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English 9
First Quarter
Greek and Latin Vocabulary


 Lesson One
  
 1.  CIRCUMSPECT-  Careful; mindful of rules and consequences 
 2.  ELUCIDATE-  To make clear by explaining
 3.  IMPROVISE-  To create without any forethought or preparation 
 4.  INVIDIOUS-  Hateful or spiteful 
 5.  LUCID-  Easy to understand; clear 
 6.  PHOSPHORESCENT-  Giving off light without heat 
 7.  PHOTOGENIC-  Attractive in pictures or photographic 
 8.  PHOTOTROPIC-  Tending to grow or move toward light 
 9.  PROSPECT-  That which is expected 
10. PROVIDENTIAL-  Happening by good fortune 
11. SPECTER-  A ghost or phantom 
12. TRANSLUCENT-  Allowing light to pass through

Lesson Two

 1.  AFFABLE-  Easy to converse with 
 2.  DICTUM-  A formal or authoritative statement 
 3.  EDICT-  An official order 
 4.  ENUNCIATE-  To pronounce or articulate 
 5.  INDICT-  To charge with a crime; accuse 
 6.  INEFFABLE-  Unutterable; indescribable
 7.  INFANTILE-  Childish; immature 
 8.  INVOKE-  To call on for support 
 9.  PRONOUNCEMENT-  A declaration of opinion; judgment 
10. PROVOCATIVE-  Causing disturbance or excitement 
11. RENOUNCE-  To reject by declaration
12. REVOKE-  To make invalid; deactivate 


Lesson Three

 1.  ABSTAIN-  Not to do something; refrain 
 2.  CONFOUND-  To confuse and frustrate 
 3.  DEPLETE-  To use up; waste 
 4.  IMPLEMENT-  To put into action; execute
 5.  INFUSE-  To inject; to fill up something or someone 
 6.  INHIBIT-  To get in the way of; hinder 
 7.  PROHIBIT-  To stop one from doing something; prevent 
 8.  REPLETE-  Filled up with 
 9.  RETINUE-  A group that attends an important person 
10. SUFFUSE-  To fill up from within; to spread throughout 
11. SUSTAIN-  To support for an extended period of time 
12. TENACIOUS-  Stubbornly persistent; determined

Lesson Four

 1.  ADEPT-  Skilled; expert at 
 2.  APTITUDE-  Skill or suitability for 
 3.  DISPOSITION-  Attitude or mood 
 4.  EFFIGY-  A figure constructed in mockery
 5.  FIGMENT-  Something invented or imaginary
 6.  FORMATIVE-  Occurring at the time of most influence 
 7.  IMPOSE-  To forcibly place upon
 8.  INEPT-  Unskilled; clumsy. 
 9.  MISINFORMATION-  Untrue or wrong information 
10. POSIT-  To put forth; place
11. PREFIGURE-  To look like or predict a later thing or event
12. REFORM-  To bring back to rightness; order, or morality

Lesson Five

 1.  AGENDA-  Plan of action; purpose
 2.  ALLEGATION-  Claim of wrongdoing, charge 
 3.  DELEGATE-  To divide up; especially responsibilities
 4.  DILATE-  To widen
 5.  DISPEL-  To scatter about, break up 
 6.  EXACTING-  Demanding perfection; strict
 7.  LEGACY-  Body of ideas, achievements, and morals; example 
 8.  PROACTIVE-  Seeking to solve a problem before it occurs 
 9.  PROPEL-  To cause to move towards; push 
10. RELATIVE-  Dependent upon 
11. REPULSION-  Desire to avoid; disgust 
12. SUPERLATIVE-  Excellent; above all others 

First Quarter
Greek and Latin Roots


Lesson One
PHOT/PHOS         
LUC-            
SPEC/SPECT-      
VID/VIS-   

Greek PHOT, PHOS, “light”
Latin LUX, LUCIUS, “light”
Latin SPECERE, SPECTUM, “to look at”
Latin VIDERE, VISUM, “to seek, to look”
Lesson Two
NUNC/NOUNC-
VOC/VOK              
FA-                       
DIC/DICT-        

Latin NUNTIARE, NUNTIATUM, “to announce”
Latin VOCARE, VOCATUS, “to call”
Latin FOR, FARI, “to speak”
Latin DICERE, DICTUM, “to say, to tell”
Lesson Three
HIB/HAB-             FUS/FOUND-
TEN/TAIN/TIN-  
PLE-                       

Latin HABERE, HABITUM, “to have, hold”
Latin FUNDERE, FUSUM, “to pour out”
Latin TENERE, TENTUM, “to hold”
Latin PLERE, PLETUM, “to fill”
Lesson Four
FORM-                  
APT/EPT-             
POS/PON-            
FIG-

Latin FORMARE, FORMATUM, “to form, to establish”
Latin APTARE, APTUM, “to fit”
Latin PONERE, POSITUM, “to put, place”
Latin FINGERE, FICTUM, "to shape"
Lesson Five
LEGA-                  

ACT/AG-              
PULS/PEL-          
LAT-                  

Latin LEGARE, LAGATUM, “to appoint, to send on a
mission, to charge with”
Latin AGERE, ACTUM, “to do, act”
Latin PELLERE, PULSUM, “to push"
Latin LATUM, “brought, carried"

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