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Latin 6
Roots
Root | Meaning |
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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 |