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Vocabulary 13,14
Vocabulary from Classical Roots Book A Roeske
Term | Definition |
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accelerate | to cause faster movement; to go faster |
celerity | swiftness; quickness; speed |
concur | to agree; to cooperate; to happen at the same time |
discourse | conversation; formal discussion in speech or writing |
incur | to meet with; to run into; to bring upon oneself |
precursor | forerunner |
succor | help in time of distress; to give help |
conglomeration | a collection of unrelated things |
abject | humiliating and miserable; contemptible |
conjecture | a guess; an opinion formed from inconclusive evidence |
interjection | a word/phrase inserted between other words expressing emotion; not linked grammatically to other words in a sentence |
assail | to attack violently; to assault; to attack with words |
desultory | jumping from one thing to another; rambling; random |
exult | to rejoice greatly; to be triumphant |
resilient | capable of returning to the original shape after being bent or stretched; recovering quickly from illness or misfortune |
salient | striking; conspicuous; projecting up or out |
convalesce | to recover health after illness |
avail | to use to one's own advantage |
prevalent | widely occurring or in general use |
valor | heroic courage; bravery |
evolve | to develop gradually; to change from a simpler to a more complex form of animal or plant life |
voluble | talkative; speaking in a steady, easy flow of words |
ROOT: celer | (L) swift |
ROOT: curro, cursum, currere, cucurri | (L) to run |
ROOT: glomus | (L) ball |
ROOT: jacio, jacere, jeci, jactum | (L) to throw |
ROOT: salio, salire, salui, saltum | (L) to jump, leap |
ROOT: valeo, valere, valui, valitum | (L) to be strong |
ROOT: volvo, volvere, volvi, volutum | (L) to revolve |