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English Latin Roots
Senior College English Latin Roots
Term | Definition |
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Junct | to join |
Enjoin | To command |
Injunction | An order by the judge to stop the suspect from leaving the country |
Rejoinder | An answer/reply |
Alter | Other |
Altercation | Fight/dispute |
Partisan | Believing and acting on the ideas of a political party or group |
Impart | To give away/share |
Clus/Clud | To close |
Inclusive | Containing all |
Simul | to imitate/pretend |
Preclude | prevent from happening |
Cis | to cut |
Meta | after/changed/beyond |
Al | other/another |
Inalienable | not able to be taken away |
Dissemble | to conceal the truth/deceive |
Semblance | Rough likeness |
Moribund | in a dying or deathlike state |
Nec/Nox/Nic | To hurt/kill |
Pernicious | Causing damage/harmful |
Symbiotic | Mutually beneficial |
Antibiotic | Causing the death of living organisms |
Cogn | to know |
Cognizant | Aware |
Soph | wise |
sophistry | use of trickery/ false logic in arguments |
nomen | name (n) |
nominal | in name only/ not completely true |
nomenclature | official system of naming |
onym | name (o) |
Matron | married woman |
matriculate | to enroll in a degree program at college |
patricide | murder of a father |
expatriate | living not within his/her native country |
fil | son/child |
filial | to do with a son |
gen | to give birth/create |
progenitor | founder of a line or race |
progeny | children/ descendants |
magn | large/great |
magnate | important/powerful |
maxim | large/great |
microcosm | small model of a larger pattern/place |
megalomaniac | one who believe him or herself as all-powerful/indestructible |