Latin and Greek Roots: Unit 3
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cosettemahre on February 22, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 prohibit | to stop one from doing something; prevent |
| inhibit | to get in the way of; hinder |
| suffuse | to fill up from within; to spread througout |
| confound | to confuse and frustrate |
| infuse | to inject; to fill something or someone with |
| sustain | to support for an extended period of time |
| abstain | to not do something; refrain |
| tenacious | stubbornly persistent; determined |
| retinue | a group that attends to an important person |
| replete | filled up with |
| implement | To put into action; execute |
| deplete | to use up; waste |
| ate | to make; makes a verb |
| ent | full of; makes an adjective or noun |
| ic | pertaining to; makes an adjective |
| escent | becoming translucent; makes an adjective |
| er | person who |
| eer | person who |
| or | person who |
| ist | person who |
| effusive | pouring out |
| diffuse | to spread widely; to pour in many directions |
| infusion | the spreading within or through out |
| tenable | able to be held |
| tenure | the holding of an office or position |
| retentive | holding; having a good memory |
| tenacity | a firmness or a persistence |
| tendentious | having an aim; biased; holding to one position |
| tender | to offer; to extend |
| tenet | a doctrine; a dogma; a belief |
| tenuous | thin; slim (full of not holding) |
| tentative | hesitant; not fully worked out or developed; expermimental; not definite or positve; not binding or holding |
| attentive | alert; watchful; considerate; thoughtful; capable of sustaining attention |
| contention | a claim; an idea |
| prohibition | an order to stop or restrain; the forbidding by law or authority the sale of alcohol |
| profuse | pouring forth liberally; abundant; lavish; prodigal |
| defuse | to make less harmful, potent or tense |
| hib/hab | to have, to hold |
| fus/found | to pour out |
| ten/tain/tin | to hold |
| ple | to fill |
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