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 Vocab #2 - Emerson
 verily
¦verəlē¦
adverb
archaic
truly; certainly
: I verily believed myself to be a free woman.
ORIGIN Middle English : from
very
+
-ly
2
, suggested by Old French
verrai(e)ment 
.
 
succor
¦səkər¦
( 
Brit.
succour
 )
nounassistance and support in times of hardship and distress.
•
( 
succors
 )
archaic
reinforcements of troops. verb [ trans. ]give assistance or aid to
: prisoners of war were liberated and succored.
DERIVATIVES
succorless
adjectiveORIGIN Middle English : via Old French from medieval Latin
succursus
, from Latin
succurrere ‘run to the help of,’ 
from
sub- ‘from below’ 
+
currere ‘run.’ 
 
iconoclast
¦īkänəklast¦
noun
1
a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions.
2
a destroyer of images used in religious worship, in particular
•
historical
a supporter of the 8th- and 9th-century movement in the Byzantine Churchthat sought to abolish the veneration of icons and other religious images.
•
historical
a Puritan of the 16th or 17th century.
DERIVATIVES
iconoclastic
¦īkänəklastik¦
adjective
iconoclastically
¦īkänəklastik(ə)lē¦
adverb
ORIGIN
mid 17th cent. (sense 2) : via medieval Latin from ecclesiastical Greek 
eikonoklast 
ē 
s
, from
eik
ō 
n ‘likeness’ 
+
klan ‘tobreak.’ 
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