Orthography | Page 5

light) a shade.
8. To interrogate is to question. (The questions come between the
answers.)
9. One line intersects another when it cuts through it, or between its
parts.
10. An interval is an open space or stretch between things or limits.
Formerly it meant a space between walls.
11. To come between persons, things, or events.
12. A mutual exchange of views between two or more people.
#non# = not, un.
The prefix non- may be joined to the leading word by means of a
hyphen, or, in most cases, the hyphen may be dispensed with.
1. noncommittal 2. non compos mentis 3. nonconductor 4. nondescript
5. nonentity 6. nonessential 7. nonpareil 8. non-payment 9. nonplus 10.
non-resident 11. nonsense 12. nonsuit
2. Com, with + pos, power + mentis, of mind. Literally, not with power
of mind. Not of sound mind; not capable, mentally, of managing one's
own affairs.
4. That which has not been described; difficult to describe; new, novel,
odd.
5. Entity means thing or being; hence a nonentity is no thing or nothing.
Often applied to a person or thing which counts for little or nothing.
9. Plus means more. Literally, a person is nonplused when he can do no
more, or go no further; puzzled, confounded, embarrassed.
(It seems unnecessary to append definitions or illustrations to other

words of the above list.)
#per# = through, thoroughly, by.
1. per ambul ate, walk 2. per ceive, take 3. per cent, hundred 4. per col
ate, filter 5. per enni al, year 6. per fect, make 7. per for ate, bore 8. per
form, form 9. per fume, smoke 10. per mit, let go 11. per plex, entangle
12. per secute, follow 13. per sist, stand 14. per vade, go 15. per vert,
turn 16. per vi ous, way
1. To walk through or over. He got out of bed and perambulated the
room for some minutes.
2. To take or obtain knowledge through the senses. To take with a
thorough mental grasp; to understand.
3. By the hundred.
4. To pass through; as, a filter or strainer.
5. Lasting through the year, or through many years.
6. Thoroughly made; finished in every part; without blemish or defect.
7. To bore through; to make holes in; to pierce.
8. To form thoroughly; to execute, accomplish, or carry out.
9. "To perfume means literally to smoke thoroughly. Hence to
impregnate or fill with scent or odor."--Kennedy.
10. By this permit we may go through the factory.
11. To entangle thoroughly. "Love with doubts perplexes still the
mind."
12. To follow with persistence or thoroughness. To follow close after;
specifically to afflict or harass on account of adherence to a particular
creed. The early Christians suffered persecution.

13. To take a thorough stand; to continue steadily in some state or
course of action; especially in spite of opposition.
14. To go through; to spread throughout the whole.
15. To turn in another direction; to turn thoroughly from a former
course. "Blessings unused pervert into a waste."
16. Having a way through. "---- to have their way free and pervious to
all places."
#clud, clus# = shut.
1. close 2. clos et, little 3. con clude, together 4. dis close, un 5. en
close, in 6. ex elude, out 7. exclus ion, act of 8. in clude, within 9. pre
clude, before 10. re cluse, back 11. se clude, aside 12. se clus ion, state
of being
1. To shut.
2. A small side room in which, clothing and other articles are kept shut
away from view.
3. To bring to an end. Literally to shut in or together (obsolete); as,
"The body of Christ was concluded in the grave."
4. To un-shut; to open or uncover; to make known.
9. To put an obstacle before, or in the way of, in order to shut out; to
prevent or hinder.
10. One who is shut up (or has shut himself back) from the world or
public view.
11. To shut off or keep apart or aside, as from company or society.
#cor, cord# = heart.
1. core 2. cordial, relating to 3. con cord, with 4. cord ate, shaped 5. dis

cord, apart 6. discord ant, being 7. re cord, again 8. cour age, having
1. The heart or innermost part of a thing; as the core of an apple.
2. Relating to the heart; hearty, sincere.
3. Heart with heart; hence unity of sentiment or harmony. "Love
quarrels oft in concord end."
4. Heart shaped; as a cordate leaf.
5. Heart apart from heart; hence disagreement or want of harmony.
6. State of being out of harmony.
7. Record; through the Latin recordari, to remember (or know again).
To get by heart; hence to register; to write or inscribe an authentic