Vocabulary from Classical Roots
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- CAPITALIST
- A person who has invested personal wealth in a business.
- CAPITULATION
- Surrender; ending resistance.
- DECAPITATE
- To cut off the head of; to behead
- PRECIPICE
- A very steep or vertical face of a cliff or rock.
- PRECIPITATE
- 1) To throw down from a great height. 2) To make happen suddenly or quickly.
- RECAPITULATION
- The restatement of a main idea.
- CEREBRAL
- Pertaining to the brain.
- CEREBRATION
- The action of thinking; thought.
- DEFACE
- To mar or soil the appearance or surface of something.
- EFFACE
- 1) To wipe out, make less clear. 2) To make oneself inconspicuous.
- FACADE
- 1) A face of a building 2) The face or front of anything, especially an artificial or false front.
- FACET
- 1) One of the many sides of a cut stone or jewel. 2) One aspect of a situation or of a tooth.
- AFFRONT
- To insult intentionally; to offend or embarrass.
- CONFRONT
- To stand or come directly in front of.
- SUPERCILIOUS
- Disdainful; haughty and aloof.
- INEXORABLE
- Relentless; unyielding.
- ORACLE
- 1) A shrine where the ancinet Greeks consulted one of their gods for advice or prophecy. 2) A prophecy made at such a shrine 3) A person who transmits prophecy from a deity.
- ORATION
- An address or formal speech given on a special occasion.
- ORIFICE
- A mouth or vent; an opening.
- OSCULATE
- To kiss. (Playfully)
- INDENTATION
- A cut or notch
- INDENTURE
- 1) A written contract between two parties. 2) An agreement binding an apprentic to work for a master.
- TRIDENT
- A long three-pronged fork.
- ORTHODONTIST
- A specialist who corrects irregularly positioned teeth.
- GORGE
- 1) A deep, narrow passage with rocky sides, enclosed between mountains. 2) Gluttonous eating. 3) A feeling of nausea.
- DISGORGE
- To vomit or discharge violently.
- GARGANTUAN
- Of immense size; gigantic.
- GARGOYLE
- A grotesque carved human or animal figure.
- REGURGIATATE
- To vomit.
- CARNAGE
- The killing of many people.
- CARRION
- Dead and decaying flesh.
- INCARNATE
- Embodied in human form.
- ACCOLADE
- 1) Any honor, award, or expression of approval. 2) A dub with the flatside of a sword.
- DECOLLETAGE
- A low neckline on a garmet.
- CORPORAL
- Relating to or having an effect on the human body.
- CORPOREAL
- Characteristic of or resembling the physical body.
- CORPS
- 1)A military organization of officers and/or enlistees. 2)An army unit. 3)A group of people having purpose in common.
- CORPULENT
- Excessively bulky; fat.
- CORPUS
- A body or collection of writings.
- ACCORD
- Harmony; agreement.
- CORDIAL
- Hearty; warm; sincere.
- CONDORDANCE
- A state of agreement; harmony.
- OSSIFY
- 1)To turn into bone. 2)To turn rigid.
- DERMATOLOGY
- The scientific study of the skin.
- EPIDERMIS
- The outer protective layer of the skin.
- DORSAL
- Pertaining to the back.
- DOSSIER
- A set of documents containing information about a person or event.
- ENDORSE
- To sign or acknowledge.
- GASTRIC
- Pertaining to the stomach.
- GASTRONOME
- A person who is knowledgeable about good food and drink.
- ENERVATE
- To deprive of strength; to weaken.
- SANGUINE
- Cheerful; hopeful.
- CONSANGUINITY
- Blood relationship.
- ASSIDUOUS
- Unceasingly attentive; devoted.
- DISSIDENT
- Differing; diagreeing; dissenting.
- SEANCE
- A meeting at which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the dead.
- SEDENTARY
- Characterized by much sitting.
- SUPERSEDE
- To take the place of; to replace.
- EMANCIPATE
- To free from restraint or influence.
- MANACLE
- Handcuffs or anything that constrains.
- MANDATE
- A formal order given from a higher court.
- MANIFEST
- 1)Clearly apparent to sight or understanding; obvious. 2)To prove or reveal.
- MANIPULATE
- To use or handle skillfully.
- DEXTIRITY
- Skill in the use of the hands or body.
- AMBIDEXTROUS
- Able to use either hand equally well.
- DIGITAL
- 1)Relating to a finger or to a unit of measure. 2)Referring to a numerical system for encoding data.
- DEFLECT
- To turn aside.
- GENUFLECT
- To bend the knee in a kneeling or half-kneeling position to express respect.
- INFLECTION
- An alteration of pitch or tone of the voice.
- REFLECTION
- The act or condition of being thrown back
- RAPACIOUS
- Excessively grasping or greedy.
- RAPT
- Giving one's complete attention.
- SURREPTITIOUS
- Done secretly, without approval.
- COMPLICITY
- Participation with another in an act that is or seems to deceitful.
- DUPLICITY
- Decietfulness in speech or conduct.
- EXPLICATE
- To make clear.
- EXPLICIT
- Definite.
- EXPLOIT
- 1)A notable or heroic deed. 2)To make use of selfishly or unethically. 3)To publicize.
- IMPLY
- 1)To indicate indirectly; to hint. 2)To require as a necessary condition.
- PLOY
- A strategy to gain an advantage over an opponent.
- PLY
- 1)To use a tool or weapon vigorously. 2)The thickness of cloth, yarn, or rope. 3)Wood layered with crosslike grain.
- SUPPLICATE
- To ask humbly or earnestly for.
- APPREHEND
- To arrest.
- COMPRISE
- To consist of; to contain.
- ENTREPRENEUR
- A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for business ventures.
- IMPREGNABLE
- Strong enough to resist attack of capture, as a fortress.
- REPREHEND
- To reprimand, reprove, or express disapproval.
- REPRISAL
- An action or act of retaliation against someone for injuries recieved.
- EXPEDIENT
- 1)Appropriate to a purpose or useful in achieving a goal. 2)A means to an end.
- EXPEDITE
- To help or hurry the progress of something.
- IMPEDE
- To hinder; to block the way of.
- PEDIGREE
- A line or list of ancestors.
- PEDOMETER
- A device that calculates distance traveled by counting the number of steps taken.
- ANITPODES
- Something that is the exact opposite of or contrary to something else.
- PODIATRY
- The study and treatment of foot ailments.
- PODIUM
- An elevated platform for a lecturer or orchestra conductor.
- AGGRESSION
- 1)The act or habit of launching attacks; invasion. 2)Hostile action or behavior.
- DEGRATION
- 1)Reduction in rank or status. 2)Lowering of moral or intellectual character.
- DIGRESS
- To stray from the main topic in writing or speaking; to turn aside.
- GRADUATION
- A systematic progression through a series of stages.
- GRADIENT
- An incline or slope; the rate of incline.
- REGRESS
- To go back; to return to a former or less developed condition.
- AMBULATORY
- 1)Able to walk about. 2)Pertaining to walking.
- PREAMBLE
- A preliminary statement in speech or writing; an inroductory part.
- RECALCITRANT
- Stubbornly resistant to authority or guidance.
- CONSTITUENT
- 1)Serving as a necessary part of a whole. 2)A voter of a district represented by an elected official.
- DESIST
- To cease doing something; to forbear; to abstain.
- DESTITUTE
- 1)Altogether lacking. 2)Poverty stricken.
- INTERSTICE
- Intervening space; a chink; a crevice.
- OBSTINATE
- 1)Very stubborn; inflexible. 2)Difficult to control or subdue.
- OUST
- To force out of a position or place.
- RESTITIUTION
- 1)Restoration of a thing to its proper owner or its original state. 2)Repayment or repair for injury or damage.
- RESTIVE
- Uneasy, restless.
- STANCE
- 1)The position of the body and feet while standing. 2)An emotional or mental attitude.
- STATIC
- 1)At rest; unmoving. 2)Pertaining to electric charges.
- SUBSIST
- To exsist; to be