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feat 14. de feat, un 15. feas ible, capable
of 16. fashion.
1. A fact is something done or brought to pass.
3. Quality of being easily done.
5. Manufacture formerly meant to make by hand.
6. An effect is something worked out, or done.
7. A thing is perfect when thoroughly made, or finished.

11. Sacrifice literally means to make sacred; to set apart as sacred.
12. Pacific means pertaining to peace; suited to make or restore peace.
13. A feat is an act, a deed, an exploit; something done.
14. To defeat means to overcome or vanquish. Literally to un do.
16. The fashion of a thing is, in a sense, the make of it.
NOTE.--fy, meaning to make, is found as a suffix in derivatives too
numerous to mention; as, purify (to make pure), rarefy (to make rare),
classify (to make or put into a class), etc.
#fer, ferr# = carry, bear, bring.
1. circum fer ence, around 2. con fer, together 3. dif fer, apart 4. fert ile,
capable of 5. of fer, (ob) near. 6. pro (f)fer, forth 7. re fer, back 8. re fer
ee, one who 9. suf fer, (sub) under 10. trans fer, across
1. See first month, page 10.
2. When two or more persons confer they bring together opinions and
facts on some special subject.
3. See second month, page 13.
5. To bring near to; to present for acceptance; as, to offer one's
services.
6. To bring or put forward; to hold forth so that a person may take; as,
to proffer a gift.
7. To direct for information. Literally, to carry back; as, "Mahomet
referred his new laws to the angel Gabriel, by whose direction he gave
out they were made."
9. To suffer is to bear under; to undergo.

NOTE.--Ferr is an irregular Latin verb the principal parts of which are:
fero, ferre, tuli, latus. The last form is found in a number of English
words; as, dilate, elate, legislate, relate, superlative, translate. The
meaning of the root in these words, as in the ten given above, is bear,
carry, or bring.
#fest# = feast.
1. fest al. Pertaining to a feast, a holiday or celebration.
2. fest ive. Pertaining to or becoming a feast; festal, joyous, gay.
3. festival. A time of feasting or celebration.
4. festivity. Joyousness, gayety, such as becomes a feast.
5. festoon. Originally an ornament for decoration at a feast.
6. fête. Modern French, equivalent of feast.
FOURTH MONTH.
#uni# = one.
1. unit, one 2. un ity, ness 3. un ion, state of being 4. unite 5. dis unite,
not 6. re unite, again 7. un anim ous, mind 8. unanim ity, state of being
9. uni corn, horn 10. uni form, form 11. uni son, sound 12. uni verse,
turn 13. unique 14. onion
9. The unicorn is a fabulous one-horned animal.
12. The universe consists of all things considered as one whole.
13. A thing is unique when it is the only one of its kind.
14. Onion comes from the Latin unio, which means oneness; also a
single pearl of large size resembling the onion.
#anti# = against, opposed to.

1. anti climax, ladder 2. anti christ, Christ 3. anti dote, give 4. anti path
y, feel 5. anti pod es, foot 6. anti thesis, place 7. anti slave ry, slave 8.
anti soci al, companion
1. An anti climax is opposed to or in contrast with a climax. In rhetoric
it is a figure or fault of style consisting of an abrupt descent (down the
ladder) from stronger to weaker expressions.
3. An antidote is something given to counteract (act against) poison or
disease.
5. Those who live at opposite points on the globe so that their feet are
directly toward each other are antipodes. Figuratively, things opposed
to each other.
6. In rhetoric an antithesis is a figure of speech which consists of one
idea placed against another; a contrast.
8. A person is antisocial when he is averse or opposed to society, social
intercourse or companionship.
#dia# = across, through, between.
1. diagon al, angle 2. dia gram, writing 3. dia lect, speech 4. dia log,
speech 5. dia meter, measure 6. dia pason, all 7. dia phragm, fence
1. A diagonal is a line across from angle to angle.
2. A diagram is that which is marked out by lines drawn or written
across; as, a figure, a plan.
3. Dialect is speech or language by means of which ideas are
communicated (across) from one to another.
6. The
diapason is one of certain stops in the organ, so called because it
extends through all notes of the scale.
7. The diaphragm is a membranous partition or fence between the
thorax and abdomen.

#en# = on.
1. en