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Latin Words
Etymology
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |