random roots

A collection of vocabulary flashcards based on key terms and definitions from the lecture notes.

Sect

To cut.

Pugn

Fight.

Pugnacious

Belligerent, combative.

Repugnant

Inticing distaste or aversion.

Impugn

To attack or oppose as false or lacking integrity.

Pugilistic

Having to do with boxing.

Cide/Cis

To kill.

Parricide

The murder of a close kinsman.

Concise

Marked by brevity of expression or statement.

Sci-

To know.

Prescient

Having knowledge of events before they take place.

Omniscient

Knowing everything.

Lu/Luc

Light.

Luminous

Of or relating to light or to luminous flux.

Lucid

Clear to the understanding, intelligible.

Pellucid

Admitting maximum passage of light without distortion.

Translucent

Permitting the passage of light.

Litera

Letter.

Cord

Heart.

Accord

Agreement, conformity, harmony.

Concord

A state of agreement, harmony.

Discord

Lack of agreement or harmony.

Frang/Fract/-Fringe

To break.

Infringe

To encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another.

Refraction

Deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave.

Solv

Loosen, release.

Solvent

Able to pay all legal debts; something that dissolves or disperses.

Absolve, absolution

Set free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt (or sin).

Dissolution

Lacking restraint, especially in morals or lifestyle.

Resolve

Find an answer or solution to, resolution.

Prehend/Prehens-

To seize, grasp.

Prehensile

Adapted for seizing or grasping.

Apprehensive

Viewing the future with anxiety or alarm.

Reprehensible

Worthy or deserving of censure or blame, moral condemnation.

Rid/Ris

To laugh.

Ridicule

The subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior.

Risible

Arousing laughter, capable of being laughed at.

Deride

To laugh at contemptuously.

Derision, derisive, derisory

Cruel, contemptuous laughter.

Nasc/Nat

Birth.

Nascent

Coming into existence and displaying signs of future potential.

Renascent/Renaissance

Rising again, rebirth of knowledge and culture.

Natal

Of or pertaining to birth.

Prenatal

Before birth.

Nativity

Occasion of birth.

Innate

Born in nature.

Pati/Pass

To suffer, experience.

a/ab/abs

Away from.

ad

To, toward.

circum

Around.

co/con

Together, intensive.

de

Down, not.

di/dis

Apart, not.

e/ex

Out of.

extra/extro

Outside of.

in

In, not.

inter

Between, among.

intra/intro

Within.

ob

In the way of, intensive.

Pre

Before.

per

Through, intensive.

pro

Forth, forward.

re

Back, again.

sub

Under.

super

Above, over.

trans/tra

Across.

prec

pray, beseech, entreat

precarious

depending on chance

deprecate

to express mild or regretful disapproval

of

imprecate

to invoke evil on, to curse