- ad: to
- affable: friendly and kind
- an: without
- ann: year
- anodyne: a pain reliever
- asseverate: to state severly
- clast: break
- cloister: to seclude
- con: together
- contiguous: touching
- egregarious: blatant
- equi: equal
- equipoise: balance
- ex: out
- greg: group
- icon: image
- iconoclasm: ridiculing institutions
- in: not
- intractable: stubborn
- mord: bite
- mordacious: biting
- non: not
- nonpareil: something unequaled
- ous: full of
- par: equal
- pend: weigh
- plud: close
- re: again
- recherche: rarely choice
- sag: wise
- sagacity: discerning wisdom
- super: over
- superannuated: obsolete
- tang: touch
- tract: pull
- unctuous: oily