Unit 20 Flashcards
Nom
Name
Pater/Patr
Father
Lega
To appoint, to send as a deputy
Greg
Herd or flock
Flu
To flow
Prehend/Prehens
To seize
Temper
To moderate or keep within limits or to mix
Purg
To clean or cleanse
Mill
Thousand or thousandth
Hemi/Semi
Half
Nom- name
In
Al- adjective
Existing in name or form only and not in reality; so small as to be unimportant, insignificant.
Alleged
Nom- name
En
Clat
Ure- noun
A name or designation, or the act of naming; a system of terms or symbols used in biology, where New Latin names are given to kinds and groups of animals and plants.
Classification
Ig
Nom- name
Ini- good reputation
Ous- adjective
Marked with shame or disgrace, dishonorable; humiliating or degrading.
Inglorious
Mis- ill
Nom- name
Er- noun
A wrong name, or the use of a wrong name.
Alias
Patr- father
Ic
Ian- adjective
A person of high birth or of good breeding and cultivation; an aristocrat.
Noble
Patr- father
I
Arch- ruler, leader
Y- noun
A family, group, or government controlled by a man or a group of men; a social system in which members are related to each other through their fathers.
Patriarchal
Ex- out of, away from
Patr- father
I
Ate- noun
A person who has moved to a foreign land.
Immigrant
Pater- father
Nalist
Ic- adjective
Tending to supply the needs of or regulate the activities of those under one’s control.
Condescending
Leg- to appoint or to send as a deputy
Ate- noun
An official representative, such as an ambassador.
Deputy
Leg- to appoint or to send as a deputy
Acy- noun
Something left to a person in a will; something handed down by an ancestor or predecessor or received from the past.
Estate
De
Leg- to appoint or to send as a deputy
At
Ion- noun
A group or people chosen to represent the interests or opinions of others.
Appointment
Re- again
Leg- to appoint or to send as a deputy
Ate- verb
To remove or assign to a less important place; to refer or hand over for decision or for carrying out.
Consign
Ag- toward
Greg- herd or flock
Ate- adjective
A collection or sum of units or pairs.
Combined
Con- together
Greg- herd or flock
At
Ion- noun
A gathering of people, especially for worship or religious instruction; the membership of a church or temple.
Audience.
E- out of
Greg- herd or flock
Ious- adjective
Standing out, especially in a bad way; flagrant.
Atrocious
Se- apart
Greg- herd or flock
Ate- verb
To separate from others or from the general mass, isolate; to separate along racial lines.
Divide
Af- toward
Flu- to flow
Ence- noun
An abundance of wealth.
Abundance
Ef
Flu- to flow
Ent- noun
Polluting waste material discharged into the environment.
Beginning
Mel- honey
Li
Flu- to flow
Ous- adjective
Flowing like honey; sweetened as if with honey.
Agreeable
Prehens- to seize
Ile- adjective
Adapted for grasping, especially by wrapping around.
Rapacious
Ap- toward
Prehend- to seize (verb)
Arrest, seize; understand.
Capture
Com- with, together
Prehend- to seize (verb)
To grasp the meaning of, understand; to take in or include.
Interpret
Re- again, back
Prehens- to seize
Ible- adjective
Deserving stern criticism or blame.
Culpable
Temper- To moderate or keep within limits or to mix (noun)
To dilute, qualify, or soften by adding something more agreeable; to moderate.
Attitude
Temper- To moderate or keep within limits or to mix
Ance- noun
Moderation in satisfying appetites or passions; the drinking of little or no alcohol.
Abstinent
In- not
Temper- To moderate or keep within limits or to mix
Ate- adjective
Not moderate or mild; excessive, extreme.
Alcoholic
Dis- apart
Temper- To moderate or keep within limits or to mix (noun)
A highly contagious viral disease, especially of dogs; a highly contagious and usually fatal viral disease, especially of cats, marked by the destruction of white blood cells.
Disease
Purg- to clean or cleanse
E- verb
To clear of guilt or sin; to free of something unwanted or considered impure.
Purify
Ex- out/away from
Purg- to clean or cleanse
Ate- verb
To cleanse of something morally harmful or offensive; to remove objectionable parts from.
Bleep
Purg- to clean or cleanse
At
Ive- noun
Cleansing or purifying, especially from sin; causing significant looseness of the bowels.
Lax
Purg- to clean or cleanse
At
Ory- noun
According to Roman Catholic doctrine, the place where the souls of those who have died in God’s grace must pay for their sins through suffering before ascending to heaven; a place or state of temporary suffering or misery.
Limbo
Mill- a thousand or thousandth
Fleur- leaf (noun)
Having a pattern of small flowers and plants all over.
Floral
Mill- a thousand or thousandth
Enarian
Ism- noun
Belief in the 1,000 year old era of holiness foretold in the Book of Revelation; belief in an ideal society to come, especially one brought about by revolution.
Utopian-ism
Mill- a thousand or thousandth
I
Ped- foot
E- noun
Any of a class of many-footed arthropods that have cylindrical, segmented body with two pairs of legs on each segment, and, unlike centipedes, no poison fangs. Athropod
Mill- a thousand or thousandth
I
Second- “second” (noun)
One thousandth of a second.
Fast
Semi- half
Tone- “tone” (noun)
The tone at half step.
Middle key
Semi- half
Colon- noun
The punctuation mark ;, used chiefly to separate major sentence elements such as independent clauses.
Punctuation mark
Hemi- half
Pleg
Ia- noun
Total or partial paralysis of one side of the body that results from disease of or injury to the motor centers of the brain.
Paralysis
Semi- half
Con
Duct- to lead
Or- noun
A solid that conducts electricity like a metal at high temperatures and insulates like a nonmetal at low temperature.
Metal
