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Sit Back and Settle Down: sed, sid, sess (EG)

This vocabulary list features words with the Latin roots sed, sid, and sess, meaning "to sit or settle."
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  1. assess
    set or determine the amount of, as a payment
    Along with the monetary penalty, the bank must also stop charging surprise overdraft fees and refund certain auto loan borrowers fees improperly assessed on their debts.The Washington Post
  2. assessor
    an official who evaluates property in order to tax it
    When you want to determine the value of an acre of land, you call an assessor.The New York Times
  3. dissident
    a person who objects to some established policy
    But Kennedy would go on to become a self-described “dissident at large,” writing numberless articles and several books that railed against bigotry. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
  4. possession
    anything owned
    We sometimes copied each other, but one time I thought she had gone too far, when my favorite possession—my only toy, a pink plastic cell phone my father had given me—went missing. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
  5. preside
    act as executive officer
    At that time, the two judges presiding over the talks told Mr. de Klerk and me to meet that evening to attempt to find a compromise. Long Walk to Freedom
  6. president
    the person in charge of an organization, club, etc.
    As president of the committee, Clarkson presided over its daily meeting and helped organize its operation. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
  7. resident
    someone who lives at a particular place for a long period
    She started interviewing black residents who had been mistreated on the city buses and writing down their stories. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
  8. residence
    any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
    I had several private meetings with him at his residence, and later that year the government made its first concrete proposal. Long Walk to Freedom
  9. sedative
    a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person
    “Its sweetness comes from the seeds at the heart of the chinchontle plant. It is a sedative more potent than any sleeping pill you can buy at a farmacia.” Summer of the Mariposas
  10. sedentary
    requiring sitting or little activity
    With the rise of dense, sedentary, food-producing populations came the rise of chiefs, kings, and bureaucrats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  11. sediment
    matter that has been deposited by some natural process
    The water, opaque with glacial sediment and only a few degrees warmer than the ice it had so recently been, was the color of wet concrete. Into the Wild
  12. sedimentary
    formed by or containing the accumulation of deposited matter
    Time is written into the sedimentary layers of the cliffs he photographed, or computed in the rings of the inconceivably ancient and enormous Californian sequoias.The Guardian
  13. session
    a meeting devoted to a particular activity
    These interactive recording/writing/animation sessions allow us to record an artist for an entire show in less than half a day, including unlimited takes and rewrites. The World Is Flat
  14. subside
    wear off or die down
    As she listened to their sleep sounds, Jinjoo let her worries subside and let the cadence of their breathing lull her to sleep. Finding Junie Kim
Created on Tue Feb 04 15:52:41 EST 2025 (updated Wed Feb 05 22:58:46 EST 2025)

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