Latin Roots
1.
rupt – break, burst
 incorruptible
 corrupt
inflexibly honest; incapable of being
corrupted or bribed
change from good to bad; pervert
2.
cide – killing, killer (n)
 fratricide
act of killing one’s brother
 genocide
deliberate extermination of a racial or
cultural group
 homicidal
having murderous tendencies
3.
string (strict) -- bind, “draw tight”
 constrict
draw together, render narrower, shrink
 stringent
strict, rigid, severe
4.
vor – eat greedily
 omnivorous
 voracious
5.
viv – live, alive
 convivial
 vivacious
eating everything, both plant and
animal
avidly taking in everything (an
omnivorous reader)
greedy in eating; insatiable (as in a
voracious appetite for something)
fond of eating and drinking with
friends; jovial
lively in temper and conduct
6.
tort (tors):
twist
 contortionist
a person who can twist his/her body
into odd postures
 extort
wrest/twist $, promises, etc. from a
person
7.
vict (vinc):
 convict
 victor
8.
fract (frag):
 fractious
 infraction
9.
conquer, “show conclusively”
to prove guilty; “show conclusively” to be
guilty
winner, conqueror
break
apt to break out into a passion; cross;
irritable
act of breaking; breach; violation, as in
infraction of the law
omni:
all, every, everywhere
 omniscient
knowing everything
 omnipotent
unlimited in power; almighty
10. flect (flex):
bend
 genuflect
bend the knee; touch the right knee to
the ground, as in worship
 inflection
change in the pitch or tone of a
person’s voice
11. ten (tin, tent): hold, keep
 impertinent
not “keeping” a level of
appropriateness; inappropriate, rude
 tenacity
firmness in “holding” fast; persistence
12. mon (monit): warn
 admonish
warn of a fault, reprove, rebuke
 premonition
forewarning; intuitive anticipation of a
coming event
13. mand (mandat):
 countermand
 mandatory
order, command, commit
issue a contrary order
obligatory, required by “command”
14. cred (credit):
believe
 accredited
officially authorized or recognized;
provided with credentials
 credulous
too ready to believe, easily deceived
15. fid:
faith, trust
 fidelity
faithfulness
 diffident
lack of faith in oneself; timid, shy
16. grat: pleasant, thank, favor
 gracious-- pleasant, courteous, kindly
 ingratiate-- establish (oneself) in the favor or good
graces of another
17. mor (mort):
death
 moribund-- dying, near death
 mortification-- shame, humiliation, embarrassment to
the point where one wishes one were “dead”
18. corp: body
 corporal-- bodily, as in corporal punishment
 corpulent-- bulky bodied, obese
19. duc (duct): lead, conduct, draw
 conducive-- tending to lead to; contributive, helpful
 ductile-- easily led, docile
20. sequt (sequ):
follow
 consecutive-- following in regular order, successive
 consequence-- the punishment following the act
21. cur (curr, curs):
 concurrent
 cursory
 discursive
run
running together, occurring at the same
time
running over hastily; superficially
done, as in a cursory glance
wandering from one topic to another,
rambling, digressive
22.
gress (grad): step, walk, go
 egress
means of going out; exit
 graduated
arranged in regular steps, stages, or
degrees
 retrogression
act of going from a better to a worse
state
23.
ped:
foot
 expedite
 impede
facilitate; accelerate or speed up
hinder, obstruct, block (literally,
“entangle the feet”)
24.
tact (tang):
touch
 contacting:
touching; getting ahold of
 intangible:
not capable of being perceived by the
sense of touch; hard to grasp or define
exactly
25.
prehend (prehens): seize, grasp
 comprehensible
able to be grasped mentally,
understandable
 reprehensible
deserving of censure
26.
ject:
throw, cast
 conjecture
a guess, supposition, inference
 dejected
downcast, discouraged, depressed
 interject
throw in between, insert, interpose
27.
vert (vers):
 aversion
turn
 inadvertently
feeling of repugnance toward
something with a desire to turn away from
it; strong dislike; antipathy
without turning one’s mind to the
matter at hand; carelessly; unintentionally
28.
mis (miss, mit, mitt):
send
 demise:
death (literally, “sending or putting down”)
 emissary: a person sent out on a mission
29.
locut (loqu): speak, talk
 colloquy
 elocution
 loquacious
30.
a talking together, conference,
conversation
the art of speaking out or reading
effectively in public
talkative, garrulous
fer (ferous) bearing, producing, yielding
 fertile capable of bearing (crops, animals, people)
 vociferous
producing a loud outcry, clamorous,
noisy