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a- (not, negative prefix) acute
acute: ending in a sharp point
ab- (away) ad- (to, towards)
ad- (to, towards)
abash: cause to be embarrassed abash ad-, af- (to, towards)
{abashment , n.} /euh bash"/, v.t. - to destroy the ad-, ag- (to, towards)
self-confidence, poise, or self-possession of; ad-, al- (to, towards)
disconcert; make ashamed or embarrassed: to adage: a condensed but memorable saying
abash someone by sneering. abash v. a. - embodying an important fact
shame, mortify, confuse, confound, disconcert, adamant: very hard native crystalline carbon
discompose, cow, humiliate, humble, snub, put valued as a gem
to shame, make ashamed, put down, put out of address: the place where a person or
countenance, take down, send away with a flea organization can be found
in one's ear. See discountenance. adelphos (brother)
adherent: someone who believes and helps to
abate: become less in amount or intensity spread a doctrine
abdicate: give up, such as power, as of admonish: scold or reprimand; take to task
monarchs and emperors adroit
aberration: a state or condition markedly adroit: quick or skillful or adept in action or
different from the norm thought
abhor: find repugnant adroitness
abject: of the most contemptible kind adulate
abnegate: deny or renounce adulation
abortive: failing to accomplish an intended adulation: servile flattery; exaggerated and
result hypocritical praise
abridge: lessen, diminish, or curtail adulatory
absolute: perfect or complete or pure adulterate: make impure by adding a foreign or
absolve: grant remission of a sin to inferior substance
abstinent: self-restraining adverse: in an opposing direction
abstract: existing only in the mind aequus, equ- (equal)
abstruse: difficult to penetrate aequus, equ- (equal)
abysmal: resembling an abyss in depth; so deep aequus, equ- (equal)
as to be immeasurable aesthetic: characterized by an appreciation of
-ac (one who; noun suffix) beauty or good taste
accident affable: diffusing warmth and friendliness
accolade: a tangible symbol signifying approval affectation: a deliberate pretense or
or distinction exaggerated display
accost: speak to someone affinity: a natural attraction or feeling of
acerbic: sour or bitter in taste kinship
acquiesce: to agree or express agreement affluence
acrid: strong and sharp, as a taste affluent
acrimonious: marked by strong resentment or affluent: having an abundant supply of money
cynicism or possessions of value
acromaniac agenda: a list of matters to be taken up, as at a
acrophobe meeting
acrophobia aggregate (n.)
acrophobia aggregate (v.)
acuity aggregate: a sum total of many heterogeneous
acumen things taken together
acumen: shrewdness shown by keen insight aggregation
acuo (to sharpen) agnostic
acupuncture
agnostic: a person who claims the existence of ambiguous
God is unknowable ambiguous: having more than one possible
agnosticism meaning
agogos (leading) Gr. ambivalence
agogos (leading, leader) ambivalent
agora (market place) ambivalent: uncertain or unable to decide about
agoramaniac what course to follow
agoraphobe ambivert
agoraphobia amble
agoraphobic ambulatory
agrarian: relating to rural matters ambulo (to walk)
akros (highest) ameliorate: to make better
-al (adjective suffix) amenable: disposed or willing to comply
-al (adjective suffix) amenity: pleasantness resulting from agreeable
-al (adjective suffix) conditions
-al (adjective suffix) amiable: diffusing warmth and friendliness
-al (adjective suffix) amnesty: a warrant granting release from
-al (adjective suffix) punishment for an offense
-al (adjective suffix) amor (love)
alacrity: liveliness and eagerness amorous: inclined toward or displaying love
algos (pain) amorphous: having no definite form or distinct
algos (pain) shape
allege: report or maintain an- (negative prefix)
alleviate ana- (up)
alleviate: provide physical relief, as from pain ana-, a- (negative prefix)
alleviation anachronism
alleviative anachronism: something located at a time when
allocate: distribute according to a plan or set it could not have existed
apart for a purpose anachronistic
alloy: a mixture containing two or more metallic anachronous
elements anaemia
allusion: passing reference or indirect mention analogy: drawing a comparison in order to show
alma (soul) a similarity
alma mater anaphrodisiac
aloof: remote in manner anarchy: a state of lawlessness and disorder
alter (other) Lat. anatomical
alter ego anatomy
alteration androkleptomaniac
altercation andromania
alternate androphile
alternative androphobe
altruism andros (male)
altruism: the quality of unselfish concern for anecdote: short account of an incident
the welfare of others anemia
altruist Anglophile
altruistic Anglus (English)
Amadeus anguish: extreme distress of body or mind
ambi- (both) anima (soul, spirit, life principle)
ambi- (both) animosity
ambi- (both) animosity: a feeling of ill will arousing active
ambidexterity hostility
ambidextrous animus
ambience: the atmosphere of an environment animus (mind)
ambiguity animus (mind)
animus (mind) arbitrary: based on or subject to individual
animus (mind) discretion or preference
anniversary arcane: requiring secret or mysterious
annus (year) La. knowledge
anodyne archaic: so extremely old as seeming to belong
anomaly: deviation from the normal or common to an earlier period
order or form or rule archein (to rule)
antecedent: a preceding occurrence or cause or archetype: something that serves as a model
event ardency
anthropocentric ardent
anthropological ardent: characterized by intense emotion
anthropological ardo, arsus (to burn)
anthropologist ardo, arsus (to burn)
anthropologist ardor
anthropology ardour
anthropology arduous: characterized by effort to the point of
anthropos (mankind) exhaustion
anthropos (mankind) Gr. aristocratic: belonging to or characteristic of the
anti (against) nobility
anti- (against) arkhos (ruler)
anti- (against) arson
anti- (against) arsonist
antipathetic artful: not straightforward or candid
antipathy articulate (adj.)
antipathy: a feeling of intense dislike artifice: a deceptive maneuver, especially to
antithesis: exact opposite avoid capture
antivivisectionist -ary (adjective suffix)
antonym -ary (adjective suffix)
antonymous ascendancy: the state when one person or group
apartheid: a social policy of racial segregation has power over another
apathetic ascetic
apathy ascetic: someone who practices self denial as a
apathy: an absence of emotion or enthusiasm spiritual discipline
aphorism: a short pithy instructive saying asceticism
aphrodisiac asketes (monk) Gr.
aphrodisiac asocial
aphrodisiacal assiduous: marked by care and persistent effort
apocalypse: a cosmic cataclysm in which God assimilate: make alike
destroys the powers of evil assuage: provide physical relief, as from pain
apocryphal: being of questionable authenticity aster
apotheosis: model of excellence or perfection of asterisk
a kind astrological
appease: make peace with astrology
appreciate: be fully aware of; realize fully astron (star)
apprehensive: in fear or dread of possible evil or astronaut
harm astronomer
approbation: official approval astronomical
appropriate: suitable for a particular person, astronomy
place, or situation astute: marked by practical hardheaded
aptitude: inherent ability intelligence
aqua (water) -ate (verb suffix)
aquarium -ate (verb suffix)
arbiter: someone chosen to judge and decide a -ate (verb suffix)
disputed issue -ate (verb suffix)
-ate (verb suffix) bastion: projecting part of a rampart or other
-ate (verb suffix) fortification
-ate (verb suffix) beget: generate children
atheism belabor: beat soundly
atheist beleaguer: annoy persistently
atheistic belie: be in contradiction with
-ation (noun suffix added to verbs ending in - belittle: cause to seem less serious
ize) belligerent: characteristic of an enemy or one
atom eager to fight
atomic bemused: perplexed by many conflicting
attrition: the act of rubbing together situations or statements
audacity: aggressive boldness or unmitigated benediction
effrontery benedictory
audio (to hear) benefaction
auditorium benefactor
augment: enlarge or increase benefactor: a person who helps people or
aural institutions
auricle beneficence
auricular beneficent
auris (ear) beneficiary
auris (ear) benevolence
aurist benevolent
auspicious: auguring favorable circumstances benevolent: showing or motivated by sympathy
and good luck and understanding
austere: of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor benign
autobiographer benign: kind in disposition or manner
autobiographical benignancy
autobiography benignant
autocratic: characteristic of an absolute ruler or benignity
absolute rule bequest: a gift of personal property by will
autonomous bereft: sorrowful through loss or deprivation
autonomous: existing as an independent entity beset: assail or attack on all sides
autonomy bi- (two)
autopsy bi- (two)
autos (self) bib
avarice: reprehensible acquisitiveness; bibliokleptomaniac
insatiable desire for wealth bibliomaniac
avow: to declare or affirm solemnly and biblion (book)
formally as true bibliophile
avuncular bibliophile
avuncular: being or relating to an uncle bibo (to drink)
avunculus (uncle) bibulous
awry: turned or twisted to one side bigamist
axiom: a proposition that is not susceptible of bigamous
proof or disproof bigamy
badinage bilateral
banal bilingual
banal: repeated too often; overfamiliar through binaural
overuse binoculars
banality biographer
bane: something causing misery or death biographical
barometer biography
barometric biological
baros (weight) biologist
biology canaries
biopsy candor: the quality of being honest and
bios (life) straightforward
bios (life) canine
blasphemy: profane language canis (dog)
blatant: without any attempt at concealment; caopygian
completely obvious capitalism: an economic system based on
blight: any plant disease resulting in withering private ownership of assets
without rotting capitulate
blithe: carefree and happy and lighthearted capitulate: surrender under agreed conditions
bon (good) capitulation
bon vivant capitulum (little head, chapter heading)
bona fide capricious: determined by chance or impulse
bonus, bene (good, well) rather than by necessity
botane (plant) caput, capitis (head)
botanical cardiac
botanist cardialgia
botanophile cardiogram
botany cardiograph
bourgeois: being of the property-owning class cardiological
bovine cardiologist
bovine: any of various wild or domestic cattle cardiology
brevity: the attribute of being short or fleeting caricature: a representation of a person
broach: bring up a topic for discussion exaggerated for comic effect
bromide carnage
bromidic carnal
bucolic: devoted to raising sheep or cattle carnality
bureaucracy: a government administered carnelian
primarily by nonelective officials carnis (flesh)
burgeon: grow and flourish carnivore
burlesque: a theatrical entertainment of broad carnivorous
and earthy humor castigate
caballus, caval- (inferior horse) castigate: inflict severe punishment on
cacographer castigation
cacographic catalyst: substance that initiates or accelerates
cacography a chemical reaction
cacophonous categorical: relating to or included in a class or
cacophony classes
cacophony catharsis: purging the body to stimulate
cacophony: loud confusing disagreeable sounds evacuation of the bowels
cadaver catholic: free from provincial prejudices or
cadaverous attachments
cadence caustic: capable of destroying or eating away by
cadence: the accent in a metrical foot of verse chemical action
cadent cavalcade
cado (to fall) cavalier
cado, -cid (to fall) cavalry
cajole: influence or urge by gentle urging, celibacy: abstaining from sexual relations
caressing, or flattering cellophane
calligrapher censure: harsh criticism or disapproval
calligraphic centrum (centre) Gr.
calligraphy cerebral: of or relating to the brain
callipygian chagrin: strong feelings of embarrassment
callow: young and inexperienced
charisma: personal attractiveness that enables circumnavigate
you to influence others circumnavigation
charlatan: a flamboyant deceiver circumscribe
chasm: a deep opening in the earth's surface circumscribe: draw a geometric figure around
chastise: censure severely another figure
chauvinism circumscribed
chauvinistic circumscription
chauvinistic circumspect
cheir, chiro- (hand) circumspect: heedful of potential consequences
cheir, chiro- (hand) circumspection
cheval (horse) circumvent: surround so as to force to give up
chicanery: the use of tricks to deceive someone civil: of or occurring between or among citizens
chimera: a grotesque product of the imagination of the state
chirographer clam (secretly)
chirographic clandestine
chirography clandestine: conducted with or marked by
chiromancer hidden aims or methods
chiromancy clarify
chiromantic claustromaniac
chiropodist claustrophobe
chiropody claustrophobia
chiropractic claustrophobic
chiropractor claustrum (enclosed place)
chivalric clemency: leniency and compassion shown
chivalrous toward offenders
chivalrous clich
chivalry clich: a trite or obvious remark
choleric: characterized by anger clique: an exclusive circle of people with a
chronic common purpose
chronic: long-lasting or characterized by long coalesce: fuse or cause to come together
suffering coerce: to cause to do through pressure or
chronicity necessity
chronicle: a record or narrative description of cogency
past events cogent
chronograph cogent: powerfully persuasive
chronological cognitive: relating to or involving the mental
chronologist process of knowing
chronology cognizant: having or showing knowledge or
chronometer understanding or realization
chronometric coherent: marked by an orderly and consistent
chronometry relation of parts
chronos (time) coincidence
-cide (killing) colloquial
cilium (eyelid) colloquial: characteristic of informal spoken
circuitous: deviating from a straight course language or conversation
circum- (around) colloquialism
circumambulate collusion: secret agreement
circumcision com- (together)
circumference com-, con- (with, together)
circumlocution commensurate: corresponding in size or degree
circumlocution or extent
circumlocution: an indirect way of expressing commiserate
something commiserate
circumlocutory commiseration
company consecrate: give entirely to a specific person,
compelling: driving or forcing activity, or cause
compendium: a publication containing a variety consecutive
of works consensus: agreement in the judgment reached
complacence by a group as a whole
complacency consonant: a speech sound that is not a vowel
complacent construe: make sense of; assign a meaning to
complacent: contented to a fault with oneself or consummacy
one's actions consummate
complement: something added to embellish or consummate: having or revealing supreme
make perfect mastery or skill
complicity: guilt as a confederate in a crime or consummation
offense contentious: showing an inclination to disagree
comprehensive: including all or everything contiguous: having a common boundary or edge
comprise: be composed of contingent: determined by conditions or
compulsive kidnapper circumstances that follow
con- (together or with) La. contra- (against, opposite)
con- (with, together) contrite: feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for
con- (with, together) sins or offenses
con- (with, together) contrived: showing effects of planning or
con-, col-, com-, cor- (with, together) manipulation
con-, com- (with, together) conventional: following accepted customs and
conciliatory: making or willing to make proprieties
concessions convivial
concise: expressing much in few words convivial: occupied with or fond of the pleasures
concord: a harmonious state of things and of of good company
their properties conviviality
concurrent: occurring or operating at the same copious: large in number or quantity
time cornu (horn) La.
condescend: behave in a patronizing manner corollary: an inference following from the proof
condole of another proposition
condolence corrigo (to correct; set straight)
condonation corroborate: give evidence for
condone cosmonaut
condone: excuse, overlook, or make allowances cosmopolitan: composed of people from many
for parts of the world
conducive: tending to bring about; being partly countenance: the appearance conveyed by a
responsible for person's face
confection coup: a sudden and decisive change of
confectionary government by force
confluence: a place where things merge or flow covenant: an agreement between God and his
together people
congenial: suitable to your needs covert: secret or hidden
congenital covet: wish, long, or crave for
congenital: present at birth but not necessarily credence
hereditary credentials
congregate credibility
congregation credible
conjecture: to believe especially on uncertain or credo
tentative grounds credo (to believe)
conjure: summon into action or bring into credulity
existence credulous
connoisseur: an expert able to appreciate a field credulous: showing a lack of judgment or
experience
creed demokleptomaniac
criterion: the ideal in terms of which something demophobe
can be judged demos (people)
cryptic: having a secret or hidden meaning denizen: a plant or animal naturalized in a
culinary: of or relating to or used in cooking region
culminate: end, especially to reach a final or dentist
climactic stage depravity: moral perversion; impairment of
culpable: deserving blame or censure as being virtue and moral principles
wrong or injurious deprecate: express strong disapproval of;
cursory: hasty and without attention to detail; deplore
not thorough deride: treat or speak of with contempt
curtail: terminate or abbreviate before its derma (skin)
intended or proper end dermatitis
cynic: someone who is critical of the motives of dermatological
others dermatologist
daunt: cause to lose courage dermatology
de- (down) derogatory: expressive of low opinion
de- (down) descend
de- (negative prefix) desiccate: lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
de- (negative prefix) despondent: without or almost without hope
dearth: an insufficient quantity or number despot: a cruel and oppressive dictator
debacle: a sudden and violent collapse destitute
debauchery: a wild gathering involving destitute: poor enough to need help from others
drinking and promiscuity destitution
debilitate: make weak desultory: marked by lack of definite plan or
decadence regularity or purpose
decadent deus (God)
decadent: marked by excessive self-indulgence devitalization
and moral decay devitalize
decapitate dexter (right hand)
decapitation dexterity
deciduous dexterous
decimate: kill one in every ten, as of mutineers dia- (through)
in Roman armies dia- (through)
decline diagnose
decorous: characterized by propriety and diagnosis
dignity and good taste diagnostic
deduce: reason from the general to the diagnostician
particular dialectical: relating to reasoning by the
defame: charge falsely or with malicious intent exchange of logical arguments
deference: courteous regard for people's feelings diaphanous
definitive: clearly formulated dicha- (in two)
degenerate: a person whose behavior deviates dichotomize
from what is acceptable dichotomous
deka (ten) dichotomy
deleterious: harmful to living things dico, dictus (to say, tell)
delineate: represented accurately or precisely dictatorial
delude: be dishonest with dictum: an authoritative declaration
deluge: a heavy rain didactic: instructive, especially excessively
demagogic diffident: showing modest reserve
demagogue digress: wander from a direct or straight course
demagogue: a leader who seeks support by dilettante
appealing to popular passions dilettante: an amateur engaging in an activity
demagoguery without serious intention
dilettanti dolor
dilettantish dolores
dilettantism dolorous
dipsa (thirst) dolour
dipsomania domestic: of or relating to the home
dipsomaniac dono (to give)
dipsomaniacal dormant: inactive but capable of becoming
dis- (against) active
dis- (negative prefix) dorsal
dis- (negative prefix) dorsum (back)
dis- (pejorative prefix) double entendre
disaster droit (right hand)
disastrous dromos (a running)
discern: detect with the senses dubious: fraught with uncertainty or doubt
disco, dictus (to say, tell) duplicity: acting in bad faith
discreet: marked by prudence or modesty and e-, ex- (out)
wise self-restraint e-, ex- (out)
discrete: constituting a separate entity or part e-, ex- (out)
discriminate: marked by the ability to see or e-, ex- (out)
make fine distinctions e-, ex- (out)
disdain: lack of respect accompanied by a ebullient: joyously unrestrained
feeling of intense dislike eccentric
disingenuous eccentric: conspicuously or grossly
disingenuousness unconventional or unusual
disinterested: unaffected by concern for one's eccentricity
own welfare eclectic: selecting what seems best of various
disorient styles or ideas
disorientate edify: make understand
disorientation efface: remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
disparage effusion: an unrestrained expression of emotion
disparage: express a negative opinion of egalitarian: favoring social equality
disparagement ego
disparaging ego (I) Lat.
disparate egocentric
disparate: fundamentally different or distinct in egocentric: limited to or caring only about
quality or kind yourself and your own needs
disparity egoist
dissemblance egoist: a conceited and self-centered person
dissemble egomaniac
disseminate: cause to become widely known egomaniacal
dissimulate egotist
dissimulation egregious
dissipate: cause to separate and go in different egregious: conspicuously and outrageously bad
directions or reprehensible
dissolution: separation into component parts egregiousness
distend: cause to expand as it by internal eikon (religious image)
pressure elicit: call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or
distinguish: mark as different response
docile: easily handled or managed elliptical: rounded like an egg
doctrinaire: a stubborn person of arbitrary or eloquence
arrogant opinions eloquent
dogmatic: pertaining to a code of beliefs elusive: skillful at evading capture
accepted as authoritative emigrate: leave one's country of residence for a
doleful new one
eminent: standing above others in quality or ephemeral
position ephemeral: anything short-lived, as an insect
empathetic that lives only for a day
empathic epi- (on, upon)
empathize epidermis
empathy epigram: a witty saying
empirical: derived from experiment and epitome
observation rather than theory epitome: a standard or typical example
emulate: strive to equal or match, especially by epitomize
imitating equability
en- (in) equable
en- (in) equanimity
en-, em- (in) equanimity
-ence (noun suffix) equanimity
-ence (noun suffix) equanimity: steadiness of mind under stress
-ence (noun suffix) equestrian
-ence (noun suffix) equestrian
-ence, -ancy (noun suffix) equestrienne
-ence, -ency (noun suffix) equilateral
-ence, -ency (noun suffix) equilateral
-ence, -ency (noun suffixes) equilibrist
encroach: advance beyond the usual limit equilibrium
endemic: native to or confined to a certain equine
region equine
endo- (inner, within) equine
endo (inside) equinoctial
endodontic equinox
endodontics equitable
endodontist equitable: fair to all parties as dictated by
endometriosis reason and conscience
endorse equity
endorsement equivocal
enervate equivocal: open to two or more interpretations
enervate: weaken mentally or morally equivocate
enervation equivocate
enfranchise: grant freedom to, as from slavery equivocation
or servitude equss (horse)
engender: make children equus (horse)
enigma: something that baffles understanding equus (horse)
and cannot be explained -er (one who)
ennui ergon (work)
enormity: the quality of extreme wickedness erudite: having or showing profound knowledge
-ent (adjective suffix) -esce (begin to)
-ent (adjective suffix) -escent (growing, becoming)
-ent (adjective suffix) esoteric: understandable only by an enlightened
-ent (adjective suffix) inner circle
-ent (adjective suffix) espouse: choose and follow a theory, idea,
-ent (adjective suffix) policy, etc.
-ent (adjective suffix) ethereal: characterized by lightness and
enterologist insubstantiality
entomological eu- (good)
entomologist eulogistic
entomology eulogize
ephemera (mayfly) eulogy
euphemism extrovert
euphemism extrovert: a person directed toward others as
euphemism: an inoffensive expression opposed to the self
substituted for an offensive one exult: feel extreme happiness or elation
euphemistic exurban
euphonic exurbanite
euphonious exurbia
euphony exurbs
euphoria fabrication: the act of making a product from
euphoric raw materials
euthanasia facetious: cleverly amusing in tone
evanesce facile: arrived at without due care or effort;
evanescence lacking depth
evanescent facio (to make)
evanescent: tending to vanish like vapor facio, factus, fec-, fic-, -fy (to make or do)
evolution facio, fec-, fic-, -fy (to do, make)
evolutionary faction: a dissenting clique
evolve farcical: broadly or extravagantly humorous
ex- (out) fastidious: giving careful attention to detail
ex- (out) fatalist: someone who feels powerless to change
exacerbate: make worse his or her destiny
exacting: severe and unremitting in making fatuous: devoid of intelligence
demands fauna: all the animal life in a particular region
exalt: praise, glorify, or honor or period
exasperate: make furious fecund: capable of producing offspring or
exemplify: be characteristic of vegetation
exhaustive: performed comprehensively and felicide
completely felicity: pleasing and appropriate manner or
exhort: spur on or encourage especially by style
cheers and shouts feline
exigency: a pressing or urgent situation felis (cat)
existential: relating to or dealing with the state fero (to bear, carry)
of being fero (to carry, bear)
exodontic fervor: feelings of great warmth and intensity
exodontics fetter: a shackle for the ankles or feet
exodontist fic-, facio (to make or do)
exonerate: pronounce not guilty of criminal fidelity
charges fidelity: the quality of being faithful
expatriate: a person who is voluntarily absent fides (faith)
from home or country figurative: not literal
expedient: appropriate to a purpose finesse: subtly skillful handling of a situation
expedite: process fast and efficiently flagrant: conspicuously and outrageously bad or
explicit: precisely and clearly expressed or reprehensible
readily observable flaunt: display proudly
extol: praise, glorify, or honor flout: treat with contemptuous disregard
extra- (outside) fluo (to flow)
extramarital foible: a minor weakness or peculiarity in
extraneous: not belonging to that in which it is someone's character
contained foment: try to stir up
extrapolate: draw from specific cases for more forbear: refrain from doing
general cases forgo: do without or cease to hold or adhere to
extricate: release from entanglement or forsake: leave someone who needs or counts on
difficulty you; leave in the lurch
extro- (outside) fortuitous: occurring by happy chance
founder: a person who establishes some geology
institution geometric
Francophile geometrician
frater, fratis (brother) geometry
frater, fratis (brother) geras (old age)
fraternal geras (old age)
fraternal: like or characteristic of or befitting a geriatric
brother geriatrician
fraternity geriatrics
fraternization Germanophile
fraternize geron (old man)
fratricidal gerontological
fratricide gerontologist
frenetic: excessively agitated gerontology
frugal: avoiding waste gesticulate: show, express, or direct through
furtive: secret and sly or sordid movement
futile: producing no result or effect glib
-fy (to make) glibness
-fy (to make, as verb suffix) glut: supply with an excess of
-fy, facio (to make) glutton
gamos (marriage) Gr. gluttonize
garrio (to chatter) gluttonous
garrulity glykys (sweet)
garrulous gnosiology
garrulous: full of trivial conversation gnosis (knowledge)
gastrologist gnostos (known)
gauche Gott (God) Ger.
gauche (left hand) Gottlieb
gaucherie gourmand
ge, geo- (earth) gourmandize
gene gourmet
genealogical grandiloquence
genealogist grandiloquent
genealogy grandiloquent: lofty in style
generate grandiose: impressive because of unnecessary
genesis largeness or magnificence
genesis grandis (grand)
genesis (birth, origin) graphein (to write)
genesis (birth, origin) graphein (to write)
genetic graphological
geneticist graphologist
genetics graphology
genital gratuitous: unnecessary and unwarranted
genocidal gravity: the force of attraction between all
genocide masses in the universe
genos (race, kind) gregarious
genre: a kind of literary or artistic work gregarious: temperamentally seeking and
genteel: marked by refinement in taste and enjoying the company of others
manners gregariousness
geographer grex, gregis (herd, flock)
geographical guile: shrewdness as demonstrated by being
geography skilled in deception
geological gullibility
geologist gullible
gynaecological homophone
gynaecological homophonous
gynaecologist homos (the same)
gynaecology husbandry: the practice of cultivating the land
gynaecology or raising stock
gynaekleptomaniac hyper (over)
gynaephile hyperbole: extravagant exaggeration
gynaephobe hyperglycemia
gynandrous hypertension
gyne (woman) hypertensive
gyne (woman) Gr. hypochondria
gynecologist hypochondriac
gynecologist hypochondriacal
hackneyed: repeated too often; overfamiliar hypodermic
through overuse hypoglycemia
haematology hypos (under)
haemoglobin hypos (under)
haemophilia hypotension
haemorrhage hypotensive
haima, haem, -aem (blood) hypothetical: a conjectural possibility or
hapless: unfortunate and deserving pity circumstance
harbinger: something indicating the approach iatreia (medical healing)
of something or someone iatreia (medical healing)
harridan iatria (medical healing)
hedonism: an ethical system that values the -ible (can be; able to be)
pursuit of pleasure -ic (adjective suffix)
hegemony: the dominance or leadership of one -ic (adjective suffix)
social group over others -ic (adjective suffix)
herba (herb) -ic (adjective suffix)
herbivore -ic (adjective suffix)
herbivorous -ic (adjective suffix)
hereditary -ic (adjective suffix)
heresy: a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets -ic (adjective suffix)
of a religion -ic (adjective suffix)
hermetic: completely sealed or airtight -ic (adjective suffix)
heyday: the period of greatest prosperity or -ic (adjective suffix)
productivity -ician (expert)
hiatus: an interruption in the intensity or -ician (one who; expert)
amount of something iconoclasm
hierarchy: a series of ordered groupings within iconoclast
a system iconoclast: someone who attacks cherished
hippodrome ideas or institutions
hippopotamus iconoclastic
Hispanophile ideology: an orientation that characterizes the
histrionic: characteristic of acting or a stage thinking of a group
performance idiosyncrasy: a behavioral attribute peculiar to
homicidal an individual
homicide idyllic: charmingly simple and serene
homily: a sermon on a moral or religious topic ignominy: a state of dishonor
homo (person, human) illicit: contrary to accepted morality or
homogeneous: all of the same or similar kind or convention
nature im-, in- (in)
homonym im-, in- (negative prefix)
homonymous im-, in- (not; negative prefix)
imbibe incisive: demonstrating ability to recognize or
imminent: close in time; about to occur draw fine distinctions
immutable: not subject or susceptible to change incongruity
or variation incongruous
impartial: free from undue bias or preconceived incongruous: lacking in harmony or
opinions compatibility or appropriateness
impeccable: without fault or error incorrigibility
impecunious incorrigible
imperial: relating to or associated with an incorrigible: impervious to correction by
empire punishment
impervious: not admitting of passage or capable incredibility
of being affected incredible
impetuous: characterized by undue haste and incredulity
lack of thought incredulous
implacability increment: the amount by which something
implacable increases
implement: a piece of equipment or a tool used indefatigable
for a specific purpose indefatigable
impotence indifferent: marked by a lack of interest
impotent indigence
impotent: (of a male) unable to copulate indigenous: originating where it is found
impugn: attack as false or wrong indigent
in- (in) indigent: poor enough to need help from others
in- (in) indignant: angered at something unjust or
in- (in) wrong
in- (in, into) indolence
in- (negative prefix) indolent
in- (negative prefix) indolent: disinclined to work or exertion
in- (negative prefix) indulgent: given to yielding to the wishes of
in- (negative prefix) someone
in- (negative prefix) -ine (like, descriptive of)
in- (negative suffix) -ine (like, similar to, characteristic of)
inane: devoid of intelligence -ine (like, similar to, characteristic of)
inarticulate ineffable: defying expression or description
inarticulateness inept: generally incompetent and ineffectual
inaugurate: commence officially inequitable
incandescent: emitting light as a result of being inequity
heated inert: unable to move or resist motion
incantation: a ritual reciting of words believed inexorable: not to be placated or appeased or
to have a magical effect moved by entreaty
incarnate (adj.) infamous: known widely and usually
incarnate (v.) unfavorably
incendiarism infans, infantis (baby)
incendiary infanticidal
incendiary infanticide
incendo, incensus (to set fire) infatuated: marked by foolish or unreasoning
incendo, incensus (to set on fire) fondness
incense infer: conclude by reasoning
incense: make furious infidel
incessant: uninterrupted in time and infidelity
indefinitely long continuing infinitesimal: immeasurably small
incident ingenious
incipient: only partly in existence; imperfectly ingenuity
formed ingenuous
ingenuous: lacking in sophistication or intrastate
worldliness intraurban
ingenuousness intrepid
inherent: existing as an essential constituent or intrepidity
characteristic intrinsic: belonging to a thing by its very nature
iniquitous intro- (inside)
iniquity intro- (inside, within)
injunction: a judicial remedy to prohibit a party introspect
from doing something introspection
innate: present at birth but not necessarily introspective
hereditary introspective: given to examining own sensory
innocent and perceptual experiences
innocuous introvert
innocuous: not injurious to physical or mental inundate: fill or cover completely, usually with
health water
inoculate invective: abusive language used to express
inordinate: beyond normal limits blame or censure
insatiable: impossible to satisfy inveteracy
insectivorous inveterate
insidious: working or spreading in a hidden and inveterate: habitual
usually injurious way -ion (noun suffix added to ate verbs)
insinuate: suggest in an indirect or covert way; -ion (noun suffix added to verbs)
give to understand -ion (noun suffix attached to verbs ending in -
insipid: lacking interest or significance or ate)
impact -ion (noun suffix for verbs ending in -ate)
insolent: marked by casual disrespect -ion (noun suffix)
insomnia -ion (noun suffix)
insomniac -ion (noun suffix)
insomnious -ion, -ation (noun suffix attached to verbs)
instigate: provoke or stir up irascible: quickly aroused to anger
insular: relating to or characteristic of or ironic: displaying incongruity between what is
situated on an island expected and what is
insurgent: in opposition to a civil authority or irrevocable: incapable of being retracted
government -ism (noun suffix)
integral: existing as an essential constituent or -ism (noun suffix)
characteristic -ism (noun suffix)
inter- (between) -ism (noun suffix)
intermediate -ism (noun suffix)
international -ist (one who)
interpersonal -ist (person who)
interrupt -ist (person who; noun suffix)
interstate itinerant: traveling from place to place to work
interurban -itis (inflammation)
intimate -ity (noun suffix attached to adjectives)
intimation -ity (noun suffix)
intimus (innermost) -ity (noun suffix)
intra- (within, inside) -ity (noun suffix)
intractable: difficult to manage or mold -ity (noun suffix)
intramuscular -ity (noun suffix)
intranational -ity (noun suffix)
intransigent: impervious to pleas, persuasion, -ity (noun suffix)
requests, or reason -ity (noun suffix)
intrapersonal -ity (quality, condition; noun suffix)
intrapsychic -ium (place where)
-ium (place where) levitate
-ive (adjective suffix) levitation
-ive (adjective suffix) levity
-ize (verb suffix) levity: a manner lacking seriousness
-ize (verb suffix) lewd
-ize (verb suffix) libel: a false and malicious publication
-ize (verb suffix) libidinous
-ize (verb suffix) libra (balance, weight, pound)
joie de vivre licentious
judicious: marked by the exercise of good lieb (love)
judgment in practical matters lingua (tongue)
juxtapose: place side by side linguist
kakos (bad, harsh) linguistics
kakos (bad, harsh, ugly) liquefy
kallos (beauty) litigate: engage in legal proceedings
kardia (heart) logos (science, study)
kardia (heart) logos (science, study)
kentron, centrum (centre) logos (science, study)
kinetic: relating to the motion of material logos (science, study)
bodies and their forces logos (science; study)
klaein (to break) logos (word, speech)
klepte (thief) logos (word, speech)
kleptomania loquacious
kleptomaniac loquacious: full of trivial conversation
kleptomaniacal loquaciousness
kleptophobe loquacity
labyrinth: complex system of paths in which it loquor (to speak)
is easy to get lost loquor (to speak)
Laconia (Sparta) lubricious
laconic lubricity
laconic: brief and to the point lucid: transparently clear; easily
laconicism understandable
laconicity lugubrious: excessively mournful
laconism luminous: softly bright or radiant
lament: a cry of sorrow and grief lupicide
lampoon: ridicule with satire lupine
languish: become feeble lupus (wolf)
largess: liberality in bestowing gifts lust
laryngologist lustful
larynx (throat) machination: a crafty and involved plot to
lascivious achieve your ends
latent: potentially existing but not presently magnanimity
evident or realized magnanimity
latus, lateris (side) magnanimous
laud: praise, glorify, or honor magnanimous
lecher magnanimous
lecherous magnanimous: noble and generous in spirit
lechery magnate
legacy: a gift of personal property by will magnate: a very wealthy or powerful
leo (lion) businessperson
leonine magnify
lethargy: inactivity; showing an unusual lack of magniloquence
energy magniloquent
levis (light) magnum opus
magnus (big) matricidal
magnus (large) matricide
magnus (large, great) matriculate: enroll as a student
maladroit matrimonial
maladroitness matrimony
malaise matron
malaise: a general feeling of discomfort, matronly
uneasiness, or depression matronymic
malaria (bad air) maudlin: effusively or insincerely emotional
malediction maverick: someone who exhibits independence
maledictory in thought and action
malefaction maxim: a saying that is widely accepted on its
malefactor own merits
maleficence mediate: act between parties with a view to
maleficent reconciling differences
malevolence mega (great, large, big)
malevolent megalomania
malfeasance megalomaniac
malfeasance: wrongful conduct by a public megalomaniacal
official megalopolis
malign megaphone
malign mellifluous: pleasing to the ear
malignancy mendacious: given to lying
malignant mendicant: a pauper who lives by begging
malignity -ment (noun suffix attached to verbs)
malinger: avoid responsibilities and duties mentor: a wise and trusted guide and advisor
malleable: capable of being shaped or bent mercenary: a person hired to fight for another
malus (bad, evil) country than their own
mancy (prediction) mercurial: liable to sudden unpredictable
mandate: a document giving an official change
instruction or command metamorphosis: striking change in appearance
mania (madness) or character or circumstances
mania (madness) meter (mother)
manifest: clearly revealed to the mind or the metra (uterus)
senses or judgment metralgia
manifesto: a public declaration of intentions metritis
manus (hand) metron (measure)
Maria de los Dolores metron (measurement)
marital metron (measurement)
mariticidal metron (measurement)
mariticide metronome
maritus (husband) metronymic
maritus (husband) metropolis
marshal: a military officer of highest rank microcosm: a miniature model of something
martial: suggesting war or military life milieu: the environmental condition
martinet militancy
martnetish militant
martyr: one who voluntarily suffers death militate
mater, matrix (mother) militis (soldier)
maternal minuscule: very small
maternity misandrist
matriarch misanthrope
matriarchal misanthropic
matriarchy misanthropic: hating mankind in general
misanthropist narcissism: an exceptional interest in and
misanthropy admiration for yourself
misein (hate) Gr. naus (ship)
miser (wretched) nautes (sailor)
misogamist nautical
misogamist navis (ship)
misogamous ne- (negative prefix)
misogamy nebulous: lacking definite form or limits
misogynist nefarious: extremely wicked
misogynist negate
misogynistic negation
misogynous nego (to deny)
misogyny neologism: a newly invented word or phrase
mitigate: lessen or to try to lessen the nepotism: favoritism shown to relatives or
seriousness or extent of friends by those in power
modus operandi nervus (nerve)
modus vivendi nescience
mollify: cause to be more favorably inclined nescient
monarchy -ness (noun suffix)
monoaural -ness (noun suffix)
monocle -ness (noun suffix)
monogamist -ness (noun suffix)
monogamous -ness (noun suffix)
monogamy -ness (noun suffix)
monolingual neuralgia
monolithic: imposing in size or bulk or solidity neuritis
monomania neurological
monomania neurologist
monomaniac neurology
monomaniac neuron (nerve)
monomaniacal neurosis
monophonic neurotic
monos (one) nihilism: complete denial of established
monos (one) authority and institutions
monos (one) Nipponophile
monos (one) noctambulism
monotheism noctambulist
monotheist nocturnal
monotheistic nocturne
-mony (noun suffix) nominal: relating to or constituting or bearing
moribund: being on the point of death or giving a name
morose: showing a brooding ill humor nomos (arrangement, law, order)
mortify: cause to feel shame nonagenarian
multilingual non-sequitur
multus (many) nostalgia
mundane: found in the ordinary course of nostalgia
events nostalgia: longing for something past
munificent: very generous nostalgic
myopia: eyesight abnormality in which distant nostos (a return)
objects appear blurred nostos (return; return home)
myriad: a large indefinite number notable
nave notice
navet notify
notoriety
notorious omnipresence
notorious: known widely and usually omnipresence
unfavorably omnipresent
notus (known) omnipresent
notus (known) omnis (all)
novel: an extended fictional work in prose omnis (all)
nox, noctis (night) omniscience
noxious omniscience
noxious: injurious to physical or mental health omniscient
nuance: a subtle difference in meaning or omniscient
opinion or attitude omnivorous
nymphe (bride) onerous: not easily borne; wearing
nymphomania onyma (name)
nymphomaniac opaque: not transmitting or reflecting light or
nymphomaniacal radiant energy
obdurate: stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing operandi (of working)
obfuscate: make obscure or unclear operans (working)
oblique: slanting or inclined in direction or opero (to work)
course or position opero (to work)
oblivion: the state of being disregarded or ophthalmological
forgotten ophthalmologist
obscure: not clearly understood or expressed ophthalmology
obsequies ophthalmos (eye)
obsequious opsis, optikos (view, vision, sight)
obsequious: attempting to win favor from opsis, optikos (vision)
influential people by flattery opsis, optikos (vision, sight)
obsessive abductor optical
obstetric optician
obstetrician optician
obstetrics optics
obstetrix (midwife) optometric
obstreperous optometrical
obtuse: of an angle, between 90 and 180 degrees optometrist
obviate optometrist
obviation optometry
occidental opulence
octogenarian opulent
octoginta opulent: rich and superior in quality
octopus opulentus (wealthy)
ocular opus (work)
oculist oral
oculus (eye) orama (view)
odontalgia orient
odontos (tooth) orient (v.)
odontos (tooth) oriental
odyne (pain) orientate
officious: intrusive in a meddling or offensive orientation
manner oriented
okto (eight) orior (to rise) La.
okto (eight) orthodontic
omnibus orthodontics
omnipotence orthodontist
omnipotent orthodontist
omnipotent
orthodox: adhering to what is commonly paidos, paed- (child)
accepted painstaking: characterized by extreme care and
orthopaedics great effort
orthopaedist palliate: lessen or to try to lessen the
orthopedic seriousness or extent of
orthopedist palpable: capable of being perceived
orthos (straight, correct) paltry: contemptibly small in amount
orthos (straight, correct) pan (all)
-ory (adjective suffix) panacea: hypothetical remedy for all ills or
-ory (adjective suffix) diseases
-ory (adjective suffix) pandemonium
-ory (place where) panis (bread)
os, oris (mouth) panorama
oscillate panoramic
oscillation pantheism
oscillum (a swing) pantheist
-osis (abnormal condition) pantheistic
-osis (abnormal or diseased condition) pantheon
ostensible: appearing as such but not pantry
necessarily so par (equal)
ostentatious: intended to attract notice and paradigm: a standard or typical example
impress others paradox: a statement that contradicts itself
osteon (bone) pareo (to give birth, produce)
osteopath parity
osteopathic parochial: relating to or supported by or located
osteopathy in a parish
otological parody: a composition that imitates or
otologist misrepresents a style
otology parricidal
otos (ear) parricide
-ous (adjective suffix) parsimonious
-ous (adjective suffix) parsimonious: excessively unwilling to spend
-ous (adjective suffix) parsimony
-ous (adjective suffix) partisan: a fervent and even militant proponent
-ous (adjective suffix) of something
-ous (adjective suffix) patent: a document granting an inventor sole
-ous (adjective suffix) rights to an invention
-ous (adjective suffix) pater, patrix (father)
-ous (adjective suffix) paternal
oval paternal: characteristic of a father
ovarian paternalism
ovary paternalistic
oviparous paternity
ovoid pathetic
ovulate pathological
ovulation pathologist
ovum (egg) pathology
pachyderm pathology: the branch of medical science that
paediatric studies diseases
paediatrician pathos (disease, suffering; feeling)
paedodontics pathos (suffering, disease)
paedokleptomaniac pathos (suffering, disease)
paidos (child) patriarch
paidos, paed- (child) patriarch: the male head of family or tribe
patriarchal perjury: criminal offense of making false
patriarchy statements under oath
patrician: a person of refined upbringing and permeate: spread or diffuse through
manners pernicious: exceedingly harmful
patricidal perquisite: an incidental benefit for certain
patricide types of employment
patrimony persecute
patronize: assume sponsorship of persiflage
patronymic perspicacious
patronymic perspicacious
paucity: an insufficient quantity or number perspicacity
peccadillo: a petty misdeed perspicuity
pecuniary perspicuous
pecus (cattle) pertinent: being of striking appropriateness
pedagogical perturb: disturb in mind or make uneasy or
pedagogue cause to be worried
pedagogy peruse: examine or consider with attention and
pedantic: marked by a narrow focus on or in detail
display of learning pervade: spread or diffuse through
pedestrian: a person who travels by foot petulant: easily irritated or annoyed
pediatrician phanai (to speak) Gr.
pediatrics phanai, phet-, phec-, phes- (to speak)
pedis (foot) phanein (to show)
peer pheme (voice)
pejor (worse) philander
pejorative philanderer
pejorative: expressing disapproval philanthropic
penchant: a strong liking philanthropic
penitent: feeling or expressing remorse for philanthropist
misdeeds philanthropist
penuria (need, neediness) philanthropy
penurious philanthropy
penuriousness philanthropy: the act of donating money or time
penury to promote human welfare
per- (through) philein (to love)
per- (through) philistine: a person who is uninterested in
perambulate intellectual pursuits
perambulate philogynist
perambulation philological
perambulator philologist
peremptory: putting an end to all debate or philology
action philter
perennial: lasting an indefinitely long time phobia (morbid dread)
perfidy: an act of deliberate betrayal phone (sound)
perfunctory: hasty and without attention to phone (sound)
detail; not thorough phone (sound)
peri- (around, surrounding) phone (sound)
periodontic phone (sound)
periodontics phone (sound)
periodontist phonetic
peripatetic: traveling especially on foot phonetician
periphery: the outside boundary or surface of phonetics
something phonograph
photos (light)
pious: having or showing or expressing ponderous: having great mass and weight and
reverence for a deity unwieldiness
piscine porcine
piscis (fish) porcus (pig)
piscivorous portent: a sign of something about to happen
pivotal: being of crucial importance post (after)
placability postulate: maintain or assert
placable potamos (river) Gr.
placate potens, potentis (powerful)
placate: cause to be more favorably inclined potens, potentis (powerful)
placation potentiate
placative pous, pedos (foot)
placatory pragmatic: concerned with practical matters
placid pre (before)
placidity pre- (before)
plaintive: expressing sorrow pre- (before, beforehand)
platitude pre- (before, beforehand)
platitude: a trite or obvious remark preamble
platitudinous precedent: an example that is used to justify
platypus similar occurrences
platys (broad or flat) precept: rule of personal conduct
platys (broad, flat) precipitate: bring about abruptly
plebeian: of or associated with the great masses precipitous: extremely steep
of people preclude: make impossible, especially
plethora: extreme excess beforehand
podiatrist precursor: something indicating the approach of
podiatry something or someone
podium predict
podium prediction
podos (foot) predilection: a predisposition in favor of
poignant: keenly distressing to the mind or something
feelings preeminent: greatest in importance or degree or
polarize: cause to concentrate about two significance
conflicting positions preempt: acquire for oneself before others can
polemic: a verbal or written attack, especially of do so
a belief or dogma premise: a statement that is held to be true
police prepossess: cause to be preoccupied
polis (city, state) prerogative: a right reserved exclusively by a
politics person or group
polyandrist prescience
polyandrous prescient
polyandry prevail: be larger in number, quantity, power,
polygamist status or importance
polygamous pristine: immaculately clean and unused
polygamy pro- (before)
polygynist pro- (beforehand, ahead)
polygynous pro- (forward, ahead, before)
polygyny proctologist
polys (many) prodigal: recklessly wasteful
polys (many) prodigious: great in size, force, extent, or degree
polytheism prodigy: an unusually gifted or intelligent
polytheist person
polytheistic profane: grossly irreverent toward what is held
to be sacred
profess: confess one's faith in, or allegiance to prudent: marked by sound judgment
proficient: having or showing knowledge and prurience
skill and aptitude prurient
profligate: unrestrained by convention or prurio (to itch; to long for)
morality pruritic
profound: situated at or extending to great prutitis
depth psyche
profuse: produced or growing in extreme psyche (spirit, soul, mind)
abundance psyche (spirit, soul, mind)
prognosis psychiatric
prognosis psychiatrist
prognostic psychiatry
prognosticate psychic
prognostication psychoanalysis
proktos (anus) psychoanalyst
proletariat: a social class comprising those who psychoanalytic
do manual labor psychogenic
proliferate: grow rapidly psychological
prolific: intellectually productive psychologist
prologue psychology
promulgate: state or announce psychopath
propensity: a natural inclination psychopathic
prophecy psychopathy
prophesy psychosis
prophet psychosomatic
propitious: presenting favorable circumstances psychotherapeutic
proponent: a person who pleads for a cause or psychotherapist
propounds an idea psychotherapy
proponent: a person who pleads for a cause or psychotic
propounds an idea punctilious
proprietary: protected by trademark or patent punctuate
or copyright puncture
propriety: correct behavior punctus (point)
prosaic: lacking wit or imagination pungence
proscribe pungency
proscribe: command against pungent
proscription pungo (to pierce sharply)
proscriptive purportedly: believed or reputed to be the case
prosecute pusillanimity
proselytize: convert or try to convert someone to pusillanimous
another religion pusillus (tiny)
prospect putative: purported
prospective pyge (buttocks)
protagonist: the principal character in a work of pyromania
fiction pyromaniac
protract: lengthen in time; cause to be or last pyromaniacal
longer pyrophobe
provident: giving something useful for the pyros (fire)
future qualify: prove capable or fit; meet requirements
provincial: associated with an administrative qualitative: involving distinguishing attributes
district of a nation querror (to complain)
provisional: under terms not final or fully querulous
worked out or agreed upon querulous: habitually complaining
proximity: the property of being close together quinquagenarian
quixotic: not sensible about practical matters reparation: something done or paid in expiation
ramification: a development that complicates a of a wrong
situation repercussion: a remote or indirect consequence
rancor: a feeling of deep and bitter anger and of some action
ill-will replenish: fill something that had previously
rapacious: living by preying on other animals been emptied
re- (again) replete: filled to satisfaction with food or drink
re- (again) reprehensible: bringing or deserving severe
re- (again) rebuke or censure
re- (again, back) reprisal: a retaliatory action against an enemy
re- (again, back) in wartime
re- (again, back) reproach: express criticism towards
rebuke: an act or expression of criticism and reprove: take to task
censure repudiate: refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or
rebut: overthrow by argument, evidence, or recognize as valid
proof requisite: necessary for relief or supply
recalcitrant: stubbornly resistant to authority resolute: firm in purpose or belief
or control respite: a pause from doing something
recant: formally reject or disavow a formerly reticence
held belief reticent
recapitulate reticent: reluctant to draw attention to yourself
recapitulation retro- (backward)
recapitulatory retrospect
recede revere: regard with feelings of respect
reciprocal: concerning each of two or more revitalization
persons or things revitalize
reclusive: withdrawn from society; seeking revival
solitude revive
recondite: difficult to penetrate revolution
recrimination: mutual accusations revolutionary
redolent: having a strong pleasant odor revolve
redundant: more than is needed, desired, or rex, regis (king)
required rex, regis (king)
refute: overthrow by argument, evidence, or rhetoric: study of the technique for using
proof language effectively
regal rigorous: rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation
regalia from a standard
regality robust: sturdy and strong in form, constitution,
regenerate or construction
regicidal rogue: a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
regicide rudimentary: being in the earliest stages of
regress development
reincarnate (adj.) ruminate: reflect deeply on a subject
reincarnate (v.) rumpo, ruptus (to break) La.
reincarnation rural
reiterate: to say, state, or perform again rus, ruris (country, farmlands)
relegate: assign to a lower position Russophile
relentless: never-ceasing rustic
relinquish: turn away from; give up rustic: characteristic of rural life
remonstrate: argue in protest or opposition rusticate
Renaissance: period of European history at the rustication
close of the Middle Ages rusticity
renounce: turn away from; give up saccharine: overly sweet
sacrilege: blasphemous behavior
sacrosanct: must be kept sacred sequor (to follow)
sagacious: acutely insightful and wise sequor, secutus (to follow)
salient: conspicuous, prominent, or important serendipity: good luck in making unexpected
salutary: tending to promote physical well- and fortunate discoveries
being; beneficial to health servile: submissive or fawning in attitude or
sanctimonious: excessively or hypocritically behavior
pious sexagenarian
sanguine: confidently optimistic and cheerful similis (like, similar)
sardonic: disdainfully or ironically humorous simplify
satyriasis simulate
satyromania simulation
satyros (satyr) simulo (to copy)
sciens (knowing) singular: being a single and separate person or
sciens (knowing) thing
scintilla sinister
scintilla (a spark) sinister (left hand)
scintillate Sinophile
scintillate: emit or reflect light in a flickering -sis (process of)
manner slander: words falsely spoken that damage the
scintillating reputation of another
scintillation sloth: a disinclination to work or exert yourself
scio (to know) sociological
scribe, scriptus (to write) sociologist
scrupulous: characterized by extreme care and sociology
great effort socius (companion)
scrutinize: examine carefully for accuracy solarium
se- (apart) solicitous: full of anxiety and concern
second soliloquist
sectus (cut) soliloquize
sectus (cut) soliloquy
secular: someone who is not a clergyman or a solus (alone)
professional person solvent: capable of meeting financial obligations
sedition: an illegal action inciting resistance to soma (body)
lawful authority somnambulism
segregate somnambulist
segregation somnambulist
self-abnegate somnambulistic
self-abnegation somniferous
semantic somnific
semanticist somniloquence
semantics somniloquent
senescence somniloquist
senescent somniloquy
senex (old) somnolence
senex (old) somnolency
senile somnolent
senility somnus (sleep)
sensory: relating to or concerned in sensation sophisticate
sentient: endowed with feeling and sophisticated
unstructured consciousness sophistication
septuagenarian sophos (wise)
sequel sopor (sleep)
sequence soporific
sequester: keep away from others soporific
soporific: inducing sleep subsequent
sordid: foul and run-down and repulsive substantive: having a firm basis in reality and
soror (sister) therefore important
soror (sister) subtle: difficult to detect or grasp by the mind
sororicidal or analyze
sororicide suburbia
sorority subversive: in opposition to an established
spawn: the mass of eggs deposited by fish or system or government
amphibians or mollusks succinct: briefly giving the gist of something
specious succumb: consent reluctantly
specious: plausible but false sui (of oneself)
specto (to look) suicidal
sphygmomanometer suicide
sphygmos (pulse) summus (highest)
sporadic: recurring in scattered or super (above)
unpredictable instances super (above, over) La.
spurious: plausible but false supercilious
squalor: sordid dirtiness supercilious: having or showing arrogant
squander: spend thoughtlessly; throw away superiority to
stagnation: a state of inactivity superficial
static: not in physical motion superficial: of, affecting, or being on or near the
staunch: firm and dependable especially in surface
loyalty superfluity
steadfast: marked by firm determination or superfluous
resolution; not shakable superfluous: more than is needed, desired, or
stereophonic required
stereos (deep, solid) superior
stigmatize: to condemn or openly or formally or supernatural
brand as disgraceful supervise
stipulate: make an express demand or provision surreptitious
in an agreement surreptitious: marked by quiet and caution and
stoa (porch) secrecy
stoic surreptitiousness
stoic: seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; surrogate: someone or something that takes the
impassive place of another
stoical survival
stoicism survive
stratum: one of several parallel layers of sycophancy
material sycophant
strepo (to make a noise) sycophant: a person who tries to please
stricture: severe criticism someone to gain an advantage
strife: bitter conflict; heated often violent sycophantic
dissension sykon (fig)
stringent: demanding strict attention to rules symbiosys
and procedures symbiotic
stymie: hinder or prevent the progress or symmetric
accomplishment of symmetrical
sub- (near, close to, under) symmetry
sub- (under) sympathetic
subjugate: make subservient; force to submit or sympathize
subdue sympathy
sublime: of high moral or intellectual value sympathy
subordinate: an assistant subject to the symphonic
authority or control of another symphony
syn- (with, together) thanatology
syn- (with, together) thanatopsis
syn-, sym- (together, with) Gr. thanatos (death)
syn-, sym- (with, together) theologian
synagogue theological
synchronization theology
synchronize theology: the rational and systematic study of
synchronous religion
syndrome Theophilus
synergism theos (God)
synergism therme (heat)
synergistic thermometer
synergy tirade: a speech of violent denunciation
synonym titillate
synonym titillation
synonymous to alter
synthesis: the combination of ideas into a to alternate
complex whole to consummate
taceo (to be silent) to incense
tacit tome
tacit: implied by or inferred from actions or tome (a cutting)
statements torpor: a state of motor and mental inactivity
tacitness touchstone: a basis for comparison
taciturn tout: advertise in strongly positive terms
taciturn: habitually reserved and trans- (across)
uncommunicative transcend: go beyond the scope or limits of
taciturnity transcribe
tangential: of superficial relevance if any transcriber
tangible: perceptible by the senses especially transcription
the sense of touch transgress: act in disregard of laws, rules,
tantamount: being essentially equal to contracts, or promises
something transient: lasting a very short time
tautological: characterized by unnecessary trepidation
repetition trepidation: a feeling of alarm or dread
taxidermist trepido (to tremble)
taxidermy tri- (three)
tele- (distance) tri- (three)
tele- (distance) trilingual
telepathic tripod
telepathy triskai (three)
telephone triskaidekaphobe
telescope trivia
television trivial
temerity: fearless daring trivialities
temperate: not extreme -tude (noun suffix)
tenable: based on sound reasoning or evidence turpitude: a corrupt or depraved or degenerate
tenacious: stubbornly unyielding act or practice
tenet: a religious doctrine proclaimed as true tyro
without proof ubique (everywhere)
tentative: hesitant or lacking confidence; ubiquitous
unsettled in mind or opinion ubiquitous: being present everywhere at once
tenuous: very thin in gauge or diameter ubiquitousness
termagant ubiquity
terse: brief and to the point un- (negative prefix)
unanimity venerate: regard with feelings of respect and
unanimous reverence
unconscionability venter, ventris (belly)
unconscionable venter, ventris (belly)
unconscionable: greatly exceeding bounds of ventral
reason or moderation ventricle
unctuous: unpleasantly and excessively suave ventricular
or ingratiating ventriloquial
unequivocal ventriloquism
unicorn ventriloquist
unicycle ventriloquistic
uniform ventriloquize
uniform: clothing of distinctive design worn by veracity: unwillingness to tell lies
members of a group verbal
unify verbal
unilateral verbalize
unity verbatim
universe verbiage
university verbose
unremitting: uninterrupted in time and verbose: using or containing too many words
indefinitely long continuing verbosity
unus (one) verbum (word)
unus (one) La. verbum (word)
unwitting: not aware or knowing verisimilitude: the appearance of truth; the
urbane quality of seeming to be true
urbane: showing a high degree of refinement vernacular: the everyday speech of the people
urbanity versatile
urbs (city) versatility
ursicide verto (turn) Lat.
ursine verto, versus (to turn)
ursus (bear) verto, versus (to turn)
usurp: seize and take control without authority vestige: an indication that something has been
utilitarian: having a useful function present
utopia: ideally perfect state veteran
uxor (wife) vetus (old)
uxor (wife) vex: disturb, especially by minor irritations
uxorial via (road)
uxoricidal viable: capable of life or normal growth and
uxoricide development
uxorious vicarious
vacillate vicarious: experienced at secondhand
vacillate: be undecided about something vicissitude: a variation in circumstances or
vacillation fortune
vacillatory vilify: spread negative information about
vacillo (to swing back and forth) vindicate: show to be right by providing
vale (farewell) justification or proof
vanesco (to vanish) vindictive: disposed to seek revenge or intended
vapid: lacking significance or liveliness or spirit for revenge
or zest vir (man, male)
vegetate virago
vegeto (to live and grow) virtuosi
vehement: marked by extreme intensity of virtuoso
emotions or convictions virtuoso: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in
venal: capable of being corrupted any field
virulent: extremely poisonous or injurious; volatile: liable to lead to sudden change or
producing venom violence
visionary: a person with unusual powers of volition
foresight volition: the act of making a choice
vita (life) volo (to wish)
vital volubility
vitality voluble
vitalization volvo, volutes (to roll)
vitalize voracious
vitamin voracity
vitiate: make imperfect voro (to devour)
vitriolic: harsh, bitter, or malicious in tone vox, vocis (voice)
vivacious vox, vocis (voice)
vivacity vox, vocis (voice)
vivarium vulpicide
vivid vulpine
vividness vulpus (fox)
viviparous wanton: a lewd or lascivious person
vivisection willful: done by design
vivo (to live) wistful: showing pensive sadness
vocal Wolfgang Amadeus Theophilus Gottlieb Mozart
vocalist xylon (wood)
vocalization -y (practice, custom, etc.; noun suffix)
vocalize zealous: marked by active interest and
vocation: the particular occupation for which enthusiasm
you are trained zodiac
vociferate zodiacal
vociferation zoion (animal)
vociferous zoological
vociferous zoologist
vociferous: conspicuously and offensively loud zoology
vociferousness zoophile

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