Honors Vocabulary Part Duex

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Honors VocabularyPart Duex

• Here we go again

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Primus Septem Dies

• PHOS/PHOT light LUC light to shine or glitter
• MOR/MORT to die, death NEC/NIC/NOX kill or slay
• phosphorescent 1. giving off a glow that
  continues after an energy source has stopped
  transmitting energy. 2. giving off a glow over a
  period of time without producing noticeable heat.
• photogenic very suitable for being photographed
• photosynthesis the process by which green
  plants use light to produce organic matter from
  carbon dioxide and water.
• elucidate to clarify or explain
• lucent giving off light or easily seen through
• lucubration hard or difficult study the product
  of difficult study
• immortality deathless or unending existence
  lasting fame
• mortality death or living for a limited time
• mortify 1. to subdue or deaden (the body)
  especially by self-discipline or self-inflicted
  pain 2. to embarrass greatly humiliate
• internecine 1. deadly mutually destructive 2.
  involving conflict within a group
• noxious harmful to or destructive of living
  things.
• pernicious extremely harmful or destructive

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Secundus Septem Dies

• inundate 1. To cover with water, especially
  floodwaters. 2. To overwhelm as if with a flood
  swamp
• nominal 1. Of, resembling, relating to, or
  consisting of a name or names. 2. Assigned to or
  bearing a person's name nominal shares.
• philanthropist 1.The effort or inclination to
  increase the well-being of humankind, as by
  charitable aid or donations. 2. Love of
  humankind in general. 3. Something, such as an
  activity or institution, intended to promote
  human welfare.
• reticent 1.Inclined to keep one's thoughts,
  feelings, and personal affairs to oneself.
  2.Restrained or reserved in style.
• mitigate To moderate (a quality or condition) in
  force or intensity alleviate
• rescind To make void repeal or annul.
• unsavory Distasteful or disagreeable
• unwittingly 1. Not knowing unaware 2. Not
  intended unintentional
• verbatim Using exactly the same words
  corresponding word for word
• vacillate 1. To sway from one side to the
  other oscillate. 2. To swing indecisively from
  one course of action or opinion to another

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Tertius Septem Dies

• HER/HES to stick, get stuck FUG to flee or
  escape
• COSM ornament or order SCI to know or understand
• adherent 1. someone who follows a leader, a
  party, or a profession
• 2. one who believes in a particular philosophy
  or religion
• incoherent 1. unclear or difficult to understand
• 2. loosely organized or inconsistent
• inherent part of something by nature or habit
  inborn
• fugue a musical form in which a theme is echoed
  and imitated by voices or instruments that enter
  one after another and interweave as the piece
  proceeds.
• subterfuge 1. a trick designed to help conceal,
  escape, or evade
• 2. a deceptive trick
• centrifugal moving outward from a center or
  central focus
• cosmetic done or made for the sake of beauty or
  appearance
• cosmopolitan 1. having international
  sophistication and experience
• 2. made up of persons, elements, or influences
  from many different parts of the world
• cosmos 1. the universe, especially when it is
  viewed as orderly and systematic
• 2. any orderly system that is complete in
  itself
• omniscience infinite awareness, understanding,
  and insight
• prescient having or showing advance knowledge
  of what is going to happen
• unconscionable 1. not guided by any moral sense
  unscrupulous

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Quartus Septem Dies

• pluck To remove or detach by grasping and
  pulling abruptly with the fingers
• wane To decrease gradually in size, amount,
  intensity, or degree decline.
• unobtrusive Not undesirably noticeable or
  blatant inconspicuous.
• jade To wear out, as by overuse or
  overindulgence
• retort To reply, especially to answer in a
  quick, caustic, or witty manner
• noxious 1. Harmful to living things
  injurious to health noxious chemical wastes. 2.
  Harmful to the mind or morals
• unprecedented Having no previous example
• mutable 1. Capable of or subject to change or
  alteration. 2. subject to frequent change
  inconstant mutable weather patterns. 3. Tending
  to undergo genetic mutation
• retrograde 1. Moving or tending backward. 2.
  Opposite to the usual order inverted or
  reversed.
• ulterior 1. Lying beyond what is evident,
  revealed, or avowed, especially being concealed
  intentionally so as to deceive an ulterior
  motive. 2. Lying beyond or outside the area of
  immediate interest.

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Quintus Septem Dies

• JUNCT join PART part
• MIT/MIS to send PEL/PULS to move or drive
• adjunct something joined or added to another
  thing of which it is not a part
• disjunction a break, separation, or sharp
  difference between two things
• injunction 1. a warning, direction , or
  prohibition regarding an activity 2. a court
  order commanding or forbidding the doing of some
  act
• impart 1. to give from ones store or abundance
  2. to make known disclose
• impartial fair and not biased treating or
  affecting all equally
• partisan 1. a person who is strongly devoted to
  a particular cause or group 2. a guerrilla
  fighter
• emissary someone sent out to represent another
  an agent
• missive a letter or written communication
• remittance 1. money sent in payment 2. the
  sending of money, especially to a distant place
• impel to urge or drive forward by strong moral
  force
• expel 1. to drive or force out 2. to force to
  leave through official action
• repulsion 1. the act of driving away or
  rejecting 2. a feeling of great dislike
  disgusted

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Sextus Septem Dies

• aero air
• aqua water
• bio life, living organism
• helio sun
• lun, luni moon
• mar, mari sea
• psych/o mind, soul
• sphere ball
• chron/o time
• cycl/o wheel, cycle
• dys bad, difficult, abnormal
• -itis inflammation
• onym name, word
• port to carry
• soph, sophy wise, wisdom
• verb word

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Septimus Septem Dies

• PATH suffering PEN/PUN penalty
• MATR/METR mother MONI to warn, to scold
• apathetic 1. showing or feeling little or no
  emotion 2. having no interest
• empathy the feeling of , or the ability to feel,
  the emotions and sensations of another
• sociopath a mentally ill or unstable person who
  acts in a way that harms people and society a
  psychopath
• impunity freedom from punishment, harm, or loss
• penance an act of self-punishment or religious
  devotion to show sorrow or regret for sin or
  wrongdoing
• punitive giving, involving, or aiming at
  punishment
• matriarch a female leader of a group
• matriculate to enroll as a member of a group,
  especially a school or college
• metropolitan having to do with a large important
  city and sometimes its surrounding suburbs
• admonish to warn or criticize mildly
• monitory giving warning cautionary
• premonition 1. a previous warning or notice
  forewarning 2. a feeling about an event or
  situation before it happens

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Octavus Septem Dies

• lassitude A state or feeling of weariness,
  diminished energy, or listlessness
• obtuse 1. Lacking quickness of perception or
  intellect. 2. Characterized by a lack of
  intelligence or sensitivity an obtuse remark. 3.
  Not distinctly felt an obtuse pain.
• prodigal 1. Rashly or wastefully extravagant
  prodigal expenditures on unneeded weaponry. 2.
  Giving or given in abundance lavish or profuse
• sage 1. Having or exhibiting wisdom and calm
  judgment. 2. Proceeding from or marked by wisdom
  and calm judgment
• intractable 1. Difficult to manage or govern
  stubborn. 2. Difficult to mold or manipulate
• malevolent 1. Having or exhibiting ill will,
  wishing harm to others, malicious. 2. Having an
  evil or harmful influence
• mercenary 1. Motivated solely by a desire for
  monetary or material gain. 2. Hired for service
  in a foreign army.
• minimal 1. Smallest in amount or degree.
  2. Small in amount or degree. 3. Only barely
  adequate.
• querulous habitually complaining, whining,
  fretting
• tempestuous of, relating to, or resembling a
  storm (tempest) stormy chaotic
• pagan 1. A heathen, especially a follower of a
  polytheistic religion (as in ancient Rome). 2.
  One who has little or no religion and who
  delights in sensual pleasures and material goods

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Nonus Septem Dies

• CANT sing LUD/LUS to play, game
• PHAN/PHEN 1. to appear or seem, VER truth
• 2. to present to the mind
• incantation 1. a use of spells or verbal charms
  spoken or sung as part of a ritual of magic 2. a
  formula of words used in, or as if in, such a
  ritual
• cantor an official of a Jewish synagogue who
  sings or chants the music of the services and
  leads the congregation in prayer
• descant an additional melody sung above the
  principal melody
• allude to refer broadly or indirectly
• collusion a secret agreement or conspiracy for
  an illegal or deceptive purpose.
• ludicrous laughable because of clear absurdity,
  falseness, or foolishness
• phantasm an illusion or a ghost produced by
  imagination or creative invention
• diaphanous 1. transparent. 2. insubstantial or
  vague
• phantasmagoria 1. a shifting succession of
  things seen or imagined. 2. a collection or
  combination of weird or imaginary things
• aver to state positively as true declare
• verisimilitude 1. the appearance of being true
  or probable. 2. the depiction of realism in art
  of literature
• verity a true fact or statement

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Decimus Septem Dies

• ambi-, amphi both, on both sides, around
• astro, aster star
• du, duo two
• hydr/o water, liquid
• mania excessive desire
• micro small, millionth
• phobia fear
• pyr/o fire, heat, fever
• tri three
• cred belief, believe
• di, diplo two, double
• dyn, dyna, dynam/o power, strength, energy
• extra-, extro- outside, beyond
• mal, male bad, evil, wrong
• poly many
• post after, behind

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Undecimus Septem Dies

• TURB to throw into confusion or upset, crowd,
  confusion
• VOLU/VOLV to roll, wind, turn around, or twist
  around
• FAC/FEC/FIC to make or do UT/US to use, make use
  of, employ
• perturb to upset, confuse, or disarrange
• turbulent 1. stirred up, agitated 2. stirring
  up unrest, violence, or disturbance
• turbid 1. thick or murky, especially with
  churned-up sediment 2. unclear, confused,
  muddled
• devolution 1. the transfer of rights, powers,
  property, or responsibility to others, especially
  from the central to the local government
• voluble speaking readily and rapidly talkative
• convoluted 1. having a pattern of curved
  windings 2. involved, intricate
• facile 1. easily accomplished 2. shallow,
  superficial
• olfactory having to do with the sense of smell
• proficient skilled in an art, occupation, or
  branch of knowledge
• usury the lending of money with a fee charged
  for its use, especially lending for an unusually
  high fee
• utilitarian 1. aiming at usefulness rather than
  beauty 2. useful for a specific purpose or end
• usufruct 1. the right to use of enjoy something
  2. the legal right of using or enjoying the
  products or profits of something that belongs to
  someone else

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Duodecimus Septem Dies

• latent present and capable of becoming though
  not now visible, obvious, or active
• nadir the lowest point of something
• ominous being or exhibiting an omen, esp.
  foreboding or foreshadowing evil
• periphery 1. the external boundary or surface of
  a body 2. the outward bounds of something as
  distinguished from its internal regions or
  center an area lying beyond the strict limits of
  a thing
• provincial a person of local or restricted
  interests or outlook, a person lacking urban
  polish or refinement
• respite a rest from something exhausting, a
  break
• sophomoric conceited and overconfident of
  knowledge but poorly informed and immature
• terse concise, not overly verbose, brief, esp.
  referring to something being well-polished
• insurgent a person who revolts against civil
  authority or an established government
• placate to soothe or mollify especially by
  concessions appease
• psyche a persons soul, self, or mind

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Tertius Decimus Septem Dies

• UMBR shadow VEST to clothe or dress
• THE/THEO god DE/DIV god, divine
• adumbrate 1. to give a sketchy outline or
  disclose in part 2. to hint at or foretell
• umber 1. a color that is greenish brown to dark
  reddish brown 2. a mineral of the same color
• umbrage a feeling of resentment at some slight
  or insult, often one that is imagined rather than
  real
• divest 1. to get rid of or free oneself of
  property, authority, or title 2. to strip of
  clothing, ornaments, or equipment
• investiture the formal placing of someone in
  office
• travesty 1. an inferior or distorted imitation
  2. a broadly comic imitation in drama,
  literature, or art that is usually grotesque and
  ridiculous
• atheistic denying the existence of God or divine
  power
• pantheistic 1. seeing the power of God in all
  the natural forces of the universe 2. worshiping
  all gods of all creeds and cults
• theocracy 1. government by officials who are
  regarded as divinely inspired 2. a state
  governed by such a rule
• deity a god or goddess
• deus ex machina 1. in Greek and Roman drama, a
  god who enters above the stage by means of a
  crane and decides the plays outcome 2. a person
  or thing that appears suddenly and solves an
  apparently unsolvable problem
• divinatory seeking to foresee or foretell the
  future, usually by interpreting signs or asking
  for supernatural help

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Quartus Decimus Septem Dies

• variegated to diversify in external appearance
  especially with different color
• paradox a statement that is seemingly
  contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet
  is perhaps true
• placebo an inert or innocuous substance used
  especially in controlled experiments testing the
  results of another substance, a sugar pill
• vigilant alertly watchful especially to avoid
  danger
• magnanimous showing or suggesting a lofty and
  courageous spirit
• pedagogy the art, science, or profession of
  teaching
• tractable capable of being easily led, taught,
  or controlled docile
• succinct marked by compact precise expression
  without wasted words terse
• martinet a strict disciplinarian one who
  adheres rigidly to details and guidelines
• loquacious given to fluent or excessive talk
  garrulous talkative
• incipient beginning to come into being or to
  become apparent something just forming
• indigenous something naturally living in an
  area native such as indigenous people

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Quintus Decimus Septem Dies

• DEMO people POPUL people, liked by many people
• POLIS/POLIT city CIRCU/CIRCUM to navigate or
  walk around
• endemic 1. fond only in a given place or region
  2. often found in a given occupation, area, or
  environment
• pandemic widespread and affecting a large
  portion of the people
• demotic popular or common
• populist a believer in the rights, wisdom, or
  virtues of the common people
• populace 1. the common people or masses 2.
  population
• populous numerous, densely settled, or having a
  large population
• acropolis the high, fortified part of a city,
  especially and ancient Greek city
• politic 1. cleverly tactful 2. wise in promoting
  a plan or plan of action
• politicize to give a political tone or character
  to something
• circuitous 1. having a circular or winding
  course 2. not forthright or direct in action
• circumspect careful to consider all
  circumstances and possible consequences cautious
• circumvent 1. to make a circuit around 2. to
  manage to get around, especially by clever means