Chapter 5: Latin Suffixes 2 (words)

Question 1

adipose (adip-ose)

Answer 1

having to do with (“full of”) fat or fatty material

Question 2

somnolent (somn-o-lent)

Answer 2

drowsy, prone to sleep

Question 3

ingest (in-gest)

Answer 3

to take into the body by swallowing or absorption

Question 4

flexible (flex-ible)

Answer 4

subject to being bent

Question 5

native (nat-ive)

Answer 5

belonging to a particular place by birth

Question 6

tenacious (ten-acious)

Answer 6

inclined to hold on to something or persist

Question 7

morbid (morb-id)

Answer 7

having to do with or characterized by disease

Question 8

ductile (duct-ile)

Answer 8

able to be drawn out or extended

Question 9

gradual (grad-ual)

Answer 9

characterized by step-by-step progression

Question 10

virulent (vir-u-lent)

Answer 10

full of poison, deadly, destructive

Question 11

digestive (di-gest-ive)

Answer 11

tending to digest, having to do with digestion

Question 12

regressive (re-gress-ive)

Answer 12

tending to take a step backwards

Question 13

varicose (varic-ose)

Answer 13

full of twists and swelling

Question 14

nutritious (nutr-itious)

Answer 14

related to nourishment

Question 15

aquatic (aqua-tic)

Answer 15

pertaining to water

Question 16

auditory (audit-ory)

Answer 16

related to the process of hearing

Question 17

spinous (spin-ous)

Answer 17

full of spines

Question 18

reductive (re-duct-ive)

Answer 18

inclined to lead backwards

Question 19

adhesive (ad-hes-ive)

Answer 19

tending to stick or cling

Question 20

incisive (in-cis-ive)

Answer 20

tending to cut in (as a comment)

Question 21

fibrous (fibr-ous)

Answer 21

full of fibers

Question 22

retentive (re-tent-ive)

Answer 22

tending to hold on to

Question 23

postnatal (post-nat-al)

Answer 23

related to the time after birth

Question 24

active (act-ive)

Answer 24

tending to do or act

Question 25

digestible (di-gest-ible)

Answer 25

able to be digested

Question 26

sensory (sens-ory)

Answer 26

tending to feel or perceive, related to perception

Question 27

tremulous (trem-ulous)

Answer 27

inclined to tremble or shake

Question 28

vitreous (vitr-e-ous)

Answer 28

full of glass, composed of glass

Question 29

purulent (pur-u-lent)

Answer 29

full of pus

Question 30

excision (ex-cis-ion)

Answer 30

the act of cutting away or taking out

Question 31

conduction (con-duct-ion)

Answer 31

the transmission of signals (eg through nerves)

Question 32

puromucuous (pur-o-muc-uous)

Answer 32

containing both pus and mucus

Question 33

cadaver (cad-aver)

Answer 33

dead (“fallen”), body, corpse

Question 34

audiogram (aud-iogram)

Answer 34

a written record of a hearing test

Question 35

somnambulist (somn-ambulist)

Answer 35

one who is subject to sleepwalking

Question 36

adiposis dolorosa

Answer 36

the formation of painful fat deposits in the skin

Question 37

excrementitious (ex-crement-itious)

Answer 37

having to do with waste material

Question 38

delirium tremens

Answer 38

“shaking madness”, a result of alcohol withdrawal