Vocab list # 5
“All roots lead to Rome” Latin roots.
- interrupt [verb] : to stop a person from speaking for a short period by something you say or do, or to stop something from happening for a short period.
Rupt = break
- rupture [verb] : to burst, break or tear.
- Abrupt [adj] : describes something that is sudden and unexpected, and often unpleasant.
- patricide [noun] : the crime of killing your own father.
Cide = cut down, kill
- homicide [noun] : an act of murder.
- exorcise [verb] : to force an evil spirit to leave a person or place by using prayers or magic.
- stringent (strict) [adj] L having a very severe effect, or being extremely limiting.
String (strict) = draw tight
- restrict [verb] : to limit the movements or actions of someone, or to limit something and reduce its size or prevent it from increasing.
- Constrict [verb] : to become or to make something tighter and narrower.
- voracious [adj] : very eager for something, especially a lot of food.
Vora = devour, eat.
- convivial (vit) [adj] : friendly and making you feel happy and welcome.
Viv (vit) = alive, life
- revive [verb] : to come or bring something back to life, health, existence, or use.
- vitality [noun] : energy and strength.
- retort (tors) [very] : to answer someone quickly in an angry or funny way.
Tort (tors) = twist
- torture [noun] : the act of causing great physical or mental pain in order to persuade someone to do something.
- Torsion [noun] : the act of twisting, the force which causes twisting, or the state of being twisted.
- fractious (frag) [adj] : easily upset or annoyed, and tending to complain.
Fract (frag) = break
- infraction [noun] : when someone breaks a rule or law.
- Fragile [adj] : easily damaged, broken or harmed.
- evict (vine) [verb] : to force someone to leave somewhere.
Vict (vine) = conquer
- convict [verb] : to decide officially in a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime.
- Invincible [adj] : impossible to defeat or prevent from doing what is intended.
- omniscient [adj] : having or seeming to have unlimited knowledge.
Omni = all, very
- omnipotent [adj] : having unlimited power; able to do anything.
- Omnivorous [adj] : naturally able to eat both plants and meat.
- genuflect (flex) [verb] : to bend one or both knees as a sign of respect to God, especially when entering or leaving a Catholic church.
Flect (flex) = to bend
- flexible [adj] : able to bend or be bent easily without breaking.
- deflect [verb] : to change direction.
- tenacious [adj] : holding tightly onto something, or keeping an opinion in a determined way.
Ten = hold
- retentive [adj] : if you have a retentive memory or brain, you can remember things easily.
- tenant [noun] : a person who pays rent for the use of land or a building.
- admonish (monit) [verb] : to tell someone that they have done something wrong.
Moni (monit) = to warn
- Monitor [noun]: a device with a screen on which words or pictures can be shown.
- Premonition [noun]: a feeling that something, especially something unpleasant, is going to happen.
- mandatory [adj] : describes something which must be done, or which is demanded by law.
Mand = command
- remand [verb] : to send someone accused of committing a crime away from the court until their trial begins.
- Mandate [noun] : the authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to perform an action or govern a country.
- credulous [adj] : too willing to believe what you are told, easily deceived.
Cred = believe
- incredulous [adj] : not wanting or not able to believe something, and usually showing this.
- credence [noun] : acceptance, support or belief that something is true.
- perfidious [adj] : unable to be trusted, or showing a lack of loyalty.
Fid = faith, trust
- confederacy [noun] : a union of states or people who have combined together for a particular purpose, usually related to politics or trade.
- fidelity [noun] : honest or lasting support, or loyalty, especially to a sexual partner.