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Caesar’s English
Lesson XIV Cumulative Words
Stems
Com – together
intra – within
cent – one hundred
ad – to
fer – carry
vita –life
vid –look
pater – father
matri –mother
pop – people
mar – sea
luc – light
tempor – time
curr - run
migr – wander
clude – close
plu – more
fus - pour
loco – place
sur – over
alter – other
contra –against
stell – star
amat – love
luna –moon
greg – group
clam – cry out
tang – touch
junct – join
medi – middle
grat – pleasing
trans – across
rupt – break
se - apart
germ - vital
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Caesar’s Cumulative Words
Lesson XIV
prostrate – lying flat
profuse – abundant
ostentatious – showy
inexorable – inevitable
indolent – lazy
doleful – mournful
alacrity – eagerness
oblique – indirect/slanting
magnanimous – generous
peremptory – imperious
importune – to pester
tacit – unspoken
sanguine – cheerfully
confident
obsequious – submissive
acquiescence – passive
compliance
verdure – vegetation
orthodox – traditional
tumult - disturbance
affable – friendly
torpid – sluggish
placate – to appease
derision –ridicule
vivacious – full of life
procure – to acquire
retort – a quick, clever
reply
audible – able to be heard
benevolent – charitable
somber – gloomy
pensive – thoughtful
ignominy – disgrace
impassive –
expressionless
impending – about to
happen
equivocal – ambiguous
profane - irreverent