Latin Lessons 1-43 (Part 3)
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m_anderson15 on June 8, 2011
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78 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 agile | related to doing (quick and light in movement) |
| omnivorous | eating, devouring all |
| franglible | breakable |
| cordial | relating to the heart (thus, friendly) |
| cogent | driving together; compelling; forceful |
| ingest | to carry into, especially food |
| crescent | relating to growing (increasing) |
| sagacious | having the quality of shrewdness; wisdom |
| nascent | related to being born |
| equity | equality; "equalness" |
| senescent | growing old |
| alumus | a feeding one; foster son |
| querulous | complaining |
| prolific | making offspring; abundantly productive |
| jurisdiction | an asserting of a right |
| casualty | something by chance or accident, a mishap |
| credit | trust |
| sanitary | related to health; cleanliness |
| convalesce | to grow very well; recovery of health |
| litigation | dispute (suing, lawsuit) |
| avail | to be strong toward (be of use) |
| vacillate | to make waver |
| rectify | to make right; correct |
| laudable | relates to praise; praiseworthy |
| transport | to carry across |
| divergent | related to bending apart |
| prelude | a playing before (something preliminary) |
| incoherent | not sticking together; illogical |
| risibility | laughableness; ability to laugh |
| contemporary | time together |
| orb | a circle |
| mundane | related to the world |
| unity | "oneness" (being one) |
| fossil | something dug up |
| lapidary | related to stone |
| translucent | related to light through |
| quadruped | four-footed animal |
| volatile | related to flying; exploding |
| nocturnal | related to night |
| censor | one who judges or appraises |
| involuntary | not relating to the will |
| repellent | a thing which drives back |
| recognize | to come to know again; identify |
| conflagration | a blazing together (large disastrous fire) |
| confluence | a flowing together (of two or more streams) |
| neutral | being neither |
| icognito | not recognized; unknown |
| egocentric | "I"-centered; self-centered |
| vacuum | an emptiness |
| submerge | to dip under (water) |
| protuberance | a swelling before |
| fission | a splitting or cleaving |
| absorb | to suck in from |
| impunity | not punishing |
| condolence | a grief together |
| immutable | not changeable |
| pomiculture | the cultivation of fruit |
| inhume | into the earth |
| horticulturist | one who cultivates a garden |
| unctuous | full of ointment (oily; greasy) |
| piscatorial | related to fishing |
| bovine | related to cattle |
| levity | lightness of mind, character or behavior |
| depravity | very much crookedness |
| constellation | stars together |
| monitory | related to warning |
| conjugal | related to joining together |
| terse | polished |
| viaduct | the leading of a road |
| beatific | making blessed or happy |
| elucidate | to make very light or clear |
| modulate | to make a melody or small measure |
| integrity | being untouched; not corrupted; honest |
| explicit | folding out; obvious |
| ubiety | "whereness"; condition with respect to place |
| onerous | full of burden; burdensome |
| impeccable | not faulty |
| etymology | the true meaning of words |
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