Unit 1 Flashcards
PHOT/PHOS
“light”
Phototropic
Tending to grow or move toward light
Phosphorescent
Giving off light without heat
Photogenic
Attractive in pictures or photographs
LUC
“light”
Lucid
Easy to understand; clear
Elucidate
To make clear by understanding
Translucent
Allowing light to pass through
SPEC/SPECT
“to look at”
Prospect
That which is expected
Specter
A ghost or phantom
VID/VIS
” to see, to look at”
Invidious
Hateful or spiteful
Providential
Happening by good fortune
Improvise
to create without forethought or preperation
Enunciate
to pronounce or articulate
Renounce
to reject by deceleration
Pronouncement
A declaration of opinion ; judgement
NUNC/NOUNC
to announce
VOK/VOC
to call
Invoke
to call on for support
provocative
causing disturbance or excitement
revoke
to make invalid;deactivate
FA
to speak
Infantile
Childish;immature
Affable
easy to converse with; friendly
DIC/DICT
to say, to tell
Edict
an official order
Indict
to charge with crime; accuse
dictum
a formal or authoritative statement
HIB/HAB
to have to hold
prohibit
to stop one from doing something; prevent
Inhibit
to get in the way; hinder
FUS/FOUND
to pour out
Suffuse
to fill up within; to spread throughout
Confound
to confuse and frustrate
infuse
to inject; to fill something or someone with