SAT Vocab Latin Roots 1-12 Flashcards
(116 cards)
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Amateur
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unexperienced unskilled
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Amiable
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showing good qualities, friendly, good natured
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amicable
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Characterized by showing good will
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Amity
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friendship peaceful harmony
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Amorous
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Showing or expressing love
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Enamored
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to fill with love
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Animosity
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a feeling of strong dislike
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Animus
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strong dislike, animation
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Equanimity
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mental or emotional stability
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Magnanimous
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generous or forgiving
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Unanimity
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the quality of being numerous, or undivided
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Unanimous
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complete agreement
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Affinity
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a natural liking to
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confine
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to inclose within bounds
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definitive
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most reliable or complete
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finale
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the last piece
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finis
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end conclusion
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fluctuate
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to change continually
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fluent
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spoken or written with ease
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fluid
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a substrate such as liquid or gas.
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flux
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flowing or flow, Movement
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influx
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act of flowing in
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Degenerate
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to fall below normal or desirable level
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Engender
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to produce cause or give rise to.
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Genre
a class or category of artistic endeavor
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Progenitor
a biologically related ancestor
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Regenerate
to affect complete or moral reform
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Aggregate
Collection of a particular group
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aggregation
a group or mass of distinct things
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Congregation
an assembly of persons brought together for religious worship
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Gregarious
fond of the company of others
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Segregation
the act or practice of segregating
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Adhere
to stay attached
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Cohere
to stick together
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Coherence
the act or state of cohering. Logical connection
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Cohesion
the act or state of being united
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Incoherent
without logical meaning of connection
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Inherent
existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element.
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Bilateral
pertaining to involving or affecting two or both
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Collateral
security pledged for the payment of a loan
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Equilateral
having all sides the same
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Lateral
pertaining to the side
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Multilateral
pertaining to many sides
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Quadrilateral
having four sides
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Unilateral
one side
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Alliteration
the stress of two to more syllables of a word.
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Literacy
the quality or state of being literate
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Literal
in accordance to, Primary meaning of a word, True
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Literary
The quality or state of being literate
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Literate
able to read or write
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Elucidate
to make clear or lucid
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Lucid
easily understood clear
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Luminary
a celestial body, a person who has attained eminence in his or her field, an inspiration
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Luminous
radiating or reflecting light, brilliant intellectually
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Translucent
permitting light to pass through
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Emancipate
free from restraint
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Manacle
a shackle for the hand
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Mandate
a command or authorization to act
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Manipulate
to manage or influence skillfully
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Manual
done operated worked by hand
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Manuscript
original text of a authors work
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Append
to add as a supplement to the end Attach or suspend
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Appendix
supplementary material at the end of a book.
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Impending
about to happen
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Pendant
a hanging ornament, a match or parralel
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Pending
while waiting, in the period before the decision
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Suspend
to hand off the wall, to cause of cease to put a stop to
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Suspense
a state or condition of being mentally uncertain about the future.
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Depose
to remove from office
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Impose
to lay or set on someone, to thrust onto
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Postpone
to put off till later
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Superimpose
to place or set above all
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Transpose
to change the relative position
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Conscript
to draft for military or naval service
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Inscription
something inscribed
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Prescribe
to lay down in writing
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proscribe
to denounce or condemn as harmful. to banish
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Scribe
a erson who serves as a writer to record history
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Assimilate
to take in or incorporate. to draw in together
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Dissimilar
Not similar
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Similarity
similar or alike
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Simile
figure of speech where two unlike thing are compared.
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Simulate
to create a pretense of
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Simultaneous
happening at the same time
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Desolate
barren or laid to waste
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Sole
being the only one
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Soliloquy
an utterance of a speech without any others present
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Solitary
alone
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Solitude
in the state of being alone
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Solo
by one person
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absolute
free from imperfection, not mixed
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dissolution
the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts
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Dissolve
to melt, to make a solution
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Resolution
an formal expression of opinion, decision at the end of thought
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Resolve
to come to a ernest decision about
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Soluble
capable of being dissolved, or explained
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Solvent
able to pay all debts, having the power to dissolve
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Abound
to occur or exist in great quantities
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Abundant
present in great quantity
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inundate
to flood
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Redound
to have good or bad feelings for
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Redundant
characterized by excess
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aver
to assert or affirm with confidence
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veracity
habitual observance, conform to truth or fact
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verdict
a judgement
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verify
to confirm
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veritable
being true or very much true, obsolete
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verity
the state or quality of being true
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envision
to picture mentally
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improvise
to do without script
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invisible
not able to be seen
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revise
to redo
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videotape
a recording device
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video
a device with audio and video
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visibility
the ability to be seen
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visual
sense of being able to see
