latin roots and sat words 5-8

Latin Roots and Vocabulary Words

Page 1: Roots and Derivatives 1-6

  1. cent(i) (hundred)

    • Examples: century, centipede, centennial, centigrade, centimeter, sesquicentennial

  2. cide(e), cis(e) (to kill, to cut)

    • Examples: homicide, incision, suicide, scissors, circumcise, excision

  3. clam, claim (to cry out, to declare)

    • Examples: clamor, explain, proclaim, disclaim, claimant, acclaim

  4. cord, cour (heart)

    • Examples: accord, courage, encouraged, cordiform, cordate, concordant

  5. corp(or) (body)

    • Examples: corpse, corporation, corps, corpuscle, corporeal, corpus, corset

  6. cred (to believe, to trust)

    • Examples: credo, credit, discredit, credence, credentials, accreditation

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  1. cur(r), curs, course (to run, to flow)

    • Examples: current, excursion, discourse, concur, recourse, curriculum, recurrent

  2. dic(t) (to speak, to say)

    • Examples: diction, indication, edict, jurisdiction, dictionary, addict, interdiction

Page 1: Vocabulary Words

  1. centenarian: (n) a person who has lived to be one hundred years old

  2. clamorous: (a) characterized by continuous loud and complaining voices; noisily complaining; insistent

  3. concordance: (n) a condition of harmony or agreement; an alphabetical index indicating reference passages, as from a writer’s works

  4. discordant: (a) sounding harsh or inharmonious; clashing

  5. incisive: (a) keenly penetrating; cutting into

  6. concourse: (n) a running or flowing together; a broad public walkway or hallway; a crowd or throng

  7. corporal: (a) related to the physical body

  8. credulity: (n) the naïve willingness to believe too easily without proof

  9. cursory: (a) done in a superficial or hasty manner

  10. dictum: (n) an authoritative saying or maxim

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  1. Duc(t), duce (to lead)

    • Examples: conduct, reduce, education, abduct, deductive, ductile

  2. Fedter), fid(e) (faith, trust)

    • Examples: federal, confidence, affidavit, infidel, bona fide, confide

  3. Fin(e) (end, limit)

    • Examples: finish, confine, define, infinity, affinity

  4. Flect, flex (to bend)

    • Examples: deflect, reflex, reflector, flexibility, genuflect, flexor

  5. flu(x), fluct (to flow, flowing)

    • Examples: fluid, influx, flush, fluctuate, influence, influenza, fluent

  6. fort, fore (strong)

    • Examples: fortress, forceful, reinforce, comfortable, effortlessly

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  1. frater(n), fratr (brother)

    • Examples: fraternity, fraternal, fraternalism, friar

  2. fus, fund, found (to pour, to melt)

    • Examples: transfusion, funnel, refund, fountain, confusion, foundry, fusion

Page 2: Vocabulary Words

  1. confluence: (n) a coming or flowing together, as of rivers or ideas, a place of joining

  2. confound: (v) to perplex, confuse, amaze, or bewilder

  3. effusive: (a) pouring forth in an emotional way; unrestrained or overly demonstrative

  4. fratricide: (n) the killing of one’s own brother; someone who commits such an act

  5. mellifluous: (a) as if flowing with honey or sweetness; like the tones of a honeyed voice

  6. superfluous: (a) beyond what is needed; in excess of a sufficiency

  7. conducive: (a) tending to lead, help, assist, or result in

  8. fidelity: (n) faithfulness to one’s promises or obligations; steadfast faithfulness; technological faithfulness

  9. flexuous: (a) a winding in and out; bending or waving

  10. perfidious: (a) a characteristic of one who would intentionally betray a faith or trust; treacherous