| A | B |
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| bene | Latin Root for "well" |
| benediction | a prayer that asks for God's blessing, especially a prayer that concludes a worship service |
| benefactor | Someone who helps another person or group, especially by giving money |
| beneficiary | Aperson or organization that benefits or is expected to benefit from something, especially one that receives money or property when someone dies |
| benevolence | kindness; gernerosity |
| Am | comes from the Latin amare "to love" |
| amicable | friendly; peaceful |
| enamored | charmed or fascinated; inflamed with love |
| amorous | having or showing strong feelings of attraction or love |
| paramour | a lover, often secret, not allowed by law or custom |
| bell | come from the latin word meaning "war" |
| antebellum | exisitng before a war, especially before the American Civil War |
| bellicose | warlike, aggressive, quarrelsome |
| belligerance | aggressiveness, combativeness |
| rebellion | open defiance and opposition, sometimes armed, to a person or thing in authority |
| pac | is related the Latin word for "agree" and "peace" |
| pacify | to soothe anger or agitation; to subdue by armed action |
| pacifist | a person opposed towar 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 |
| pace | contrary to the opinion of |
| crim | comes fromthe latin words for "fault", "crime", or "accusation" |
| criminology | the study of crime, criminals, law enforcement, and punishment |
| decriminalize | to remove or reduce the criminal status of |
| incriminate | to show evidence of involvment in a crime or fault |
| recrimination | an accusation in answer to an accusation made against oneself; the making of such an accusation |
| prob | comes from the Latin words for "prove or proof" and "honesty or integrity" |
| approbation | a formal or official act of approving; praise, usually given with pleasure or enthusiasm |
| probate | the process of proving in court that the will of someone who has died is valid, and of administering the estate of a dead person |
| probity | absolute honesty and uprightness |
| reprobate | a person of thoroughly bad character |
| grav | comes from the latin word meaning "heavy, weighty, serious" |
| grave | requiring serious thought or concern; serious or formal in appearance or manner |
| gravitas | great or very dignified seriousness |
| gravitate | to move or to be drawn toward something, especially by a natural tendency or as if by an invisible force |
| aggravate | to make an injury, problem, etc. more serious or severe; to annoy or bother |
| lev | comes from the latin adjective levis meaning "light" or "to raise or lighten" |
| alleviate | to lighten, lessen, or relieve, especially physical or mental suffering |
| elevation | the height of a place; the act or result of lifting or raising someone or something |
| cantilever | a long piece of wood, metal, etc. , that sticks out from a wall to support something above it |
| levity | lack of appropriate seriousness |
| cicerone | a guide, especially one who takes tourists to museums, monuments, or architectural sites and explains what is being seen |
| hector | to bully or harrass by bluster or personal pressure |
| hedonism | an attitude or way of life based onthe idea that pleasure or happiness should be the chief goal |
| nestor | a senior figure or leader in one's field |
| spartan | marked by simplicity, avoidance of luxury, and often strict self-discipline or self-denial |
| stentorian | extremely loud, often with especially deep richness of sound |
| stoic | seemingly indifferent to pleasure or pain |
| sybaritic | makred by a luxurious or sensual way of life |
