Vocabulary #5

Words from Latin Roots #5

Roots and Derivatives:

1. cent(i): hundred
2. cid(e), cis(e): cut, kill
3. clam, claim: cry out, declare
4. cord, cour: heart

Word List:

1. bicentennial (a): (related to) a celebration of a two hundredth anniversary; happening once in a period of two hundred years or lasting two hundred years

• There are some comets that are bicentennial; they happen every two hundred years. 

2. centenarian (n): a person who has lived to be a hundred years old

• My grandfather has just turned a hundred; he's a centenarian. 

3. centurion (n): a Roman Officer commanding over one hundred men; related to the military mind, especially as it favors military solutions for handling social problems

• The Greek city-state, Sparta, had many centurions as Spartans had a reputation of using war to solve disputes. 

4. clamorous (a): characterized by continuous loud and complaining voices, noisily complaining, insistent.

• The students were clamorous when the principal announced the winter fair had been cancelled. 

5. concise (a): covering much in few words, brief and to the point

• The timed presentation was very concise as it was very well organized. 

6. concordance (n): a condition of harmony or agreement, an alphabetical index indicating reference passages, as from a writer's works

• The U.S. and Japan had a concordance once they signed the peace treaty after World War II ended. 

7. cordial (a): of the heart, warm and friendly, amiable

• Our busy neighbor was cordial when she took time out of her schedule to help me with homework. 

8. discordant (a): (sounding) harsh or inharmonious, clashing

• Our teacher spoke in a discordant manner after multiple students did not follow simple classroom directions.

9. genocide (n): the systematic extermination of an ethnic group

• The Holocaust is an example of a genocide since the Germans murdered millions of Jews. 

10. incisive (a): keenly penetrating, cutting into

• The student was an incisive reader since she was able to find the meaning behind the title of the novel. 

11. proclamation (n): an official statement or announcement that informs or honors

• Abraham Lincoln's emancipation proclamation stated that all slaves were free.

12. reclaim (v): to claim again, to restore to former importance or usefulness

• Once my sister went back to college,  I was able to reclaim the television as my own.