World Literature Vocabulary
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- Spec/Spect
- "to look at"
- Vid/Vis
- L. "to see to look"
- Phot/Phos
- G. "light"
- Nunc/Nounc
- L. "to announce"
- Luc
- L. "light"
- Voc/Vok
- L. "to call"
- Phototropic
- tending to grow or move towards light
- Phosporescent
- giving off light without heat
- Photogenic
- Attractive in pictures or photographs
- Lucid
- easy to understand; clear
- Elucidate
- to make clear by explaining
- Translucent
- allowing light to pass through
- L. trans
- "through"
- Circumspect
- careful mindful of rules and consequences
- Prospect
- that which is expected
- Specter
- ghost or phantom
- L. circum
- "around"
- Invidious
- hateful or spiteful
- Providential
- happening by good fortune
- Improvise
- to create without any forethought or preparation
- L. in
- "against, not, in, into, on"
- Enunciate
- to pronounce or articulate
- Renounce
- to reject by declaration
- Pronouncement
- a declaration of opinion
- L. e
- "out of, from"
- L. re
- "back, again"
- L. pro
- "forth, in front of, forward"
- Invoke
- to call upon for support
- Provocative
- causing disturbance or excitement
- Revoke
- to make invalid; deactivate
- Fa
- L. "to speak"
- Ineffable
- unutterable, indescribable
- Infantile
- childish; immature
- Affable
- easy to converse with; friendly
- L. ad
- "towards"
- Dic/Dict
- L. "to say, to tell"
- Edict
- an official order
- Indict
- to charge with a crime; accuse
- Dictum
- a formal or athoritative statement
- Hib/Hab
- L. "to have, hold"
- Prohibit
- to stop one from doing something; prevent
- Inhibit
- to get in the way of; hinder
- Fus/Found
- L. "to pour out"
- Suffuse
- to fill up from within; to spread throughout
- L. sub
- "beneath"
- Confound
- to confuse and frustrate
- L. con
- "together"
- Infuse
- to inject; to fill something or someone with
- Ten/Tain/Tin
- L. "to hold"
- Sustain
- to support for an extended period of time
- Abstain
- to not do something; refrain
- L. ab
- "away from"
- Tenacious
- stubbornly persistent; determined
- Retinue
- a group that attends an important person
- Ple
- L. "to fill"
- Replete
- filled up with
- Implement
- to put into action
- Deplete
- to use up; waste
- L. de
- "down"
- L. tenax
- "holding fast, stubborn"