Petrify (V): Turn to stone.If there are any fort minor fans over here (like me) they should have heard this word many times. (Whys everybody so petrified, petrified…jus drop that)
Synonyms: terrify, frighten, stupefy, transfix.
Synonyms: terrify, frighten, stupefy, transfix.
“Petra” means “rock” (Greek root) and “ficare” means “to make”. Thus to make into a rock means to petrify i.e. to turn something into rock. Other places where you can see this root (ficare) are certification, classification, purification, transmogrification etc. Anyways moving on, the aforementioned word can be easily remembered by connecting it to a commodity that we burn everyday. Ya it is Petrol, which is drawn out from under the rocks.
Sarcastic contextual Example: If you study the words by the roots approach the chances of getting petrified by seeing some non-Barron’s words will be much lesser.
Petroleum (N): It can be split as “petra” + “oleum” which means oil.
Regards,
V
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