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VCR book A part 1/2
vocabulary from classical roots
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| monos | one |
| monologue | a long speech made by one performer or person in a group |
| monarch | a person who rules a kingdom or empire or a large black and orange american butterfly |
| monogram | a design composed of letters |
| monopoly | executive control of the trade in some item or service or sole ownership or control of anything |
| monolith | a large block of stone or a large organization that acts as a single unit |
| unus | one |
| unanimous | being in complete agreement |
| unilateral | one sided; done by affecting one and not another |
| duo | two |
| duplex | twofold |
| duplex | a dwelling with 2 living units |
| duplicate | to make and identical copy or double of somthing |
| bi | two |
| bilateral | having 2 sides |
| bipartisan | involving 2 political parties |
| bisect | to divide into 2 equal parts |
| tri | three |
| tres | three |
| trilogy | a group of three literary or musical works that have a related theme |
| trisect | to divide into 3 parts |
| triumvirate | a group of three especially in authority |
| quartus | fourth |
| quatuor | four |
| quadrant | a quarter of a circle or its circumference or any of the 4 parts of an area divided by perpendicular lines or an early machine for measuring altitudes |
| quartet | a musical composition for four voices or instruments or a set of four |
| quatrain | a stanza or group of 4 lines of poetry |
| decem | ten |
| decimate | to destroy a large part of or to kill one in every 10 |
| decathlon | an athletic contest in which each contestant takes part in 10 events |
| centum | hundred |
| bicentennial | 200th anniversary or happening every 200 years |
| centenary | pertaining to a 100 year period or a centennial |
| centigrade | a thermometer scale where water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees |
| pan | all |
| pandemonium | uproar (not always bad) |
| panacea | a cure-all for diseases |
| omnis | all |
| omnipotent | having unlimited power |
| omnipresent | present everywhere |
| omnivorous | eating both plants and meat or devouring everything, especially intellectually |
| holos | whole |
| catholic | universal, including most things |
| Catholic | referring to the Roman Catholic church |
| holocaust | a great destruction especially by fire |
| Holocaust | murder by the Nazis of over 6 million Jews, and millions of other people in WWII |
| totus | whole |
| totalitarian | referring to a form of government in which one person or party holds absolute control |
| claudo, claudere, clausi, clausum | to close |
| cloister | a covered walk along the inside walls of a building |
| cloister | a monastery of similar place of religious seclusion |
| cloister | to seclude as in a monastery |
| preclude | to prevent; to make impossible |
| recluse | a person who avoids mixing with people |
| incipio, incepere, incepi, inceptum | to begin |
| inception | the beginning of something |
| incipient | in the early stages, beginning |
| nihil | nothing |
| annihilate | to destroy completly |
| nihilism | the total rejection of religious or moral beliefs |
| nego, negare, negavi, negatum | to deny |
| negate | to disapprove; to nullify or to rule out; to cancel; to repeal |
| renegade | one who deserts a group, cause, faith, Etc. |
| vanus | empty |
| vaccus | empty |
| vacuous | empty, especially for meaning or purpose |
| vanity | conceit especially about one's appearance or a dressing table or something worthless or useless |
| vaunt | to boast; to brag about |
| aperio, aperire, aperui, apertum | to open |
| aperture | an opening, especially one that emits light |
| overt | done or shone openly |
| covert | hidden, done in secrecy |
| micros | small |
| microbe | an organism invisible to the naked eye, especially one that causes disease |
| microcosm | a miniature world; something that resembles something else on a smaller scale |
| minuo, minuere, minui, minutum | to lessen |
| minus | less |
| minescule | extremely small |
| minutia | a small or trivial detail |
| tenuo, tenuare, tenuavi, tenuatum | to make thin |
| tenuis | thin |
| attenuate | to make slender or small or to weaken; to reduce in force or value |
| tenuous | thin in form or flimsy having little substance or validity |
| satis | enough |
| satiate | to satisfy an appetite fully |
| impleo, implere, implevi, implentum | to fill |
| plenus | full |
| comply | to do as one is asked or ordered |
| implement | a tool or utensil or to carry out to put into effect |
| replete | well-stocked or abundantly supplied or completely filled; utterly satisfied |
| expletive | an exclamation or oath, often obscene |
| copia | plenty |
| copious | plentiful; in large amounts |
| makros | large |
| macrocosm | the universe or any great whole |
| magnus | great |
| magnanimous | noble and generous, especially in forgiving, not petty |
| magnate | a wealthy, influential person, especially in business |
| magnitude | the degree of brightness in a star or Greatness of importance or size |
| megas | great |
| megalomania | a form of mental illness in which a person has exaggerated ideas of his or her own importance or an obsessive idea to do things on a grand scale |
| poly | many |
| polygamy | the system of having more than one spouse at a time |
| polygon | a flat shape with many straight sides |
| ante | before |
| antebellum | of a period before war, especially the American Civil War |
| antecedent | a thing or event that proceeds or the noun to which a pronoun refers or Preceding; going before |
| anterior | coming before in position or time |
| avant-garde | ahead of the times especially in the arts or a group that is ahead of the times |
| vanguard | the foremost position |
| pre | before |
| precept | a command; a rule of conduct |
| predestination | the belief that what happens in human life had been determined by some higher power |
| preempt | to take possession of something before someone else can do so |
| premonition | a warning in advance |
| preposterous | absurd contrary to nature or reason |
| pretentious | showy; pompous; claiming unjustified distinction |
| primus | first |
| premier | first in time or importance or a prime minister or head of state |
| primate | an archbishop or bishop who ranks highest among others or a member of an order of animals that includes monkeys, apes, and humans |
| prime | chief; most important or first in rank, excellence, quality, importance, or time or to prepare a thing of person for use or action |
| primeval | belonging to the first ages; ancient |
| primordial | primeval, original; fundamental |
| post | after |
| posterior | situated behind or at the back |
| posterity | future generations or a person's descendants |
| posthumous | occurring or continuing after death |
| ars, artis | art |
| artifact | an object made by humans; often refers to a primitive tool or other relic from a previous period |
| artifice | craftiness;trickery or cleverness;skill |
| artless | without deceit or cunning; natural; simple or crude; ignorant; uncultured |
| artisan | A skilled craftsperson |
| aoide | song |
| ode | A poem to something or someone who has stimulated deep and noble feelings in the poet |
| parody | A humorous imitation of a piece of literature or music To mimic a style or plot for comic effect |
| rhapsody | Speech or writing expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm |
| canto, cantare, cantavi, cantatum | to sing |
| incantation | the chanting of words seeming to have magical power or used to create a magical spell |
| recant | to take back a formal statement or belief previously made known |
| pingo, pingere, pinxi, pictum | to paint to embroider |
| depict | to paint, draw, or express in a picture or sculpture or to picture in words |
| pictograph | a picture or drawing representing words or ideas |
| cresco, crescere, crevi, cretum | to grow to increase |
| accrue | to come as a natural increase or advantage |
| crescendo | a gradual increase in sound |
| excrescence | abnormal growth or outgrowth |
| facio, facere, feci, factum | to make |
| beneficence | doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action |
| efficacious | effective as a means or remedy |
| facile | acting, working, or proceeding with ease; fluent |
| facsimile | an exact copy of a book, painting, document, etc. |
| faction | a group or clique within a larger group party or government Conflict within an organization or nation |
| mollify | to calm; to make gentler or softer in feeling |
| texo, texere, texui, textum | to weave |
| context | the parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning |
| pretext | a false reason put forward to conceal a true one |
| trans | across |
| transgress | to go beyond or over set limits; to break a rule |
| transitive | describing an action carried from subject to verb to object; needing a direct object to complete the meaning of the verb |
| transitory | lasting for only a short while |
| translucent | permitting light to pass through, but not transparant |
| eo, ire, ivi, itum | to go |
| ambiance | environment; the surrounding atmosphere |
| obituary | notice of death with biographical info |
| transient | passing quickly; transitory or staying only a short time or a person or thing having a short stay |
| erro, errare, erravi, erratum | to wander to stray |
| aberration | straying from what is normal or acceped |
| erratic | irregular or inconsistent in movement, habit, or quality in ideas |
| hodos | journey |
| episode | an incident in a person's life or in a story or play |
| exodus | mass departure or emigration |
| iter, itineris | journey |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place; transitory or a person who travels from place to place |
| itinerary | a route of travel or a plan or record of a journey |
| venio, venire, veni, ventum | to come |
| advent | arrival or coming into being |
| circumvent | to avoid, to evade by cleverness or to avoid by passing around |
| convene | to assemble, especially for a meeting |
| intervene | to occur between events or periods or to come between, thereby easing the situation or to interfere or to interrupt |
| tele | at a distance |
| telepathy | communication between 2 minds without sensory means |
| via | way, street, road, journey |
| deviate | to turn aside from a course norm pattern or subject |
| devious | winding; roundabout or underhanded; Deceptive |
| impervious | not penetrable by light rays,moisture, etc. or incapable of being influenced or affected |
| lucere | to shine |
| celer | swift |
| accelerate | to cause faster movement; to go faster |
| celerity | swiftness; quickness speed |
| curro,currere, cucurri, cursum | to run |
| cursor, cursoris | runner |
| concur | to agree; to cooperate or to coincide; to happen simultaneously |
| discourse | conversation or a formal discussion of a subject in speech or to talk; to discuss formally in speech or writing |
| incur | to meet with; to run into; to bring upon oneself |
| precursor | forerunner |
| succor | to help in time of distress or to render help to |
| glomus | ball |
| conglomeration | a collection of unrelated things |
| jacio, jacere, jeci, jactum | to throw |
| abject | humiliating and miserable or contemptible |
| conjecture | an opinion formed from inconclusive evidence; a guess or to conclude from insufficient evidence |
| interjection | a word or phrase sometimes inserted between other words, often expressing emotion; a word not liked grammatically to other words in the sentence |
| salio, salire, salui, saltum | to jump To leap |
| assail | to attack violently; to assault or to attack with words; to ridicule or criticize harshly. |
| desultory | jumping from one thing to another; rambling or haphazard or random |
| exult | to rejoice greatly; to be triumphant |
| resilient | capable of returning to the original shape after being bent or stretched or buoyant; recovering quickly from illness, change, or misfortune |
| salient | conspicuous; striking or projecting up of out |
| valeo, valere, valui, valitum | to be strong |
| 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 |
| volvo, volvere, volvi, volutum | to revolve |
| evolve | to develop gradually or to change from a simpler to more complex form of animal of plant life |
| voluble | speaking in a stead, easy flow of words; talkative; gib |
| apis | bee |
| apiary | a place where hives or colonies of bees are kept for their honey |
| avis | bird |
| aviary | a house, enclosure, or large cage for birds |
| bos, bovis | cow, ox |
| bovine | having the quality of a cow or ox sluggish, dull |
| canis | dog |
| canine | member of the family of dogs or pertaining to the family of dogs, and especially the qualities associated with them |
| caper (m) capra (f) | goat |
| caper | a playful hop or leap; a prank or wild escapade; to leap frolic of frisk about |
| caprice | a sudden impulse, whim, or unmotivated change of mind |
| capricious | subject of whim; impulsive; unpredictable or fickle |
| equus | horse |
| equine | pertaining to a horse; belonging to the family of horses and zebras |
| equitation | the art of riding horses |
| Exodus | The departure of the Israelites from Egypt |
| Advent | the period beginning 4 weeks before Christmas |
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