10^th Grade Essential Vocabulary

Spring 2007

Root/Prefix Meaning Example(s)

1. daemon demon pandemonium

2. son sound sonorous, supersonic

3. viv, vit life vivacious, vitality

4. bell war bellicose, belligerent

5. laud praise laudable, laudatory

6. anim life, spirit, mind, soul animosity, magnanimous, animated

7. anti, ant against antithesis, antagonist

8. dis apart, in different directions, not disparage, disassociate, disperse

9. magn great, large magnanimous, magnitude

10. non not nondescript

11. flagr to blaze conflagration

12. veter old, experienced inveterate, veteran

13. jur, just right, justice, oath abjure, jurisdiction, justice

14. path feeling, disease antipathy, apathy, sympathy, pathology

15. dece, décor fitting, proper decorum, decoration

16. stru, struct, stroy to build misconstrue, construct, destroy

17. noc, nox to harm, kill innocuous, noxious

18. claus, clus, clud to close, shut, lock conclusive, occlude

19. press to push or press repress, oppressive

20. mand, mend to order, put in hand of mandatory, mandate

21. ard, ars to burn ardent, ardor, arson

22. garrul to chatter, talk garrulous, garrulity

23. nomen, nomin to name misnomer, nomenclature

24. com with, together compatible, complacent

25. pati, pass suffer, feel compatriot, passion

26. trud, trus to thrust protrude, intrude

27. omni all omnipotent, omnivorous

28. tang, tact to touch tangible, tactile

29. pan all pandemic, pandemonium

30. somn sleep somnolent, insomnia

31. veh, vect to carry vehement, vehicle, vector

32. men, ment to think, to warn, advise vehement, investment

33. pre before preview, pretext

34. super above or beyond supercilious, superfluous

35. plac please, appease placate, placid

36. dem people pandemic, democracy

37. aug, aux to increase, grow august, auxiliary, augment

38. noct night nocturnal, nocturne

39. tac silent tacit

40. vor eat omnivorous, carnivorous

41. sacr, secr sacred consecrate

42. fin to end finite, infinitesimal

43. sed, sid, sess to sit or settle sedate

44. multi many multifarious

45. quie, quit to rest acquiesce, quiescent

46. pung, punct to prick, point compunction

47. sinu to bind, curve sinuous