Vocab List 4- Latin Related Nouns

Question 1

revealing hostility and a readiness to fight

Answer 1

belligerence

Question 2

intonation of the voice
measured movement, such as in music and writing

Answer 2

cadence

Question 3

mercy in the exercise of authority or power; leniency toward an offender or enemy

Answer 3

clemency

Question 4

a funeral song or lament; any song or poem expressing mourning

Answer 4

dirge

Question 5

the quality of being thrifty; not spending or using unnecessarily

Answer 5

frugality

Question 6

a break or interruption in something; a gap; a pause

Answer 6

hiatus

Question 7

extreme poverty

Answer 7

penury

Question 8

condition of the soul lost in eternal punishment

Answer 8

perdition

Question 9

the act of stealing and using the ideas or writings of another as one’s own

Answer 9

plagiarism

Question 10

a person or thing that goes before and heralds the coming of another person or thing; one who precedes another in a course or office

Answer 10

precursor

Question 11

authoritative permission for an actions

penalty imposed to encourage compliance to law

Answer 11

sanction

Question 12

the direction of an object through space

a course taken

Answer 12

trajectory