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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| VIVO; VITA ( LATIN) | to live; life |
| CONVIVO( LATIN VERB) | live together |
| CONVIVIUM( LATIN) | a feast or banquet |
| CONVIVAL | likes to attend feasts and banquets; are friendly, happy, extroverted,and gregarious |
| VIVACIOUS(VIVO = to live) | full of the joy of living; animated |
| VIVID | possesing the freshness of life; strong; sharp |
| REVIVE | bring back to life |
| VIVISECTION( VIVE + SECT- ) | operating on a live animal |
| ANTIVIVISECTIONISTS | object to the process of vivisection |
| VIVIPAROUS(PARETO = to give birth + VIVE) | producing live babies |
| OIPAROUS( OVUM = egg) | producing young from eggs |
| VITAL | essential to life; of crucial importance |
| REVITALIZE | bring back to life |
| JOIE DE VIVRE( FRENCH) | joy of living |
| ENN UI (FRENCH) | a feeling of boredom, discontent of weariness |
| BON VIVANT | good liver; one who lives a luxorious life |
| GOURMAND | enjoys food with a sensual pleasure |
| GORMANDIZE | to stuff oneself like a pig |
| GOURMATE | similiar to bon vivant and gourmand but more complimentary |
| GLUTTON | has a voracious, insatiable appetite for money, sex, punishment, etc. |
| INDEFATIGABLE | unable to be fatigued |
| INGENUOUS | frank, not given to concealment |
| NAIVE | inexperienced; unsophisticated; trusting |
| CREDULOUS( CREDO = to believe) | willing to believe; not suspicious |
| GULLIBLE | easily tricked |
| CREDIBLE | can be believed |
| INGENIOUS | shrewd; clever; inventive |
| CREDO | personal belief; code of ethics; principles by which people guide their actions |
| CREED | a close synonym of credo; in addition a religious belief |
| CREDENCE | belief |
| CREDENTIALS | a document or documents providing a person's right to a title or privilege |
| DISINGENUOUS | crafty, cunning, dishonest, artful, insineere, untrustworthy |
| RETROSPECT( SPECTO = to look) | a looking back |
| PROSPECT | a looking ahead |
| CONSPICUOUS | easily seen or looked at |
| PERSPICACIOUS( PER = through+ SPECTO) | looking thru ( matters etc.) keenly, intelligently |
| ACUMEN( ACUO = to sharpen) | mental sharpness; synonym of perspicacity |
| ACUPUNCTURE(ACUO + PUNCTUS = point) | insertion of a (sharp,pointed) needle into body for medical purposes |
| PUNCTILIOUS(PUNCTUS = point) | exact, scrupulous, very careful to observe the proper points of behaviour |
| PUNGENT( PUNGO = to pierce sharply) | one that sharply pierces |
| PERSPICUOUS | easily understood from one look; clear; simple; lucid |
| INTROSPECT | look inwards and examine your inner reactions |
| CIRCUMSPECT | look around most carefully |
| SPECIOUS | something that looks good but actually is not |
| MAGNANIMOUS( MAGNUS + ANIMUS = mind) | having great, noble minds or souls that they are beyond seeking petty revenge |
| PAUSILLANIMOUS( PUSILLUS = tiny) | having tiny, tiny minds or souls; are contemptibly petty and mean |
| UNANIMOUS | of one mind |
| ANIMUS | (degenerated to ) unfriendly mind; hostility; malevolence |
| VERSATILE(VERTO/ VERSUS = TO TURN) | who can turn their hand to many things successfully |
| STOICS( STOA = porch) | who bears their pain and sorrow without complaint |
| INTREPID( TREPIDO = to tremble) | who exhibits courage and fearlesness |
| TREPIDATION | great fear, trembling or alarm |
| SCINTILLA(LATIN) | a quick bright spark |
| SCINTILLA | refers to spark, but more commonly refers to a very small particle |
| SCINTILLATE | sparkels with charm and wit, flashes brightly with humour |
| URBANE( URBS = CITY) | are gracious, affable,cultivated ,suave, tactful |
| SUBURBS | residential sections, or small communities close to a large city |
| INTERURBAN | between cities |
| INTRAURBAN | within a single city |
| EXURB | well beyond, way outside, a large city, and generally refers to a region inhabited by well- to - do families |
| RUS/RURIS(LATIN) | country |
| RUSTIC | adjective may describe furniture suitable to a farmhouse; antonym of urbane |
| RUSTICATE | spend time in country,away from turmoil and tensions of big city life |
| PEJORATIVE(PEJOR = worse) | used with a derogatory cannotation |
| PENURY(PENURIA = need,neediness) | dire,abject proverty; complete lack of financial resources |
| PENURIOUS | proverty stricken; stingy, closed-fisted; niggardly |
| PARSIMONIOUS | synonym of penurious but less strong in implication |
| INDIGENCE | milder word than penury |
| DESTITUTION | synonym of penury |
| AFFLUENT(AD-=to/towards + FLUO = to flow) | possess money in an increasing amount |
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