SEMESTER I VOCAB
List 1
LITERA – letter
Literal, alliteration, obliterate
SCRIB/SCRIPT – to write
Circumscribe, ascribe
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VERB – word
Proverbial, verbatim, verbose
LECT/LEX – word or phrase
Dialect, lexicon
List 3
LOGUE – word or speech
Analogy, epilogue
GRAPH/GRAM – write/draw
Epigraph
NYM/NOM – name
Onomatopoeia, acronym
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List 4
CRED – to believe
Credence, credulous
SACR/SANCT – holy, sacred
Sacrilege, sanctimonious
(A)ESTHE – to perceive
Aesthetic
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NO/GNO/GNI – get to know
Connoisseur, notorious
SCI – to know
Conscientious, omniscient
SAG/P/V – perceive keenly
Sagacious
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FA – to speak or admit
Ineffable
DICT – to say or tell
Diction, edict, indict
LOQ/LOC – to speak
Loquacious
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List 7
CAUS(T) – to burn
Caustic
SCINTILLA – to spark
Scintillating
INCEND – to set on fire
Incendiary
FLAG/M – to glow or flame
Flagrant, conflagration
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MAL – bad
Malaise, malevolent, malign,
malinger
PECC – Crime, sin
Impeccable
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QUI – to rest or remain quiet
Acquiesce, unrequited
EP(I) – after, over, on, toward
Epitome
PARA – beside
Paradox, paradigm
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List 10
THES/THET – to put
Antithesis, epithet
ARCH – to be first
Archaic, archetype
DEM – people
Endemic
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PED – foot
Expedite, impede
AMBU – to walk
Ambulatory
CALC – to kick
Recalcitrant
GRESS – to step
digress
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CAR(N) – flesh
Carnage, carrion, incarnate
CORP – body
Corporeal, corpulent
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List 13
NAT/NASCI – to be born
Innate, nascent, renaissance
SOMNUS – sleep
Somnolent
MOR(T) – to die
Mortify
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AMO/I/A – to love
Amicable, enamored
ODIUM – to hate
odious
PATHOS
Empathy, apathetic
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FLECT/FLEX – bend
Deflect, inflection
PLIC – to fold
Duplicity, explicate, supplicate
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ANTHRO – Human
Misanthropic
VIR - Man
Virile
AUTO – Self
Autocrat, automaton, autonomy
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PATER – Father
Patronize, patronage
FRATER – Brother
Fraternize
MATER – Mother
Matriculate, matrix
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AVUNCULUS – Uncle
Avuncular
UXOR – Wife
Uxorious
PUER – Male Child
Puerile
DOM/DAUNT – house; to tame
Domestic, domineer
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Directions: On the front of the
index card, write:
1. Word and underline the root
2. Part of speech of the word
3. List # in top left hand corner
On the other side of card, write:
1. Definition of root
2. Relevant definition(s) of word
3. At least one synonym and one
antonym of the word
4. The part of speech of the word
(noun, verb, adjective or adverb)
5. Any other forms of the word
[i.e. analogy (n) to analagous
(adj).]
Keep your flashcards to study for
sentence completion quizzes
after every 3 lists and multiplechoice exams covering all the
words from the semester.
SEMESTER II VOCAB
List 1
ORD – order
Inordinate, insubordinate
TEMP/CHRON – time
Anachronism, extemporaneous
DUR – to harden
Obdurate
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GEO/GEE/HUM – earth
Apogee, exhume
TER – land
Inter
RUR/RUS – open land
Rustic
PAST – to feed, shepherd
Pastoral
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GREG – flock
Egregious, gregarious
CUMB/CUB – to lie down
Recumbent, succumb
VER – truth
Verisimilitude
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List 4
COC(T) – to cook
Concoction, precocious
VORA – to devour
Voracious
MEL – honey
Mellifluous
BIB – to drink
imbibe
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LUD/S – to play
Allude, collusion
CAPITIS – head
Capitulate, recapitulation,
precipice
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REP/RAP – to snatch
Rapacious, rapt, surreptitious
PRI/PRE – to grasp, seize
Impregnable, reprisal
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CEREBRUM – brain
Cerebral
FACIES – face, shape
Deface, efface, façade, facet
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SUPERCILIUM – eyebrow
Supercilious
OR/S – mouth, speak
Inexorable, oration, osculate
COL – neck
Accolade
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CORD – heart
Accord, cordial
OS – bone
Ossify
NERV – nerve
Enervate
SANG – blood
Sanguine
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List 10
MOR/MUR – to delay
Moratorium, demur
TRUDE/TRUSE – to push
Abstruse
PON/POS(E) – to put or place
Juxtapose
PROP/PROACH – near
Rapprochement
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CEDE/CESS – to move or yield
Accede
CAD /CID– to fall or end
Cadence, decadent, recidivism
PUNG/CT – to puncture
Pungent
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NEO/NOV – new
Neophyte
BENE/BON – well, good
Benign, debonair
EU – good
Euphemism
LICEN(S,T) – freedom
Licentious
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FERV – to be boiling hot
Effervescent, fervid
UND – wave of the sea
Inundate, undulate
PONT – bridge
Pontificate
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SUB – under
Subterfuge, sublimate
APO – away from
Apocryphal
CLAUS/CLUS(D) – to close
Recluse
DIA – through, across, apart
Diatribe
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ACER - to make sour
Acerbic
ACU/ACRI – sharpen
acrid, acrimony, acumen
CLAV - key
Enclave
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List 16
BEL(L) – war
Belligerent
PUG(N) – to fight
Pugnacious
CENS – to give an opinion
Censure
LEG – to send
Allege, relegate
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SID/SED – to sit, settle
Assiduous, sedentary
SIST – to stand, to place
Desist, interstice, restive
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PHAN/FAN – show or appear
Epiphany, sycophant,
diaphanous
ETHER – air
Ethereal
ANIM – air or soul
Pusillanimous
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PLAC – to please
Placid, implacable, complacent
VESTIS – garment
Divest, travesty