| A | B |
|---|
| a, ad | to, towards |
| a-, an- | without |
| ab-, abs- | apart, away from |
| anti- | against |
| auto- | self |
| bene- | favorable, well, good |
| belli- | war, warlike, fight, fighting |
| bio- | life, living, live, alive |
| chron- | time, times, a sequence of time |
| com- | with, together |
| de- | down, away |
| dis- | not, apart |
| dys- | bad, hard, difficult, ill |
| epi- | upon, on, over |
| ex- | out |
| in- | in, into, on, upon |
| in-, im- | not |
| inter- | between |
| ob- | against |
| omni-, omnis, omnibus | all |
| poly- | many |
| post- | after, behind, later |
| pre-, prae- | before in time and space |
| pro- | to, towards, forth |
| re- | back, again, backwards |
| se- | apart, aside, by itself |
| sub- | under, below, beneath |
| tele- | distant, far off, far away |
| trans- | across, through, over |
| dura | hard |
| jectare | to throw |
| obdurate | stubborn |
| obstruct | to block |
| struere | to build, to pile up |
| object | to lodge a complaint against |
| omnivore | eats both meat and plants (everything) |
| omnipotent | all- powerful |
| omniscient | all-knowing |
| polydactyl | many digits (fingers; toes) |
| polygon | many angled figure |
| polygraph | lie detector |
| post script | PS |
| postern | back door of a castle |
| posthumous | after death (literally after burial) |
| postmortem | after death |
| mors | death |
| preamble | the part that comes before the main part of the document |
| ambulare | to walk |
| predominate | to out number, out do |
| dominari | to rule |
| prefix | the part of the word attached before the root |
| premeditation | to plan out before |
| portent | a warning about the future |
| proceed | to go forth |
| cedere | to go |
| tendere | to extend, stretch |
| proclaim | to announce in front of |
| clamare | to cry out |
| recede | to go back |
| cedere | to go |
| refugee | one who flees from a war or disaster |
| fugere | to flee |
| refute | to disagree with another's point |
| futare | to beat |
| remit | to send back |
| mittere | to send |
| seclude | to be apart from |
| claudere | to shut |
| segregate | to separate on some basis like race or religion |
| grex | herd or flock |
| secede | to withdraw from |
| submarine | a boat that operates under the water |
| marina | ocean, water |
| subliminal | below the level of conscious recognition |
| limen | threshold |
| succession | when an heir inherits a position |
| suffocate | to die from lack of oxygen |
| fauces | throat |
| telegraph | Morse code transmitted from afar |
| telephone | sound transmitted through wires from a distance |
| telescope | an instrument that makes things in the distance seem closer |
| graphein | to write; writing |
| phonos | sound |
| skopos | seeing |
| transparent | something that is "see through" |
| parere | to appear |
| transluscent | light comes through but no image |
| transfer | to move from one place to another |
| ferre | to bear or carry |
| transmit | to send information across a distance |
| tranquil | restful |
| quies | rest |
| amare | love, liking |
| amicus | friend |
| inimicus | enemy |
| amateur | one who plays a sport for the love of it |
| enamored | to have developed a strong liking for |
| amiable | friendly and cheerful |
| amenity | an add-on designed to make you like something more |
| astrum | star |
| asterisk | a point of punctuation shaped like a star |
| asteroid | star-like |
| astronaut | a sailor of the stars |
| disaster | a devastating event like an earthquake or car crash |
| audit | a verification of one's financial statements |
| auditorium | a large building where concerts, speakers, etc. are hosted |
| audition | a try-out for a production like a play |
| audience | the people who came to hear a speaker or group |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| audire | to hear |
| cadere | to fall |
| cascade | something that falls in stages, like a waterfall or lace |
| cadence | a rhythm |
| chute | a way of guiding material or animals |
| chance | the probability of something happening |
| deciduous | a type of tree that loses its leaves in the fall |
| capere | to take, to hold |
| capture | to take control of |
| capacity | a measure of how much something can hold |
| capable | being able to do a task well |
| deceive | to lead people to believe something that is not true |
| except | to hold something apart from the rules that govern others of its type |
| emancipate | to free from slavery |
| caput | head, leader, chief |
| capitol | the seat of government |
| capital | a special way of writing a letter to indicate the start of a sentence or a title |
| caption | text that clarifies a photo |
| escape | to get away, "ex cappa" |
| precipice | a cliff that sticks out of a mountain |
| kaustikos | capable of burning |
| caustic | something that burns and hurts; can be metaphoric |
| calm | quiet and soothing |
| Holocaust | historically, the attempted genocide of the Jews, Rom, and gays during WWII of |
| holocaust | any great destruction by fire |
| ink | inkaustikos - colored liquid used for writing made longer lasting by heating |
| cedere | to move, go, yield, surrender |
| secede | to separate from |
| se- | apart, apart from |
| proceed | to go forth |
| concede | to yield and believe with an opponent |
| recede | to go back |
| ancestor | those members of a family that came before |
| ante- | before |
| deceased | to be not living |
| caedere | to cut or strike |
| cidere | to cut |
| -cide | the killing of |
| homicide | the killing of a human |
| regicide | the killing of a king (rex) |
| sorocide | the killing of a sister |
| fratracide | the killing of a brother |
| parricide | the killing of one's parents |
| concise | to use no wasted words |
| precise | to use exact language |
| incision | a cut by a surgeon |
| scissors | an implement used for cutting |
| clamare | to cry out, to shout |
| clamor | loud combination of noises |
| exclaim | to call out |
| declaim | to speak, as in making a speech |
| proclaim | to speak as if announcing something official |
| claudere | to close, to shut |
| closet | a room that stores clothing and jewelry |
| recluse | one who does not go out of the house |
| include | to bring into one's circle |
| exclude | to keep out of one's circle |
| ducere | to lead |
| deduce | to detect |
| reduce | to make smaller |
| introduce | to make two or more people known to each other |
| duke | a military title |
| dock | where one parks a boat |
| abduct | to kidnap |
| fallere | to deceive |
| false | something designed to be not true, to mislead |
| fallacy | a false belief often believed by many |
| failure | when something or someone doesn't succeed |
| default | the fallback position; to not pay what one has promised to pay on a loan |
| fallible | to be able to make mistakes |
| infallible | unable to make mistakes |
| ferre | to bear or carry |
| fertile | able to bear young |
| vociferous | the noise of lots of voices |
| vox, vocis | voices, voice |
| proliferation | when something multiplies and spreads |
| proles | off-spring |
| aquifer | an underground lake |
| infer, defer, transfer, refer, prefer, etc. | words you should look up to see how they relate to ferre |
| fidere | to trust |
| confident | the feeling of trusting yourself |
| confidante | one with whom you share secrets |
| confidential | something that you only share with those your trust |
| defiant | showing oppositional behavior |
| finance | one to whom you are engaged |
| infidel | literally, one of a different faith; used as a curse word in parts of the world |
| gradi | to walk, step, go |
| egress | exit |
| ingredient | the items one mixes when one follows a recipe |
| digression (dis) | when one wanders away from the point |
| regress | to go back to an earlier stage |
| aggression | showing an eagerness to resort to violence |
| progress | to go forward |
| grade | a measure of educational achievement as in "grade 7: |
| degrade | to "break' someone using negativity |
| gradient | slope |
| scribere | to write |
| scribillare | to scribble |
| describe | to note down what something/someone's appearance |
| manuscript | hand written document |
| prescribe | to write down needed medicine |
| scribe | one who writes |
| spectare | to view, to watch |
| specere | to look |
| spectator | one who watches |
| spectacles | glasses, also grand and notable productions |
| aspect, respect, suspect, circumspect, introspective, perspective | words you should look up and be able to explain their relationship to spectare |
| despicable | so vile that one must look away |
| torquere | to twist |
| torture | physically causing pain to punish or extract information |
| contort (com is an intensive) | to be able to bend someone or something to extremes |
| retort | twisting a comment back to the person who said it |
| distort | to twist from its true shape or appearance |
| extort | to blackmail |
| torment | to bully |
| torque | a measure of turning |
| trahere | to pull, to draw, to drag |
| traction | a measure of the friction between two surfaces |
| subtraction | to take away |
| abstract | non-representation of real life |
| attract | to feel a pull towards |
| contract | papers that state what each party to the agreement will do |
| detract | to say something negative about someone or something |
| distract | to pull attention away from |
| extract | liquid that has pulled some essential quality out of something else, like vanilla extract |
| retract | to take back |
| portrait | a drawing or painting of a person |
| train | a machine that runs on rails designed to move goods or people |
| vivere | to live |
| Vitalis | belonging to life |
| viable | able to live |
| nonviable | not able to live |
| revive | to bring back to life |
| survive | to not die in a life-threatening situation |
| super- | beyond, over |
| viper | a snake that gives birth to live young |
| vivacious | lively |
| vivid | "living" color |
