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

• The bicentennial anniversary of Apple happened just about a week ago. 

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

• My grandmother was a centenarian for a week until she died. 

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 United States commanders may not dress as Romans, but they still have the responsibilities of a centurion. 

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

• The twinkie protest was very clamorous because they were just being ignored. 

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

• The essay I wrote for my AP test was very concise because I only had 25 minutes to write it. 

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

• The dispute between my teacher and I ended in concordance because we were able to compromise. 

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

• When volunteering for ASES, I act very cordial in order to prove that I'm a professional.. 

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

• My avid teacher yells in a very discordant tone when we don't follow 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 incisive remarks my teacher sais can impact my classmates and I very deeply. 

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

• When I grow up I'm going to reclaim drug addicts' lost lives.