell the past tense of "audit"?--Why is the _t_ not doubled?
(5.) What is the _noun_ corresponding to the adjective "obedient"?--What is
the _verb_ corresponding to these words?--Combine and define dis +
obedient.
8. CA'PUT, cap'itis, _the head_.
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