Latin and Greek Vocab MIDTERM

Fortuitous

Fortuitous

happening by lucky accident or chance, fortunate

Fortuity

a chance or accident

Auspices

protection or support, patronage

Auspicious

followed by favorable circumstances

Predestination

the belief that one’s fate has been determined in advance by a higher power

Destine

to intend for a specific end or purpose

Consort

1. to keep company; to associate

2. a companion, especially a romantic one

Consortium

a group of companies or institutions

Propitious

lucky; favorable

Propitiate

to soothe or satisfy; to appease

Importune

to urge or beg without end

Importunate

extremely demanding; insistent

Rapport

a positive relationship

Insufferable

impossible to bear; intolerable

Preferential

giving or showing an advantage to one over another

Conferment

the act of bestowing; a formal offer

Periphery

the outermost part or boundary

Euphoria

a feeling of great happiness or well-being

Congested

overcrowded; too tightly packed

Gestate

to conceive and develop in mind and body

Gesticulate

to make gestures for emphasis

Requiem

A song or religious service for the dead or lost

Vigilante

Someone who take law enforcement into his or her hands

Languish

To waste away

Somnolent

Drowsy; sleepy

Vigilant

On the alert; WATCHFUL 👀

Sopor

Sleep; drowsiness

Quittance

A repayment; a compensation 💵

Languid

Lacking energy; weak

Languor

A lack of physical or mental energy

Acquiesce

To give in

Soporific

Causing sleep or fatigue

Jocular

characterized by joking

Fete

to honor with a banquet or feast

Bacchanal

a drunken party or celebration

Festoon

to drape or adorn festively

Plaintive

sorrowful; expressing or evoking mourning

Jocose

cheerful; merry

Elegy

a song or poem memorializing something or someone

Plaint

a lament or complaint

Bacchic

of or related to a wild celebration

Elegiac

mourning that which is lost or past; sorrowful

Negate

to cancel the effect of; to nullify

Peccant

violating a moral law; sinful

Negligent

not properly attentive

Impair

to cause to diminish in strength, value, or quality

malinger

to pretend to be sick in order to avoid something

Malign

to speak of maliciously; to insult

Impeccable

having no flaws

Pejorative

negative and critical; insulting

Negligible

unimportant; insignificant

malaise

a sense of unease; depression

Peccadillo

a small sin or fault

pallor

an extreme or unnatural paleness

verdant

green; lush with vegetation

livid

enraged; furious

candor

a frankness or sincerity

apall

to fill with horror or disapproval

candid

open and sincere

virdity

a lack of experience; an innocence

incandescent

shining brightly

verdure

greenery; fresh and ripe vegetation

pallid

lacking color; dull

denigrate

to attack the character of; to mock

apropos

with regard to

extant

still in existence, not destroyed

static

having no motion or change

quintessential

the most typical, ideal, or important

restive

• resisting authority; difficult to control

• restless, fidgety

stanch

to stop the flow of

ecstasy

an intense joy or delight

stasis

condition where there is no change

essence

the most important ingredient; crucial element

entity

a being

staunch

firm & steadfast

depose

to remove from office or power

laborious

requiring mental or physical effort

opulent

possessing or exhibiting great wealth; affluent

liturgy

a pattern of prayer or worship

lethargy

a state of sluggishness, inactivity, and apathy

malfeasance

misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official

belabor

-to discuss in too much detail

-to attack

elaborate

to explain in greater detail

synergy

the power that results from the combination of two or more forces

discomfit

to embarrass and confuse

edification

an improvement or enlightenment

feasible

capable of being accomplished

surfeit

the condition of being too full; an overabundance

magnum opus

the greatest work of an artist

modus operandi

a specific manner of working