words with latin bases
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malodorous | stinking, putrid, musty | bad, foul, rotten
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sanguinary | murdurous, bloody | homicidal, murdering
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tactile | of or relating to the sense of touch | touchable
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placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance | calm
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amour | a usually illicit love affair | lover
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liguist | one who speaks several languages | -----
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mission | the act or an instance of sending | calling, purpose
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primacy | the state of being first | -----
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ambiguity | the state of being uncertain | uncertainty, vagueness
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intact | untouched especially by anything that harms or diminishes | entire, flawless, perfect, undamaged, unhurt, whole
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aberrant | straying from the right or normal way | different, odd
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amiable | generally agreeable | cordial, gracious, courteous, kind
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odorous | applies to whatever has a strong distinctive smell whether pleasant or unpleasant | scented
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progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line | ancestor
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paramour | an ancestor in the direct line | lover
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deflected | to turn aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction | avert, divert, turn
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placated | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions | avert, divert
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emitted | to throw or give off or out | release
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confirmed | to give approval to | validate, make true
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flexible | characterized by a ready capability to adapt to new, different, or changing requirements | elastic, stretchy
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errant | straying outside the proper path or bounds | straying
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contingent | straying outside the proper path or bounds | forefather
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inflexible | incapable of change | stiff
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multiligual | using or able to use several languages | -----
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sanguine | consisting of or relating to blood | bloody
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firmament | heavens | sky
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anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music | omnibus
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prime | the earliest stage | youth
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primer | a small introductory book on a subject | -----
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handbook | a book capable of being conveniently carried as a ready reference | manual, guide
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anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music | omnibus, collection
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code | a system of symbols (as letters or numbers) used to represent assigned and often secret meanings | -----
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suitor | one who is saught to be married | paramour, lover
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paradox | a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true | -----
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devotion | the fact or state of being ardently dedicated and loyal (as to an idea or person) | faithfulness, attachment
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district | a territorial division (as for administrative or electoral purposes) | area, neighborhood
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contagious | communicable by contact | communicable
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aberrant | straying from the right or normal way | odd, peculiar, strange
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deodorize | to eliminate or prevent the offensive odor of, to make smell better | -----
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freshen | to become fresh in appearance or vitality | -----
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pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking | moldable
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rigid | appearing stiff and unyielding | stiff
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nutritious | nourishing | good, healthful
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surly | menacing or threatening in appearance | discourteous, ill-mannered, rude
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addendum | a supplement to a book | appendix
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agenda | a list or outline of things to be considered or done | -----
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concur | to act together to a common end or single effect | unite
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manumit | to release from slavery | free
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intuit | to apprehend by intuition | -----
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enslave | to reduce to or as if to slavery | opress
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confirm | to give approval to | validate
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justify | to prove or show to be just, right, or reasonable | claim
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opponent | one that takes an opposite position | enemy, foe, competitor
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agent | one that acts or exerts power | executor, performer
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deputy | a person appointed as a substitute with power to act | agent
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wayward | following one's own capricious, wanton, or depraved inclinations | inconstant
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erroneous | containing or characterized by error | counterfactual, inaccurate, incorrect
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placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions | appease, assuage, conciliate, mollify, propitiate, sweeten
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pacify | to allay the anger or agitation of | appease, assuage, conciliate,
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cater | to provide a supply of food | pamper, spoil
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progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line | ascendant, forebear, forefather
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forebear | forfather | -----
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descendent | moving or directed downward | brood, children
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patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people | architect, author, creator
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emit | to throw or give off or out (as light) | flow, give off, pour, void
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banish | to require by authority to leave a country | cast out, deport, displace, exile
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complacence | calm or secure satisfaction with oneself or one's lot | conceitedness, consequence, egoism, egotism
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contentment | (the quality or state of being | ------
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comportment | to be fitting | accord, check, correspond
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gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language | babble, drivel
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foundation | a basis | base, bedrock, footing
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tactile | perceptible by touch | palpable, touchable
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tangible | capable of being perceived especially by the sense of touch | palpable, tactile, touchable
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touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation | cranky, cross,
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lingo | strange or incomprehensible language or speech | jargon, slang
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dialect | a regional variety of language | idiom, speech, tongue
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approachable | capable of being approached | ------
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