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All School Vocabulary Week #1 September 7-10

Word Parts: sed, side, sess - to sit, to settle

1. sedate - to settle down; calm, serene; quiet; to cause to settle; to make calm

2. sedative - that which calms one down; has a settling effect; a pain killer

3. sediment - what settles to the bottom; substance in liquid which settles

4. sedimentary - settling to the bottom; rock formed by settling

Idiom of the week: bats in the belfry - to have bats in one's belfry is to be crazy in the head.  The belfry at the top of a church is being compared to the human head.  The belfry is the part in a church tower where the bells are rung.  Bats are known to inhabit these places where they fly around crazily.

Suffix of the week: -able "capable of; worthy of" honorable, perishable, predictable