Words from Latin for 1/12/07 Quiz
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- congratulate
- express one's pleasure to another person at that person's success
- gracious
- pleasant; courteous; kindly
- grateful
- feeling or expressing gratitude; thankful; obliged
- gratify
- give or be a source of pleasure or satisfaction
- gratis
- without charge or payment; free
- gratitude
- thankfulness
- gratuitous
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1. given freely
2. unwarranted, as a gratuitous remark - gratuity
- present of money in return for a favor or service; tip
- ingrate
- ungrateful person
- ingratiate
- establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of another
- immortal
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1. not subject to death
2. not subject to oblivion - immortality
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1. eternal life
2. lasting fame - moribund
- dying; near death
- mortal
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1. destined to die
2. human
3. causing death; fatal - mortality
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1. death rate
2. mortal nature - mortician
- undertaker
- mortification
- shame; humiliation; embarrassment
- mortify
- embarrass; shame; humiliate
- mortuary
- funeral home
- rigor mortis
- stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death
- corporal
- bodily (corporal punishment)
- corporation
- body authorized by law to act as a single person and to have rights and duties
- corps
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1. organized body of persons
2. branch of the military - corpse
- dead body
- corpulent
- bulky; obese; very fat
- corpus
- general collection or body of writings, laws, etc.
- corpuscle
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1. blood cell
2. minute particle - corpus delicti
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1. facts proving that a crime has been committed
2. body of the victim in a murder case - esprit de corps
- spirit of a body of persons; group spirit
- habeas corpus
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1. writ requiring a detained person to be brought before a court to investigate the legality of that person's detention
2. right of a citizen to secure court protection against illegal imprisonment - incorporate
- combine so as to form one body
- aqueduct
- artificial channel for conducting water over a distance
- conducive
- tending to lead to; contributive; helpful
- conduct
- lead; guide; escort
- deduction
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1. taking away; subtraction
2. reasoning from the general to the particular - duct
- tube or channel for conducting a liquid, air, etc.
- ductile
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1. able to be drawn out or hammered thin
2. easily led; docile - induce
- lead on; move by persuasion
- induct
- admit as a member; initiate
- induction
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1. ceremony by which one is made a member; initiation
2. reasoning from the particular to the general - seduction
- enticement; leading astray into wrongdoing
- traduce
- malign; slander; vilify; calumniate
- viaduct
- brudge for conducting a road or railroad over a valley, river, etc.