Latin Roots 1-15
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- convivial
- fond of eating and drinking with friends; jovial; hospitable
- infanticide
- act of killing an infant
- genuflect
- bend the knee; touch the right knee to the ground, as in worship
- extort
- wrest from a person by force
- voracious
- greedy in eating/insatiable, as a voracious reader
- corrupt
- change from good to bad; vicious/change from good to bad; debase; pervert; falsify
- fragment
- part broken off
- tenacity
- firmness in holding fast; persistence
- omniscient
- knowing everything
- evince
- show clearly;disclose
- patricide
- act of killing one's own father
- restrict
- keep within limits; confine
- astringent
- drawing tightly together/stern; austere/substance that shrinks tissues and checks flow of blood by contracting blood vessels
- infraction
- act of breaking; breach; violation, as an infraction of a law
- confident
- having faith in oneself; self-reliant; sure
- disrupt
- break apart
- genocide
- deliberate extermination of a racial or cultura
- contortionist
- person who can twist his body into odd postures
- distort
- twist out of shape; contort; falsify
- retinue
- group of followers accompanying a distinguished person
- matricide
- act of killing one's own mother
- retentive
- tenacious; able to retain or remember
- pertinent
- having to do with the matter in hand
- fiduciary
- held in trust; confidential
- premonition
- forewarning
- mandate
- authoritative command/territory administered by a trustee
- tenure
- period for which an office or postion is held, as: "U.S. Supreme Court Justices enjoy life tenure."
- fractious
- apt to break out into a passion; cross, irritable, cranky, moody
- refract
- bend a ray of light, heat, sound, etc. from a straight course
- torture
- wrench; twist/inflict severe pain upon
- flexible
- pliable; not regid; tractable
- carnivorous
- flesh-eating
- herbivorous
- dependent on plants as food
- omnipotent
- unlimited in power; almighty
- revive
- bring back to life; restore
- credulous
- too ready to believe; easily deceived
- omnipresent
- present everywhere at the same time
- deflect
- turn aside
- interrupt
- break into or between; hinder; stop
- fidelity
- faithfulness to a trust or vow/accuracy, as of a recording
- omnivorous
- eating everything/fond of all kinds, as an omnivorous reader
- insecticide
- preparation for killing insects
- omnivorous
- eating everything/fond of all kinds, as an omnivorous reader
- homicide
- killing of one human by another
- impertinent
- not pertinent; inappropriate/rude
- constrict
- draw together; bind
- vanquish
- overcome in battle;conquer
- infidel
- one who does not accept a particular faith; an unbeliever
- suicide
- act of killing one's self
- erupt
- burst or break out
- fracture
- break or crack/breaking of a bone
- regicide
- act of killing a king
- incorruptible
- inflexibly honest; incapable of being corrupted or bribed
- confidant
- one to whom secrets are entrusted
- mandatory
- obligatory; required by command
- invincible
- incapable of being conquered
- stringent
- strict; rigid; severe
- convict
- prove guilty; show conclusively to be guilty/person serving a prison sentence
- tortuous
- full of twists of curves; winding, as a tortuous road/tricky; crooked
- diffident
- lacking faith in oneself; timid; shy
- accredit
- accept as worthy of belief/provide with credentials
- sororicide
- act of killing one's own sister
- tyrannicide
- act of killing a tyrant
- devour
- eat greedily or ravenously/seize upon and destroy
- rupture
- break; breaking/hostility
- fragile
- easily broken; frail; delicate
- retort
- reply quickly or sharply in kind
- torsion
- act of twisting; twisting of a body by two equal and opp forces
- admonish
- warn of a fault; reprove
- creed
- summary of principles believed in or adhered to
- credence
- belief
- fratricide
- act of killing one's own brother
- evict
- expel by legal process, as to evict a tenant/oust
- insectivorous
- dependent on insects as food