Latin Roots 17-20

Question 1

mor (mort)

Answer 1

death

Question 2

immortality

Answer 2

not being able to die; external life; lasting frame

Question 3

moribund

Answer 3

dying, near death

Question 4

mortal

Answer 4

someone who is destined to die; human; causing death; fatal, as in a mortal blow

Question 5

mortality

Answer 5

death rate

Question 6

mortician

Answer 6

a person who deals with dead people; undertaker

Question 7

mortification

Answer 7

shame; humiliation; embarrassment

Question 8

mortuary

Answer 8

morgue

Question 9

corp

Answer 9

body

Question 10

corporal

Answer 10

bodily, as in a corporal punishment; rank in military

Question 11

corps

Answer 11

organized body of persons; branch of military

Question 12

corpse

Answer 12

a dead body

Question 13

corpulent

Answer 13

a person with excess weight on their body; bulky; obese; very fat

Question 14

corpus

Answer 14

general collection of writings, laws, etc.

Question 15

corpuscle

Answer 15

blood cell (literally,a “little body”); minute particle

Question 16

corpus delicti

Answer 16

facts proving a crime has been committed (literally, “body of the crime”)

Question 17

incorporate

Answer 17

to include bodies; combine do as to form one body

Question 18

duc (duct)

Answer 18

lead; conduct; draw

Question 19

aqueduct

Answer 19

artificial channel for conducting water from a distance

Question 20

conductive

Answer 20

tending to lead to; contributive; helpful

Question 21

deduction

Answer 21

taking away; subtraction; reasoning from the general to the specific

Question 22

duct

Answer 22

tube or channel for conducting liquid, air, etc.

Question 23

ductile

Answer 23

be able to conduct electricity; able to be drawn out or hammered or thin (said of metal); easily lead; ductile

Question 24

induce

Answer 24

lead on; move by persuasion

Question 25

induction

Answer 25

reasoning from the particular to the general

Question 26

seduction

Answer 26

act of leading astray into wrongdoing

Question 27

traduce

Answer 27

slander (literally, “lead across” or parade in a public way of disgrace) vilify; calumniate

Question 28

viaduct

Answer 28

bridge for conduction a road or railroad over valley, river, etc.

Question 29

sect (sequ)

Answer 29

follow

Question 30

consecutive

Answer 30

following in regular order; successive that which follows logically; result

Question 31

consequence

Answer 31

punishment that follows; importance, as a person of consequence

Question 32

execute

Answer 32

to carry out; follow through completion; put to death

Question 33

inconsequential

Answer 33

something that is not important; unimportant

Question 34

prosecute

Answer 34

follow to the end or until finished, conduct legal proceeding against, sue

Question 35

sequel

Answer 35

something that follows; continuation; consequence; outcome

Question 36

sequence

Answer 36

the following of one thing after another; succession; orderly series