Latin and Greek Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes #47-60
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SaraJCastro on May 12, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 principal | first or among the first in importance or rank, most important; main; leading |
| primary | First or most significant |
| primordial | (adj) developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage; fundamental, basic |
| proceed | continue with one's activities |
| protect | shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage |
| probation | a trial period during which your character and abilities are tested to see whether you are suitable for work or for membership |
| probability | a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role |
| psychology | science of the mind |
| psychic | of psyche; mental; of or possessing extraordinary mental powers |
| psychiatry | a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy |
| inquisitive | curious |
| question | uncertainty about the truth or factuality of existence of something |
| request | ask (a person) to do something |
| ridiculous | comical; absurd; unreasonable |
| ridicule | laugh or make fun of |
| scribble | write down quickly without much attention to detail |
| description | the picturing in words of something or someone through detailed observation of color, motion, sound, taste, smell, and touch; one of the four modes of discourse |
| manuscript | a handwritten or typed piece of writing, such as a book |
| sequel | a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it, that which follows, a result; a literary work or film continuing the story of one written or made earlier |
| sequence | a following of one thing after another in time |
| consequence | the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual |
| inspect | look over carefully, to look at carefully in search of flaws |
| spectator | a close observer |
| spectacles | a pair of eyeglasses |
| subterranean | being or operating under the surface of the earth |
| submarine | a watercraft that stays under water |
| tangible | possible to be treated as fact |
| tactile | producing a sensation of touch, of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch |
| intact | undamaged in any way |
| torture | intense feelings of suffering |
| tornado | a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground |
| transpose | change the order or arrangement of |
| translation | rewording something in less technical terminology |
| transition | a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another |
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