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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| perplex | confuse |
| copious | abundant |
| traverse | cross |
| bibliophile | a book lover |
| demography | study of populations |
| sanguine | cheerful |
| ostentatious | showy |
| microcosm | small universe |
| defenestrate | toss out the window |
| animus | intent or hatred |
| nonplused | perplexed |
| interdiction | prohibition |
| commensurate | of like measure |
| neophyte | beginner |
| incredulous | not believing |
| de | down |
| punct | point |
| tude | state of |
| pre | before |
| ad | to |
| hend | grasp |
| dol | suffer |
| ag | to do |
| val | worth |
| ous | full of |
| put | think |
| moll | soft |
| greg | group |
| alter | other |
| ego | I |
| ambi | both |
| demur | to object |
| poignant | sharp |
| lassitude | languor |
| apprehend | to understand |
| prodigious | amazing |
| indolent | lazy |
| persiflage | flippant style |
| ambiguous | indefinite |
| ambivalence | conflicting feelings |
| déclassé | low class |
| putative | thought-to-be |
| mollify | make soft |
| gregarious | sociable |
| altercation | heated dispute |
| alter ego | second self |
| andro | man |
| apo | away |
| crypt | hidden |
| in | in |
| port | carry |
| caco | bad |
| ethos | custom |
| cap | take |
| ver | true |
| ex | out |
| fid | faith |
| phon | sound |
| tang | touch |
| 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 |
| sequ | follow |
| pend | hang |
| und | wave |
| xero | dry |
| sed | sit |
| nihil | nothing |
| ism | doctrine |
| inter | between |
| ate | cause |
| altruism | concern for others |
| obsequies | funeral ceremonies |
| exodus | a departure |
| pensive | sadly thoughtful |
| salubrious | healthful |
| demure | modest or 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 |
| soph | wisdom |
| ist | one who |
| nod | knot |
| cup | desire |
| ed | eat |
| ven | come |
| ten | hold |
| locu | talk |
| auto | self |
| res | thing |
| fy | make |
| medi | middle |
| circum | around |
| culp | blame |
| dialectic | logical argument |
| temerarious | reckless |
| sophist | a specious reasoner |
| erudite | scholarly |
| denouement | unraveling of plot |
| concupiscence | intense desire or lust |
| 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 |
| eu | good |
| proto | first |
| vid | look |
| mend | flaw |
| uxor | wife |
| epi | on |
| re | back |
| jur | swear |
| sopor | sleep |
| nec | kill |
| dicho | two parts |
| tomy | cut |
| phan | appearance |
| 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 |
| lect | gather |
| numen | deity |
| pro | before |
| con | together |
| dia | across |
| phil | love |
| amat | love |
| non | not |
| lent | full of |
| acr | sharp |
| ab | away |
| dis | away |
| phor | carry |
| ek | out |
| fic | make |
| re | again |
| phan | say |
| pro | forward |
| a | not |
| null | none |
| rid | laugh |
| ine | nature of |
| vac | empty |
| pusill | tiny |
| eclectic | from various sources |
| numinous | supernatural |
| mendicant | a beggar |
| fatuous | complacently stupid |
| oblivion | being forgotten |
| propitious | favorably disposed |
| requite | repay |
| aphasia | loss of speech |
| nullifidian | faithless person |
| risible | laughable |
| assiduous | persevering |
| saturnine | gloomy and remote |
| vacuous | stupidly empty of ideas |
| ex cathedra | from the throne |
| pusillanimous | small-minded |
| sub | under |
| act | to do |
| im | not |
| lum | light |
| -i | plural |
| mony | condition |
| psych | soul |
| osis | condition |
| neuro | nerve |
| ager | field |
| ideo | idea |
| curs | run |
| sublime | noble |
| auto da fe | burning a heretic |
| ebullient | enthusiastic |
| impunity | exemption for punishment |
| illuminati | enlightened intellects |
| hegemony | state dominance |
| psychosis | major mental illness |
| neurosis | mental disorder |
| oleaginous | oily |
| peregrinate | to travel |
| reiterate | repeat |
| desultory | rambling |
| idée fixe | obsession |
| precursor | forerunner |
| euphony | beautiful sound |
| ten | thin |
| extra | beyond |
| fundus | bottom |
| se | apart |
| phan | to show |
| legein | to speak |
| hedone | delight |
| pater | father |
| mis | bad |
| terr | land |
| de | from |
| 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 |
| peri | around |
| patein | to walk |
| ambi | around |
| duct | lead |
| cilium | eyelid |
| ite | adherent |
| sub | under |
| vale | farewell |
| dict | say |
| tion | act |
| super | over |
| mort | death |
| pos | put |
| dis | from |
| rogat | ask |
| inchoate | just begun |
| peripateitic | walking |
| ambient | surrounding |
| tenuous | thin |
| ductile | malleable |
| fortuitous | by chance |
| surrogate | substitute |
| allude | indirectly refer |
| dishabille | partially dressed |
| Sybarite | a devotee of luxury |
| stoicism | indifference to sensation |
| valediction | farewell speech |
| supercilious | scornful |
| moribund | dying |
| expository | explanatory |
| trunc | a stem |
| trans | over |
| scend | climb |
| vitium | vice |
| man | hand |
| ambul | walk |
| noct | night |
| thanatos | death |
| spatium | space |
| spec | look |
| xeno | stranger |
| phobia | fear |
| 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 | inexpressable |
| euthanasia | mercy killing |
| expatiate | to elaborate |
| specious | false |
| xenophobia | fear of foreigners |
| clud | close |
| par | equal |
| sag | wise |
| an | without |
| icon | image |
| clast | break |
| mord | bite |
| equi | equal |
| pend | weigh |
| ann | year |
| tract | pull |
| unctuous | oily |
| cloister | to seclude |
| recherché | rarely choice |
| asseverate | to state severely |
| sagacity | discerning wisdom |
| affable | friendly and kind |
| anodyne | a pain reliever |
| iconoclasm | ridiculing institutions |
| mordacious | biting |
| equipose | balance |
| superannuated | obsolete |
| nonpareil | something unequaled |
| contiguous | touching |
| intractable | stubborn |
| egregious | blatant |
| puer | boy |
| ile | like |
| sym | together |
| bio | life |
| necro | death |
| retro | backward |
| spec | look |
| fin | end |
| cise | cut |
| aedes | dwelling |
| ped | child |
| puerilism | childishness |
| nefarious | villainous |
| congruity | harmonious agreement |
| ruminate | to mentally chew |
| edify | to enlighten |
| symbiosis | mutual interdependence |
| necrophobia | fear of death |
| pedantry | trivial teaching |
| retrospective | backward looking |
| fin de siécle | decadent |
| truculent | fiercely savage |
| remonstrate | plead in protest |
| recondite | abstruse |
| incisive | sharp |
| diatribe | abusive speech |
| viv | life |
| homeo | same |
| stasis | stand |
| clam | cry out |
| cad | fall |
| ism | system |
| vehe | carry |
| miso | hatred |
| multi | many |
| fac | make |
| prope | near |
| dis | not |
| string | bind |
| gyn | woman |
| modus vivendi | manner of living |
| homeostasis | equilibrium |
| clamor | loud outcry |
| recidivism | chronic relapse |
| inveigh | to violently criticize |
| vitiate | to corrupt |
| profligate | wastefully extravagant |
| multifarious | very diverse |
| rapprochement | restoration of friendship |
| in vacuo | in a vacuum |
| apocryphal | not authentic |
| opprobrium | disgrace |
| diffident | shy |
| stringent | binding |
| misogynist | hater of women |
| prope | near |
| pyro | fire |
| mania | madness |
| stereo | solid |
| quis | search |
| alt | high |
| megalo | large |
| son | sound |
| myria | many |
| propinquity | nearness |
| tremulous | trembling |
| haute couture | high fashion |
| pyromania | compulsive arson |
| stereotype | a fixed prejudice |
| disquisition | formal discussion |
| myriad | inumerable |
| egotism | chronic self-reference |
| fastidious | overly discriminating |
| transient | temporary |
| expostulate | earnestly object |
| pungent | sharp |
| lacustrine | of lakes |
| megalomania | delusions of greatness |
| dissonant | inharmonious |
| opia | sight |
| clar | clear |
| choreo | dance |
| topo | place |
| onto | organism |
| onto | being |
| sanct | holy |
| gen | origin |
| voc | voice |
| para | beside |
| pecunia | money |
| simul | feign |
| myopia | nearsightedness |
| purlieu | a haunt |
| chiaroscuro | artistic shading |
| choreography | dancing |
| topiary | art of trimming shrubs |
| ontogeny | development of individual |
| ontology | metaphysics of being |
| oncology | medicine of tumors |
| viva voce | word of mouth |
| ululate | to howl |
| insidious | sly |
| paragon | excellent model |
| impecunious | poor |
| dissemble | conceal through pretense |
| sanctimonious | affectedly holy |
| epi | upon |
| taph | tomb |
| crea | create |
| fin | limit |
| omni | all |
| prob | test |
| contra | against |
| tempor | time |
| hyper | over |
| ball | throw |
| germ | related |
| epitaph | tomb inscription |
| cenotaph | empty tomb |
| procreant | producing offspring |
| cursory | hasty and superficial |
| ephemeral | short-lived |
| peremptory | dictatorial |
| ad infinitum | without end |
| hauteur | disdainful snobbery |
| omnium gatherum | an assorted collection |
| reprobate | hopeless scoundral |
| Pharisaism | hypocrisy |
| remunerate | repay |
| contretemps | embarrassing mishap |
| hyperbole | overstatement |
| germane | related |
| lingu | tongue |
| pan | all |
| venus | love |
| amphi | both |
| sacro | holy |
| fract | break |
| fus | pour |
| lingua franca | hybrid language |
| manifesto | declaration of intent |
| pandemic | large epidemic |
| munificent | extremely generous |
| multitudinous | very numerous |
| venerate | deeply respect |
| venial | forgivable |
| apposite | appropriate |
| amphiboly | double meaning |
| sacerdotal | priestly |
| querulous | full of complaint |
| replete | filled |
| immolate | sacrifice |
| refractory | stubborn |
| effusion | outpouring |
| Terms | 504 |
| Creator | tandandle |
| Created | August 27, 2008 |
| Group | CHMS class of 09. (we rock) |
| Subjects | ela, albano, stems, scheuerman, words, tesmer |
| Access | Anyone |
| Edit | Creator Only |
Everything you need to know for the upcoming vocab test.
i fixed it though...thanks for letting me know..
