Semester 2 Week 12 Vocab & Roots

Distaff

female or having to do with women

Salacious

lustful or appealing to sexual desire; lurid or unseemly

Disparity

a great difference between two things (disparate)

Salient

(adj.) very important or noticeable with respect to something: (noun) a part that juts out (salience)

Dissuade

to convince from something

Sanguine

optimistic

Belligerent

hostile; looking for a fight (belligerence)

Opaque

difficult to see through; not transparent (opacity)

Lt. salax-

lustful

Lt. par, paris-

equal

Lt. dis-

off, against

Lt. salire-

to jump

Lt. dissuadere-

to advise against, oppose by argument

Lt. suadere-

to urge, incite, promote, advise, persuade

Lt. sanguis-

blood

Lt. bellium-

war

Lt. gerere, gestus-

to carry

Lt. opacus-

shadow