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