Vocab List #1

Question 1

Aberration

Answer 1

Noun: A deviation or departure from the proper, expected, normal, or typical course.

Question 2

ab-

Answer 2

To go away

Question 3

Aberrare

Answer 3

To go astray.

Question 4

-ion

Answer 4

an action or process

Question 5

Abstract

Answer 5

Adjective: Considered apart from concrete existence; theoretical.

Question 6

abstrahere

Answer 6

To draw away.

Question 7

Acclaim

Answer 7

Noun: An enthusiastic applause or acclamation.

Question 8

acclamare

Answer 8

To shout.

Question 9

Acquiesce

Answer 9

Verb: To consent or comply passively or without protest.

Question 10

acquiescere

Answer 10

To rest.

Question 11

Admonish

Answer 11

Verb: To reprove gently; to caution; to warn; to remind of an obligation or duty.

Question 12

admonere

Answer 12

To warn.

Question 13

Affinity

Answer 13

Noun: A natural attraction or feeling of kinship.

Question 14

affinis

Answer 14

Related by marriage

Question 15

-ity

Answer 15

A noun suffix meaning a condition or quality.

Question 16

Aggrandize

Answer 16

Verb: To increase the scope of; to extend; to make greater in power; influence, stature, or reputation.

Question 17

grandis

Answer 17

Large

Question 18

-ize

Answer 18

A verb suffix meaning to cause to be or to become.

Question 19

Alienate

Answer 19

Verb: To make unfriendly or hostile; estrange; to make withdrawn or unresponsive; to isolate emotionally.

Question 20

alienus

Answer 20

Alien

Question 21

-ate

Answer 21

A verb suffix meaning to characterize by; to act upon in a specified way.

Question 22

Alleviate

Answer 22

Verb: To make more bearable; to relieve.

Question 23

levis

Answer 23

To make light.

Question 24

Aloof

Answer 24

Adjective: Distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote.

Question 25

a

Answer 25

Away from end.

Question 26

luff

Answer 26

Windward part of a ship.

Question 27

Altruism

Answer 27

NounUnselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness

Question 28

alter

Answer 28

Other

Question 29

Ambiguous

Answer 29

Adjective: Open more than one interpretation.

Question 30

ambi

Answer 30

In two ways

Question 31

ambiguus

Answer 31

Uncertain.

Question 32

Ambivalence

Answer 32

Noun: The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings; uncertainty or indecisiveness as to which course to follow.

Question 33

valere

Answer 33

To be strong

Question 34

-ence

Answer 34

A noun suffix meaning a state or condition.

Question 35

Ameliorate

Answer 35

Verb: To make or become better; to improve.

Question 36

melior

Answer 36

Better.

Question 37

Analogous

Answer 37

Adjective: Having a similarity in some respects between things are otherwise not similar.

Question 38

ana

Answer 38

According to.

Question 39

logos

Answer 39

Proportion.

Question 40

Animosity

Answer 40

Noun: Bitter hostility or active hatred. `

Question 41

animus

Answer 41

Reason, mind.

Question 42

anima

Answer 42

Soul, spirit, life, breath.

Question 43

ane

Answer 43

To breathe