Jane M - Answers1. Jocular (from Latin joculus, little joke) means humorous. Jane’s jocular comments helped her friends slough off bad feelings from the slough of despond.2. Animosity (from Latin for mind, spirit, passion, wrath) is a feeling of strong dislike—he felt no animosity toward his political opponents. 3. A nostrum (from Latin nostrum our, ours—because the seller often made the medicine, and referred to it as “ours”) is medicine of doubtful efficacy, as patent medicine or quack remedies. 4. Eugenics (from Greek eu- good + genos birth) is the study, now discredited, of ways to improve living things (often in reference to humans) by selective breeding, control of mating. 5. A magus (from Greek magos, word used for a member of the learned and priestly class) was a wise person (or one of the three magi, wise men). |
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