| Term | Definition |
|---|
| GRESS [GRAD] | step, walk, go |
| egress | (n.) means of going out; exit |
| gradation | (n.) 1. change by steps or stages 2. act of grading |
| gradient | (n.) 1. rate at which a road, railroad track, temperature, voltage, etc., rises or falls ("steps" up or down) 2. slope; inclination |
| graduated | (adj.) arranged in regular steps, stages, or degrees |
| progressive | (adj.) going forward to something considered better |
| regressive | (adj.) disposed to move ("step") backward; retrogressive |
| retrograde | (adj.) 1. going backward 2. becoming worse |
| transgress | (v.) step beyond the limits or barriers; go beyond; break a law; violate |
| PED | foot |
| biped | (n.) two-footed animal |
| expedite | (v.) 1. facilitate 2. accelerate or speed up |
| impede | (v.) hinder (literally, "entangle the feet"); obstruct; block |
| impediment | (n.) 1. hindrance; obstacle 2. defect |
| pedestrian | (adj.) commonplace, unimaginative; dull |
| TACT [TANG] | touch |
| contiguous | (adj.) touching; in physical contact; adjoining |
| contingent | (adj.) 1. dependent on something else (literally, "touching together") |
| intact | (adj.) untouched or uninjured; kept or left whole |
| intangible | (adj.) 1. not capable of being perceived by the sense of touch 2. hard to grasp or define exactly |
| tactful | (adj.) having or showing tact; diplomatic |
| tactile | (adj.) 1. pertaining to the sense of touch 2. tangible |
| tangent | (adj.) touching at only one point |
| tangential | (adj.) merely touching; slightly connected; digressive |
| PREHEND (PREHENS) | seize, grasp |
| apprehend | (v.) 1. seize or take into custody 2. understand |
| apprehensive | (adj.) 1. quick to understand or grasp 2. fearful of what may come; anxious |
| comprehensible | (adj.) able to be grasped mentally; understandable |
| comprehensive | (adj.) including ("seizing") very much; extensive |
| prehensile | (adj.) adapted for seizing |
| reprehend | (v.) find fault with (literally, "hold back"); rebuke; reprimand; censure |
| reprehensible | (adj.) deserving of censure; culpable |
| JECT | throw, cast |
| abject | (adj.) sunk or cast down to a low condition; downtrodden; deserving contempt; wretched |
| conjecture | (n.) guess; supposition; inference |
| dejected | (adj.) downcast ("throw down"); discouraged; depressed |
| interject | (v.) throw in between; insert; interpose |
| subject | (v.) force (someone) to undergo something unpleasant or inconvenient; expose; make liable to |
| VERT [VERS] | turn |
| advert | (v.) turn attention; refer |
| aversion | (n.) feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to turn away from it; strong dislike; antipathy |
| avert | (v.) prevent ("turn away"); avoid |
| controversy | (n.) dispute (literally, a "turning against"); debate; quarrel |
| divert | (v.) 1. turn aside 2. amuse; entertain |
| extrovert | (n.) someone "turned outward"; social; outgoing |
| inadvertently | (adv.) without turning one's mind to the matter at hand; carelessly; unintentionally |
| incontrovertible | (adj.) not able to be "turned opposite" or disputed; not open to question |
| introvert (n.) | someone "turned inward"; shy |
| introvert (v.) | turn aside |
| obverse | (n.) side turned toward the observer; therefore; the front of a coin; medal |
| perverse | (adj.) turned away from what is right or good; corrupt; wrongheaded |
| revert | (v.) return; go back |
| versatile | (adj.) able to turn with ease from one thing to another; adaptable |
| vertigo | (n.) condition in which one feels that one's surroundings are turning about; dizziness |
| MIS [MISS, MIT, MITT] | send |
| demise | death |
| emissary | person sent out on a mission |
| emit | send out, give off |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals |
| missile | weapon, capable of being propelled to hit a distant object |
| missive | written message sent, letter |
| remisss | negligent, carless, sent back |
| remission | lessening, relieving or dissappearance, forgiveness, or cancellation |
| remit | send money due, forgive |
| LOCUT [LOQU] | speak, talk |
| circumlocution | roundabout way of speaking |
| colloquial | conversational, informal |
| elocution | art of speaking out or reading effectively in public |
| eloquent | speaking with force and fluency, movingly expressive |
| grandiloquent | using lofty or pompous words, bombastic |
| interlocutor | questioner, one who participates in a conversation |
| loquacious | talkative, garrulous |
| obloquy | speaking against, censure, reproach, bad repute |
| FER[ous] | bearing, producing, yeilding |
| coniferous | bearing cones, as the pine tree |
| odoriferous | yeilding an odor, usually fragrant |
| proliferous | producing new growth rapidly and extensively |
| somniferous | bearing or inducing sleep |
| vociferous | producing a loud outcry, clamorous, noisy |
| PHOBIA | fear, dislike, aversion |
| agoraphobia | fear of open spaces |
| xenophobia | aversion to foreigners |
| MIS | hate |
| misogyny | hatred of women |
| DYS | bad, ill, difficult |
| dysentery | inflammation of the large intestine |
| dysfunction | abnormal functioning, as of an organ of the body |
| EU | good, well, advantageous |
| euphemism | substitution of a 'good' expression for an unpleasant one |
| A [AN] | not, without |
| anhydrous | destitute of (without) water |
| anomalolus | not normal, abnormal |
| MONO [MON] | one, single, alone |
| POLY | many |
| monolithic | massive and rigidly uniform |
| polyglot | person who speaks several languages |
| BIO | life |
| symbiosis | living together in mutually helped association of two dissimilar organisms |
| TOMY [TOM] | cutting, operation of incision |
| dichotomy | cutting or division into two, division |
| tome | one volume, or 'cut' of a work into several volumes, scholarly book |
| POD | foot |
| antipodes | parts of the globe diametrically opposite to each other |
| HOMO | one and the same, like |
| HETERO | different |
| homogeneous | of the same kind, similar, uniform |
| hetergeneous | differing in kind, dissimilar, varied |
| heterodox | opposed to accepted beliefs or established doctrines, especially in religion, unorthodox |
| HYPER | over, above, beyond the ordinary |
| HYPO | under, beneath, less than the ordinary |
| hypertension | abnormally high blood pressure |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration of statement |
| hypothetical | assumed without proof for the purpose of reasoning, conjectural |
| ENDO | within |
| EXTO | out of, outside |
| exoteric | known externally, readily understandable |
| ARCHY | rule |
| heirarchy | body of rulers or officials grouped in ranks, each being subordinate to the rank above it, pecking order |
| GEO | earth, ground |
| apogee | farthest point from the earth in the orbit of a heavenly body, culmination |
| PATH [PATHO, PATHY] | feeling, suffering, disease |
| antipathy | aversion, dislike |
| pathos | quality in drama, speech, literature, music, or events that arouses a feeling of pity or sadness |
| pathological | due to disease |
| MORPH | form |
| amorphous | having no definite form, shapeless, unorganized |
| metamorphosis | change of form |
| PERI | around, about, near, enclosing |
| peripatetic | traveling about, itinerant |
| peripheral | outside the boundary, outside or away from the central part, only slightly connected with what is essential, merely incidental |
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