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Latin Roots 2
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10th Grade
05/22/2011

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• Detention (n.)
Definition
The act of keeping back or detaining
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• Impertinent (adj.)
Definition
1. Irrelevant; not pertinent; inappropriate
2. Rude
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• Pertinacious (adj.)
Definition
Adhering (“holding”) firmly to a purpose or opinion; very persistent
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• Pertinent (adj.)
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Having to do with (“holding to”) the matter at hand; relevant
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• Retentive (adj.)
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Tenacious; able to retain or remember
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• Retinue (n.)
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Group of followers or assistants attending a distinguished person
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• Tenacity (n.)
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Firmness in holding fast; persistence
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• Tenancy (n.)
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Period of tenant’s temporary holding of real estate
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• Tenet (n.)
Definition
Principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true
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• Tenure (n.)
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1. Period for which an office or position in held, as: “U.S. Supreme Court Justices enjoy life tenure.”
2. Status assuring an employee a permanent position
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• Untenable (adj.)
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Incapable of being held or defended (ant. tenable)
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• Admonish (v.)
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Warn of a fault; reprove; rebuke (ant. commend)
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• Admonition (n.)
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Gentle reproof (“warning”); counseling against a fault or error
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• Admonitory (adj.)
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Conveying a gentle reproof
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• Monitor (n.)
Definition
Person or device that keeps track of, checks, or warns
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• Monitor (v.)
Definition
Keep track of, regulate, or control the operation of a machine or process
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• Monument (n.)
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Means of reminding us of a person or even (e.g., a statue or a tomb)
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• Premonition (n.)
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Forewarning; intuitive anticipation of a coming event
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• Premonitory (adj.)
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Conveying a forewarning
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• Countermand (v.)
Definition
Issue a contrary order
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• Mandate (n.)
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1. Authoritative command
2. Territory administered by a trustee (supervisory nation)
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• Mandatory (adj.)
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Obligatory; required b command (ant. optional)
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• Remand (v.)
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Send (“order”) back; recommit, as to a prison
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• Writ of mandamus (n.)
Definition
Written order from a court to enforce the performance of some public duty
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• Accredited (adj.)
Definition
Officially authorized or recognized; provided with credentials
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• Credence (n.)
Definition
Belief as to the truth of something
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• Credentials (n. pl.)
Definition
Documents, letter, references, etc., that inspire belief or trust
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• Credible (adj.)
Definition
Believable (ant. incredible)
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• Credit (n.)
Definition
Belief; faith; trust
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• Credulous (adj.)
Definition
Too ready to believe; easily deceived (ant. incredulous; skeptical)
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• Creed (n.)
Definition
Summary of principles believes in or adhered to
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• Discredit (v.)
Definition
1. Cast doubt on; refuse to believe
2. Take trust or credit away from; disgrace
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• Discredit (n.)
Definition
Loss of belief or trust; damage to one’s reputation; disgrace
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• Incredible (adj.)
Definition
Not believable
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• Incredulity (n.)
Definition
Disbelief
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• Affidavit (n.)
Definition
Sworn written statement made before an authorized official
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• Bona fide (
Definition
Made or carried out in a good faith; genuine
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• Confidant (n.)
Definition
confidante, if a woman) one whom secrets are entrusted
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• Confident (adj.)
Definition
Having faith in oneself; self-reliant; sure (ant. apprehensive; diffident)
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• Confidential (adj.)
Definition
Communicated in trust; secret; private
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• Diffident (adj.)
Definition
Lacking self-confidence (faith in oneself); unduly timid; shy (ant. confident)
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• Fidelity (n.)
Definition
1. Faithfulness to a trust or vow (ant. perfidy; infidelity)
2. Accuracy; faithfulness of sound reproduction
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• Fiduciary (adj.)
Definition
1. Held in trust (fiduciary property)
2. Confidential (fiduciary duties of a trustee)
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• Infidel (n.)
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One who does not accept a particular faith; unbeliever
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• Perfidious (adj.)
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False to a trust; faithless; treacherous
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• Perfidy (n.)
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Violation of a trust; treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty (ant. fidelity; fealty)
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• Congratulate (v.)
Definition
Express one’s pleasure to another person at that person’s success
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• Gracious (adj.)
Definition
Pleasant; courteous; kindly (ant. ungracious)
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• Grateful (adj.)
Definition
Feeling or expressing gratitude; thankful; obliges (ant. ungrateful)
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• Gratify (v.)
Definition
Give or be a source of pleasure or satisfaction
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• Gratis (adv.)
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Without charge or payment; free
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• Gratitude (n.)
Definition
Thankfulness (ant. ingratitude)
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• Gratuitous (adj.)
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1. Given freely
2. Unwarranted, as a gratuitous remark
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• Gratuity (n.)
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Present of money in return for a favor or service; tip
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• Immoral (adj.)
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1. Not subject to death (ant. mortal)
2. Not subject to oblivion (being forgotten); imperishable
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• Immortality (n.)
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1. Eternal life (ant. mortality)
2. Lasting fame
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• Moribund (adj.)
Definition
Dying; near death
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• Mortal (n.)
Definition
1. Destined to die
2. Human
3. Causing death; fatal, as a mortal blow
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1. Destined to die
2. Human
3. Causing death; fatal, as a mortal blow
Definition
Human being; person; individual
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Human being; person; individual
Definition
1. Death rate
2. Mortal
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• Mortician (n.)
Definition
Undertaker
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• Mortification (n.)
Definition
Shame; humiliation; embarrassment
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• Mortify (v.)
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Embarrass; shame; humiliate (literally, “make dead,” “kill”)
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• Mortuary (n.)
Definition
Funeral home
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• Rigor mortis (n.)
Definition
Stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death (literally, “stiffness of death”)
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• Corporal (adj.)
Definition
Bodily, as corporal punishment
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• Corporation (n.)
Definition
Body authorization by law to act as a single person and to have rights and duties
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• Corps (n.)
Definition
1. Organized body of persons
2. Branch of the military, as the Marine Corps
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• Corpse (n.)
Definition
Dead body
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• Corpulent (adj.)
Definition
Bulky; obese; very fat
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• Corpus (n.)
Definition
General collection or body of writings, laws, etc.
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• Corpuscle (n.)
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1. Blood cell (literally, “little body”)
2. Minute particle
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• Corpus delicti (n.)
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1. Facts proving that a crime has been committed
2. Body of the victim in a murder case
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• Esprit de corps (n.)
Definition
Spirit of a body of persons; group spirit
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• Habeas corpus (n.)
Definition
1. Writ (order) requiring a detained person to be brought before a court to investigate the legality of that person’s detention (the writ begins with the words habeas corpus, meaning “you should have the body”)
2. Right of a citizen to secure protection against illegal imprisonment
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• Incorporate (v.)
Definition
Combine so as to form one body
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• Aqueduct (n.)
Definition
Artificial channel for conducting water over a distance
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• Conducive (adj.)
Definition
Tending to lead to; contributive; helpful
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• Conduct (v.)
Definition
Lead; guide; escort
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• Deduction (n.)
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1. Taking away; subtraction (ant. addition)
2. Reasoning from the general to the particular
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• Duct (n.)
Definition
Tube or channel for conducting a liquid, air, etc.
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• Ductile (adj.)
Definition
1. Able to be drawn out or hammered this (said of metal)
2. Easily lead; docile
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• Induce (v.)
Definition
Lead on; move by persuasion
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• Induct (v.)
Definition
Admit (“lead in”) as a member; initiate
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• Induction (n.)
Definition
1. Ceremony by which one is made a member; initiation
2. Reasoning from the particular to the general
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• Seduction (n.)
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Enticement; leading astray into wrongdoings
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• Traduce (v.)
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Literally, “lead along” as a spectacle to bring into disgrace); malign; slander; vilify; calumniate
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• Viaduct (n.)
Definition
Bridge for conducting a road or railroad over a valley, river, etc,
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• Consecutive (adj.)
Definition
Following in regular order; successive
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• Consequences (n.)
Definition
1. That which follows logically; result
2. Importance, as a person of consequence
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• Execute (v.)
Definition
1. Follow through to a completion; carry out
2. Put to death
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• Inconsequential (adj.)
Definition
Of no consequence; trivial; unimportant
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• Non sequitur (n.)
Definition
Statement that does not follow from previous statements
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• Persecute (v.)
Definition
Oppress; harass; annoy
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• Prosecute (v.)
Definition
Follow to the end or until finished
Conduct legal proceedings against; sue
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• Sequel (n.)
Definition
Something that follows; continuation; consequence; outcome
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• Sequence (n.)
Definition
The following of one thing after another; succession; orderly series
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• Sequential (adj.)
Definition
Arranged in a sequence; serial
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