Vocab Unit 4

Vivacious

Full of energy and life

Viviparous

Giving birth to live babies (not eggs)

Convivial

Friendly and fun to be around

Sustenance

Food or something that keeps you alive

Tenacity

Not giving up: strong determination

Pertinent

Something related to the topic

Tangential

Slightly related but not really important

Contiguous

Touching or next to eachother

Contingent

Dependent on something else happening

Contagious

Able to spread from person to person

Intact

Not broken or damaged

Subjugate

To control or conquer by force

Subliminal

Below the level of awareness

Substratum

A layer underneath something else

Subordinate

Lower in rank or position

Subcontract

to hire another person/company to do part of a job

Perspicacious

Very smart and able to understand quickly

Inconspicuous

Not easily noticed

Inauspicious

Not likely to bring sucess

Perennial

Lasting a long time or happening every year

Perforate

To make holes in something

Percolate

To slowly pass through

Paucity

A small amount

Pusillanimous

To be very cowardly

Puerile

To be childish and immature

Malefactor

A criminal or wrongdoer

Malevolent

Wishing harm to others

Interpose

To step in between

Interstice

A small space between things

Intermediary

A middle person who helps two sides connect

Root/Prefix/Suffix- inter

Between, among

Root/Prefix/Suffix- male (e)

Bad, badly; evil, ill; abnormal, abnormally

Root/Prefix/Suffix- pau/po/pov/pu

Few, little, poor

Root/Prefix/Suffix- per

Through, throughout

Root/Prefix/Suffix- spec/spic

To look at

Root/Prefix/Suffix- sub

under, below, beneath

Root/Prefix/Suffix- tang/tact

Touch

Root/Prefix/Suffix- ten/tain/tin

Hold

Root/Prefix/Suffix- viv/vit

Alive