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A A/AN: not, without agnostic: one who believes the existence of God is not provable amoral: neither moral nor immoral; having no relation to morality atrophy: the wasting away of body tissue AB: off, away from, apart, down abdicate: to renounce or relinquish a throne abject: cast down; degraded abstract: conceived apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances abstruse: hard to understand; secret, hidden ABLE/IBLE: capable of, worthy of changeable: able to be changed combustible: capable of being burned; easily inflamed AC/ACR: sharp, bitter, sour acerbic: sour or astringent in taste; harsh in temper acid: something that is sharp, sour, or ill-natured acrimonious: caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature acumen: mental sharpness; quickness of wit ACT/AG: to do, to drive, to force, to lead agile: quick and well-coordinated in movement; active, lively pedagogue: a teacher AD: to, toward, near (often the d is dropped and the first letter to which a is prefixed is doubled.) accede: to yield to demand; to enter office addict: to give oneself over, as to a habit or pursuit adjoin: to be close or in contact with AL/ALI/ALTER: other, another alias: an assumed name allegory: figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another altruist: a person unselfishly concerned for the welfare of others AM: love amateur: a person who engages in an activity for pleasure rather than financial or professional gain amity: friendship; peaceful harmony amorous: inclined to love, esp. sexual love AMBI/AMPHI: both, on both sides, around ambidextrous: able to use both hands equally well ambient: moving around freely; circulating ambiguous: open to various interpretations AMBL/ABUL: to go, to walk ambulance: a vehicle equipped for carrying sick people (from a phrase meaning “walking hospital”) ambulatory: of, pertaining to, or capable of walking perambulator: one who makes a tour of inspection on foot ANIM: of the life, mind, soul, breath animosity: a feeling of ill will or enmity equanimity: mental or emotional stability, especially under tension magnanimous: generous in forgiving an insult or injury ANNUI/ENNI: year annals: a record of events, esp. a yearly record annual: of, for, or pertaining to a year; yearly perennial: lasting for an indefinite amount of time ANT/ANTE: before antecedent: existing, being, or going before antedate: precede in time antediluvian: belonging to the period before the biblical flood; very old or old-fashioned ANTRHO/ANDR: man, human androgen: any substance that promotes masculine characteristics androgynous: being both male and female misanthrope: a person who hates humans or humanity APO: away apocalypse: revelation; discovery; disclosure apogee: the highest or most distant point apostasy: a total desertion of one’s religion, principles, party, cause, etc. ARCH/ARCHI/ARCHY: chief, principal, ruler anarchy: a state or society without government or law monarchy: a government in which the supreme power is lodged in a sovereign oligarchy: a state or society ruled by a select group ARD: to burn ardent: burning; fierce; passionate ardor: flame; passion arson: the crime of setting property on fire AUTO: self autonomy: independence or freedom autocrat: an absolute ruler B BE: about, to make, to surround, to affect (often used to transform words into transitive verbs) belie: to misrepresent; to contradict belittle: to make small; to make something appear smaller bemoan: to lament; to moan for BEL/BELL: beautiful belle: a beautiful woman embellish: to make beautiful; to ornament BEN/BENE: good benediction: act of uttering a blessing benefit: anything advantageous to a person or thing benign: having a kindly disposition BI/BIN: two biennial: happening every two years bilingual: able to speak one’s native language and another with equal facility binocular: involving two eyes BON/BOUN: good, generous bona fide: in good faith; without fraud bountiful: generous BREV/BRID: short, small abbreviate: to shorten breviloquent: laconic; concise in one’s speech brevity: shortness BURS: purse, money bursar: treasurer bursary: treasury disburse: to pay C CAD/CID: to fall, to happen by chance cascade: a waterfall descending over a steep surface coincidence: a striking occurrence of two or more events at one time, apparently by chance recidivist: one who repeatedly relapses, as into crime CAP/CIP/CEPT: to take, to get capture: to take by force or stratagem percipient: having perception; discerning; discriminating precept: a commandment or direction given as a rule of conduct CAP/CAPIT/CIPIT: to head, headlong capital: the city or town that is the official seat of government capitulate: to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms precipice: a cliff with a vertical face CARD/CORD/COUR: heart concord: agreement; peace, amity concordance: agreement, concord, harmony discord: lack of harmony between persons or things CED/CEED/CESS: to go, to yield, to stop accede: to yield to a demand; to enter office cessation: a temporary or complete discontinuance incessant: without stop CELER: speed accelerant: something used to speed up a process celerity: speed; quickness CERN/CERT/CRET/CRIM/CRIT: to separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide certitude: freedom from doubt discrete: detached from others, separate hypocrite: a person who pretends to have beliefs that she does not CHROM: color chromatic: having to do with color chromosome: genetic material that can be studied by coloring it with dyes CHRON: time anachronism: something that is out-of-date or belonging to the wrong time chronic: constant, habitual chronometer: a highly accurate clock or watch CIRCU/CIRCUM: around circuitous: roundabout, indirect circumspect: cautious; watching all sides CIS: to cut exorcise: to seek to expel an evil spirit by ceremony incisive: penetrating, cutting CLA/CLO/CLU: to shut, to close claustrophobia: an abnormal fear of enclosed places cloister: a courtyard bordered with covered walks, esp. in a religious institution preclude: to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of CLAIM/CLAM: to shout, to cry out clamor: a loud uproar disclaim: to deny interest in or connection with proclaim: to announce or declare in an official way CLI: to lean toward climax: the most intense point in the development of something disinclination: aversion, distaste proclivity: inclination, bias CO/COL/COM/CON: with, together commensurate: suitable in measure, proportionate conciliate: to placate, win over connect: to bind or fasten together CONTRA/CONTRO/COUNTER: against contrary: opposed to; opposite countermand: to retract an order CORP/CORS: body corps: a body (an organized group) of troops corpulent: obese; having a lot of flesh incorporation: combining into a single body COSM: order, universe, world cosmology: a theory of the universe as a whole cosmopolitan: worldly microcosm: a small system that reflects a larger whole COUR/CUR: running, a course concur: to agree cursory: going rapidly over something; hasty; superficial incursion: a hostile entrance into a place, esp. suddenly CER/CRESC/CRET: to grow accretion: an increase by natural growth accrue: to be added a matter of periodic gain excrescence: an outgrowth CRED: to believe, to trust credo: any formula of belief credulity: willingness to believe or trust too readily CULP: fault, blame culpable: deserving blame or censure inculpate: to charge with fault mea culpa: through my fault; my fault D DAC/DOC: to teach didactic: intended for instruction indoctrinate: to imbue a person with learning DE: away, off, down, completely, reversal defame: to attack the good name or reputation of deferential: respectful; to yield to judgment defile: to make foul, dirty, or unclean DEM: people democracy: government by the people endemic: peculiar to a particular person or locality pandemic: general, universal DI: day diurnal: daily quotidian: everyday; ordinary DI/DIF/DIS: away from, apart, reversal, not diffuse: to pour out and spread, as in a fluid dilatory: inclined to delay or procrastinate dissipate: to scatter wastefully DIGN: worth condign: well deserved; fitting; adequate dignitary: a person who holds a high rank or office disdain: to look upon or treat with contempt DOL: to suffer, to pain, to grieve doleful: sorrowful, mournful dolorous: full of pain or sorrow, grievous indolence: a state of being lazy or slothful DUB: doubt dubiety: doubtfulness dubious: doubtful indubitable: unquestionable DULC: sweet dulcet: sweet; pleasing dulcified: sweetened; softened dulcimer: a musical instrument DYS: faulty, abnormal dysfunctional: poorly functioning dyspepsia: impaired digestion dystrophy: faulty or inadequate nutrition or development E E/EX: out, out of, from, former, completely efface: to rub or wipe out; surpass, eclipse extricate: to disentangle, release EPI: upon epidermis: the outer layer of the skin epigram: a witty or pointed saying tersely expressed epilogue: a concluding part added to a literary word EQU: equal, even equation: the act of making equal iniquity: gross injustice; wickedness ERR: to wander errant: wandering or traveling, especially in search of adventure erratic: deviating from the proper or usual course in conduct ESCE: becoming convalescent: recovering from illness obsolescent: becoming obsolete EU: good, well euphemism: pleasant-sounding term for something unpleasant euphony: pleasantness of sound F FAB/FAM: to speak affable: friendly, courteous defame: to attack the good name of ineffable: too great for description in words; that which much not be uttered FATU: foolish fatuity: foolishness; stupidity fatuous: foolish; stupid infatuated: swept up in a fit of passion impairing one’s reason FI/FID: faith, trust affidavit: a written statement on oath fiduciary: of a trust; held or given in trust infidel: disbeliever in the supposed true religion FLU/FLUX: to flow confluence: merging into one effluence: flowing out of (light, electricity, etc.) mellifluous: pleasing, musical FULG: to shine effulgent: shining forth refulgent: radiant; shining FUS: to pour diffuse: to spread widely or thinly profuse: lavish, extravagant, copious suffuse: to spread throughout or over from within G GEN: birth, creation, race, kind congenital: existing or as such from birth progeny: offspring, descendants GNI/GNO: to know ignoramus: a person lacking knowledge, uninformed prognosis: to forecast, especially of disease GRAT: pleasing gratuity: money given for good service ingratiate: to bring oneself into favor GREG: flog aggregate: a number of things considered a collective whole egregious: remarkably bad; standing out from the crowd gregarious: sociable; enjoying spending time with others H HAP: by chance haphazard: at random hapless: without luck HER/HES: to stick adherent: able to adhere; believer or advocate of a particular thing coherent: logically consistent; having waves in phase and of one wavelength inherent: involved in the constitution or essential character of something HOL: whole catholic: universal holograph: a document written entirely by the person whose name it’s in holistic: considering something as a unified whole HYPER: over, excessive hyperactive: excessively active hyperbole: purposeful exaggeration for effect HYPO: under, beneath, less than hypochondriac: one affected by extreme depression of mind or spirits, often centered on imaginary physical ailments hypocritical: pretending to have beliefs one does not hypodermic: relating to the parts beneath the skin I ICON: image, idol iconic: being representative of a culture or movement iconoclast: one who attacks established beliefs; one who tears down images iconology: symbolism IN/IM: in, into (often the m is dropped and the first letter to which i is prefixed is doubled) incarnate: given a bodily, esp. a human, form influx: the act of flowing in intrinsic: belonging to a thing by its very nature IN/IM: not, without indigent: poor, needy, lacking in what is needed indolence: showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful innocuous: not harmful or injurious J JECT: to throw, to throw down abject: utterly hopeless, humiliating, or wretched conjecture: formation of opinion on incomplete information eject: to throw out, expel JOC: joke jocose: given to joking; playful jocular: in a joking manner; funny jocund: merry; cheerful JUD: to judge abjudicate: to act as a judge judicious: having good judgment JUR: law, to swear abjure: to renounce an oath adjure: to beg or command perjury: willful lying under oath L LAUD: praise, honor laudable: praiseworthy laudatory: expressing praise LAV/LAU/LU: to wash ablution: act of cleansing antediluvian: before the biblical flood; extremely old deluge: a great flood of water LEC/LEG/LEX: to read, to speak legible: readable lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries lexicon: a dictionary LECT/LEG: to select, to choose eclectic: selecting ideas, etc. from various sources predilection: preference, liking LI/LIG: to tie, to bind liable: legally responsible; bound by law lien: the right to hold a property due to an outstanding debt ligature: a connection between two letters; a bond LIBER: free liberality: generosity libertine: one who follows one’s own path, without regard for morals or other restrictions LITH: stone acrolith: a statue with a stone head and limbs (but a wooden body) lithography: a printing process that originally involved writing on a flat stone lithology: the study of rocks and stones megalith: a very big stone LOC/LOG/LOQU: word, speech, though colloquial: of ordinary or familiar conversation elocution: art of clear and expressive speaking grandiloquent: pompous or inflated in language loquacious: talkative LUD/LUS: to play allude: to refer casually or indirectly delude: to mislead the mind or judgment of, deceive elude: to avoid capture or escape defection by M MACRO: great, long macrobiotics: a system intended to prolong life macrocephalous: having a large head macrocosm: the universe; a large system that is reflected in at least one of its subsets MAG/MAJ/MAX: big, great magnanimous: generous in forgiving an insult or injury magnate: a powerful or influential person maxim: an expression of general truth or principle MAL/MALE: bad, ill, evil, wrong maladroit: clumsy; tactless malapropism: humorous misuse of a word malfeasance: a misconduct or wrongdoing often committed by a public official malign: to speak harmful untruths about, to slander MEGA: large, great megapolis: a very large city megaton: explosive power equal to 1000 tons of TNT MICRO: very small microbe: a very small organism micron: a millionth of a meter MIN: small diminution: the act or process of diminishing minutiae: small or trivial details MIS: bad, wrong, to hate misadventure: bad luck; an unlucky accident misanthrope: one who hates people or humanity mischance: bad luck; an unlucky accident MIS/MIT: to send emissary: a messenger or agent sent to represent the interests of another remit: to send money MOLL: soft emollient: something that softens or soothes (e.g., a lotion) mollify: sooth; soften; calm MON/MONIT: to remind, to warn admonish: to counsel against something; caution premonition: forewarning, presentiment remonstrate: to say or please in protest, object, or reproof MON/MONO: one monarchy: rule by a single person monograph: a scholarly study of a single subject monomania: an obsession with a single subject MOR/MORT: death immortal: not subject to death moribund: dying, decaying MORPH: shape amorphous: without definite form; lacking a specific shape anthropomorphism: attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena MULT: many multiplex: having many parts multitudinous: very many; containing very many; having very many forms MUT: to change commute: to substitute; exchange; interchange immutable: unchangeable, invariable N NAT/NAS/NAI/GNA: birth cognate: related by blood; having a common ancestor nascent: starting to develop NIHIL: nothing, none annihilate: wipe out; reduce to nothing nihilism: denial of all moral beliefs; denial that existence has any meaning NOC/NOX: harm innocuous: not harmful or injurious noxious: injurious or harmful to health or morals NOCT/NOX: night noctambulant: walking at night; sleepwalking nocturne: a dreamlike piece of music; a painting set at night NOM/NYM/NOUN/NOWN: name nomenclature: a system of names; systematic naming nominal: existing in name only; negligible renown: fame; reputation NON: not nonentity: something that doesn’t exist; something that isn’t important nonpareil: something with no equal NOV/NEO/NOU: new neologism: a newly coined word, phrase, or expression neophyte: a beginner; a new convert; a new worker neoplasm: a new growth in the body; a tumor O OB: toward, to, against, over obfuscate: to render indistinct or dim; darken obsequious: overly submissive obstinate: stubbornly adhering to an idea, inflexible obstreperous: noisily defiant, unruly OMNI: all omnibus: an anthology of the works of one author or of writings on related subjects omnipotent: all powerful omnipresent: everywhere at one time ONER: burden onerous: burdensome; difficult onus: a burden; a responsibility P PAC/PEAC: peace appease: to bring peace to pacify: to ease the anger or agitation of PALP: to feel palpable: capable of being felt; tangible palpate: to feel; to examine by feeling palpitate: to beat quickly, as the heart; to throb PAN/PANT: all, everyone panegyric: formal or elaborate praise at an assembly panoply: a wide-ranging and impressive array or display PAR: equal disparage: to belittle, speak disrespectfully about parity: equally, as in amount, status, or character PARA: next to, beside paragon: a model of excellence parody: to imitate for purpose of satire PAU/PO/POV/PU: few, little, poor paucity: smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness pauper: a person without any personal means of support puerile: childish, immature pusillanimous: lacking courage or resolution PEC: money impecunious: having no money; penniless peculation: embezzlement pecuniary: relating to money PED/POD: foot antipodes: places that are diametrically opposite each other on the globe impede: to retard progress by means of obstacles or hindrances PEL: to drive, to push dispel: to drive away; to disperse impel: to force; to drive forward PER: completely perforate: to make a way through or into something perfunctory: performed merely as routine duty pertinacious: resolute, persistent PET/PIT: to go, to seek, to strive impetuous: characterized by sudden or rash action or emotion petulant: showing sudden irritation, esp. over some annoyance PHIL: love bibliophile: one who loves or collects books philatelist: one who loves or collets postage stamps PHON: sound euphony: the quality of sounding good polyphony: the use of simultaneous melodic lines to produce harmonies in musical compositions PLAC: to please complacent: self-satisfied, unconcerned complaisant: inclined or disposed to please implacable: unable to be pleased POLY: many polyandry: the practice of having multiple husbands polyglot: someone who speaks many languages POT: to drink potable: drinkable; safe to drink; a drink potation: drinking; a drink PRI/PRIM: first primal: original; most important primeval: ancient; going back to the first age of the world PROB: to prove, to test approbation: praise, consideration opprobrium: the disgrace incurred by shameful conduct probity: honesty, high-mindedness PROP/PROX: near proximate: nearby; coming just before or just after proximity: nearness; distance PROT/PROTO: first protagonist: the main character in a play or story prototype: the first version of an invention, on which later models are based PUG: to fight impugn: to challenge as false pugilist: a fighter or boxer pugnacious: to quarrel or fight repeatedly PUNC/PUNG/POIGN: to point, to prick, to pierce compunction: a feeling of uneasiness for doing wrong expunge: to erase, eliminate completely punctilious: strict or exact in the observance of formalities PYR: fire pyre: a bonfire, usually for burning a dead body pyrosis: heartburn Q QUAD/QUAR/QUAT: four quadrille: a square dance involving four couples quart: one-fourth of a gallon QUIE/QUIT: quiet, rest acquiesce: to comply, give in quiescence: the condition of being at rest, still, inactive QUIN/QUINT: five quinquennial: a five-year period quintuple: five times as many R RACI/RADI: root deracinate: to uproot radish: a root vegetable RAMI: branch ramiform: branchlike RECT: straight, right erect: upright; starting up straight rectitude: moral uprightness; moral straightness REG: king, rule interregnum: a period between kings regent: one who serves on behalf of a king; one who rules regicide: killing a king; one who kills a king RETRO: backward retroactive: extending to things that happened in the past retrofit: to install newer parts into an older device or structure RUB/RUD: red rubella: German measles; a disease marked by red spots rubicund: reddish; rosy-cheeked RUD: crude rude: uncivilized; impolite rudimentary: undeveloped S SACR/SANCT: holy sacrament: something regarded as possessing sacred character sacrilege: the violation of anything sacred sanctify: to make holy SAG/SAP/SAV: taste, thinking, discerning sagacious: perceptive; discerning; insightful sage: wise sapient: wise savant: a learned person SAL/SIL/SAULT/SULT: to leap, to jump assault: a sudden or violent attack exult: to show or feel triumphant joy SALU: health salubrious: healthful salutary: healthful SALV: to save salvage: to save; something saved or recovered salvation: being saved savior: one who saves SAN: healthy sane: mentally healthy sanitarium: a place of healing SANG: blood consanguinity: being related by blood sanguinary: bloody; bloodthirsty SAT: enough dissatisfied: feeling that one does not have enough sate: to fill saturate: to fill completely; to entirely satisfy SCI: to know conscience: the inner sense of what is right or wrong, impelling one toward right action omniscient: knowing everything prescient: having knowledge of things before they happen SE: apart, away secede: to withdraw formally from an association sedition: incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government SEC/SEQU/SUE/SUI: to follow non sequitur: an inference or a conclusion that does not follow from the premises obsequious: fawning SED/SESS/SID: to sit, to settle assiduous: diligent, persistent, hardworking (literally, “sitting down” to business) insidious: intended to entrap or beguile; lying in wait to entrap SEMI: half semicircle: half a circle semiconscious: only partly conscious; half awake SEN: old senate: the highest legislative body (from “council of elders”) senescent: getting old senile: relating to old age; experiencing memory loss or other age-related mental impairments SENS/SENT: to feel, to be aware dissent: to differ in opinion, esp. from the majority insensate: without feeling or sensitivity presentiment: a feeling that something is about to happen SOL: alone desolate: deserted; laid waste; left alone isolate: to set apart from others soliloquize: talk to oneself; talk onstage as if to oneself solipsism: the belief that the only thing that really exists, or can really be known, is oneself SOL: to loosen, to free absolution: forgiveness for wrongdoing dissolute: indifferent to moral restraints SOL: sun parasol: an umbrella that protects from the sun solarium: a sunroom; a room with windows for taking in the sun SOMN: sleep somnambulist: a sleepwalker somniferous: sleep-inducing somniloquist: one who talks while asleep somnolent: sleep-inducing; sleepy; drowsy SOPH: wisdom philosopher: one who studies logic, beauty, truth, etc.; one who seeks wisdom sophisticated: complex; worldly; experienced SOURC/SURG/SURRECT: to rise insurgent: rising up in revolution; rushing in insurrection: rising up in armed rebellion surge: to rise up forcefully, as ocean waves SPEC/SPIC: to look, to see circumspect: watchful and discreet, cautious conspicuous: easily seen or noticed; readily observable specious: deceptively attractive SUA: sweet, pleasing, to urge assuage: to make less severe, ease, relieve suave: smoothly agreeable or polite; sweet SUB/SUP: below, under subliminal: existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness subsidiary: serving to assist or supplement suppose: to put down as a hypothesis; to use as the underlying basis of an argument; to assume SUMM: highest, total consummate: highly qualified; complete; perfect summit: highest point SUPER/SUR: over, above supercilious: arrogant, haughty, condescending superfluous: extra, more than necessary SYM/SYN: together symbiosis: living together in a mutually beneficial relationship symposium: a meeting at which ideas are discussed T TAC/TIC: to be silent reticent: disposed to be silent or not to speak freely tacit: unspoken understanding taciturn: uncommunicative TEND/TENS/TENT/TENU: to stretch, to thin attenuate: to weaken or reduce in force extenuating: making less serious by offering excuses THEO: god apotheosis: glorification, glorified ideal theocracy: a form of government in which a deity is recognized as the supreme ruler THERM: heat thermal: relating to heat; retaining heat thermonuclear: relating to a nuclear reaction that takes place at high temperatures TOR/TORQ/TORT: to twist contort: to twist; to distort distort: to pull out of shape, often by twisting; to twist or misrepresent facts extort: to wring money, property, or services out of somebody using threats or force TORP: stiff, numb torpid: numbed; sluggish torpor: numbness; listlessness; apathy TOX: poison antitoxin: an antibody that counteracts a given poison toxic: poisonous TRANS: across, beyond intransigent: refusing to agree or compromise transcendent: going beyond ordinary limits transgress: to violate a law, command, or moral code U ULT: last, beyond penultimate: second-to-last ulterior: beyond what is immediately present; future; beyond what is stated; hidden ultimate: last; final UMBR: shadow adumbrate: to foreshadow; to sketch; to overshadow penumbra: a shaded area between pure shadow and pure light umbrage: shade; shadow; displeasure; resentment UN: not unseen: not seen unusual: not usual; exceptional; strange UND: wave abound: to be plentiful; to overflow (from water flowing in waves) inundate: to flood undulate: to move in a wavelike way UNI/UN: one unanimous: of one mind; incomplete accord uniform: of one kind; consistent US/UT: to use abuse: to use wrongly or improperly usurp: to seize and hold utilitarian: efficient, functional, useful V VAIL/VAL: strength, use, worth ambivalent: being caught between contradictory feelings of equal power or worth avail: to have force; to be useful; to be of value convalescent: recovering strength; healing VEN/VENT: to come or to move toward adventitious: accidental contravene: to come into conflict with convene: to assemble for some public purpose VER: truth aver: to affirm, to declare to be true veracious: habitually truthful verisimilitude: the appearance or semblance of truth VERB: word proverb: an adage; a byword; a short, commonly known saying verbatim: exactly as stated; word-for-word verbiage: excessive use of words; diction VERD: green verdant: green with vegetation; inexperienced verdure: fresh, rich vegetation VI: life convivial: sociable viable: capable of living vivacity: the quality of being lively, animated, spirited VIL: base, mean revile: to criticize with harsh language vile: loathsome, unpleasant vilify: to slander, to defame VIRU: poison virulent: acrimonious; very bitter; very poisonous viruliferous: containing a virus VOC/VOK: call, word advocate: to support or urge by argument convoke: to call together vocabulary: the stock of words used by or known to a particular person or group vociferous: crying out noisily VOL: wish benevolent: characterized by or expressing goodwill malevolent: characterized by or expressing bad will volition: free choice, free will; act of choosing VOLU/VOLV: to roll, to turn convolution: a twisting or folding voluble: easily turning; fluent; changeable VOR: to eat carnivorous: meat-eating omnivorous: eating or absorbing everything voracious: having a great appetite