Unit 7-11 Vocabulary From Latin and Greek Roots (English I) with Sentences

bellicose

His evident calm, which always infuriated the opposition, must have irritated the _______ colonel to a point at which he could control himself no longer.

antebellum

The two Black teens live in the __________ South as slaves, skirting the numbing terrors of their master and navigating the nuances of their community.

belligerence

But more important, whatever good Beijing did was reversed by its __________ in other diplomatic disputes.

enamored

Japanese fans took to the gruff Americans, but the homegrown players were less ________________.

amiable

These strained plot contortions aren't really necessary: the funny, ________ heart of the movie is in the scenes of these tough old duffers scamming their way through the training program.

amicable

About a million couples divorce each year in the United States, and most, like my ex and me, start out striving to keep the split _______________. And though you may have good intentions, things can go awry during the traditional I-win-you-lose adversarial process.

antagonize

Grassroots campaigns will have to do a balancing act both to ______________ and work with the establishment.

protagonist

The _________________ of Gordon's fiction are children who have been saddled with their parents' emotional bad debts.

antagonist

They are interested in character first, and in Don, a foul-mouthed psychopath with a hair-trigger temper and buried longings for Gal's wife, they have created a truly scary _____________.

philosophical

Your relationship with money, possessions, and values may be changing on a ______________ level.

philanthropy

San Francisco has a long history of ______________ — and our Opera, Ballet, museums, universities and hospitals are enriched by it.

bibliophile

Sure, the thought of getting rid of books sickens most ________________.

impediment

The inability to watch over workers was identified very early as an ________ to working from home.

expedient

Do the right thing, not the ________ thing.

pedestrian

He lived a ________ life, working at the paper mill and living in his trailer.

pedant

A zealous ____________, Flaubert defended the accuracy of his historical novels with wearisome tenacity, as if accuracy could compensate for their lack of lived experience.

pedagogue

Ms. Smith, a ___________ whose classroom lessons consisted entirely of reading directly from the textbook in a monotone manner, rarely inspired anyone to achieve greatness.

travesty

The fact the innovative and awe-inspiring record was snubbed from the 2021 Grammys is a __________.

vested

Reforms in the electricity sector have been stymied by protests and the _________ interests of private generator companies, some with connections to political figures.

vestment

The cardinals in their scarlet __________ are a constant design element, massed for conclaves or strung out in long files along the Vatican corridors.

divest

The letter is part of a broader campaign that has called on private equity firms, investment managers and pension funds to ______________ from companies that operate in correctional facilities and profit from mass incarceration.

corporal

My grandmother has started to suffer the _______ ailments that come with advancing age

corpulent

In practice, increasingly _______ Italians — and especially Italian children — are united by an insatiable hunger for snack food.

incorporate

The failure to ____________ predictable human behavior into pandemic policy is an error of policy design, not the moral failing of Americans.

Uniform

The museum is kept at a ________ temperature to protect the artifacts.

Unison

Fox attacks on his own, crouching, extending his arms and that 6-6 wingspan, moving his feet in _______ with his opponent's.

Unanimous

And masks will remain mandatory, after a _________ vote, 22-0, for a Feb. 22 start.

Monologue

High school students from across the country were challenged to create a character and write an original ______________ for a 1-2 minute performance.

Monopolize

The provision offers what critics have called a loophole that allowed some drug manufacturers to unfairly _________________ a market, causing consumers to pay higher prices.

Monogamy

_______________ is common among birds as they choose a mate for life.

Monolithic

Viewing the Latino vote as _______ fails, of course, to capture the often sharply varying politics and ethnicities of people hailing from nearly two dozen countries on two continents.

Homonym

Pearle is, after all, both her middle name and a ________ of purl, a type of knitting stitch.

Homogenized

When it comes to the stuff we own, we're living in an increasingly _________ world. Same clothes, same cars, same watches, same everything.

Equitable

Officials also said the state will work with school districts on student learning gaps through more professional development and ______________ access to computers.

Equilibrium

One of the options discussed at league headquarters is pushing the pause button on the season for a week or two to allow teams to catch their breath and regain their ___________________.

Iniquity

The ______________ of the punishment led many people to believe that the defendant was being punished for his political beliefs

Benevolent

Grandfather sometimes turned on us like a rigged trap, and of course the ________ gaze of the sage became the glare of the patriarch.

Benefactor

For the hungry, homeless, financially struggling and those simply craving human companionship, some very generous Central Florida _________ will try to ensure there is a free meal for all who need or want it this Thanksgiving week.

Benign

We were happy to hear that the tumor was ______.

Accord

Tensions have escalated in the Mideast as Iran appears poised to break the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, an ________ that the Trump administration pulled out of last year.

Discord

Tammy's back-stabbing comments throw the remaining hour of The Bachelor into abject __________.

Cordial

Chaudry said her organization spoke with College Board officials Wednesday, describing the conversation as __________ and respectful.

Animosity

We put aside our personal _______ so that we could work together.

Equanimity

There were two main reasons: to maximize natural light and to muffle the screams of surgical patients, thereby saving the __________ of everyone else at the hospital.

Magnanimous

"No problem," I dismissed his concerns with a _________ flick of the wrist.

Dismal

The Spartans managed a _________ 7-14 record in their first 21 bowl appearances from 1937-2010.

Malevolent

Those attacks are constant, launched round-the-clock by every grade of _________ hacker, from small-time thieves after your credit card information to nation-states that want to bring on the digital apocalypse.

Malicious

When the census arrives, so will cyber scams: phishing emails from bad actors claiming to be bureau representatives, text messages with ___________links, and harassing phone calls demanding private information.

perjury

Marilyn Mosby is facing charges of ______ and making false statements related to early withdrawals from her city retirement account and the purchase of two Florida houses.

abjure

Taking the oath to absolutely and entirely renounce and ______ my homeland was more terrifying.

conjure

The speed or tempo, to me, is like two milliseconds ahead of how fast your hands are moving, because your brain has to send signals to your hands to ________ up that same image.

predominant

Though many Ukrainians embraced the Ukrainian language after the USSR dissolved in 1991, most people in the country still speak and understand at least some Russian, and in some areas Russian remains ___________.

domineering

Newly arrived from India, naive Simmy has come to marry the family’s eldest son Raj, who runs away, leaving Simmy locked in the house by her ________ mother-in-law.

indomitable

His is a thoroughly American story, woven throughout with self-determination, willpower, and an _______ can-do attitude.

aristocracy

As we are reminded by Hilary Mantel’s novels showing the rivalries surrounding Henry VIII, the Tudor era was a time of social flux, when families newly rich from trade and government service began to challenge the feudal ________.

theocracy

The ______ in the country ended when the high priests representing the gods were caught stealing from the people.

bureaucrat

The councilman nominated several unqualified candidates to city positions, leading to an increase in the number of ________ in the city's government.

legitimize

Critics maintain Calderón’s war was an effort to _________ his weak presidency by rallying the country through what now seems like a never-ending war that’s cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

privileged

Only the ________ few can become members of the club.

legislative

Senate Minority Leader Tim Knopp, R-Bend, argued that the bill hasn’t been vetted by both ________ chambers and raises significant constitutional issues.