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English Latin Roots
Senior College English Latin Roots
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |