Latin Roots #5

1. cent(i)- hundred; century centipede, centennial
2. cid(e)- cut kill; homicide suicide circumcise scissors
3. clam, claim-cry out declare; clamor exclaim proclaim
4. cord, cour-heart; accord encouraged, courage

1. bicentennial-a celebration of two hundred years, lasting 200 years/ My bicentennial will be in 2198.
2. centenarian- a person who has lived to be a hundred years old/ My great grandma was a centenarian, she lived to be 103 years old.
3. centurion- a roman soldier in charge of 100 men, military mind/ Alexander was a centurion he had a great military mind.
4. clamorous- continuous loud and complaining voices, insistent/ It seems in the middle east all we here is continuous loud and complaining clashes.
5. concise- brief and to the point/ I always try to be concise in my responses.
6. concordance-condition of harmony or agreement; an alphabetical index from writers work/ I hope one day the entire world can be in concordance.
7. cordial-of the heart amiable/ My family tends to stray away from cordial messages.
8. discordant- harsh or inharmonious, clashing/ My neighbor tends to have discordant remarks whenever I walk on his lawn.
9. genocide- the systematic extermination of an ethnic group/ The Nazis attempt to exterminate the jews is one of the more well known genocide.
10. incisive- keenly penetrating, cutting into/ My bike left an incisive mark on my knee when I fell.
11. proclamation-official statement or announcement that informs or honors/ So far Barack Obama's promises in his first proclamation to the American people haven't been met.
12. reclaim- to claim again; to restore to former importance/ Detroit is a city that badly needs a reclaimation project.