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Latin 6
Roots
| Root | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sens, sent | feel; be aware |
| cern, cert, cret | sift; separate;distinguish; decide |
| crim, crimin | judgment; accusation; crime |
| sci | know |
| sap, sip | taste; discern; be wise |
| sag | shrewd; wise |
| fa, fat, fess | speak |
| far | divine law |
| fatu | foolish |
| fac, fact, fect, -fic, -fy | do; make; cause |
| fing, fig, fict | form; shape; invent; imagine |
| fig, fix, -fy | fasten; pierce |
| simil, simul, sembl | together; likeness; pretense |
| sensitive | highly responsive or susceptible |
| discern | to perceive or recognize clearly |
| discriminate | to distinguish; to make a difference in treatment |
| omniscient | knowing all |
| insipid | lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge; tasteless; dull |
| sagacious | keen; perceptive; shrewd |
| affable | pleasant; friendly |
| nefarious | very wicked; villainous |
| fatuous | complacently or insanely foolish |
| factory | a building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
| fiction | an imaginary statement, story, etc. |
| prefix | to fix the beginning |
| assemble | to gather into a group; collect |
| simulate | to give a false appearance; to look or act alike |
| quasihistorical | in part; seemingly historical |