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Latin Review 3
Latin review packet 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| vacillation | movement |
| ossification | bone growth |
| putative | supposed |
| legation | diplomatic mission |
| querimonious | complaining |
| proprietary | owned privately |
| fiduciary | held in trust |
| centripetal | moving toward center |
| pecuniary | relating to money |
| extralegal | illegal |
| dubiety | doubt |
| approbation | praise, approval |
| impecunious | poor |
| indubitable | unquestionable |
| abnegation | self-denial |
| expropriate | deprive of possession |
| litigious | tending to engage in lawsuits |
| referendum | direct popular vote |
| stricture | restraint |
| mercantile | relating to trade |
| absolve | expunge |
| impetus | impulse |
| compunction | guilt |
| abrogate | abolish |
| conscription | draft |
| allege | affirm |
| mercurial | shrewdness, swift |
| predilection | preference |
| punctilious | precise |
| opprobrium | disgrace |
| jurisprudence | science of law |
| renege | fail |
| perquisite | gratuity |
| oracular | obscure or prophetic |
| peculation | embezzlement |
| perfidy | deliberate breach of faith |
| peroration | conclusion of speech or argument |
| impropriety | improper |
| impugn | attack as false |
| lucre/lectern | money or profit |
| orison | prayer |
| reprobate | no hope of salvation |
| deprecate | disapproval |
| prerogative | exclusive right to superiority |
| imprecation | curse |