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Latin/Greek Roots #1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ab, abs | away, from, separation |
| abstemious | sparing in eating and drinking; temperate |
| abscond | depart secretly and hide, to avoid capture and legal prosecution |
| abstruse | difficult to understand |
| abrogate | to abolish by formal or official means, put aside |
| abdicate | to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility in a formal manner |
| co, cor, con | with, together |
| cogent | to the point, relevent, pertinent; conving or believable by virtue |
| concur | to agree, accord in opinion |
| contemptuous | showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful |
| convene | to come together or assemble, usually for some public purpose |
| discord | difference of opinion; lack of concord between persons or things |
| tude | state of, condition of |
| verisimilitude | something as an assertion having merely the appearance of truth |
| vicissitude | change or succession of one state or thing to another; mutation |
| beatitude | supreme blessedness; exalted happiness |
| turpitude | vile, shameful, or base character |
| rectitude | rightness of prinsiple or conduct; moral virtue, correctness |