Greek Latin Roots Unit 9&10
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29 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 JUD | judgment (Latin) |
| judicious | having or showing good judgment |
| adjudicate | to settle a dispute or argument |
| MOR | law, custom, habit, humor (Latin) |
| amoral | not concerned about mortality |
| mores | attitudes and behaviors that are so firmly fixed that they are followed like laws |
| morose | gloomy, bad-tempered |
| PI | law-abiding, pious, dutiful (Latin) |
| expiate | to make up for doing wrong |
| impious | laking respect for what should be worshipped |
| SACR | holy, sacred (Latin) |
| consecrate | to set apart as holy; to give up to a purpose |
| execrable | very bad; hateful |
| sacrosanct | so sacred or revered as to be off-limits |
| ART, ERT | art (Latin) |
| artifice | clever trickery, deception |
| artless | without strategy or deceit, naive |
| inert | not having power to move; slow to act |
| ICON | image (Greek) |
| icon | an image that best represents something; a symbol |
| iconoclast | a person who attacks or mocks things most people believe in |
| iconography | the study of a group of representative pictures or symbols |
| IM, EM | to mimic, to imitate (Latin) |
| emulate | to seek to be like; to admiringly mimic |
| inimitable | impossible to imitate or copy |
| VIS, VEY, VIEW | to see (Latin) |
| purveyor | one who supplies or sells |
| proviso | a clause or statement that gives instructions for a potential event or situation |
| purview | range of skills or authority; capability |
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