Latin Roots

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Per

Back 1

Meaning through

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Sub

Back 2

Meaning under

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Sub Rosa

Back 3

Under the rose or secretly

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Nolo Contendere

Back 4

Meaning I do not wish to contend later shortened to Nolo

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Percussion

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The sharp striking of one thing against another

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Perennial

Back 6

Lasting for an indefinitely long time: Continuous

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Permeate

Back 7

to penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout

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Persevere

Back 8

To hold fast to a task or purpose despite handicaps or obstacles

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Fero/Ferre/Tuli/Latum

Back 9

To bring to bear or to carry

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Defer

Back 10

To postpone or delay

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Dilatory

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Tending to delay or postpone

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Elation

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Excited feelings of pride, joy, or triumph

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Infer

Back 13

to use available evidence to form a conclusion

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Tendo, Tendere,Tetendi,Tensum

Back 14

meaning to stretch

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Contend

Back 15

To engage in a quarrel, a struggle, or a rivalry

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Intent

Back 16

Concentrating on or dedicated to an idea or action/ Purpose

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Imperturbable

Back 17

Incapable of becoming upset or agitate: not easily excited:calm

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Perambulate

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To walk through, about or over: travel through; transverse

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Perigree

Back 19

the point in which a heavenly body specifically the moon or an artificial satellite at which it is nearest to the Earth

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Perpetuity

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Endless or an indefinitely long duration of something: eternity

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Perspicacious

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Having keen mental perception and understanding: Discerning

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Pertinacious

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Holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion:stubborn

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Perturb

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To throw into great disorder: deranged

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pervade

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To become spread throughout all parts of

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Repurcussion

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An effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action

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Collate

Back 26

To gather or arrange in proper sequence

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Oblate

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Flattened at the poles, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its shorter axis

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Prelate

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An ecclesiastic of a high order as an archbishop or a bishop

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Proffer

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To put before a person for acceptance; offering

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Superlative

Back 30

Of the highest kind, quality, or order: surpassing all else or others, supreme, extreme

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Vociferous

Back 31

Crying out noisily: clamorous

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Detente

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A relaxing of tension between nations as by negotiation or agreements

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Entente

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An arrangement or understanding between two or more nations agreeing to follow a particular policy with regard to affairs or international concern

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Portend

Back 34

to be an omen of: presage to signify

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Tendinatious

Back 35

A definite point of view

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Sub Rosa

Back 36

Under the rose or secretly

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Sub

Back 37

Under

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Subvert

Back 38

To upset; to overthrow; to ruin

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Subservient

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Excessively willing to yield:submissive

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Subconcious

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Occurring with little or no conscious perception on the part of an individual

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Subjective

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Of or resulting from the feelings of the person thinking

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Sublimate

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To express unacceptable behavior in an acceptable way; to change a gas to a solid before turning it into a liquid first

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Subside

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To sink to the bottom or a lower level: to become less active intense Etc.

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Subterfuge

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Any plan or action used to hide or evade something

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Succumb

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To give away: to yield: to die

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Extort

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To wrest or wring (money Information) from a person through violence, imitation, or abuse of authority: obtain by force torture or threat

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Torque

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The measured ability of a rotating element, as a gear or shaft: to overcome turning resistance

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Tort

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A wrongful act (not including a breach of contract or trust) that results in injury to another's person property or reputation and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation be it monetary or otherwise

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Truss

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To tie: to bind: to fasten

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Extroversion

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The act of directing one's interests outward or to things outside the self

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Vertebra

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any of the bones in the spine

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Vertigo

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A dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surrounding

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Vortex

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A whirling mass of water, especially one in which a force of suction operates as a whirlpool

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Torqueo, Torquere, Torsi, Tortum

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To twist : to bend: to turn around

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Contort

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To twist or bend out of shape

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Distort

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To change something to make it false

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Retort

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To reply quickly and sharply

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Tortuous

Back 58

having many twists and turns

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Verso, Versare, Versavi, Versatum

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To turn: to turn around

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Adversity

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Hardship; Misfortune

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Avert

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To turn away one's eyes

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Introvert

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A person who's thoughts and actions are directed inward

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Perverse

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Stubbornly doing something other than what is reasonable or required

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Prose

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Ordinary speech or writing without rhyme or meter