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Latin Roots 11-20
Honors English
| Word | definition |
|---|---|
| emancipate (v) | (literally," take from the hand" or power of another) release from bondage; free; liberate |
| manacle (n) | handcuff |
| mandate (n) | (literally, something "given into one's hand") 1. authorization to act 2. command; order; injunction |
| manipulate (v) | 1. operate with the hands; handle or manage skillfully; maneuver 2. manage unethically to serve a fraudulent purpose; falsify; rig |
| manual (n) | small, helpful book cable of being carried in the hand; handbook |
| manual (adj) | relating to, or done with, the hands |
| manuscript (n) | document written by hand, or typewritten |
| append (v) | (literally "hang on") attach; add as a supplement |
| appendix (n) | (literally, something "hung on") matter added to the end of a book or document |
| impending (adj) | (literally, "overhanging") threatening to occur soon; imminent |
| pendant (n) | hanging ornament |
| pending (adj) | (literally "hanging") waiting to be settled; not yet decided |
| pending (prep.) | until |
| suspend (v) | 1. hang by attaching to something 2. stop temporarily; hold up; make inoperative for a while |
| suspense (n) | condition of being left "hanging" or in doubt; mental uncertainty; anxiety; apprehension |
| depose (v) | 1. (literally, "put down") put out of office; dethrone 2. state under oath; testify; swear |
| impose (v) | put on as a burden, duty, tax, etc; inflict |
| postpone (v) | (literally, "put after") put off; defer; delay |
| superimpose (v) | put on top of or over; attach as an addition |
| transpose (v) | (literally, "put across") change the relative order of ; interchange |
| conscript (v) | enroll (write down) into military service by compulsion; draft |
| inscription (n) | something inscribed (written) on a monument, coin, etc |
| prescribe (v) | (literally, "write before") 1. order; dictate; direct 2.order as a remedy |
| proscribe (v) | condemn as harmful or illegal; prohibit; forbid |
| scribe (n) | person who writes; author; journalist |
| script (n) | 1. written text of a play, speechc, etc 2 handwriting; penmanship |
| subscriber (n) | one who writes his or her name at the end of a document, thereby indicating approval; one who regularly receives a magazine, newspaper, etc |
| assimilate (v) | 1. make similar or like 2.take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb |
| dissimilar (adj) | opposite of similar; unlike; different |
| similarity (n) | likeness; resemblance |
| simile (n) | comparison of two different things introduced by like or as |
| simulate (v) | give the appearance of; feign; imitate |
| simultaneous (adj) | existing or happening at the same time; contemporary; concurrent |
| desolate (v) | (literally, "make lonely or deprive of inhabitants"); lay waste; ravage; devastate |
| desolate (adj) | left alone; deserted; forlorn; abandoned; forsaken |
| sole (adj) | one and only; single; lone |
| soliloquy (n) | speech made to oneself when alone |
| solitary (adj) | opposite of accompanied; being or living alone; without companions |
| solitude (n) | condition of being alone; loneliness; seclusion |
| solo (n) | musical composition (or anything) performed by a single person |
| absolute (adj) | 1. completely free (loosened") of constitutional or other restraint; autocratic; despotic 2. utter; outright; unquestionable |
| dissolution (n) | act of "loosening" or breaking up into component parts; disintegration; ruin; destruction |
| dissolve (v) | (literally, "loosen apart" 1.break up; disintegrate; disband 2. cause to disappear; end |
| resolution (n) | (literally, "act of unloosening") solving; solution; answer |
| resolve (adj) | (literally, "unloosen") break up; solve; explain; unravel |
| soluble (adj) | (literally, "able to be loosened") 1. capable of being dissolved or made into a liquid 2. solvable |
| solvent (n) | substance, usually liquid, able to dissolve ("loosen") another substance, known as the "solute" |
| solvent (adj) | able to pay all one's debts |
| abound (v) | (literally, "rise in waves" or "overflow") 1.(used with in or with) be well supplied; teem 2. be plentiful; be present in great quantity |
| abundant (adj) | (literally, "rising in waves") more than sufficient; plentiful |
| inundate (v) | flood; overflow; deluge; overwhelm |
| redound (v) | flow back as a result; contribute |
| redundant (adj) | (literally, "flowing back") exceeding what is necessary; superfluous; surplus; opposite of concise |
| aver (v) | state to be true; affirm confidently; assert; depose; opposite of deny |
| veracity (n) | truthfulness |
| verdict (n) | (literally, something "truly said") decision of a jury; opinion; judgment |
| verify (v) | prove to be true; confirm; substantiate; corroborate |
| veritable (adj) | true; actual; genuine; real; authentic |
| verity (n) | truth (of things); something true; true statement |
| envision (v) | foresee; envisage; have a mental picture of (something not yet a reality) |
| improvise (v) | (literally, "do something without having prepared or seen it beforehand") compose, recite, or sing on the spur of the moment; invent offhand; extemporize |
| invisible (adj) | not able to be seen; imperceptible; indiscernible |
| revise (v) | look at again to correct errors and make improvements; examine and improve |
| video (adj) | having to do with the transmission or reception of what is seen |
| videotape (v) | make a videotpe recording of an event or TV program |
| visibility (n) | degree of clearness of the atmosphere, with reference to the distance at which objects can be clearly seen |
| visual (adj) | having to do with sight |
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