Latin 2 Vocabulary Derivatives for 2025

Aberrant

abnormal or deviant

Acquiesce

to accept without protest

Advent

arrival

Amatory

romantic

Ambulatory

able to walk

Ameliorate

to improve

Amicable

peaceable, friendly

Animus

hatred

Apparition

ghost

Arboreal

living in trees

Aspersion

attack on someone's reputation

Belligerent

warlike

Benevolent

kindly, charitable

Benign

harmless

Brevity

shortness

Caldron

huge cooking pot

Celerity

swiftness

Centrifugal force

an apparent force that acts outward on a body moving around a center, arising from the body's inertia

Circuitous

roundabout, not direct

Circumvent

get around

Cogitate

to think deeply

Commemorate

honor the memory of

Commodious

spacious, roomy

Consent

permission

Conspicuous

noticeable

Corporeal

having to do with the body

Culpable

deserving blame

Curator

A person in charge of a museum

Decadence

decline, decay, or deterioration; excessive self-indulgence

Decorum

proper behavior

Derisive

expressing contempt or ridicule

Dissimulate

pretend; conceal by feigning; dissemble

Edifice

large building

Epistle

letter

Equine

horse

Equivocal

open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous

Exhume

(v.) to remove from a grave; to bring to light

Extract

to pull out by force

Facile

Too simplistic or easy

Fatuous

silly, foolish

Furtive

secretive

Gravity

seriousness

Imbibe

(v.) to drink; to take in, absorb

Impede

To obstruct or interfere with; to delay

Impediment

obstacle

Impetus

That which drives one; momentum

Incendiary

explosive device; explosive comment

Incite

to arouse to action

Innocuous

harmless

Irate

angry

Ire

anger

Itinerary

a route of travel

Lachrymal

having to do with tears

Latent

hidden

Levity

lack of seriousness

Licentious

immoral; unrestrained by society

Loquacious

talkative

Lucid

clear and easily understood

Lupine

wolf-like

Magnanimous

generous in forgiving

Malicious

Intended to hurt or harm

Nihilist

someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief

Nominal

(adj.) existing in name only, not real; too small to be considered or taken seriously

Nullification

A state's refusal to recognize an

Obstinate

stubborn

Omnivorous

eating every kind of food

Onerous

burdensome

Paucity

scarcity

Peril

danger

Perilous

dangerous

Placate

make (someone) less angry or hostile

Placid

calm, peaceful

Plurality

the number of votes cast for a candidate who receives more than any other but does not receive an absolute majority

Precipitate

to fall as moisture; to cause or bring about suddenly

Procrastinate

to delay unnecessarily

Propinquity

nearness

Provocative

Causing disturbance or excitement

Puerile

childish

Pugnacious

eager to fight

Pulverize

to ground or pound to a powder or dust

Quiescent

inactive; at rest

Ramification

consequence

Rapacity

aggressive greed

Repellent

a substance used to drive away insects or animals

Revocation

an act or instance of calling back

Rustic

rural

Sedentary

sitting

Sepulcher

tomb

Servile

overly submissive

Sine qua non

an essential element or condition

Solicitous

showing concern or care; fearful or anxious

Somnambulist

sleepwalker

Sordid

dirty

Surge

to rush suddenly

Sylvan

wooded, woody

Tacit

understood or implied without being stated

Tenacity

persistence

Tumultuous

rowdy

Turbulent

disorderly, riotous, violent; stormy

Ubiquitous

present or existing everywhere