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Latin Roots 1-25 Flashcards

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Acer/Acid

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Bitter, sour, sharp

Acerbity - sharpness and directness in speech.

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Acu/Accu

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Intense

Acuity - sharpness in understanding.

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Act/Agit

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To move, to go

Agitate - make (someone) troubled or nervous.

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Ali/Alter

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Other

Alien - different from what is similiar.

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Am/Amor/Ami

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Love, like

Ambition - desire for succsess

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Anthrop

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Man

Anthropoid - monkey, humanoid.

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Antiqu/Antico

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Old

Antique - existing since earlier times.

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Arch

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Main, chief, first

Archon - the chief magistrate or magistrates in many city-states.

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Aster/astro

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Star

Astronomy - the branch of science which deals with celestial objects.

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Aud

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Hear

Audio - sound, especially when recorded, transmitted, or reproduced.

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Auto

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Self, not move

Autonomous - having freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs.

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Bell/belli

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Warlike

Bellona - Roman Goddess of war.

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Bio

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Life

Biology - study of life.

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Brief/brev

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Short as in time, compact.

Brevity - briefness

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Cad/cas

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To fall, to befall upon, to sink down.

Cascade - (of water) pour downward rapidly and in large quantities.

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Calc

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Determine with math, reasoning, or common sense.

Calculator - a tool to calculate math.

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Calor

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Heat

Calorie - the amount of heat your body needs to burn.

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Capit/capt

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Head

Decapitate - cut off the head of (a person or animal).

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Carn

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Flesh, meat

Carnage - the remains of violence.

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Caut/Caus

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To burn, to heat.

Cauldron - a pot to burn/boil.

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Cede/ces/s

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To yield, to go.

Secede - to leave

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Centri

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Center

Central - middle.

23
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Cept/capt

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To take, taken.

Reception(American football) - an act of catching the ball.

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Chrom

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Color

Monochromatic - lacking of color.

25
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Chron

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Time

Chronical - to write down history of one.

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