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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Latin Roots #4

  1. bon, boun-good; bonus bounty, bountiful, bonify, boon, bon voyage, bonhomie
  2. capit, capt-head, chief, leader; capital captain, capitalize, decapitate, per capita, capitol
  3. carn(I)-flesh; carnal; carnality, carnival, carnation
  4. ced(e), ceed, cess-go, yield, surrender; recede, proceed, success, concede, exceed, procession

  1. accession-the attainment of a certain rank or dignity; an increase by means of something added; the act of becoming joined/ I still not have reached my popular accession in high school because it is not much of a concern to me.
  2. bona fide-in good faith; genuine/ My grandma is a bona fide good person, she always tries to help people and improve their days.
  3. bonanza-a sudden or unexpected source of money or riches; a windfall/ Adding Alaska to the union brought the US a bonanza of resources and money.
  4. bounteous-inclined to be generous; plentiful and abundant/ My mother has always tried to teach me to be bounteous and sharing what I get and helping the poor.
  5. capitulation-a surrendering, usually upon prearranged terms or conditions, a final give up/ If Japan's capitulation had come sooner, perhaps the atomic bomb dropping could've been avoided.
  6. carnage-a great slaughter, as in a battle/ The battle of Antietam of the civil war brought the most carnage in any single day in American history.
  7. carnivorous-flesh-eating, as an animal/ The lion is a carnivorous animal, heeding on animals such as zebras, wildebeests, and impalas. 
  8. incarnate-literally in the flesh, in  bodily form, personified, flesh-colored/ Bad cholesterol is an incarnate hereditary I luckily wasn't born with.
  9. intercede-to act on another's behalf to meditate/ Buddha always interceded to solve his problems.
  10. precedent-a previous act or decision taken as a valid model, having gone before/ My sister set the precedent for getting good grades in my nuclear family, and set the example for me to follow.
  11. recapitulation-a brief repetition, a summary as of what has been said/ His recapitulation on what the teacher had just said really clarified any questions I had.
  12. reincarnation-a thing that is reborn, or comes into being although perhaps in a different bodily form/ Hindus believe in constant reincarnation as part of their religion.

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