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Latin Roots 19 Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Flexible | able to bend without breaking |
| contortionist | one who can twist his body into unnatural positions |
| volatile | evaporating quickly; unstable; explosive |
| respiration | act of breathing |
| reverse | turned backwards; opposite or contrary |
| volition | the act or power of using the will |
| involuntary | not done by choice; not consciously controlled |
| rotary | turning around a central axis |
| sinuous | binding or winding in and out; wavy |
| revolution | movement of a body in an orbit; a complete cycle of events; overthrow of a gov't or social system |
| implicit | suggested |
| explicit | clearly stated or shown; defined |
| tortuous | full of twist and turns; deceitful or tricky |
| spiral | circling around a point in constalntly increasing (or decreasing) curves, or in constantly changing planes |
| implicate | to show to be party to a crime |