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ag-
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latin word for "do, go, lead, drive"
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agitate
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to move something with an irregular, rapid violent action. to stir up or excite.
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Philip found Louisa highly agitated at the news of her son's disappearance.
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litigate
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to carry on a lawsuit by judicial process
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if the company chooses to litigate, it may give the protesters the chance to make their points even more effectively in the courts and newspapers.
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prodigal
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recklessly or wastefully extravagant; spendthrift
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Rodney had been the most prodigal with his expected inheritance and had the most to gain from a redistribution of the estate.
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synagogue
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the center of worship and communal life of a Jewish congregation; temple.
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Though the neighborhood was now dangerous at night, the older members refused to move and abandon the beloved synagogue they had attended since the 1940s.
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ven/vent-
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Latin meaing "come"
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advent
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a coming or arrival; a coming into use.
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the advent of spring was always marked by the blue crocuses pushing up through the snow.
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provenance
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origin or source
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the wedding guests wondered about the provenance of this mysterious woman, about whom Seth had never breathed a word.
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venturesome
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inclined to seek out risk or danger; bold, daring, adventurous.
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Kate, with her bungee jumping, free-falling, and rock climbing, had always been the most venturesome of the four.
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venue
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the place where a trial in held.
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to Dr. Slaughter the important thing was to get a change of venue; hoping to conceal his past, he wanted a judge who knew him neither by sight nor by reputation.
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cap/cep/cip-
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Latin meaning "take, seize"
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reception
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the act of receiving. a social gathering where guests are formally welcomed.
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although the reception of her plan was enthusiastic, it was months before anything was done about it.
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incipient
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starting to come into being or to become evident.
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he felt the stirrings of incipient panic as he riffled through the file and realized that the letter had been removed.
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perceptible
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noticeable or able to be felt by the senses.
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her change in attitude toward him was barely perceptible, and he couldn't be sure that he wasn't imagining it.
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susceptible
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to open to some influence; responsive. able to be submitted to an action or process.
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impressed with her intelligence and self-confidence, he was highly susceptible to her influence.
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fin-
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latin word for "end" or "boundary"
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affinity
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sympathy; attraction. relationship
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he knew of Carl's affinity to both wine and violence, and intended to take advantage of them.
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definitive
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authoritative and final. specifying perfectly or precisely.
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the team's brilliant research provided a deinitive desciption of the virus and its strange mutation patterns.
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infinitesimal
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extremely or immeasureably small
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looking more closely at the reseach data, he now saw an odd pattern of changes so infinitesimal that they hadn't been noticed before.
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finite
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having definite limits.
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her ambitions were infinite, but her wealth was finite.
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jac/jec-
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latin verb meaning "throw" or "hurl"
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adjacent
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near, neightboring. sharing a common boundary or border.
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the warehouse was adjacent to the junction of the two raging rivers, so the body could have been quickly disposed of.
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conjecture
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to guess
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they could conjecture that he had met his end in the Andes at the hands of the guerrillas.
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dejected
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downcast, depressed
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despite the glorious weather, they walked home from the hospital dejected.
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trajectory
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the curved path that an object makes in space, or that a throw object follows as it rises and falls to earth.
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considering the likely range, trajectory, and accuracy of a bullet fired froma cheap handgun at 150 yards, the murder seemed incredible.
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tract-
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latin verb meaning "drag or draw"
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detract
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to decrease the importance, value, or effectiveness of something
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none of the gossip in the new biography detracts in the least from her greatness as writer.
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protracted
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drawn out, continued, or extanded.
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no one was looking forward to a protracted struggle for custody of the baby.
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retraction
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a taking back or withdrawal; a denial of what one has previously said.
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the following week, the newspaper reluctantly printed a retraction of the errors in the article, but the damage had been done.
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intractable
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not easily handled, led taught, or controlled.
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the army's corruption was known to be the country's intractable problem, and all foreign aid ended in the colonels' pockets.
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duc-
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latin verb "to lead"
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conducive
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tending or promote, encourage, or assist; helpful.
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she found the atmosphere there conducive to study and even to creative thinking.
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deduction
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subtraction. the reaching of a conclusion by reasoning.
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foretelling the future by deduction based on a political or economic theory proved to be extremely difficult.
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induce
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persuade, influence.
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to induce him to make the call we had to promise we wouldn't do it again.
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seduction
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temptation to wrong, especially temeptation to sexual intercourse
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the company began its campaign fo seduction of the smaller firm by invitiing its top management to a series of weekends at expensive resorts.
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sec/sequ-
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latin verb "to follow"
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consequential
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resulting. improtant.
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none of our discussions thus far has been very consequential next week's meeting will be the improtant one.
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execute
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to carry out or perfrom. to put death legally or formally.
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he was aware that he hadn't been hired to think independently but rather simply to execute the governor's policies.
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obsequious
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excessively submissive, obedient, or flattering.
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since he loves flattery. he surrounds himself with obsequious people, none of whom he ever really trusts.
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sequential
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arranged in order or ina series
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in writing the history of the revolution, he found it hard to put some of the events in sequential order.
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appollonian
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harmonious, ordered, rational, calm
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after years of romantic emotionality, many artists began to adopt a more apollonian style, producing carefully detailed patterns and avioding extremes of all kinds.
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bacchanalian
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frenzied, orgiastic
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the bacchanalian partying on graduation night resulted in three wrecked cars, two lawsuits by unamused parents, and more new experiences than most of the paritcipants could remember the next day.
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delphic
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unclear, ambiguous, or confusing.
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all she could get from the old woman were a few dephic comments that left her more confused than ever about the missing documents.
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