1. Latin Vocabulary 3 Roots, definitions, synonyms, antonyms, sentences, and related words

2. duplicity du, duo – two; second duplicity – n. double-dealing; deliberate deception adj. duplicitous adv. duplicitously Synonyms: artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissembling, double-dealing, dupery, deceit, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guile, guilefulness, wiliness Antonyms: artlessness, forthrightness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity

3. duplicity Hitler showed his duplicity when he made a peace agreement with Joseph Stalin of Russia and then attacked Russia while the peace agreement was still in place. Duplicitous people often seem trustworthy, but that appearance is simply a well-practiced façade or outward appearance.

4. duplicity Related Words: dual duet duo duodenum duplex duplicate

5. intermediary medi – middle intermediary – n. one who acts as an agent between two parties pl. n. intermediaries Synonyms: central, halfway, middle, intermediate, median, mid, midmost; broker, buffer, conciliator, go-between, honest broker, interceder, intercessor, mediator, interposer, middleman, peacemaker Antonyms: extreme, farthest, farthermost, furthermost, furthest, outermost, outmost, remotest, utmost

6. intermediary When my two best friends had a blowup over a misunderstanding, I had to act as intermediary to calm the situation and soothe hurt feeling. In online shopping, PayPal, offering a safe and secure way to spend money, is a sort of intermediary between the vendor and the buyer.

7. intermediary Related Words: immediate intermediate medial median mediate medieval mediocre Mediterranean medium

8. nondescript scrib, script – write nondescript – adj. belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described; lacking distinctive or interesting qualities Synonyms: beige, characterless, faceless, featureless, indistinctive, neutral, vanilla Near Antonyms: arresting, bold, catchy, dramatic, emphatic, eye- catching, flamboyant, showy, splashy, striking

9. nondescript The young man was so nondescript that his professors and classmates could not remember if he was in class or not that day. Because criminals do their best to be nondescript, eye witnesses had a hard time picking them out of a lineup.

10. nondescript Related Words: ascribe circumscribe conscription describe indescribable inscribe manuscript postscript prescribe Scripture subscribe transcript

11. inadvertent vers, vert – turn inadvertent – adj. not focusing the mind on a matter adv. inadvertently n. inadvertence Synonyms: casual, chance, fortuitous, accidental, heedless, inattentive, incidental, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditated, unwitting Antonyms: calculated, deliberate, intended, intentional, planned, premeditated, premeditative

12. inadvertent I felt horrible and wanted to go back to apologize when I inadvertently splashed a pedestrian who was standing by the flooded intersection. His omission of a drink at our meal was inadvertent and came from over thinking our luxurious five course dinner.

13. inadvertent Related Words: adversary adversity advertise averse controversy diverse extrovert introvert perverse subvert verse versus

14. projectile -ject – to throw projectile – n. a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia; especially: a missile for a weapon (as a firearm); a self-propelling weapon (as a rocket)

15. projectile During the bottle rocket war, the youngest boy was injured by one of the exploding projectiles. Simple projectiles are those that we simply throw or propel with our own force, but complex projectiles are more like a spear thrower or bow and arrow which enhance human power and increase velocity.

16. projectile Related Words: abject adjective conjecture dejected eject inject interject object project reject subject trajectory

17. antecedent cede, ceed, cess – to go; to yield antecedent – n. 1 a word, phrase, or clause referred to by a relative pronoun; 2 a preceding event, condition, or cause pl. n. antecedents n. antecedence Synonyms: 1 cause, causality, causation, reason; 2 previous, former, precedent, preceding, prior Antonyms: 1 aftereffect, aftermath, consequence, corollary, development, effect, fate, fruit, issue, outcome, outgrowth, product, result; 2 after, ensuing, following, later, posterior, subsequent, succeeding

18. antecedent In grammar, an antecedent comes before the pronoun and is itself the noun that the pronoun replaces. YouTube is the antecedent to the relatively newer Vine app.

19. antecedent Related Words: accede ancestry concede exceed intercede precede proceed recede secede succeed

20. incorporeal corp/o, corpor, corpus – body incorporeal – adj. lacking material substance, spiritual; lacking physical existence but regarded by the law as existing, as a right or privilege, intangible adj. incorporeally Synonyms: bodiless, ethereal, formless, immaterial, insubstantial, nonmaterial, nonphysical, spiritual, unbodied, unsubstantial Antonyms: bodily, corporeal, material, physical, substantial

21. incorporeal Some people picture God as an incorporeal presence, having no physical body or form, while other see him in a physical throne in the clouds sitting there in corporeal form. Ghosts are often described and illustrated as being incorporeal and translucent; notice that you can see the floorboards through this depiction of a ghost bride.

22. incorporeal Related Words: corporal corporate corporation corporeal corps corpse corpulent Corpus Christi corpuscle incorporate

23. soliloquy –locu, -loqu – to speak, speech, talk, discourse soliloquy – n. speaking aloud to oneself or doing so in performance of a drama pl. n. soliloquies v. soliloquize, -d, -s, ing

24. soliloquy A soliloquy in a play allows the actor to state the character’s feelings while not talking directly to the audience. Playwrights often utilize the dramatic concept of a soliloquy in order to present information that would be explained by a narrator in a novel or story.

25. soliloquy Related Words eloquence elocution grandiloquent interlocutor loquacious colloquial colloquialism ventriloquist

26. obliterate liter – letter obliterate – v. to destroy leaving no traces; erase from existence v. obliterates, -ed, -ing n. obliteration, obliterator Synonyms: abolish, black out, blot out, cancel, clean (up), efface, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, liquidate, annihilate, root (out), rub out, snuff (out), stamp (out), sweep (away), wipe out Near Antonyms: conserve, preserve, protect, save; build, construct, create, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, make, manufacture, shape; fix, mend, patch, reconstruct, renew, renovate, repair, restore, revamp

27. As the alien rays sliced the air, our entire barn glowed and then was obliterated, erasing all of my fathers hard work and all of many of my childhood memories and friends. One glimpse of my aunt’s faded, sagging tattoo, and I wanted the sight obliterated from my memory! Yikes! obliterate

28. Related Words: alliteration illiterate literal literary literate literati literature preliterate semiliterate transliterate obliterate

29. conducive duc, duct – to lead conducive – adj. contributing to or producing a favorable result n. conduciveness Synonyms: facilitative Antonyms: unhelpful, useless

30. conducive A beautiful library is very conducive to reading, but I find my bed works even better! While the sunny, gorgeous kitchen might make some want to cook, I’d prefer the beauty of the island retreat that is more conducive to relaxation.

31. conducive Related Words: abduct aqueduct conduct deduce deduct duct ductile educate induce introduce produce reduce seduce viaduct

32. Root Review du, duo – two; second medi – middle scrib, script – write vers, vert – turn -ject – to throw cede, ceed, cess – to go; to yield corp/o, corpor, corpus – body –locu, -loqu – to speak, speech, talk, discourse liter – letter duc, duct – to lead

33. dict – speech, to speak; proclaim (declare officially); word mal – bad; evil; ill; wrong omni – all post – after; behind pre – before; in front of retro – back; backward; behind sub – below; beneath; lower in rank; under; nearly super – above; over; beyond trans – across; through; change; beyond ultra – beyond; excessive Root Review

34. ambi, amphi – both; on both sides; around ante – before bell – war bene, bon – good; well circum – around; surrounding cide – to kill cred – belief; believe extra, extro – outside of; beyond inter – between; among magn, magna, magni – great; large Root Review