FINAL Latin Words
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78 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 agile | related to doing (quick and light in movement) |
| omnivorous | eating, devouring all |
| frangible | breakable |
| cordial | relating to the heart (friendly) |
| cogent | driving together (compelling & forceful) |
| ingest | to carry into (espcially food) |
| crescent | related to growing (increasing) |
| sagacious | having the quality of shrewdness, wisdom |
| nascent | related to being born |
| equity | equality, "equalness" |
| senescent | growing old |
| alumnus | 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, law suit) |
| avail | to be strong toward (be use of) |
| vascillate | to make waver |
| rectify | to make right (to correct) |
| laudible | related 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 (cutting & engraving of stone) |
| translucent | related to light through (semi-transparent) |
| 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 |
| neutrality/neutral | being neither |
| incognito | not recognized (unkown) |
| egocentric | "I"-centered (self-centered) |
| vacuum | an emptiness |
| submerge | to dip under (put under water) |
| protuberance | a swelling before |
| fission | a splitting or cleaving |
| absorb | to suck in (assimilate) |
| impunity | not punishing (exempt from punishment) |
| condolence | a grief together (expression of sympathy) |
| immutable | not changeable |
| pomiculture | the cultivation of fruit |
| inhume | into the earth |
| horticulture | one who cultivates gardens |
| unctuous | full of ointment (oily or greasy) |
| piscatorial | related to fishing |
| bovine | related to cattle (a dull person) |
| levity | lightness of mind, character, or behavior |
| depravity | very much crookedness (morally corrupt) |
| constellation | stars together (a group of stars) |
| monitory | related to warning |
| conjugal | related to joining together (related to marriage) |
| terse | polished (effectively concise) |
| viaduct | a leading of a road (bridge for carrying over) |
| beatific | making blessed or happy |
| elucidate | to make very light/clear |
| modulate | to make a melody or small measure |
| integrity | being untouched, not corrupt, honest |
| explicit | folding out (obvious) |
| ubiety | "whereness", condition with respect to place |
| onerous | full of burden, burdensome |
| impeccable | not faulty (faultless, irreproachable) |
| etymology | the true meaning of words |
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