Chapter 5: Latin Roots 11-20
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 emancipate | "take from the hand;" release from bondage; free; liberate |
| manacle | handcuff |
| mandate | "given into one's hand" 1. authorization to act 2. command; order; injunction |
| manipulate | 1. operate with the hands; handle or manage skillfully; maneuver 2. manage unethically to serve a fraudulent purpose; falsify; rig |
| manual (n.) | small helpful book capable of being carried in the hand; handbook |
| manual (adj.) | relating to, or done with, the hands |
| manuscript | document written by hand, or typewritten |
| append | "hang on;" attach; add as a supplement |
| appendix | "hung on;" matter added to the end of a book or document |
| impending | "overhanging;" threatening to occur soon; imminent |
| pendant | hanging ornament |
| pending (adv.) | "hanging;" waiting to be settled; not yet decided |
| pending | until |
| suspend | 1. hang by attaching to something 2. stop temporarily; hold up; make inoperative for a while |
| suspense | condition of being left "hanging" or in doubt; mental uncertainty; anxiety; apprehension |
| depose | "put down;" put out of office; dethrone |
| impose | put on as a burden, duty, tax, etc; inflict |
| postpone | "put after;" put off; defer; delay |
| superimpose | put on top of or over; attach as an addition |
| transpose | "put across;" change the relative order of; interchange |
| conscript | enroll into military service by compulsion; draft |
| inscription | something inscribed on a monument, coin, etc |
| prescribe | "write before" 1. order; dictate; direct 2. order as a remedy |
| proscribe | condemn as harmful or illegal; prohibit; forbid |
| scribe | person who writes; author; journalist |
| script | 1.written text of a play speech etc. 2. Handwriting; penmanship |
| subscriber | one who writes his or her name at the end of a document, thereby indicating approval; one who regularly recieves a magazine, newspaper, etc. |
| assimilate | 1. make similar or like 2. take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb |
| dissimilar | opposite of similar; unlike; different |
| similarity | likeness; resemblance |
| simile | comparison of two different things introduced by like or as |
| simulate | give the appearance of; feign; imitate |
| simultaneous | existing or happening at the same time; contemporary; concurrent |
| desolate (v.) | "make lonely or deprive of inhabitants;" lay waste; ravage; devastate |
| desolate (adj.) | left alone; deserted; forlorn; abandoned; forsaken |
| sole | one and only; single; lone |
| soliloquy | speech made to oneself when alone |
| solitary | apposite of accompanied; being or living alone; without companions |
| solitude | condition of being alone; aloneness; seclusion |
| solo | musical composition performed by a single person |
| absolute | 1. completely free of constitutional or other restraint; autorcratic; despotic 2. utter; outright; unquestionable |
| dissolution | act of loosening or breaking up into component parts; disintegration; ruin; destruction |
| dissolve | 1. break up; disintegrate; disband 2. cause to disappear; end |
| resolution | solving; solution; answer |
| resolve | solve; explain; unravel |
| soluble | 1. capable of being dissolved or made into a liquid 2. solvable |
| solvent | substance, usually liquid, able to dissolve another substance know as the solute |
| abound (with or in) | 1. be well supplied; teem 2. be plentiful; be present in a great quantity |
| abundant | more than sufficient; plentiful |
| inundate | flood; overflow; deluge; overwhelm |
| redound | flow back as a result; contribute |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary; superfluous; surplus; opposite of concise |
| aver | state to be true; affirm confidently; assert; depose; opposite of deny |
| veracity | truthfulness |
| verdict | decision of a jury; opinion; judgement |
| verify | prove to be true; confirm; substantiate; corroborate |
| veritable | true; actual; genuine; real; authentic |
| verity | truth of things; something true; true statement |
| envision | foresee; envisage; have a metal picture of something not yet a reality |
| improvise | compose, recite, or sing on the spur of the moment; invent offhand; extemporize |
| invisible | not able to be seen; imperceptible; indiscernible |
| revise | look at again to correct errors and make improvements; examine and improve |
| video | having to do with the transmission or reception of what is seen |
| videotape | make a videotape recording of an event or TV program |
| visibility | degree of clearness of the atmosphere; with reference to the distance at which objects can clearly be seen |
| visual | having to do with sight |
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