Chapter 5 Latin Roots
Terms
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- omnivorous
- eating everything, avidly taking in everything
- remand
- to send back
- verse
- line of poetry
- omni
- all, every, everywhere
- fracture
- crack; breaking of a bone
- torture
- wrench; inflict severe pain upon
- evince
- show clearly
- moribund
- dying, near death
- commitment
- consignment to prison or a mental institution; pledge
- reflex
- involuntary response
- circumlocution
- roundabout way of speaking
- flex
- to bend
- ingrate
- an ungrateful person
- germicide
- substance that kills germs
- remit
- to send money due; to forgive
- curriculum
- course of study in a school
- grandiloquent
- using lofty or pompous words; bombastic
- transgress
- to step beyond the limits or barriers; to break a law
- reprehensible
- deserving of censure, culpable
- perverse
- turned away from what is right or good; corrupt
- tenacity
- persistence
- mor (mort)
- death
- dejected
- downcast, discouraged
- locut (loqu)
- speak, talk
- contingent
- dependent on something else, accidental
- apprehensive
- quick to understand or grasp; fearful of what may come, anxious
- subject
- force someone to undergo something unpleasant or inconvenient
- herbivorous
- dependent on plants as food
- mortician
- undertaker
- gress (grad)
- step, walk, go
- consecutive
- following in regular order, successive
- inflection
- change in the pitch or tone of one's voice
- deflect
- to turn aside
- tactile
- pertaining to the sense of touch; tangible
- comprehensible
- able to be grasped mentally; understandable
- emit
- send out; give off
- fungicide
- substance that kills fungi
- congratulate
- express one's pleasure to another person at that person's success
- insectivorous
- dependent on insects as food
- countermand
- to issue a contrary order
- tactful
- having or showing tact
- precursor
- forerunner, predecessor
- colloquy
- a talking together, conversation, conference
- sequel
- something that follows; outcome
- obloquy
- a speaking against, censure; public reproach
- retort
- reply quickly or sharply; quick or witty reply
- remission
- period of lessening or disappearance of the symptoms of a disease
- vivify
- enliven, make vivid
- stricture
- adverse criticism
- tangent
- touching
- aversion
- strong dislike
- voracious
- greedy in eating; insatiable
- confident
- having faith in oneself
- execute
- to carry out; to put to death
- cred (credit)
- believe
- duct
- tube or channel for conducting a liquid, air, etc.
- aggressive
- disposed to attack, assertive
- premonitory
- conveying a forewarning
- ductile
- able to be drawn out or hammered thin; easily led, docile
- torsion
- act of twisting; twisting of a body by two opposite forces
- expedite
- facilitate; accelerate or speed up
- convivial
- jovial, hospitable
- herbivore
- plant-eating animal
- vanquish
- overcome in battle
- gratitude
- thankfulness
- somniferous
- inducing sleep
- perfidy
- violation of a trust, disloyalty
- convict
- prove guilty
- credentials
- documents that inspire belief or trust
- gradient
- rate at which a road, temperature, volatage, etc. rises; slope
- omniscient
- knowing everything
- boa constrictor
- snake that crushes its prey in its coils
- graduate
- to complete all the steps of a course and recieve a diploma or degree
- loquacious
- talkative, garrulous
- fragment
- part broken off
- inadvertently
- without turning one's mind to the matter at hand, carelessly, unintentionally
- corporation
- body authorized by law to carry on an activity with the rights of a single person
- reflect
- throw back light; think
- vert (vers)
- turn
- rigor mortis
- stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death
- contact
- touching or meeting
- pertinacious
- adhering firmly to an opinion, very persistent
- string (strict)
- bind, draw tight
- torture
- anguish of body or mind
- gratuity
- present of money in return for a favor or service, a tip
- current
- runing or flowing; now in progress
- conviction
- state of having been judged guilty of an offense; strong belief
- infidel
- unbeliever
- intermittent
- coming and going at intervals
- apprehend
- to seize or take into custody; to understand
- mortal
- destined to die; human; fatal
- interject
- throw in between, insert, interpose
- flexible
- pliable
- credence
- belief as to the truth of something
- disrupt
- break apart
- tangent
- line or surface meeting a curved line or surface at one point but not intersecting it
- corpus delicti
- facts proving that a crime has been committed; body of the victim in a murder case
- fratricide
- act of killing one's brother
- immortality
- eternal life; lasting fame
- graduated
- arranged in regular steps, stages, or degrees
- conducive
- tending to lead to, contributive
- egress
- exit, means of going out
- centipede
- wormlike animal with 100 legs
- fiduciary
- held in trust; confidential
- omnibus
- covering many things at once; bus; book containing a variety of works by one author
- incorporate
- combine so as to form one body
- infanticide
- the act of killing an infant
- vivacious
- lively in temper or conduct
- confidant
- one to whom secrets are entrusted
- demise
- death
- impede
- hinder, obstruct
- monitor
- person or device that keeps track of or warns; to keep track of, regulate, or control the operation of a machine or process
- regicide
- act of killing a king
- discursive
- wandering from one topic to another, rambling, digressive
- tort (tors)
- twist
- impertinent
- inappropriate; rude
- gratis
- free
- tenure
- period for which an office or position is held, status assuring an employee a permanent position
- inflexibility
- rigidity
- incontrovertible
- not able to be dispute, not open to question
- carnivore
- flesh-eating animal
- abject
- sunc or cast down to a low condition
- incorruptible
- inflesibly honest
- rupt
- break, burst
- remiss
- negligent
- discredit
- cast doubt on; disgrace; loss of belief or trust
- mortality
- death rate; mortal nature
- pedestal
- support or foot of a column or statue; foundation
- corps
- organized body of persons; branch of the military
- frugivorous
- feeding on fruit
- corpus
- general collection of writings, laws, etc.
- divert
- turn aside; amuse, entertain
- tenet
- principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true
- ject
- throw, cast
- corpulent
- obese, very fat
- introvert
- turn inward
- fragile
- easily broken
- admonitory
- conveying a gentle warning
- genuflect
- to bend the knee
- eject
- throw out or expel
- fraction
- one or more of the equal parts of a whole
- constrict
- draw together; shrink
- induct
- admit as a member
- traduce
- slander
- affidavit
- sworn written statement made before an authorized official
- omnivore
- person or animal that eats everything
- bacteriaicide
- substance that kills bacteria
- aqueduct
- artificial channel for conducting water over a distance
- reject
- refuse to take, discard
- regressive
- disposed to move backward
- fidelity
- faithfulness to a trust or vow; accuracy
- interlocutor
- questioner; one who participates in a conversation
- reprehend
- to find fault with, to reprimand
- unrestricted
- not confined, free
- flect (flex)
- bend
- obverse
- side turned toward the observer
- ped
- foot
- contiguous
- in physical contact
- duc (duct)
- lead, conduct, draw
- incursion
- a rushing into; a hostile invasion, raid
- concurrent
- occuring at the same time
- convict
- person serving a prison sentence
- accredited
- officially authorized or recognized
- astringent
- drawing the tissues tightly together; stern; a substance that shrinks tissues and checks flow of blood by drawing blood vessels together
- vertigo
- dizziness
- tortuous
- full of twists or curves, winding; tricky, crooked
- bona fide
- genuine
- inconsequential
- of no consequence, unimportant
- projectile
- object designed to be shot forward; anything thrown forward
- cursory
- running over hastily; superficially done
- victor
- winner
- stringent
- strict
- retrograde
- going backward; becoming worse
- impediment
- hindrance, obstacle; defect
- pestiferous
- infected with disease, pestilential; evil
- avert
- turn away; prevent, avoid
- tact
- sensitive mental perception of what is appropriate on a given occasion
- corrupt
- vicious; change from good to bad
- corpse
- dead body
- extort
- wrest from a person by force
- immortal
- not subject to death, imperishable
- corp
- body
- eloquent
- speaking with force and fluency; movingly expressive
- admonish
- warn of a fault, reprove
- emissary
- person sent out on a mission
- recur
- happen again
- mortification
- shame, humiliation
- carnivorous
- flesh-eating
- gratuitous
- given freely; unwarranted
- extrovert
- one more interested in matters outside the self than in one's own thoughts and feelings
- homocide
- the killing of one human by another
- proliferous
- producing new growth rapidly and extensively
- erupt
- burst or break out
- omnipresent
- ubiquitous
- monument
- a means of reminding us of a person or event
- evict
- expel by legal process; oust
- insecticide
- substance that kills insects
- mortify
- to embarrass, to shame
- mon (monit)
- warn
- herbicide
- substance that kills plants
- mandate
- authoritative command; territory administered by a trustee
- grade
- step, stage, degree, rating
- viv
- live, alive
- deduction
- subtraction or removal, reasoning from the general to the particular
- vivisection
- operation on a living animal for scientific investigation
- flexor
- muscle that serves to bend a limb
- sororicide
- act of killing one's sister
- velocipede
- child's tricycle; early form of bicycle
- excursion
- going out or forth, expedition
- credible
- believable
- refractory
- resisting, hard to manage
- cur (curr, curs)
- run
- genocide
- deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
- habeas corpus
- order requiring a detained person to be brought before a court to investigate the legalityof that person's detention; right of a citizen to secure court protection against illegal imprisonment
- conduct
- to lead, to guide
- gratify
- give or be a source of pleasure or satisfaction
- ten (tin, tent)
- hold, keep
- concur
- agree; happen together, coincide
- versatile
- able to turn with ease from one thing to another
- mis (miss, mit, mitt)
- send
- mand (mandat)
- order, command, committ
- tyrannicide
- act of killing a tyrant
- prehend (prehens)
- seize, grasp
- missive
- a letter
- grat
- pleasant, thank, favor
- writ of mandamus
- written order from a court to enforce the performance of some public duty
- elocution
- art of speaking out or reading effectively in public
- diffident
- lacking faith in oneself
- fid
- faith, trust
- restrict
- confine
- sequential
- arranged in a sequence
- matricide
- act of killing one's mother
- seduction
- enticement, leading astray into wrongdoing
- retenetive
- able to retain or remember
- sequence
- the following of one thing after another
- biocide
- substance that destroys living microorganisms
- viaduct
- bridge for conducting a road or railroad over a valley, river, etc.
- mortuary
- funeral home
- credulous
- too ready to believe
- patricide
- act of killing one's father
- induction
- ceremony by which one is made a member; reasoning from the particular to the general
- missile
- weapon capable of being propelled to hit a distant object
- abrupt
- broken off; sudden
- pedestrian
- person traveling on foot; commonplace or dull
- controversy
- dispute, debate
- corpuscle
- blood cell; minute particle
- mandatory
- obligatory, required by command
- vociferous
- producing a loud outcry, clamorous, noisy
- infraction
- act of breaking
- gradual
- step-by-step
- odoriferous
- yielding an odor
- retrogression
- act of going from a better to a worse state
- revert
- return, go back
- secut (sequ)
- follow
- omnific
- all-creating
- prosecute
- follow to the end; sue
- pesticide
- substance that kills rats, insects, bacteria
- cide
- killing, killer
- auriferous
- yielding gold
- rupture
- break; hostility
- survive
- outlive
- cursive
- running or flowing
- inject
- force or introduce a liquid, a remark, etc.
- vor
- eat greedily
- intangible
- not capable of being touched; hard to grasp or define exactly
- gradation
- a change by steps or stages; act of grading
- creed (credo)
- summary of principles believed in
- fer(ous)
- bearing, producing, yielding
- convince
- persuade
- prehensile
- adapted for seizing
- untenable
- incapable of being held or defended
- omnipotent
- unlimited in power
- credit
- belief, faith, trust
- tangential
- merely touching, slightly connected, digressive
- confidential
- communicated in trust, secret, private
- suicide
- act of killing one's self
- revive
- bring back to life
- pervert
- to turn away from right or truth, falsify
- esprit de corps
- group spirit
- retinue
- group of followers or assistants attending a distinguished person
- vict (vinc)
- conquer, show conclusively
- omnifarious
- of all kinds
- interrupt
- break into
- gracious
- pleasant; courteous
- comprehensive
- including very much, extensive
- introvert
- one more interested in one's own thoughts and feelings than in matters outside oneself
- vivid
- having the vigor and spirit of life; sharp and clear
- refract
- bend from a straight course
- coniferous
- bearing cones
- induce
- lead on by persuasion
- diversion
- entertainment, amusement
- detention
- act of keeping back or detaining
- fract (frac)
- break
- distort
- twist out of shape; falsify
- conjecture
- a guess
- perfidious
- false to a trust
- intact
- untouched or uninjured; kept or left whole
- pertinent
- relevant
- grateful
- thankful, feeling or expressing gratitude
- incredulity
- disbelief
- invert
- turn upside down
- ingratiate
- to establish oneself in the favor of another
- incredible
- not believable
- tact (tang)
- touch
- millipede
- wormlike animal with 1000 legs
- invincible
- incapable of being conquered
- incur
- meet with something undesirable; bring upon oneself
- devour
- eat greedily; sieze upon and destroy
- pedal
- lever acted on by the foot
- tenancy
- period of a tenant's temporary holding of real estate
- biped
- two-footed animal
- contortionist
- person who can twist his or her body into odd postures
- corporal
- bodily
- admonition
- gentle warning
- vivacity
- liveliness of spirit
- premonition
- forewarning
- consequence
- that which follows logically, result; importance
- progressive
- going forward to something considered better