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Latin Lesson II Word List

1	ALIEN-	of another	alien, alienation; (Spanish) alienar; alienación; (French)aliéné
1	ART-	art, skill	art, artifact; (Spanish) arte, artistico; (French) artiste, artistique
1	FIN-	end, limit	final, definite
1	FIRM-	firm, strong	firm, firmament, confirm
1	FORT-	strong	fort, forte, comfort
1	GRAND-	great	grand, grandeur
1	GRAV- (GRIEV-)	heavy	grave, grievance
1	LINE-, LIGN-	line	line, align
1	NIHIL-	nothing	annihilate, nihilism
1	NUL(L)-	nothing	null, annul
1	PART	part	part, depart, impart, apart
1	VERB-	word, verb	verb, adverb, verbatim, proverb
1	VEST-	garment	vestment, vest

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Latin Lesson III Word List

2	a-, ab-, abs-	away, from	abduct, abnormal, avert, abstract
2	ad-, ac-	to, toward	adopt, admire, access, aggressions, attract, allocate, ascend
2	ambi-	both, around	ambidextrous, ambiguous, ambience, ambient, ambivalence
2	ante-	before, in front of	anteroom, antecedent, anterior, antebellum
2	circum-	around	circumference, circumscribe, circumcise, circumfuse, circumflex
2	con-, com-, co-	with, together, very	connect, conduct, compose, compress, collect, collate
2	contra-, contro-, counter-	against	contradict, controversy, counteract
2	de-	down, off, thoroughly	descend, dejected
2	dis-, di-, dif-	apart, in different directions, not	dispute, disable, divert, divorce, differ
2	CED-, CESS-	to go, yield	concede, precede, excess, procession
2	DUC-, DUCT-	to lead	induce, conduct, reduction
2	JUDIC-	judgment	judicial, adjudicate
2	JUR-, JUST-	right, law; take an oath, form an opinion	jury, conjure, just, justify
2	LEV-	light (in weight); to lift	levity, elevate, levitate, alleviate
2	LOQU-, LOCUT-	to speak	colloquial, eloquent, circumlocution, interlocutor
2	LUD-	to play, mock	interlude, delude, illusion, “Ludacris” or ludicrous, prelude
2	PREC-	to request, beg; prayer	imprecate, precarious
2	TRUD-, TRUS	to push, thrust	protrude, intrude, intrusion, obtrusive, unobtrusive
2	VEN-, VENT-, VENU-	to come	intervene, invention, avenue, venue; (French) venire, bienvenue; (Spanish) bienvenido, venire

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Latin Lesson IV Word List

4	extra-, extro-	outside, beyond	extraordinary, extrovert
4	in-, im-, en-, em-	in, into, against	inject, impose, impel, illuminate, irrigate, endure, embrace
4	in-, im-, ign-	not	ineffective, imminent, immoral, impartial, illegal, irresponsive, ignoble, ignore
4	infra-	below, beneath	infrared, infrastructure, infrahuman, infra dig
4	inter-	between, among	interrupt, intercept, interpret, international, intersperse, interval, interview
4	intro-, intra-	within	intramural, intravenous, introduce, intrapreneur, intra-atomic, intracellular, intracranial
4	non-	not	nonchalant, noncombatant, nonconformist, noncooperation
4	ob-	toward, against, face-to-face, completely	obstruct, obstacle, occur, offer, oppress, obtrusive,
4	per-	through, wrongly, completely	permeate, permeable, impermeable, perfect, perjury, pervious
4	CRUX-	cross	crucify, crucifix, crux
4	GREG-	flock, herd	congregate, segregate, gregarious, Gregory
4	HAB-, AB-, HIB-	to have, hold as customary	habit, able, inability, inhibit, habitable, uninhabitable
4	PED-	foot	pedal, impediment, pedestrian, pedestal, impede
4	PUNG-, PUNCT-	to prick, point	pungent, pungently, puncture, punctual
4	SACR-, SECR-	sacred	sacred, sacrament, desecrate, sacral
4	SANCT-	holy	sanctity, sanctify, sanctimonious
4	SENT-, SENS-	to feel, think	sentiment, consent, sensation, sensual
4	TURB-	disturb	perturb, turbulence, *trouble is the French version of TURB-
4	VERT-, VERS-	to turn	revert, aversion, convert, introvert, extrovert, inverted, diversity

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Latin Lesson V Word List

5	post-	after, behind	postpone, postscript
5	pre-	before, in front of	previous, prevent, predict, predecessor
5	pro-	forward, in front of, for	promote, produce, provincial
5	re-, red-	back, again	renew, recede, recall, regress, replay
5	retro-	backward, behind	retroactive, retro, retrovirus
5	se-, sed-	aside, away	secede, segregate, sedition, separate
5	sub-, sus-, suc-	under, up from under, secretly	submerge, submarine, suspend, sustain, succumb, suffer, support
5	super-, sur-	above, over	superhuman, superfluous, surreal, surcease
5	trans-, tran-, tra-	across, through	transfer, transparent, transcend, transcribe, transverse, travesty
5	ultra-	beyond, exceedingly	ultraviolet, ultramodern
5	CLUD-, CLUS-, CLOS-	to shut	exclude, include, disclose, inconclusive
5	CUR(R)-, CURS-, COURS-, COR(S)	to run, go	recur, current, excursion, cursory, concourse, succor
5	GRAD-, GRESS-	to step, go	gradual, progress, aggression
5	PEND-, PENS-	to hang, weigh, pay	dependant, suspend, dispense, expense
5	PLE-, PLET-,	to fill, full	implement, complete, deplete, plenary
5	SPEC-, SPECT-, SPIC-	to look	specimen, conspicuous, inspect, respect
5	UND-, OUND-	wave	abundant, undulate, abound, redound
5	VID-, VIS-, VIEW-	to see	evident, provide, visual, provision, review
5	VOC-, VOK-	voice, to call	vocal, invoke, invocation, provoke, revoke

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Latin Lesson VI Word List

6	BI-, BIN-	two, twice	bicycle, binoculars, biathlon, biceps, biconvex
6	CENT-	hundred	century, centennial, centenarian, cent
6	DECI(M), DECEM-	ten	decimal, December, decimate, decimal
6	DU-	two	duet, dualism, duologue, duplicitous, duumvirate
6	MILL-	thousand	millimeter, mill, million
6	OCT-	eight	octet, octameter, octogenarian
6	OCTAV-	eighth	octave, Octavian
6	PRIM-	first	primary, primitive, primipara, primogenitor
6	QUADR(U)-	four	quadrilateral, quadrangle, quadrumanous, quadruped
6	QUART-	fourth	quarter, quarterfinal, quarterly, quartet
6	QUINT-	fifth	quintuplet, quintet, quincunx
6	SEMI-	half	semiannual, semiautonomous, semicircle, semidiurnal, semifinal
6	SEPT(EM)-	seven	septet, September
6	SEXT-	six, sixth	sextet, sextuplets
6	TRI-	three	triple, tripartite, trivial, triangle, trilateral, trinity
6	UN-	one	uniform, unanimous, union, unilateral

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Latin Lesson VII Word List

7	ANIM-	mind, feeling, life	animal, animated, animator
7	ANN(U)-, ENNI-	year	annals, annual, perennial
7	BENE-, BON-	well, good	beneficial, benevolent, benign, bon voyage, bon appetite
7	CANT-, CENT-, CHANT-	to sing	canorous, enchant, incentive, incantation
7	CUR-	care, cure	sinecure, secure, cure
7	EQU-, IQU-	equal, even	equal, equidistant, equitable, iniquity
7	FER-	to bear, carry	refer, transfer, conference, infer
7	LAT- (FER-)	bear, carry	elate, relate, translation
7	MAGN-	great	magnitute, magnify, magnificent, magnanimous
7	MAL(E)-	bad	maladjusted, malicious, malignant
7	MULT-	many	multitude, multiply, multiplicities
7	OPTIM-	best	optimum, optimal, optimistic, optimization
7	PLIC-, PLEX-, PLY-	to fold, tangle, interweave	complicate, implicate, implicit, complex, imply, multiply

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Latin Lesson VIII Word List

8	AQU(A)-	water	aquarium, aqueduct, aquatic
8	CORPOR-, CORP(US)-	body	incorporate, corpuscle, corpse,
8	OMN-	all	omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous
8	REG-, RIG-, RECT-	right, straight; to rule, stiffen, straighten	regular, incorrigible, rectify, regulatory
8	SIMIL-, SIMUL-	like, similar	simulation, simile
8	TEMPER-, TEMPOR-	time, due season; to set bounds	temperate, temperature, temporal, temporary, intemperance
8	TEN-, TIN-, TENT-, TAIN-	to hold	tenant, continue, content, contain
8	TEND-, TENT-, TENS-	to stretch, strive	tendon, tense, tent, distend, pretense, tentative
8	TENU-	stretched, thin	tenuous, attenuate,
8	TRI-	three	triple, tripartite, trivial, triangle, trilateral, trinity
8	-al, -ial, -eal; -ane, -(e)an, -ian, -ain; -ar; -ic, -tic; -ary; -ile, -il; -ine	pertaining to, like, belonging to, having the character of	vocal, verbal, equal; veteran, mundane, mountain
8	-ose, -iose	full of	grandiose, comatose
8	-ous, -ious, -eous	full of, having the character of, like	famous, populous, various

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Latin Lesson IX Word List

9	DOM(IN)-	house, master	dome, predominate, domicile
9	FLAG(R)-, FLAM(M)	to burn, flame	flagrant, conflagrant, inflammation, flammable
9	FLAT-	to blow	inflate, flatulence, conflation
9	GEN-	to give birth to, produce	genital, ingenious, ingenuity
9	GEN-, GENER-	race, kind, origin	general, genus, generous
9	LATER-	side	equilateral, laterally, quadrilateral, multilateral
9	LUC-, LUMIN-	to shine, light	lucid, illuminate, luminescence
9	PAR-	to ready, bring forth, provide	preparatory, separate, prepare
9	SEN-	old	senate, seniority, senile
9	SERV-	to serve, save	Servant, service, preserve, conservation
9	-(u)lent, (o)lent	full of, disposed to	fraudulent, violent, pestilent, postulant

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Latin Lesson X Word List

8/10	-al, -ial, -eal; -ane, -(e)an, -ian, -ain; -ar; -ic, -tic; -ary; -ile, -il; -ine	pertaining to, like, belonging to, having the character of	vocal, verbal, equal; veteran, mundane, mountain
10	-ant, -ent, -ient	Person who, that which, (-ing)	Agent, adherent, inhabitant, urgent, apparent
10	-ate, -it(e)	Possessing, being, (-ed)	Accurate, adequate
10	CUMB-, CUB-	To lie down	Succumb, incubator, incumbent
10	FEDER-	League, treaty	Confederate, federation, federal, federalistic
10	FID-	Faith	Confidence, perfidious
10	FIDEL-	Faithful	Infidelity
10	HER-, HES-	To stick	Adhere, adherent, adhesive
10	ORD(IN)-	To put in order, arrange	Order, ordinary, ordinance
10	POT-, POSS-	To be able, have power	Potent, impotent, possible
10	SAL-, SIL-, SALT-, SULT	To leap	Salient, resilient, saltatorial, insult
10	SED-, SID-, SESS-	To sit, settle	Sediment, insidious, session
10	TERR-	Land, earth	Terrestrial, territory

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Latin Lesson XI Word List

11	-able, -ible; -ile	Able to be, able to, tending to	Portable, adaptable, flexible, agile, volatile, reptile
11	-acious	Tending to, inclined to	Audacious, tenacious
11	CRED-	To believe, trust	Credential, creditor, discredit
11	DOC-	To teach	Document, doctor, indoctrinate
11	FA(B)-, FAT-, FESS-, FAM-	To speak, reveal	Affable, infant, preface, confess, fame, fabulous
11	FALL-, FALS-, FAIL-, FAULT-	To deceive	Fallacy, false, failure, default
11	MOD-	Measure	Modicum, modest, modern, modify
11	MUT-	To change	Mutant, mutation, permutation
11	TANG-, TING-, TACT-	To touch	Tangent, contingent, contact, intact
11	TRACT-	To drag	Tractor, traction, detract

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Latin Lesson XII Word List

12	-itious	Tending to, characterized by	Fictitious, expeditious
12	-id, -ulous; -ive; -uous	Tending to, inclined to	Frigid, rapid, humid
12	AC(U)-, ACR-. ACET-	Sharp, bitter	Acid, acute, acetic acid
12	CAD-, CID-, CAS-	To fall, befall	Cadence, accident, incident, casual, occasion
12	CAP-, CIP-, CAPT-, CEPT-, CEIV-	To take, seize	Incapacitate, recipient, capture, receive
12	FAC-, FIC-, FACT-, FECT-; FEAT-, FEAS-	To do, make	Faculty, efficient, manufacture, effective, defeat, feasable
12	FLOR-	Flower	Florist, floral, Florida
12	FLU-, FLUX-, FLUV-, FLOUR(O)	To flow; a flow	Fluid, flux, effluvia, fluoroscope
12	FOLI-, FOIL-	Leaf	Folio, defoliant, tinfoil, airfoil
12	NOC-, NOX-, NIC-, NEC-	To harm, kill	Innocent, obnoxious, pernicious, internecine

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Latin Lesson XIII Word List

13	-id, -ulous; -ive; -uous	tending to, inclined to	frigid, rapid, humid
13	-ory	tending to, serving for	dilatory, depletory
13	CERN-, CRET-, CERT-	to separate, distinguish	discernment, secret, excrete, ascertain
13	DUR-	hard, to last	duration, durable
13	FUND-, FUS-, FOUND-	to pour, melt	refund, fusion, confusion, foundry
13	NASC-, NAT-	to be born	nascent, native, prenatal, nature, natural
13	PEL(L)-, PULS-	to drive, push	propel, compelling, impulsive, repulsive
13	PON-, POSIT-, POUND-, POSE-	to place, put	component, deposit, position, compound, compose, oppose
13	TORT-	to twist	torture, distort

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Latin Lesson XIV Word List

14	-ity, -ety, -ty; -(i)tude	Quality, state of	Gravity, sanity, society, novelty
14	-acy	Quality or state of being or having	Accuracy, inadequacy, confederacy
14	AM-	To love	Amorous, amatory
14	DE-, DIV-	God	Deify, divine, deity
14	JOURN-	Day	Journal, journey
14	OR-	To speak formally, plead	Oration, orator, peroration
14	PROB-, PROV-	Good, to test	Probe, probity, prove
14	RAP-, RAPT-, REPT-	To seize	Rapid, rape, rapture
14	STRING-, STRICT-, STRAIN-	To draw tight	Stringent, strict, restrict, restrain
14	VER-	True	Veritable, aver, very

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Latin Lesson XV Word List

15	-(i)mony	Quality of, state of	Testimony, matrimony
15	-acity	Quality of being inclined to	Audacity, capacity, rapacity
15	-y	Quality of, state of, result of	Custody, perjury, controversy
15	-ate, -it(e)	Possessing, being, (-ed); office of, holder(s) of the office of	Accurate, adequate
15	CID-, CIS-	To kill, cut	Insecticide, fratricide, incision, precise
15	MATR-, MATERN-	Mother	Matron, maternity
15	PATR-, PATERN-	Father	Patrimony, paternity
15	PATRI-	Fatherland, country	Patriot, repatriate
15	PATRON-	Protector	Patronize
15	SEQU-, SECUT-	To follow	Sequential, consequence, consecutive, prosecute,
15	SOL-	Alone	Solitude, desolation, consolation
15	VIV-	To live	Vivid, revive, vivacious

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Latin Lesson XVI Word List

16	-ion	Act of, state of, result of	Completion, prevention, production
16	-ment	Result of, means of, act of, state of	Excitement, ligament, monument, regiment
16	-men	Result of, means of, act of, state of	specimen, regimen
16	CRE-, CRESC-, CRET-	To grow	Crescent, excrescent, concrete
16	I-, IT-	To go	Transient, ambient, initial, transition
16	JUG-, JUNCT-, JOIN-, JOINT-	A yoke, to join	Jugular, juncture, join, rejoinder, conjointly
16	LEG-, LIG-, LECT-	To choose, pick out, read	Legible, legend, eligible, elect, selective
16	MON-	To warn, advise	Admonish, monument, monitor, premonition
16	SOLV-, SOLUT-	To free, loosen	Solve, absolve, solution, absolute

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Latin Lesson XVII Word List

17	-(i)cule, -cle, -icle	Little	Molecule, muscle, particle
17	-el	Little	novel, morsel, panel
17	-il	Little	pupil, codicil
17	-ole, -ule	Little	vacuole, aureole, capsule, globule, scruple
17	FERV-	To boil, bubble	Fervent, fervidity
17	FRANG-, FRING-, FRACT-	To break	Frangible, fraction, infringe
17	GRAN-	Grain	Granary, granite, granola
17	MINOR-, MINUS-, MINUT-	Small, smaller	Minority, minute, diminutive
17	PATI-, PASS-	To endure, suffer	Patient, passive, passion
17	QUIR-, QUISIT-, QUEST-	To ask, seek	Inquire, query; inquisitive, inquisition; question, quest
17	SEC-, SEG-. SECT-	To cut	Secant, segment, bisect, section, dissect

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Latin Lesson XVIII Word List

18	-ance, -ancy, -ence, -ency	Quality of ______ing; State of ________ing	Vigilant, hesitant, influence, fluency
18	-or	State of, result of; one who does, that which does	Ardor, furor, error; actor, navigator, interlocutor
18	-ary, -arium, -ory	Place for	Library, lavatory, granary, aquarium, terrarium
18	AG-, IG-, ACT-	To do, drive	Agent, agile, inactive, transact
18	CLAM-, CLAIM-	To cry out	Clamor, proclaim, exclamation
18	COG-	To think, reflect, consider	Cognitive, cognition, cogent
18	DIC-, DICT-	To say	Diction, contradiction, edict
18	GER-. GEST-	To carry, produce	Exaggerate, congestion, digest, gesticulation
18	MIT(T)-, MIS(S)-	To send, let go	Admit, transmitter, missile, transmission
18	SCI-	To know	Science, conscientious
18	SON-	Sound	Dissonant, supersonic, sonata, resonance
18	VAL-, VAIL-	To be strong, be worthy	Value, equivalent, valid, avail, prevail

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Latin Lesson XIX Word List

19	-ure	Act of, result of	Fracture, puncture, rupture
19	-(u)lence, -(o)lence	State of quality of being full of	Violence, fraudulence
19	-or	State of, result of; one who does, that which does	Ardor, furor, error; actor, navigator, interlocutor
19	-and(um), -(i)end(um)	That which must be ______ed	Agendum, memorandum
19	ERR-	To wander, err	Error, erratic
19	JAC-, JECT-	To throw	inject, projectile, reject
19	NOMEN-, NOMIN-	Name, noun	Nomenclature, nominate, nominative
19	SCRIB-, SCRIPT-	To write	Describe, inscribe, scribble, subscription
19	STA-, STIT-, SIST-	To stand	Stance, circumstances, station, insist, consistent
19	VOLV-, VOLUT-	To roll	Revolve, involve, evolution, revolution

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Latin Lesson XX Word List

20	-esce	To begin, become	Convalescence, adolescent, effloresce
20	CAPIT-, CIPIT-	Head	Capital, decapitate, precipitate, precipitous
20	GNO-, NO-, NOT-	To know	Recognize, ignore, noble, notable, gnostic
20	LOC-	Place	Localize, dislocation
20	PUT-	To prune, reckon, think	Amputate, compute, impute
20	RADIC-	Root	Radical, eradicate
20	ROG-	To ask	Interrogate, derogatory, arrogant
20	SPIR-	To breathe	Spirit, conspire, respiration

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Latin Lesson XXI Word List

21	-ify, -efy	to make	pacify, magnify, liquify
21	-ific	making, causing	pacific, terrific
21	AL-, ALT-	to nourish, grow tall	alumnus, alimony, altitude
21	MEDI-	middle	median, medium, immediate
21	MIGR-	to move from one place to another	migratory, transmigrate, immigrant
21	MORT-	death	mortician, Morticia, mortuary
21	PET-	to seek, assail	compete, petition, appetite
21	PUG(N)-	to fight; a fist	repugnant, impugn, pugilist

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Latin Lesson XXII Word List

22	GRAT-	Pleasing, grateful	Gratitude, gratuitous
22	MISC-, MIXT-	To mix	Promiscuous, immiscible, admixture
22	MOVE-, MOT-	To move	Movement, remove, motion, remote
22	NEG-	To deny	Negate, negative, renegade
22	PURG-	To clean	Purge, purgative, purgatory
22	VULG-	Common, ordinary	Vulgar, vulgate

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Latin Lesson XXIII Word List

23	CORD-	Heart	Cordial, accord, record
23	FLECT-, FLEX-	To bend	Deflection, reflection, flexible, reflex
23	MANU-	Hand	Manufacture, manicure, manipulate, manuscript
23	PORT-	To carry	Portable, deport, report
23	STRU-, STRUCT-	To build	Instrument, structure, instruct
23	TERMIN-	Boundary, end	Terminal, determine
23	VINC-, VICT-	to conquer	Convince, evince, victor, convict

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Latin Lesson XXIV Word List

24	AUD-	To hear	Audience, audit, auditorium
24	CARN-	Flesh	Carnage, incarnation
24	NUNCI-, NOUNC-	To announce	Annunciation, denunciation, denounce, pronounce
24	PRESS-	To press	Pressure, compression
24	PROPRI-	One’s own, fitting	Propriety, appropriate
24	SAT(IS)-	Enough	Satiate, satisfy

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