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 : (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 : a person who has lived to be a hundred years old

My great-grandmother has just turned a hundred; she's a centenarian.

3. centurion : 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 polis, Sparta, had many centurions, as Spartans had a reputation of using war to solve any problems.

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

The students were clamorous when the teacher announced that they had a surprise quiz.

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

The timed essay was very concise as it was very well organized.

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

The feuding cities reached a concordance after they signed a peace treaty.

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

Our busy neighbor was cordial when she took time out of her schedule to help  use fix our troublesome garden.

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

Our teacher spoke in a discordant manner after realizing no one was paying attention to her.

9. genocide: the systematic extermination of an ethnic group

The Holocaust is an example of a genocide since the Germans tried to execute all the Jews.

10. incisive: keenly penetrating, cutting into

The student was an incisive reader because she undterstood everything easliy. 

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

The Proclamation of Independace was a big thing for early America.

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

Once my sister found her own place, I got to reclaim my room.