1st Semester Vocabulary

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1st Semester Vocabulary

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Primus Septem Dies

• BELL war PAC/PEAS agree or peace
• HOSP/HOST host, guest, or shelter AM/IM to
  love friendly or good-natured
• antebellum existing before a war, especially
  before the American Civil War.
• bellicose warlike, aggressive, quarrelsome
• belligerent hot-headed, ready to fight,
  war-like.
• pacifist a person opposed to war or violence,
  especially someone who refuses to bear arms or to
  fight, on moral or religious grounds.
• pact an agreement between two or more people or
  groups a treaty or formal agreement between
  nations to deal with a problem or to resolve a
  dispute.
• appease to make peaceful and quiet to calm,
  satisfy
• hospice a place or program to help care for the
  terminally ill.
• hostel an inexpensive, supervised place for
  young travelers to stay overnight.
• inhospitable 1. not welcoming or generous
  unfriendly. 2. providing no shelter or food.
• amicable friendly, peaceful
• inimical hostile, unfriendly, or harmful
• paramour a lover, often secret, not allowed by
  law or custom.

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Secundus Septem Dies

• allay - To reduce the intensity of relieve To
  calm or pacify set to rest
• assimilate - 1 take up, as of knowledge or
  beliefs 2 become similar to one's environment
  3 make similar
• capitulate - 1.To surrender under specified
  conditions come to terms. 2.To give up all
  resistance
• debase - To lower in character, quality, or
  value degrade.
• emulate - To strive to equal or excel, especially
  through imitation
• exacerbate - To increase the severity, violence,
  or bitterness of aggravate
• extol - To praise highly exalt.
• efface to rub or wipe out erase
• fetter a chain or shackle for the ankles or
  feet something that restricts or restrains
• glut to fill beyond capacity
• guild 1. an association of persons of the same
  trade or pursuits 2. to cover with thin gold or
  other shiny material
• implore to appeal in supplication to beg for
  urgently
• disparage to speak of in a slighting way
  belittle

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Tertius Septem Dies

• CRIM fault, crime, or accusation PROB/PROV
  prove, proof, or honesty, integrity
• GRAV heavy, weighty, or serious LEV light to
  raise or lighten
• decriminalize to remove or reduce the criminal
  status of
• incriminate to show evidence of involvement in
  a crime or a fault
• recrimination an accusation relation for an
  accusation made against oneself the making of
  such an accusation
• approbation a formal or official act of
  approving praise, usually given with pleasure
  or enthusiasm.
• probity absolute honesty and uprightness
• reprobate a person of thoroughly bad character
• gravid pregnant or enlarge with something
• gravitas great or very dignified seriousness
• gravitate to move or be drawn toward something,
  especially by natural tendency or as if by an
  invisible force.
• alleviate to lighten, lessen, or relieve,
  especially physical or mental suffering
• leavening something that lightens and raises
  something that modifies, eases, or animates
• levity frivolity, lack of appropriate
  seriousness

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Quartus Septem Dies

• allegory the use of characters or events to
  represent ideas or principles in a story, play,
  or picture.
• avarice immoderate desire for wealth
• cacophony jarring, discordant sound,
  dissonance the use of harsh sounds
• catharsis a purifying or figurative cleansing
  of the emotions
• charlatan a person who makes elaborate,
  fraudulent, and often voluble claims to
• skill or knowledge a quack or fraud
• dogma a doctrine or system relating to matters
  such as morality and faith, set forth
  authoritative by a church
• edifice a building, especially, one of imposing
  appearance or size
• enigma one that is puzzling or inexplicable
• epitome a representative or an example of a
  class or type
• frivolity the quality or condition of being
  trivial
• hiatus a gap or an interruption in space, time,
  or continuity break
• homage special honor or respect shown or
  expressed publicly
• innuendo an indirect or subtle, usually
  derogatory implication in expression an
  insinuation

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Quintus Septem Dies

• AG do, go lead, drive VEN/VENT to come, come
  between or toward
• CAP/CEP/CIP take, seize, or capture FIN end or
  boundary
• agitate 1. to move something with an
  irregular, rapid, violent action to stir up or
  excite
• prodigal recklessly or wastefully extravagant
  spendthrift
• synagogue the center of worship and communal
  life of a Jewish congregation temple.
• advent a coming or arrival a coming into use.
• provenance origin or source.
• venturesome inclined to seek out risk or
  danger bold, daring, adventurous
• incipient starting to come into being or to
  become evident
• perceptible noticeable or able to be felt by the
  senses.
• susceptible 1. open to some influence
  responsive, able to be submitted to an action or
  process.
• affinity 1. sympathy attraction 2.
  relationship
• definitive 1. authoritative and final 2.
  specifying perfectly or precisely
• finite having definite limits

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Sextus Septem Dies

• a-, an- --- not, without
• agr/o, agri --- crop production, field
• ante --- before
• bar/o --- pressure, weight
• bene --- good, well
• bi, bin --- two, twice
• -cide --- kill
• circum --- around
• cracy, crat --- government, rule, power
• deca, dec, deka --- ten
• dem/o, demi --- people
• dic, dict --- speech, to speak, word

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Septimus Septem Dies

• JAC/JECT throw or hurl TRACT drag or draw
• DUC to lead SEC/SEQU to follow
• adjacent 1. near, neighboring 2. sharing a
  common boundary or border
• conjecture to guess
• dejected downcast, depressed.
• detract to decrease the importance, value, or
  effectiveness of something
• retraction a taking back or withdrawal a denial
  of what one has previously said
• intractable not easily handled, led, taught, or
  controlled
• conducive tending to promote, encourage, or
  assist helpful
• deduction 1. subtraction 2. the reaching of a
  conclusion by reasoning
• induce 1. persuade, influence 2. bring about
• consequential 1. resulting 2.
  important
• execute 1. to carry out or perform 2. to
  put to death legally or formally
• obsequious excessively submissive, obedient, or
  flattering

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Octavus Septem Dies

• allusive - Containing or characterized by
  indirect references.
• elusive - Difficult to define or describe.
  Tending to elude capture, perception,
  comprehension, or memory
• ambivalent - characterized by a mixture of
  opposite feelings or attitudes.
• amiable - Friendly and agreeable in disposition
  good-natured and likable. Cordial sociable
  congenial
• benevolent - Characterized by or suggestive of
  doing good. Of, concerned with, or organized for
  the benefit of charity.
• capricious - Characterized by or subject to whim
  impulsive and unpredictable.
• chimerical - Created by or as if by a wildly
  fanciful imagination highly improbable. Given to
  unrealistic fantasies fanciful.
• craven - Characterized by abject fear cowardly.
• dubious - Fraught with uncertainty or doubt
  undecided.
• garrulous - Given to excessive and often trivial
  or rambling talk tiresomely talkative.
• garish - Marred by strident color or excessive
  ornamentation gaudy. Loud and flashy
• glib - Performed with a natural, offhand ease
  glib conversation. Showing little thought,
  preparation, or concern

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Nonus Septem Dies

• AMBI/AMPHI on both sides, around EP/EPI upon,
  besides, attached to, over, outer, after
• HYPO/HYP under, beneath, down THERM/THERMO
  warm
• ambiguous 1. doubtful or uncertain especially
  from being obscure or indistinct unclear in
  meaning because of being understandable in more
  than one way.
• ambient existing or present on all sides.
• ambivalent 1. holding opposite feelings and
  attitudes at the same time toward someone or
  something. 2. continually wavering between
  opposites or alternate courses of action
• ephemeral 1. lasting a day only 2. lasting a
  very short time
• epitome 1. a summary of written work 2. a
  typical, or ideal, work embodiment
• epithet 1. a descriptive word or phrase
  occurring with or in place of the name of a
  person or thing 2. an insulting or demeaning
  word or phrase
• hypochondriac a person unduly concerned with
  health and often suffering from delusions of
  disease
• hypocrisy a pretending to be what one is not or
  to feel what one does not really feel.
• hypothetical 1. involving an assumption made for
  the sake of argument or for further study or
  investigation 2. imagined for purposes of
  example
• thermal 1. of, relating to, or caused by heat
  2. designed to insulate in order to retain body
  heat
• thermocline the region in a body of water that
  divides the warmer, oxygen-rich surface layer
  from the colder, oxygen-poor deep water.
• thermonuclear of or relating to the changes in
  the nucleus of atoms with low atomic weight, such
  as hydrogen, that require a very high temperature
  to begin.

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Decimus Septem Dies

• equ, equi --- equal
• graph, graphy --- writing, written
• intra-, intro- --- within, inward
• ject --- to throw
• junct --- to join
• magn, magna, magni --- large
• man, mani, manu --- hand
• matr, matri, mater --- mother
• meter, metr, metry --- measure
• mono-, mon- --- one, single, alone
• ology, -logy --- study of, science

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Undecimus Septem Dies

• VOR to eat CRED to believe
• CARN flesh FID faith, faithfulness
• CARNIVOROUS meat-eating or flesh-eating
• OMNIVOROUS 1. feeding on both animals and
  plants 2. intensely interest in everything.
• VORACIOUS 1. having a huge appetite. 2. very
  eager
• CARNAGE great destruction of life slaughter
• CARNAL having to do with bodily pleasures.
• CARNIVAL 1. a season of merrymaking just before
  Lent an occasion for festivities and excess 2. a
  traveling group that presents a variety of
  amusements.
• CREDENCE mental acceptance of something as true
  or real belief.
• CREDULITY readiness and willingness to believe
  on the basis of little evidence.
• CREED 1. a statement of the basic beliefs of a
  religious faith. a set of guiding principles or
  beliefs.
• DIFFIDENT 1. Lacking confidence timid.
  cautious or unassertive.
• FIDUCIARY 1. having to do with a confidence or
  trust. 2. held in trust for another.
• PERFIDY faithlessness, disloyalty, or treachery.

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Duodecimus Septem Dies

• omni all
• part, patri, pater father
• phon/o, phone, phony sound, voice
• pro before, forward, in place of
• pseudo false
• rupt to break, burst
• scrib, script to write
• tele, tel, telo distant, end, complete
• trans across, through
• uni one

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Tertius Decimus Septem Dies

• CURS to run FLECT/FLEX bend
• PED foot POST after, behind
• CONCURRENT happening or operating at the same
  time.
• CURSORY hastily and often carelessly done.
• DISCURSIVE passing from one topic to another.
• EXPEDIENT suitable for bringing about a desired
  result, often without regard for what is fair or
  right.
• IMPEDIMENT something that interferes with
  movement or progress.
• PEDESTRIAN commonplace, ordinary, or
  unimaginative.
• FLEXOR a muscle that bends a part of the body,
  such as an arm or a leg.
• GENUFLECT to kneel on one knee and then rise a
  an act of respect.
• INFLECTION a change in the pitch, tone, or
  loudness of the voice.
• POSTERIOR situated toward or on the back rear.
• POSTHUMOUS 1. published after the death of the
  author. 2. following or happening after ones
  death.
• POSTMORTEM 1. occurring after death. 2.
  following the event

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Quartus Decimus Septem Dies

• MAL bad, evil CATA down
• ANTE before, in front of PROT/PROTO 1st in
  time 1st formed
• MALEVOLENT having or showing intense ill will or
  hatred.
• MALICIOUS desiring to cause pain, injury, or
  distress to another.
• MALIGN to make harsh and often false or
  misleading statements about.
• CATACLYSM 1. a violent and massive change of the
  earths surface. 2. a momentous event that
  results in great upheaval and often destruction.
• CATALYST 1. a substance that speeds up a
  chemical reaction or lets it take place under
  different conditions. 2. someone or something
  that brings about or speeds significant change or
  action.
• CATATONIC 1. relating to or suffering from a
  form of schizophrenia 2. showing an unusual lack
  of movement, activity, or expression.
• PROTAGONIST the main character in a literary
  work.
• PROTOCOL 1. an original copy or record of a
  document. 2. a code of diplomatic or military
  rules of behavior.
• PROTOTYPE 1. an original model on which
  something is patterned. 2. a first, full-scale,
  usually working version of a new type or design.
• ANTECHAMBER an outer room that leads to another
  and is often used as a waiting room.
• ANTEDATE 1. to date something (such as a check)
  with a date earlier than that of actual writing.
  2. To precede in time.
• ANTERIOR 1. located before or toward the front
  or head. 2. coming before in time or development

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Quintus Decimus Septem Dies

• ORTHO straight, right, true RECT right, true
• EU good, well, true DYS bad, difficult,
  abnormal
• ORTHODOX 1. holding established beliefs,
  especially in religion 2. conforming to
  established rules or traditions conventional.
• ORTHOPEDICS the correction or prevention of
  deformities of the skeleton
• ORTHOGRAPHY 1. the spelling of words according
  to standard usage. 2. the part of language study
  concerned with letters and spelling
• RECTITUDE 1. moral integrity 2. correctness of
  procedure
• RECTIFY 1. to set right remedy 2. to correct
  by removing errors revise
• RECTOR 1. a clergyman in charge of a church or
  parish 2. the head of a university or school.
• EUPHEMISM 1. the use of an agreeable or
  inoffensive word or expression for one that may
  offend or disgust 2. an expression used in this
  way.
• EUPHORIA a felling of well-being or great
  elation.
• EVANGELISM 1. the enthusiastic preaching or
  proclamation of the Christian gospel 2. militant
  or crusading zeal
• DYSFUNCTIONAL operating or functioning in an
  impaired or abnormal way.
• DYSPEPTIC 1. relating to or suffering from
  indigestion 2. having an irritable temperament
  ill-humored
• DYSTROPHY any of several disorders involving
  nerves and muscles, especially a hereditary
  disease marked by a progressive wasting of
  muscles.

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Sextus Decimus Septem Dies

• ROG to ask, propose QUIS to seek, obtain
• PLE to fill METR measure
• ABROGATE 1. to abolish or annul. 2. to ignore
  or treat as if nonexistent
• ARROGATE to claim or seize without
  justification.
• DEROGATORY expressing a low or poor opinion of
  someone or something.
• INQUISITION a questioning or examining that is
  often harsh or severe.
• ACQUISITIVE eager to acquire greedy.
• REQUISITION a demand or request (such as for
  supplies) made with proper authority.
• COMPLEMENT 1. something that fills up or makes
  perfect the amount needed to make something
  complete. 2. a counterpart.
• IMPLEMENT to take steps to fulfill or put into
  practice.
• REPLETE fully or abundantly filled or supplied.
• METRIC 1. relating to or based on the metric
  system. 2. relating to or arranged in meter.
• ODOMETER an instrument used to measure distance
  traveled.
• SYMMETRICAL 1. having or exhibiting balanced
  proportions or the beauty that results from such
  balance. 2. corresponding in size, shape, or
  other qualities on opposite sides of a dividing
  line or plane or around a center