: something written or made with one’s own hand: a : an original manuscript or work of art. b : a person’s handwritten signature.

These ROOT-WORDS are SIGN & SIGNI which come from the Latin signum which means SIGN, MARK & SEAL. It leads to one of the most important, most personal matters which concerns the human being – his SIGNature.

auto- 1. a combining form meaning “self,” “same,” “spontaneous,” used in the formation of compound words: autograph, autodidact.

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far Add to list Share. Use the adverb far to mean “distant,” “remote,” or “at a geat distance away.” When you see a ship far out at sea, it’s so remote from where you are that you might soon need binoculars to catch a glimpse of it.

The. Latin root -puls- comes from the Latin word pulsus, which means “push” or “drive.” This basic meaning can be found in a number of English words, like impulse meaning “a strong urge or drive to act” or repulse meaning “to push back.”

-strict- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning “draw tight; bind; tighten. ” This meaning is found in such words as: constrict, district, redistrict, restrict, strict, stricture.

1 Answer. Consider “insatiable” (if he can’t find satisfaction), “unappeasable” (if you can’t ever make him happy), or just good, old-fashioned “greedy” (or, if he’s a child, the juvenile equivalent: a “spoiled brat”).

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