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Latin Words
Etymology
Word | Meaning |
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affirmation | a positive statement |
aggrandizement | the act of making oneself more pwerful; magnification |
aggravation | annoyance |
alienated | turned from friendliness to hostility or indifference; estranged |
alignment | adjustment |
annihilated | reduced to nothing |
forte | strong point |
grandeur | magnificence |
impartiality | fairness; equity |
infinitesmial | immeasurably small |
infinitude | limitless |
investiture | the act of authorizing |
lineaments | features |
nullified | invalidated |
nullities | invalidities |
particularization | careful treatment |
travesty | mockery; grotesque imitation |
unalienable | that cannot be taken away; unforfeitable |
verbatim | word for word |
verbiage | wordiness |
abjure | to recant; renounce |
abstruse | hard or difficulr to understand |
accession | acquistion; succession |
adduced | presented; alleged |
advent | arrival |
affinity | attraction; fondness |
alleviate | to relieve; ease |
annulled | voided; abolished |
antecedent | previous; former |
circumlocution | evasion in speech; verbiage |
circumvented | thwarted; foiled |
collusion | conspiracy |
conducive | helpful; useful |
contravenes | to contradict; deny |
convened | met; came together |
deductive | reasoned; derivable |
delineate | to describe; outline |
deludes | to deceive or fool oneself |
deprecate | to disapproce |
divested | stripped; deprived |
align | to bring into line |
congregation | assemblage |
consecrate | to make or set apart as sacred or holy |
execrate | to detest; to abhor |
expunge | to strike out; to mark for deletion |
imperturbable | calm; not easily disturbed or upset |
imperviousness | the quality of not being open to argumentation or suggestion |
imprecation | a curse |
inadvertently | carelessly; by mistake |
incessant | continual; constant |
induce | to cause; to bring about |
injustice | lack of fairness or rightness |
insensate | senseless; foolish; brutal |
intercession | the act of intervening between two parties in order to reconcile their differences |
interlineations | material written between lines that are already written or printed |
interlocutor | a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue |
obloquy | blame; publie reproach |
obtrude | to push out; meddle |
perjury | the violation of an oath by giving false information |
perverse | improper; wrongheaded |
compendia | summaries; conspectus |
concur | to agree |
conspectus | synopsis; compendium |
implement | to put into effect, carry out |
insuperable | insurmountable |
irrevocable | irreversible; fixed |
preclude | to prevent; to make impossible |
presentiment | a feeling about the future; a foreboding |
propensity | a leaning, bias, tendency |
protrusive | sticking out, projecting |
redundant | wordy, unnecesary |
regression | return; reversion |
retrograde | backward; retreating |
retrospective | looking back (on the past) |
seclusion | detachment; separation |
subvert | to sabotage, undermine |
succor | help, assistance |
supplemental | additional |
transgressions | sins; infringements |
video | television |
accede | to agree with or consent to |
centigrade | having a scale of one hundred degrees |
centipedes | wormlike animals with pairs of legs for each body segment |
convocation | an assembly |
decimated | to destroy or kill a large part of |
desecration | violation of something sacred |
dualism | a condition consisting of two parts |
elusive | tending to slip away or be unexplained |
incursions | sudden attack or invasions |
interlocutor | one who takes part in a conversation |
pensive | thoughful or reflective in a sad way |
primate | any of the the highest order of mammal; an archbishop |
quadrpartite | divided into or consisting of four parts |
quadrupeds | animals that have four feet |
sacrosanct | very holy |
semifinals | one of two matches |
sextuplets | six children born at one birth |
transverse | lying or passing across |
tripartite | composed of three parts |
viaduct | a bridge over a canal, railroad, or road |
aggrieved | hurt; offended |
bonbons | small pieces of candy |
biennial | occurring every two years |
compunction | guilt; remorse |
complexities | difficult or complicated conditions |
correlation | connection; mutual relationship |
equanimity | calmness, composure |
explicit | clearly stated or shown |
inanimate | lifeless |
incantations | magic spells or rites |
iniquitous | unjust, wicked |
interventionist | a person favoring interference in an affair of another |
magnanimous | generous, noble |
malice | spite, ill will |
millennium | a period of one thousand years; a period of happiness, peace, etc. |
multiplicity | a great variety or diversity |
optimize | to make the most or best of |
proffer | to offer |
quadrennial | occurring every four years |
secured | to make safe or protect |
successively | coming one after another |
aqueous | watery |
collare | put together in proper order |
colloquial | conversational; informal |
contemporaneous | contemporary; belonging to the same time period |
continual | never stopping |
corporal | bodily |
crucial | very important; decisive; critical |
devious | not sincere; deceitful |
dissimilar | different; not similar |
distend | swell out or stretch out by pressure from within; expand |
incorporeal | not made of any material substance |
injudiciously | not showing good judgment |
perennial | lasting for a long time; perpetual; enduring |
pertain | to be connected as appropriate or in some way related |
pretense | a false claim |
primal | of early times; original |
rectilinear | in a straight line |
temporal | lasting for only a time; of this time only; transient |
tenuous | flimsy; weak; not substantial |
verbose | wordy |
aquatic | taking place in or on water |
contemporary | occurring in the present time |
corpulent | obese; fat; stout |
deflated | to injure or destroy the conceit or confidence of |
enchanted | delighted or charmed |
generate | to produce; to bring into being |
generic | pertaining to a whole class of similar things |
gregarious | enjoying the company of others |
infer | to derive or find out by reasoning |
inflame | to excite; stir up; arouse; kindle |
invoke | to call or bring into effect; implement |
luminary | a famous person; celebrity |
luminous | glowing; radiating light |
precarious | not secure or safe; uncertain; risky |
quadrilaterals | a plane figure having four sides and four angles |
retained | to employ by payment or a fee |
senile | characteristic of old age |
servile | submissive; slavish |
turbulent | disorderly; unruly |
unilateral | proceeding from only one of two or more sides in a contract, agreement, or transaction |
aggregate | the sum of separate units; combined mass |
concubine | a woman who lives with a man without being married to him |
congenital | existing as a result of faulty development at birth; inborn, inherent |
diffident | shy; timid; lacking self-confidence |
expedient | advantageous rather than fair or just; suitable |
flagrant | outrageously noticeable; blatantly offenseive; scandalous |
incumbent | resting (on a person) as a duty |
inherent | inborn; innate |
inordinate | much too great; excessive |
insubordinate | not submissive to authority; disobedient |
omnipotent | having all power |
plenipotentiary | having full power and authority |
pungent | having a sharp smell |
resilient | readily recovering, buoyant, cheerful |
salient | standing out; prominent |
sedentary | sitting still too much of the time; inactive |
subsidiary | subordinate or secondary |
supersede | to take the place of; displace; replace |
terrain | any tract of land especially considered with respect to its natural features |
universe | everything there is |
assimilable | capable of being absorbed |
contingent | depending on something uncertain; conditional |
credible | believable; reliable; trustworthy |
credit | to have faith in; believe; trust |
defame | to attack or harm the reputation of |
despiceable | despised; contemptible |
docile | easy to mangage or control |
equable | unvaried; even |
fallacious | deceptive or misleading |
fallible | capable of being mistaken |
Fates | the three goddesses who presided over the birth and life of humans |
genitally | in a manner pertaining to the sex organs |
immutable | not tending to change; never changing |
incontrovertible | not capable of being denied, opposed, changed |
ineffable | indescribable |
intangible | not capable of being touched |
intractable | difficult to persuade, influence, manage |
obsessed | to keep one's attention to an unreasonable extent |
tenable | capable of being defended |
transmuted | changed |
acrid | sharp, bitter, and stinging to the nose |
adventitious | added as something extra; nonessential |
capacious | capable of holding a great quantity |
confluent | flowing into one |
decadent | growing worse; declining |
defoliated | stripped of all foliage |
distracting | to turn (the mind or attention) away from a course or direction |
efficacious | having, showing, or producing the desired result or effect; effective |
effluent | sewage; waste water from plants |
elevate | to raise in quality |
factitious | not natural; forced |
feasible | excessively ornate or showy in style |
florid | to understand; comprehend |
incredulous | not will to believe; skeptical |
pendulous | hanging downward |
perceive | to restore to a good condition |
pernicious | causing great damage or harm; injurous |
precepts | a rule or action or conduct; guide |
renovate | to restore to a good condition |
versatile | able to do many things well |
assiduous | showing diligence or careful attention |
compulsive | having the power to drive or urge forcefully or irresistibly |
conservative | a person who generally favors keeping things as the are or were in the recent past |
cursory | showing haste and superficiality |
deciduous | shedding leaves each year at the end of the growing season |
desultory | jumping from one thing to another |
discernible | able to be recognized or perceived clearly |
discursive | tending to wander from one subject to another |
during | throughout the time of |
effusive | showing too much feeling or emotion |
expository | characteristic of speech or writing that explains an idea, a process, etc. |
impulsive | tending to act on a sudden influence, idea, etc. |
introspectiveness | the quality of looking inward and examining one;s own thoughts and feelings |
nascent | just beginning to exist or develop |
obdurate | stubborn, unyielding |
perspicuous | easily understood |
prefatory | introductory |
repulsive | causing strong dislik or disgust |
sensuous | made aware of through the senses |
tortuous | full of twists and turns |
acuity | quality of being perceptive; sharpness; acuteness |
affability | courteous and considerate manners |
amity | friendly relations |
animosity | strong and active dislike |
deity | a god |
efficacy | the power to produce the desired effects |
fortitude | courage in the face of pain, danger, adversity, etc. |
inequity | a state of being unfair or unjust |
inexorably | in an unyielding manner; relentlessly |
infirmity | the state of being in bad health; weakness, debility |
lucidity | clearness or thought or perception |
primacy | the fact or condition of being first |
probity | integrity; rectitude |
rapacious | given to plundering and seizing by force |
rectitude | moral integrity; honesty |
stringent | marked by strictness (concerning ruls and standards) |
surreptitious | performed secretly |
translucent | letting light through |
verities | a truth or a true statement |
verisimilitude | an appearance of truth |