All Derivatives for Students

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Instructions: Match, and write the letter of each Enlish word next to its definition. Then in the blanks to the right, write the Latin root, next to its English derivative.

1. Skillful; adept (especially at using one’s right hand). a. submarine .

2. To join one thing ‘to’ another. b. extraneous .

3. From the sky; celestial; divine c. sinister .

4. The place where one goes out. d. abstain .

5. Wicked, evil, dishonest esp. in an unnatural or e. direct . strange way.

6. To put beneathe oneself; overcome it, diminish it f. profit .

7. Stand straight up; construct.. g. add .

8. The ordinary, direct form of speech; not wandering h. supernal . or poetic.

9. ‘Under’ the ‘ocean,’ or a machine that goes there. i. infernal .

10. A job or office ‘without care’ of individual people j. circumpolar . or souls; a mere functionary.

11. Traveling at a speed above the speed of sound k. subdue .

12. Someone who is ‘turned in’ upon him-/herself. l. dexterous .

13. In a straight line; not curving m. erect .

14. To ‘hold’ oneself ‘away’ from something. n. supersonic .

15. Below the frequency of red, on the color-spectrum o. sinecure .

16. The gain, purpose, or outcome for which work is p. prose . performed.

17. From outside, not essential, irrelevant. q. infrared .

18. Underground, Hellish, diabolical, netherworldly. r. exit .

19. Located around the poles. s. ubiquitous .

20. Located everywhere t. introvert .

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Chapter 1 DerivativesInstructions: Match, and write the letter of each Enlish word next to its definition. Then in the

blanks to the right, write the Latin root, next to its English derivative. Bonus (+3 pts.) for writing out the full entry (e.g. “nomen,-inis, n.” or “adsum,-esse”)

1. A table of land elevated above the surrounding. a. infancy . plane.

2. To name someone as a political candidate. b. carte blanche .

3. Specific, belonging, or pertaining to someone. c. ancillary .

4. Pertaining to motherhood. d. uxorious .

5. An organization or club for women only. e. virtue .

6. An organization or club for men only. f. habit .

7. In name only. g. quiddity .

8. Manliness. The characteristics and habits displayed h. marital . by a mature man.

9. Friendly & pleasant. Welcoming. i. fraternity __ .

10. A pattern-of-action that you ‘have,’ or j. proper . instinctively possess.

11. Fatherhood, especially of a particular child. k. nominate .

12. The period of time immediately after birth. l. sorority .

13. The essence or nature of something: ‘What’ it is. m. mesa .

14. Providing necessary support to something. n. paternity .

15. Having to do with marriage. o. amity .

16. Complete freedom to act as one wishes or sees fit. p. maternal . Having a ‘blank check.'

17. A friendly relationship q. puerile .

18. Childish; trifling & silly, prankster-ish. r. servile .

19. Slavishness. Eagerness to serve others. s. nominal .

20. Displaying an excessive submissiveness or t. amicable . fondness for one’s wife

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1. Numbers designating place, such as “first,” a. ordain . “second,” “third,” (etc.)

2. To stand between two people, often to help them b. Quintessence . reconcile.

3. Strength of character in resisting an oncoming evil. c. ordinary . Courage.

4. The third big period of geological history, after the d. decimate . extinction of the dinosaurs.

5. The fourth big period of geological history, in which e. felicitous . humans occur.

6. Having many folds. A number that is exactly f. ultimatum . several times another number

7. An interval of 8 notes on a piano, whose last note g. ordinal . is exactly twice the frequency of the first.

8. To devastate. To kill every 10th man in a legion, h. primative . as punishment.

9. As things once were, at first. i. poco a poco .

10. A nautical instrument in the shape of a 60-degree j. tertiary . arc of a circle, used to tell Latitude, at sea.

11. Pleasing, well-suited to the situation, serendipitous. k. quaternary .

12. To set events or persons into a particular order, l. paucity . such as into an order of the clergy. 13. Coming as it normally does, in the natural order. m. quarter .

of things. 14. The fifth of the classical elements, namely Ether. n. mode .

began with the extinction of the dinosaurs. 15. Displaying greatness of soul in being generous or o. octave .

forgiving 16. A way or manner in which something occurs. p. Fortitude .

17. Scarceness, or lack of something. q. multiple .

18. Cut into 4 parts. r. magnanimous .

19. In bargaining, a final demand. s. mediate .

20. Little by little, in music; gradually. t. sextant .

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1. Something said; a traditional saying, or piece of a. capacity . advice.

2. To close up or block off. (Hint: Weather term.) b. agent .

3. One who/which actively causes a result, or a key c. dictum . ingredient ‘making up’ that result.

4. An object’s appearance or face visible from one side d. pensive . of it, i.e. from a particular point-of-view.

5. Fear of being enclosed in a small space. e. audible .

6. A thing to be read, often on a map. f. aperture .

7. A person or thing that acts or ‘does’ something g. edict . for you.

8. The ability to receive or hold something. h. audience .

9. Something written down, often a sacred writing. i. predicate .

10. Calculated to entrap someone in argument; one j. clause . whose character displays this quality.

11. The opening on a lens that admits light and k. agitate . determines how bright the picture will be.

12. Something said of another thing. l. paucity . 13. The people listening to a performance. m. aspect .

14. Readable. n. captious .

15. A separate section of a piece of discourse or o. occlude . writing. A complete idea.

16. In football, an alternate play, called by the quarter- p. claustrophobia . back using secret code-words or numbers.

17. Thoughtful and meditative. q. Inspect .

18. To shake up forcefully, perturb. r. factor .

19. Something officially spoken out, or proclaimed. s. scripture .

20. To look into something, and investigate it. t. legend .

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1. Occurring at the same time. a. stasis .

2. A change away from a thing’s proper form. b. nil .

3. Medieval contraction (ending in “z” / “&”) meaning c. petition . “see that thing.”

4. A sensation of whirling or dizziness. d. vertex .

5. A state of inactivity, stagnation, or motionlessness. e. courier

6. Nothing; zero. f. pedestrian .

7. A formal request for something. g. providence .

8. A formal investigation into something. h. pedestal .

9. A ship-of-war that looks like a big helmet. i. feline .

10. Motionless, often because it is in equlibrium. j. viz. .

11. A type of flower whose leaves look like swords. k. canine .

12. The base of a statue or column. l. static . 13. A runner sent to to deliver a mesasge. m. gladiola .

14. Liable to change n. current .

15. The highest point (around which everything else o. mutation . turns).

16. A person travelling on foot. p. galleon .

17. A flow, as in a stream or ocean. q. simultaneous .

18. Looking ahead to plan for something. r. inquiry .

19. Having to do with cats. s. vertigo .

20. Having to do with dogs. t. mutable .

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1. A shrill trumpet used as a signal in war. a. bonanza .

2. To guess or surmise an implication from evidence. b. incredulous .

3. Well-bred from a particular race; polite or elegant. c. ferry .

4. Willing or wishing evil to someone. d. bull .

5. To pacify, appease. e. refer .

6. To point one back to some idea or object. f. datum .

7. To satisfy, often with food or drink. g. credence .

8. A highly profitable mine, or farm. h. genteel .

9. To show or prove something. i. facility .

10. Sincere, genuine, in ‘good-faith.’ j. clarity .

11. A sealed, ecclesiastical document. k. clarion .

12. Distinctness and clearness. l. satiate . 13. Faith or trust in something. m. gentile .

14. Ease or ability to act. n. infer .

15. Being unwilling to admit that something is true. o. placate .

16. A given numerical amount used as a basis for p. impotent . calculation.

17. Unable or powerless to do something. q. malevolent .

18. A non-Jew (or non-Mormon), i.e. someone from r. bona fide . one of the surrounding ‘nations.’

19. to bring across a body of water. s. demonstrate .

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1. Nearness. a. aquatic .

2. Coming before. b. propinquity .

3. A large painting painted on a wall. c. canticle .

4. Coming out at night. d. juxtapose .

5. Excruciating suffering. e. cadence .

6. To lift up high praise. f. tangent .

7. Spoken in two different ways, i.e. with a double g. preternatural . meaning, e.g. “Duck [the verb] & duck [the animal].

8. To place close together. h. viaduct .

9. “by means of;” “through” i. anguish .

10. A front-flip, where the heels go over the head. j. mural .

11. Living in water. k. defenestration .

12. A religious song, especially one found in the Bible. l. nocturnal . 13. Partially decomposed plant-matter; topsoil. m. antecedent .

14. Spoken in exactly the same way, i.e. in one and the n. posterior . Same sense; e.g. to support a candidate; to support truth.

15. Execution by throwing someone out of a window. o. humus .

16. A long bridge supported on arches or other supports. p. somersault .

17. A line that touches a curve only at one point. q. via .

18. In addition to nature; not however, supernatural. r. extol .

19. The sound of the regular downbeat of a rhythm. s. univocal .

20. Located farther behind something else. t. equivocal .

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1. Skills traditionally considered worthy of a free man a. ex parte . to enable participation in civic life.

2. To speak ill or badly of someone; to slander. b. benevolence .

3. Quickness, speed. c. humiliate .

4. Principle. basic, fundamental; coming first, from d. brevity . which other things are derived.

5. To humble e. rit[ardando]. .

6. Existing from the very first age of the world. f. facile .

7. Law term: “On the part of,” “on behalf of” g. altimeter .

8. Shortness or terseness-of-speech. h. liberal .

9. Making smaller, trivializing, or disparaging; a i. Liberal Arts . suffix (such as –ule or -ette) that does this.

10. Musical notation “to slow down.” j. celerity .

11. Device for measuring height, using air pressure. k. propinquity .

12. To break a sentence into equal parts, in order to l. malign . identify the syntactical role of each. 13. Easily accomplished, or fluent. m. parse .

14. Good will, well-wishing n. primordial .

15. One who values civil liberties & is free-thinking, o. diminutive . either free of gov’t interference (a libertarian) or free of past tradition (a progressivist).

16. Closeness or nearness. p. tardy ..

17. Late for something. q. primeval ..

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1. Northerly; having to do with the 7 stars of the a. tantamount . Big Dipper.

2. Something which is both three, and a unity; b. dodecagon . a Christian name for God.

3. A measure of the amount of something. c. Septentrional .

4. Something that eats both plants and animals. d. bivalve .

5. In physics, the smallest possible amount of e. sextuple . something

6. A weapon having 3 teeth f. triage .

7. Having 3 sides; a famous commission to dialogue g. omnivore . between the U.S., Europe, and Japan.

8. To divide into two forks, branches, or peaks. h. septiform .

9. A Greek translation of the Jewish (Old Testament) i. octahedron . written in Egypt by 70 scribes around 250 B.C.

10. Seven-fold j. quantum .

11. An 8-sided solid. k. bifurcate .

12. Amounting to the same as something else. l. quantity ____________ .

13. A place where patients are divided into those likely m. Septuagint . (1) to die regardless, (2) to live with medical help, and (3) to live regardless.

14. A fish or mollusk having two shells. n. trilateral .

15. To multiply by six. o. Trinity .

16. A polygon having 12 angles & 12 sides. p. trident ..

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1. Blank; empty. a. legitimate .

2. An excuse that one couldn’t possibly have committed b. solipsism . a crime, because they were somewhere else

3. Exceedingly small c. parsimony .

4. Abbreviated “dim.” in music, it means to decrease d. alien . in loudness and force.

5. A little part (from which matter is made). e. partita .

6. More than perfect; describing something that ‘had’ f. diminutive . already happened before a past-tense verb happened.

7. A long speech by a single actor, usually in g. diminuendo . conversation with his/her own thoughts.

8. To determine exactly what syntactical role each of h. particle . a sentence’s words play, including its part-of-speech.

9. Derogatory or contemptuous toward something. i. minutia(e) .

10. The absolute control of the entire government & j. alibi . often of daily life as well, by a single political party.

11. Lawfully permitted, endorsed, or born. k. miniscule .

12. A person coming from or native to some other l. pejorative __ _______ . country.

13. The careful spending of money; thriftiness. m. legate .

14. A suite of musical movements having several parts. n. soliloquy .

15. Details; trivial matters or points o. ameliorate .

16. An ambassador officially sent from one nation p. null . another

17. Making smaller or less; disparaging; depreciative. q. plural .

18. More than one r. pluperfect .

19. The view that the oneself is the only thing that exists. s. parse .

20. To make something bad, not so bad. t. Totalitatarianism .

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1. To handle skillfully. a. hostile .

2. To bury in the ground. b. quorum .

3. 5280 ft, or about 1000 paces. c. interstellar .

4. A primate with very human like characteristics. d. manage . in loudness and force.

5. A very large, but often disorganized, band of e. numerator . soldiers.

6. A document written by hand. f. numerical .

7. A round ball of some sort, similar to a little world. g. terrarium .

8. To work with the hands; to sway or direct h. pace . something to your own will.

9. Meaning “cooked earth,” this hardened clay is used i. centennial . for vases, sculpture, roof-tiles, bricks, etc.

10. The top part of a fraction that counts how many j. constellation . parts there are.

11. A meaningful hand- or body-motion used to k. manuscript . indicate something.

12. Concerning the long distance between stars. l. host .

13. A once-in-a-hundred years anniversary. m. mile .

14. Unfriendly, beligerent, liable to attack. n. hominid .

15. A group of stars that make a shape. o. manipulate .

6. A number of person required to be present for an p. orb . assembly to legally conduct business.

17. The smallest repeatable unit of walking; q. inter . a double-step (using both feet).

18. Engaged in fighting. r. gesture .

19. Having to do with numbers. . s. terra cotta .

20. A sealed container in which plants or land animals t. belligerent .

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1. Of great price. a. size .

2. Buying something back, usually by exchanging b. ounce . something else for it.

3. A body-cavity. c. ultramarine .

4. Basic, primary; having to do with the base; d. impecunious . something to be learned first, before other things.

5. The base of a house; a very large sum of money e. lateral . on whose yearly interest an institution operates.

6. A sun dial; a room, terrace, or balcony, exposed to f. litoral . the sun’s rays.

7. Situated beyond the sea. g. fundamental .

8. Having sound waves above the frequency that the h. redemptive . human ear can hear.

9. An act, process, or ability to know something. i. allocate .

10. One 1/12th of a pound. Similar to “inch.” j. coelom .

11. The act or power of moving from place to place. k. infinite . place to place.

12. A fixed standard of weight, measure, or amount. l. solstice .

13. Having no money; penniless; broke. m. foundation .

14. Having to do with the sky, or heaven. n. ultrasonic .

15. To set aside something (usually money) to a o. cognition . separate place, for a separate purpose.

6. 1 of 2 days on which the sun‘stands still’so shadows p. objective . neither grow nor shorten: Jun.21st & Dec.22nd.

17. Unending. q. locomotion .

18. Having to do witht he seashore. r. solarium .

19. The dimension in 3D space which extends s. precious . sideways; having to do with the sides.

20. How something actually is, in itself, not how it t. celestial . appears from 1 person’s point-of-view (subjective).

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Chapter 12 Derivatives

Instructions: Match, and write the letter of each Enlish word next to its definition. Then in the blanks to the right, write the Latin root, next to its English derivative. Bonus (+3 pts.) for writing out the full entry (e.g. “nomen,-inis, n.” or “adsum,-esse”)

1.Felt deep in the gut. Concering crude, instinctive a. denture . emotions, not intellectual in nature.

2. Consisting of one of 2 or several discrete values b. orison . often used in an electronic device.

3. Any source of profit, wealth or power. c. monocle .

4. Having to do with the chest. d. visceral .

5. An eyeglass for one eye. e. pectoral .

6. Thick, and slow-flowing. f. digit .

7. A numeral between 0 and 10. g. indent .

8. An offense involving the death penalty. h. capitulate .

9. Chief, more important than others, outstanding, i. viscous . pre-eminent.

10. By means of the mouth j. oral .

11. To inset text a certain distance from the left k. brachiopod . margin, thereby ‘bighting into’ it.

12. To surrender or yield. l. digital .

13. A ridged shirt-embellishment that surrounds the m. capital . neck.

14. A set of artificial teeth. m. capital

15. A prayer spoken aloud. m. capital

16. A class of bivalve organisms (classic shell shape) m. capitalwhich often anchor themselves by a single arm-foot.

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1. Having to do with sailors or sailings. a. fidelity .

2. The wide & highly vaulted central aisle of a church, b. agriculture . in which the people gather.

3. Angry, and in a bad mood. c. duke/doge/duce .

4. Brightness, visibility, clearness, visual acumen. d. clairvoyant .

5. To direct a ship or other vessel, usually by e. equine . measurements taken from fixed points (e.g. stars).

6. Little-known or difficult to discern. f. infidel .

7. A person who goes on a spaceship. g. irate .

8. Faithfulness; loyalty. h. navy .

9. Just beginning. i. astronaut .

10. A person or event having to do with horse-riding. j. clarity .

11. The science and art of farming. k. equestrian .

. 12. The leader of a people; a ruler. l. navigate .

13. A person who doesn’t believe or adhere to your m. irascible . faith.

14. A supernatural seer who sees absent things. n. obscure .

15. A military power comprised of warships. o. nautical .

16. Able to be easily provoked to anger. p. nave .

17. Having to do with horses. q. incipient .

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1. A condition of wanting to know about something, a. penitent . or why it is.

2. Essential to maintaining life. b. depict .

3. Having to do with this earthly life; not eternal. c. vitiate .

4. Not real, but having the character of reality; 3D. d. excuse .

5. Full of life; highly spirited. e. debt .

6. A (reputed) protein or other enzyme that promotes f. debit . life.

7. A person who is highly skilled at a musical g. in vivo . instrument, usually by sheer talent.

8. To bring back to life (or to consciousness). h. vivacious .

9. The stopping of something. i. vivisection .

10. Remorseful; a person who is remorseful. j. vital .

11. In a real-life organism; opposed to “in vitrō,” i.e. k. virtuoso . in a test-tube.

12. Food-stuffs that support life. l. quandary .

13. To undermine or inwardly corrupt something, m. vitamin . thereby spoiling it.

14. An outside cause for why somebody cannot do n. vittles/victuals . something; the act of acknowledging such a cause.

15. The act of cutting open a live organism. o. revive .

16. An awkward moment when you don’t know what p. temporal . to do.

17.The state or condition of owing something to someone; q. cessation . liability.

18. The act of wiring money out of a bank-account by r. vicious . causing the account to suddenly owe you ‘on the spot.’

19. To portray, or paint something in a certain way. s. curious .

20. Full of vice. t. virtual . Nomen tuum _____________



1. To attack by word or argument. a. replenish .

2. Nearness to someone or something. b. impend .

3. Full, replete, total. c. impugn .

4. Long-lasting. d. proxy .

5. To fill back up. e. stultify .

6. A person appointed to act in place of another; f. plenary . a deputy.

7. An investment that eventually pays back a yearly g. diuturnal . allowance of money, usually for retirement.

8. Possessing full and total power. h. biennial .

9. Something that hangs on one’s person, or on i. perennial . something else.

10. To cause to appear foolish or ridiculous. j. proximity .

11. A plant which comes back year after year. k. annuity .

12. A plant which has a 2-year life-cycle before it dies. l. trimester .

13. To figuratively hang over, or be imminent. m. pugnacious .

14. A period of six months. n. plenitude ..

15. Fulness, completeness. o. semester .

16. A period of 3 months, into 3 of which a pregnancy p. plenipotent . is often divided.

17.Eager to fight. q. pendant .

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