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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
lachry | tear |
pro | before |
machy | fight |
gno | know |
ob | against |
cad | fall |
gest | carry |
quis | search |
nat | born |
meta | change |
ex | out |
legere | choose |
ism | doctrine |
pragma | business |
-able | able |
casus | case |
in | not |
re | again |
cumb | lie down |
morph | shape |
poly | many |
ob | against |
via | road |
und | wave |
sap | taste |
grade | step |
clud | close |
ex | out |
mol | grind |
a- | without |
super | over |
dys | bad |
scrib | write |
intra | within |
epi | on |
circum | around |
spec | look |
topo | place |
nym | name |
morph | shape |
flu | flow |
strat | layer |
fy | make |
sarco | flesh |
acr | sharp |
para | beside |
dox | opinion |
onus | load |
in | in |
dur | hard |
co | together |
gen | origin |
here | stick |
nat | born |
apo | away |
cap | take |
catena | chain |
con | together |
corp | body |
in | not |
per | through |
spec | look |
ous | full of |
prim | first |
plen | full |
vert | turn |
necro | death |
an | not |
pre | before |
circum | around |
ad | to |
uni | one |
und | wave |
cur | care for |
phan | appearance |
homo | same |
clude | close |
scrib | write |
bath | deep |
simul | feign |
co | together |
ante | before |
hyper | beyond |
fin | end |
con | together |
tend | stretch |
ex | out |
sangui | blood |
anthropo | man |
oid | appearance |
grav | heavy |
fus | pour |
grat | pleasing |
ped | foot |
sui | self |
tact | touch |
tude | state of |
ism | system |
turb | stir |
turg | swell |
per | through |
muta | change |
con | together |
voc | voice |
man | hand |
ex | out |
sur | over |
luc | light |
ab | away |
epi | on/upon |
tude | state of |
pend | hang |
pan | all |
lav | wash |
idio | peculiar |
tri | three |
syn | together |
per | through |
tumere | to swell |
spec | look |
umbra | shadow |
pan | all |
sacro | holy |
fract | break |
multi | many |
venus | love |
prob | test |
ball | throw |
contra | against |
crea | create |
fin | end |
taph | tomb |
onto | organism/being |
pecuni | money |
punt | point |
stereo | solid |
trans | across |
quis | search |
stasis | stand |
cad | fall |
necro | death |
retro | backward |
mord | death |
icon | image |
greg | group |
noct | night |
ambul | walk |
eu | good |
patein | to walk |
ten | hold |
phan | appearance |
terr | land |
lum | light |
ager | field |
psych | soul |
null | none |
anim | mind |
dicho | in two parts |
cycl | circle |
tele | far |
juven | young |
ob | against |
part | equal |
fulg | shine/flash |
dis | away/not |
flag | whip |
pugn | fight |
stigma | mark |
en | in |
pisc | fish |
lingu | tongue |
amphi | both |
fus | pour |
pos | put |
man | hand |
demo | people |
hyper | over |
alt | high |
tempor | time |
curs | run |
omni | all |
clar | clear |
megal | large |
ego | I |
pyro | fire |
prope | near |
miso | hatred |
viv | life |
puer | boy |
phobia | fear |
aedes | dwelling |
tract | pull |
scend | climb |
xeno | stranger |
pro | forward |
peri | near/around |
rogat | ask |
fundus | bottom |
hedon | pleasure |
mony | condition |
neuro | nerve |
de | down |
numin | deity |
pusill | tiny |
mend | flaw |
uxor | wife |
refulgent | shining |
valetudinarian | sickly person |
solicitude | state of concern |
rejuvenate | make young again |
obtrusive | offensively interfering |
panegyric | elaborate eulogy |
penchant | an intense liking |
impudicity | shamelessness |
hebetude | dullness |
adumbration | foreshadow |
encomium | enthusiastic praise |
venial | forgivable |
sacerdotal | priestly |
cenotaph | empty tomb |
ululate | to howl |
paragon | excellent model |
propinquity | nearness |
pungent | sharp |
vitiate | to corrupt |
recidivism | chronic relapse |
puerilism | childishness |
recondite | abstruse |
contiguous | touching |
sagacity | discerning wisdom |
egregious | blatant |
adventitious | accidental |
vituperate | to violently revile |
euthanasia | painless death, mercy killing |
dictum | pronouncement |
dishabille | partially dressed |
Sybarite | a devotee of luxury |
moribund | dying |
extraneous | from outside |
miscreant | evil unbeliever |
auto da fe | burning of a heretic |
impunity | exemption from punishment |
mendicant | a beggar |
eclectic | from various sources |
risible | laughable |
cupidity | greed |
internecine | mutually destructive |
mendacious | untruthful |
soporific | sleep-inducing |
esculent | edible |
sophist | a specious reasoner |
obsequious | servile |
salubrious | healthful |
apothegm | a pithy saying |
expunge | completely remove |
ostentatious | showy |
moving from a distance | telekinesis |
language peculiar to a group | idiom |
difficult to understand | abstruse |
circle with a circle | epicycle |
from before the Flood! | antediluvian |
witty replies | repartee |
incruously different | disparate |
relating to fish | piscine |
to stain someone's reputation | stigmatize |
to whip | flagellate |
double meaning | amphiboly |
extremely generous | munificent |
short-lived | ephemeral |
an assorted collection | omnium gatherum |
a haunt | purlieu |
poor | impecunious |
disquisition | formal discussion |
overly discriminating | fastidious |
loud outcry | clamor |
to violently criticize | inveigh |
trivial teaching | pedantry |
fiercely savage | truculent |
friendly and kind | affable |
to seclude | cloister |
to ridicule institution | iconoclasm |
to cut short | truncate |
to elaborate | expatiate |
false | specious |
painting of a night scene | nocturne |
by chance | fortuitous |
farewell speech | valediction |
infancy | incunabula |
aristocratic | patrician |
an obsequious parasite | sycophant |
state dominance | hegemony |
beautiful sound | euphony |
numinous | supernatural |
favorably disposed | propitious |
faithless person | nullifidian |
sharp reprimand | rebuke |
two-part division | dichotomy |
disgusting | odious |
scholarly | erudite |
intense desire | concupiscence |
funeral ceremonies | obsequies |
sadly thoughtful | pensive |
unauthentic work | apocrypha |
truthful | veridical |
low class | declasse |
perplexed | nonplused |
per | through |
co | together |
trans | across |
biblio | book |
phile | love |
demo | people |
graph | write |
sangui | blood |
cred | believe |
plex | weave |
ob | against |
tens | stretch |
micro | small |
cosmo | universe |
anim | mind |
neo | new |
phyte | plant |
mens | measure |
in | not |
plus | more |
de | down |
punct | point |
tude | state of |
pre | before |
ad | to |
hend | grasp |
pro | before |
in | not |
dol | suffer |
per | through |
ag | to do |
val | worth |
ous | full of |
lent | full of |
put | think |
moll | soft |
greg | group |
alter | other |
ego | I |
ambi | both |
phil | love |
andro | man |
apo | away |
crypt | hidden |
tens | stretch |
in | in |
port | carry |
caco | bad |
ethos | custom |
pre | before |
cap | take |
ver | true |
ex | out |
tude | state of |
punct | point |
acr | sharp |
per | through |
fid | faith |
phon | sound |
tang | touch |
alter | other |
ob | against |
sequ | follow |
ex | out |
pend | hang |
und | wave |
amat | love |
xero | dry |
sed | sit |
de | down |
nihil | nothing |
ism | doctrine |
inter | between |
ate | cause |
ab | away |
ous | full of |
fid | faith |
con | together |
dia | across |
soph | wisdom |
ist | one who |
ex | out |
dis | away |
nod | knot |
cup | desire |
lent | full of |
ed | eat |
ven | come |
ten | hold |
inter | between |
locu | talk |
apo | away |
auto | self |
res | thing |
fy | make |
medi | middle |
circum | around |
culp | blame |
cup | desire |
eu | good |
phor | carry |
proto | first |
ous | full of |
vid | look |
fic | make |
ate | cause |
mend | flaw |
uxor | wife |
epi | on |
apo | away |
phan | say |
re | back |
ob | against |
jur | swear |
sopor | sleep |
inter | between |
nec | kill |
dicho | two parts |
tomy | cut |
phan | appearance |
ek | out |
lect | gather |
numen | deity |
ous | full of |
mend | flaw |
ob | against |
phan | say |
pro | forward |
re | again |
a | not |
null | none |
fid | faith |
rid | laugh |
sed | sit |
ad | to |
ine | nature of |
vac | empty |
ex | out |
pusill | tiny |
anim | mind |
sub | under |
fid | faith |
ex | out |
act | to do |
im | not |
lum | light |
-i | plural |
mony | condition |
psych | soul |
osis | condition |
phon | sound |
neuro | nerve |
ous | full of |
per | through |
ager | field |
re | again |
de | down |
ideo | idea |
pre | before |
curs | run |
eu | good |
ate | cause |
ad | to |
ten | thin |
extra | beyond |
pro | forward |
fundus | bottom |
se | apart |
in | in |
per | through |
ven | come |
phan | to show |
pro | before |
legein | to speak |
hedone | delight |
ism | doctrine |
pater | father |
mis | bad |
cred | believe |
terr | land |
de | from |
ate | cause |
in | in |
peri | around |
patein | to walk |
ambi | around |
ten | thin |
duct | lead |
cilium | eyelid |
ous | full of |
ad | to |
ite | adherent |
sub | under |
ism | doctrine |
vale | farewell |
dict | say |
tion | act |
super | over |
mort | death |
ex | out |
pos | put |
dis | from |
ate | cause |
rogat | ask |
re | back |
ate | cause |
trunc | a stem |
trans | over |
scend | climb |
pro | before |
ad | to |
ven | come |
vitium | vice |
man | hand |
ambul | walk |
noct | night |
dict | say |
in | not |
ex | out |
eu | good |
clud | close |
re | again |
ad | to |
par | equal |
sag | wise |
an | without |
icon | image |
clast | break |
mord | bite |
equi | equal |
pend | weigh |
super | over |
ann | year |
non | not |
ous | full of |
con | together |
tang | touch |
in | not |
tract | pull |
ex | out |
greg | group |
ad | to |
puer | boy |
ile | like |
con | together |
ate | cause |
fy | make |
sym | together |
bio | life |
osis | condition |
necro | death |
phobia | fear |
retro | backward |
spec | look |
fin | end |
lent | full of |
re | again |
in | in |
cise | cut |
dia | across |
aedes | dwelling |
ped | child |
viv | life |
homeo | same |
stasis | stand |
clam | cry out |
re | back |
cad | fall |
ism | system |
in | in |
vehe | carry |
apo | away |
ob | against |
fid | faith |
miso | hatred |
ate | cause |
pro | forward |
multi | many |
fac | make |
re | again |
ad | to |
vac | empty |
crypt | hidden |
dis | not |
string | bind |
gyn | woman |
opia | sight |
ate | cause |
gen | origin |
per | through |
sanct | holy |
graph | write |
clar | clear |
onto | being |
ob | against |
ex | out |
megalo | large |
mania | madness |
prope | near |
multi | many |
viv | life |
sym | together |
fin | end |
clast | break |
clud | close |
spec | look |
vale | farewell |
duct | lead |
mis | bad |
mony | condition |
pecuni | money |
topo | place |
im | not |
choreo | dance |
onto | organism |
simul | feign |
voc | voice |
myria | many |
alt | high |
quis | search |
miso | hatred |
clam | cry out |
necro | death |
cise | cut |
ann | year |
ambul | walk |
noct | night |
mort | death |
se | apart |
curs | run |
ager | field |
sed | sit |
epi | upon |
bole | throw |
ad | to |
taph | tomb |
contre | against |
tempor | time |
curs | run |
hyper | over |
onto | being |
simul | feign |
gen | origin |
trans | across |
miso | hatred |
stasis | same |
equi | equal |
sag | wise |
xeno | stranger |
patein | walk |
ten | thin |
re | again |
ek | out |
fid | faith |
pusill | tiny |
sopor | sleep |
proto | first |
prob | test |
germ | related |
crea | create |
alt | high |
amni | all |
fin | limit |
ism | doctrine |
pecuni | money |
choreo | dance |
ego | I |
myria | many |
pro | forward |
sym | together |
non | not |
dict | say |
cilium | eyelid |
se | apart |
per | through |
eu | good |
lect | gather |
anim | mind |
a | not |
uxor | wife |
phor | carry |
perplex | confuse |
copious | abundant |
traverse | cross |
bibliophile | book lover |
sanguine | cheerful |
ostentatious | showy |
microcosm | small universe |
defenestrate | toss out a window |
animus | intent or hatred |
nonplused | perplexed |
interdiction | prohibition |
commensurate | of like measure |
neophyte | beginner |
incredulous | not believing |
demur | to object |
poignant | sharp |
lassitude | languor |
apprehend | to understand |
prodigious | amazing |
indolent | lazy |
persiflage | flippant style |
ambiguous | indefinite |
declasse | low class |
putative | thought-to-be |
mollify | make soft |
gregarious | sociable |
altercation | heated dispute |
alter ego | second self |
philander | to engage in love affairs |
apocrypha | unauthentic works |
tendentious | slanted |
importune | to trouble with requests |
apothegm | a pithy saying |
cacoethes | a mania |
precept | a maxim |
veridical | truthful |
pulchritude | physical beauty |
expunge | completely remove |
acerbity | sharpness of temper |
perfidy | breach of faith |
translucent | semitransparent |
cacophony | bad noise |
tangible | touchable |
altruism | concern for others |
obsequies | funeral ceremonies |
exodus | a departure |
pensive | sadly thoughtful |
salubrious | healthful |
demure | affectedly modest |
undulate | to wave |
amiable | friendly |
abate | to lessen |
serene | clear and calm |
obsequious | servile |
sedate | calm |
condescend | lower oneself |
nihilism | belief in nothing |
interstice | small space |
dialectic | logical argument |
temerarious | reckless |
sophist | a specious reasoner |
erudite | scholarly |
denoument | unraveling of plot |
concupiscence | intense desire |
esculent | edible |
pertinacious | holding stubbornly |
interlocutor | person in conversation |
aphorism | a concise wisdom |
autodidact | self-taught person |
reify | treat as real |
in medias res | in the middle of things |
circumvent | get around |
exculpate | free from blame |
cupidity | greed |
euphoria | feeling of well-being |
protocol | rules of ceremony |
odious | disgusting |
visage | face |
pontificate | speak dogmatically |
mendacious | untruthful |
uxorious | wife-doting |
apophasis | mention by denial |
rebuke | sharp reprimand |
objurgation | rebuke |
soporific | sleep-inducing |
internecine | mutually destructive |
dichotomy | two-part division |
epiphany | revelation |
eclectic | from various sources |
numinous | supernatural |
mendicant | a beggar |
fatuous | complacently stupid |
oblivion | being forgotten |
requite | repay |
aphasia | loss of speech |
nullifidian | faithless person |
risible | laughable |
assiduous | perservering |
saturnine | gloomy and remote |
vacuous | stupidly empty of ideas |
ex cathedra | from the throne |
pusillanimous | small-minded |
sublime | noble |
auto da fe | burning a heretic |
ebullient | enthusiastic |
impunity | exemption from punishment |
illuminati | enlightened intellects |
hegemony | state dominance |
psychosis | major mental illness |
neurosis | mental disorder |
oleaginous | oily |
peregrinate | to travel |
reiterate | repeat |
desultory | rambling |
idee fixe | obsession |
precursor | forerunner |
euphony | beautiful sound |
attenuated | thinned |
extraneous | from outside |
profound | deep |
sedulous | diligent |
incunabula | infancy |
parvenu | an upstart |
sycophant | an obsequious parasite |
adagio | a slow movement |
desuetude | disuse |
prolegomenon | preliminary statement |
hedonism | devotion to pleasure |
narcissism | self-adoration |
patrician | aristocratic |
miscreant | evil unbeliever |
terra firma | firm land |
inchoate | just begun |
peripatetic | walking |
ambient | surrounding |
tenuous | thin |
ductile | malleable |
fortuitous | by chance |
surrogate | subsitute |
allude | indirectly refer |
dishabille | partially dressed |
Syrabite | a devotee of luxury |
stoicism | indifference to sensation |
valediction | farewell speech |
supercilious | scornful |
moribund | dying |
expository | explanatory |
riposte | swift retort |
truncate | to cut short |
transcend | go beyond |
prostrate | lying face-down |
adventitious | accidental |
vituperate | to violently revile |
amanuensis | secretary |
ambulatory | able to walk |
nocturne | painting of a night scene |
dictum | pronouncement |
ineffable | inexpressible |
euthanasia | mercy killing |
expatiate | to elaborate |
specious | false |
xenophobia | fear of foreigners |
unctuous | oily |
cloister | to seclude |
recherche | rarely choice |
asservate | to state severely |
sagacity | discerning wisdom |
affable | friendly and kind |
anodyne | a pain reliever |
iconoclasm | ridiculing institutions |
mordacious | biting |
equipoise | balance |
superannuated | obsolete |
nonpareil | something unequaled |
contiguous | touching |
intractible | stubborn |
egregious | blatant |
puerilism | childishness |
nefarious | villainous |
congruity | equalness |
ruminate | to mentally chew |
edify | to enlighten |
symbiosis | connectiveness |
necrophobia | fear of death |
pedantry | trivial teachings |
retrospective | backward looking |
fin de siecle | decadent |
truculent | fiercely savage |
remonstrate | plead in protest |
recondite | abstruse |
incisive | sharp |
diatribe | abusive speech |
modus vivendi | manner of living |
recidivism | chronic relapse |
inveigh | to violently criticize |
vitiate | to corrupt |
profligate | wastefully extravagant |
multifarious | very diverse |
rapproachment | restoration of friendship |
in vacuo | in a vaccum |
apocryphal | unauthentic |
opprobrium | disgrace |
stringent | binding |
misogynist | hater of women |
clamor | loud outcry |
propiniquity | nearness |
haute couture | high fashion |
pyromania | compulsive arson |
stereotype | a fixed prejudice |
disquisition | formal discussion |
myriad | innumerable |
egotism | chronic self-reference |
fastidious | overly discriminating |
transient | temporary |
expostulate | earnestly object |
pungent | sharp |
lacustrine | of lakes |
megalomania | delusions of greatness |
dissonant | inharmonious |
prope | near |
trans | across |
ex | out |
pyro | fire |
mania | madness |
stereo | solid |
dis | away |
quis | search |
ism | doctrine |
alt | high |
ego | I/self |
punct | point |
ine | nature/of |
megalo | large |
son | sound |
myriad | many |
propitious | favorably disposed |
hom | man |
magn | great |
paleo | old |
onto | being |
logy | science |
ex | out |
voc | voice |
sub | under |
tri | three |
dent | tooth |
dis | not |
latus | wide |
tude | state of |
in | not |
passio | suffering |
per | through |
pro | forward |
cliv | slope |
non | not |
grat | pleasing |
vid | look |
gen | origin |
uni | one |
uni | only one |
sub | under |
ad | to |
grav | heavy |
umbra | shadow |
ous | full of |
ign | fire |
fatuus | foolish |
dia | across |
spor | seed |
mania | madness |
in | in |
gen | origin |
loqu | talk |
para | beyond |
oxy | sharp |
ultra | beyond |
ostra | shell |
opus | work |
dur | hard |
quis | search |
non | not |
non | negative |
hetero | different |
genos | kind |
oscu | mouth |
ultima | last |
hypo | under |
stylos | pillar |
dia | across |
ana | up |
oss | bone |
anti | against |
salire | leap |
sap | know |
vert | turn |
gen | origin |
idio | peculiar |
syn | together |
platy | flat |
tude | state of |
psych | soul |
psych | mind |
psych | mental |
holo | whole |
caust | burn |
pre | before |
con | together |
volv | roll |
extra | beyond |
vert | turn |
intro | into |
ex | out |
loqu | talk |
mur | wall |
bon | good |
scintilla | spark |
ate | cause |
labor | work |
cata | down |
rhein | flow |
sub | under |
strat | layer |
in | without |
sap | taste |
sense | feel |
eco | house |
hom | man |
pre | before |
pre | in front |
pre | superior |
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