Latin Vocabulary 3Roots, definitions, synonyms, antonyms, sentences, and related words

duplicity • du, duo – • two; second• duplicity – n. double-dealing;

deliberate deception adj. duplicitous adv. duplicitously

• Synonyms: artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissembling, double-dealing, dupery, deceit, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guile, guilefulness, wiliness

• Antonyms: artlessness, forthrightness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity

duplicity • Hitler showed his

duplicity when he made a peace agreement with Joseph Stalin of Russia and then attacked Russia while the peace agreement was still in place.

• Duplicitous people often seem trustworthy, but that appearance is simply a well-practiced façade or outward appearance.

duplicity

Related Words:•dual•duet•duo•duodenum•duplex•duplicate

intermediary • medi –

• middle

• intermediary –

• n. one who acts as an agent between two parties pl. n. intermediaries

• Synonyms: central, halfway, middle, intermediate, median, mid, midmost; broker, buffer, conciliator, go-between, honest broker, interceder, intercessor, mediator, interposer, middleman, peacemaker

• Antonyms: extreme, farthest, farthermost, furthermost, furthest, outermost, outmost, remotest, utmost

intermediary

• When my two best friends had a blowup over a misunderstanding, I had to act as intermediary to calm the situation and soothe hurt feeling.

• In online shopping, PayPal, offering a safe and secure way to spend money, is a sort of intermediary between the vendor and the buyer.

intermediary

Related Words:• immediate•intermediate•medial•median•mediate•medieval•mediocre•Mediterranean•medium

nondescript • scrib, script – • write• nondescript – • adj. belonging or appearing to

belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described; lacking distinctive or interesting qualities

• Synonyms: beige, characterless, faceless, featureless, indistinctive, neutral, vanilla

• Near Antonyms: arresting, bold, catchy, dramatic, emphatic, eye-catching, flamboyant, showy, splashy, striking

nondescript • The young man was

so nondescript that his professors and classmates could not remember if he was in class or not that day.

• Because criminals do their best to be nondescript, eye witnesses had a hard time picking them out of a lineup.

nondescript Related Words:• ascribe• circumscribe• conscription• describe• indescribable• inscribe• manuscript• postscript• prescribe• Scripture• subscribe• transcript

inadvertent • vers, vert – • turn• inadvertent – • adj. not focusing the mind

on a matter adv. inadvertently n. inadvertence

• Synonyms: casual, chance, fortuitous, accidental, heedless, inattentive, incidental, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditated, unwitting

• Antonyms: calculated, deliberate, intended, intentional, planned, premeditated, premeditative

inadvertent • I felt horrible and

wanted to go back to apologize when I inadvertently splashed a pedestrian who was standing by the flooded intersection.

• His omission of a drink at our meal was inadvertent and came from over thinking our luxurious five course dinner.

inadvertent Related Words:• adversary• adversity• advertise• averse• controversy• diverse• extrovert• introvert• perverse• subvert• verse• versus

projectile • -ject – • to throw• projectile – • n. a body projected by

external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia; especially: a missile for a weapon (as a firearm);

• a self-propelling weapon (as a rocket)

projectile • During the bottle rocket war,

the youngest boy was injured by one of the exploding projectiles.

• Simple projectiles are those that we simply throw or propel with our own force, but complex projectiles are more like a spear thrower or bow and arrow which enhance human power and increase velocity.

projectile Related Words:• abject• adjective• conjecture• dejected• eject• inject• interject• object• project• reject• subject• trajectory

antecedent • cede, ceed, cess – • to go; to yield• antecedent – • n. 1 a word, phrase, or clause

referred to by a relative pronoun; 2 a preceding event, condition, or cause

• pl. n. antecedents n. antecedence

• Synonyms: 1 cause, causality, causation, reason; 2 previous, former, precedent, preceding, prior

• Antonyms: 1 aftereffect, aftermath, consequence, corollary, development, effect, fate, fruit, issue, outcome, outgrowth, product, result; 2 after, ensuing, following, later, posterior, subsequent, succeeding

antecedent • In grammar, an

antecedent comes before the pronoun and is itself the noun that the pronoun replaces.

• YouTube is the antecedent to the relatively newer Vine app.

antecedent Related Words:• accede• ancestry• concede• exceed• intercede• precede• proceed• recede• secede• succeed

incorporeal • corp/o, corpor, corpus – • body• incorporeal – • adj. lacking material substance,

spiritual; lacking physical existence but regarded by the law as existing, as a right or privilege, intangible

• adj. incorporeally • Synonyms: bodiless, ethereal,

formless, immaterial, insubstantial, nonmaterial, nonphysical, spiritual, unbodied, unsubstantial

• Antonyms: bodily, corporeal, material, physical, substantial

incorporeal • Some people picture God as

an incorporeal presence, having no physical body or form, while other see him in a physical throne in the clouds sitting there in corporeal form.

• Ghosts are often described and illustrated as being incorporeal and translucent; notice that you can see the floorboards through this depiction of a ghost bride.

incorporeal

Related Words:• corporal• corporate• corporation• corporeal• corps• corpse• corpulent• Corpus Christi• corpuscle• incorporate

soliloquy • –locu, -loqu – • to speak, speech, talk,

discourse

• soliloquy – • n. speaking aloud to

oneself or doing so in performance of a drama

• pl. n. soliloquies v. soliloquize, -d, -s, ing

soliloquy • A soliloquy in a play

allows the actor to state the character’s feelings while not talking directly to the audience.

• Playwrights often utilize the dramatic concept of a soliloquy in order to present information that would be explained by a narrator in a novel or story.

soliloquy

Related Words•eloquence•elocution•grandiloquent• interlocutor• loquacious•colloquial•colloquialism•ventriloquist

obliterate • liter – • letter• obliterate – • v. to destroy leaving no traces;

erase from existence • v. obliterates, -ed, -ing n.

obliteration, obliterator • Synonyms: abolish, black out, blot

out, cancel, clean (up), efface, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, liquidate, annihilate, root (out), rub out, snuff (out), stamp (out), sweep (away), wipe out

• Near Antonyms: conserve, preserve, protect, save; build, construct, create, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, make, manufacture, shape; fix, mend, patch, reconstruct, renew, renovate, repair, restore, revamp

• As the alien rays sliced the air, our entire barn glowed and then was obliterated, erasing all of my fathers hard work and all of many of my childhood memories and friends.

• One glimpse of my aunt’s faded, sagging tattoo, and I wanted the sight obliterated from my memory! Yikes!

obliterate

Related Words:• alliteration• illiterate• literal• literary• literate• literati• literature• preliterate• semiliterate• transliterate

obliterate

conducive

• duc, duct –

• to lead

• conducive –

• adj. contributing to or producing a favorable result

• n. conduciveness

• Synonyms: facilitative

• Antonyms: unhelpful, useless

conducive

• A beautiful library is very conducive to reading, but I find my bed works even better!

• While the sunny, gorgeous kitchen might make some want to cook, I’d prefer the beauty of the island retreat that is more conducive to relaxation.

conducive

Related Words:

• abduct• aqueduct• conduct• deduce• deduct• duct• ductile

• educate• induce• introduce• produce• reduce• seduce• viaduct

Root Review• du, duo –

• two; second

• medi –

• middle

• scrib, script –

• write

• vers, vert –

• turn

• -ject –

• to throw

• cede, ceed, cess –

• to go; to yield

• corp/o, corpor, corpus –

• body

• –locu, -loqu –

• to speak, speech, talk, discourse

• liter –

• letter

• duc, duct –

• to lead

• dict –

• speech, to speak; proclaim (declare officially); word

• mal –

• bad; evil; ill; wrong

• omni –

• all

• post –

• after; behind

• pre –

• before; in front of

• retro –

• back; backward; behind

• sub –

• below; beneath; lower in rank; under; nearly

• super –

• above; over; beyond

• trans –

• across; through; change; beyond

• ultra –

• beyond; excessive

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• ambi, amphi –

• both; on both sides; around

• ante –

• before

• bell –

• war

• bene, bon –

• good; well

• circum –

• around; surrounding

• cide –

• to kill

• cred –

• belief; believe

• extra, extro –

• outside of; beyond

• inter –

• between; among

• magn, magna, magni –

• great; large

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