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Knowledge for College Word Study 2016-2017 Word Part Meaning Example Words 1. amoral: neither moral nor immoral 2. a- without atheist: one who does not believe in 3. God 4. atypical: not typical 5. anonymous: of unknown authorship or origin apathy: lack of interest or emotion 1. animate: to bring to life 2. anim of the life, mind, soul, spirit unanimous: in complete agreement 3. animosity: a feeling of ill will 4. magnanimous: generous in forgiving an insult or injury 1. benign: having a kindly disposition 2. ben/bon good benediction: act of uttering a blessing 3. benevolent: desiring to do good to 4. others bonafide: in good faith; authentic; genuine; real 1. circumference: the outer boundary of 2. around, on all sides a circular area 3. circu circumstances: the conditions 4. surrounding and affecting a situation 5. circuit: the act of going or moving around circumambulate: to walk about or around circuitous: roundabout, indirect 1. precise: definitely stated or defined 2. cis to cut exorcise: to seek to expel an evil spirit 3. by ceremony 4. incision: a cut, gash, or notch incisive: penetrating, cutting 1. incredible: unbelievable

©M.Nolan/I.Lipsky 2016 2. credentials: anything that provides the 3. cred to believe, trust basis for belief 4. credo: belief or beliefs that guide a 5. person's behavior credulous: willing to believe or trust too quickly credit: trustworthiness 1. depart: to go away 2. de- down, out, apart deferential: respectful; yielding to 3. judgment 4. delete: to remove from something, 5. such as a document deleterious: having a harmful effect desist: to stand down, to cease 1. aberration: a deviation from the norm 2. err to wander err: to go astray in thought or belief, to 3. be mistaken 4. erratic: deviating from the proper or 5. usual course 6. errant: wandering unerring: committing no mistakes; consistently accurate erroneous: mistaken; incorrect 1. euphemism: pleasant-sounding term 2. for something unpleasant 3. eu good, well eulogy: speech or writing in praise or 4. commendation euthanasia: killing a person painlessly, usually one who has an incurable, painful disease euphony: pleasantness of sound 1. extreme: large in size or effect 2. extraordinary: beyond the ordinary extra outside, beyond extract: to take out 3. extrasensory: derived by means 4. beyond the known senses extrapolate: to estimate (unknown 5. information) from known data

©M.Nolan/I.Lipsky 2016 1. foreboding: a feeling that something 2. fore before bad will happen 3. forecast: a prediction of a future 4. event, such as the weather 5. foresight: the ability to anticipate and plan for future events foreshadow: to hint at a future event forestall: to prevent by advance action 1. genetics: study of heredity and 2. birth, creation, race, kind variation among animals and plants 3. gen gender: classification roughly 4. corresponding to the two sexes 5. carcinogenic: producing cancer congenital: existing or as such from birth progeny: offspring, descendants 1. inactive: not active 2. in not, without inconsequential: unimportant; without 3. consequences 4. inevitable: not avoidable; will surely 5. happen indigent: lacking money or resources intrepid: without fear 1. malicious: full of or showing malice 2. mal bad, evil, ill, wrong malign: to speak harmful untruths 3. about, to slander 4. malady: a disorder or disease of the 5. body maladroit: clumsy, tactless malodorous: bad-smelling 1. manual: operated by hand 2. man hand manufacture: to make by hand or 3. machinery 4. emancipate: to free from bondage 5. manifest: easily perceived by the senses manuscript: a document written by hand or typed, rather than printed

©M.Nolan/I.Lipsky 2016 1. minutiae: small or trivial details 2. min small miniaturization: the act of making on a 3. greatly reduced scale 4. diminish: to lessen diminutive: very small in size or stature 1. transmit: to send from one person, 2. thing, or place to another 3. mis/mit to send emissary: a messenger or agent sent to 4. represent the interests of another 5. intermittent: stopping and starting at intervals missive: a message or letter remission: a lessening of intensity or degree 1. mortal: deadly 2. mor/mort death immortal: not subject to death 3. morbid: susceptible to preoccupation 4. with unwholesome matters 5. moribund: dying, decaying mortician: an undertaker, one who takes care of the dead 1. commute: to substitute; exchange; 2. mut change interchange 3. mutation: the process of being 4. changed 5. transmutation: the act of changing from one form into another permutation: a complete change; transformation immutable: unchangeable, invariable 1. synonym: a word having a meaning 2. similar to that of another word of the 3. nom/nym name same language 4. anonymous: having an unknown name nominal: existing in name only; negligible pseudonym: a false name ©M.Nolan/I.Lipsky 2016 1. omnibus: an anthology of the works of 2. one author or of writings on related 3. omni all subjects 4. omnipresent: everywhere at one time 5. omnipotent: all powerful omniscient: having infinite knowledge omnivorous: eating both vegetables and meat 1. panorama: an unobstructed and wide 2. pan all, everyone view of extensive area 3. panacea: a cure-all 4. panegyric: formal or elaborate praise 5. at an assembly panoply: a wide-ranging and impressive array or display pandemic: a widespread disease 1. placid: pleasantly calm or peaceful 2. placebo: a harmless substance which 3. plac to please acts to placate a patient who believes 4. it to be a medicine 5. placate: soothe or calm implacable: unable to be pleased complacent: self-satisfied, unconcerned 1. import: to bring in from a foreign 2. port to carry country 3. export: to transmit abroad 4. portable: easily carried 5. deportment: conduct, behavior importune: to urge or press with excessive persistence 1. predict: to foresee 2. pre before precarious: dependent on 3. circumstances beyond one's control 4. precocious: unusually mature in talent 5. premonition: a feeling of anticipation over a future event presentiment: foreboding ©M.Nolan/I.Lipsky 2016 1. quiet: making little or no sound 2. qui quiet disquiet: lack of calm or peace 3. tranquil: free from commotion or 4. tumult 5. acquiesce: to comply, give in quiescence: the condition of being at rest, still, inactive 1. interrogate: to ask questions of, esp. 2. rog to ask formally 3. arrogant: making claims to superior 4. importance or rights 5. abrogate: to abolish by formal means surrogate: a person who acts for another derogatory: belittling, disparaging 1. sacred: devoted or dedicated to a deity 2. or religious purpose 3. sacr/sanct sacred sacrifice: an offering to a deity in 4. homage 5. sanctify: to make holy sanction: authoritative approval sacrilege: the violation of anything sacred 1. conscious: aware of one's own 2. existence 3. sci to know conscience: the inner sense of what is 4. right and wrong, impelling one toward 5. right action unconscionable: unscrupulous omniscient: knowing everything prescient: having knowledge of things before they happen 1. conscript: to draft for military service 2. inscribe: write, engrave, or print as a 3. scribe/scrip to write lasting record 4. subscribe: pay money as a contribution 5. to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals

©M.Nolan/I.Lipsky 2016 postscript: any addition or supplement circumscribe: to draw a line around 1. seduce: to lead astray; corrupt 2. se apart sedition: incitement of rebellion 3. against a government 4. segregate: to separate from others 5. secede: to withdraw formally from an association sequester: to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement 1. sensory: pertaining to the senses 2. sens/sent to feel; to think sentiment: an attitude toward 3. something 4. presentiment: a feeling that something 5. is about to happen dissent: to differ in opinion resent: to feel or show displeasure 1. surpass: to go beyond in an amount or 2. super/sur above degree 3. supercilious: arrogant, haughty, 4. condescending 5. superfluous: extra, more than necessary surmount: to get over or across, to prevail surplus: excess, remainder 1. submissive: inclined or ready to submit 2. sub under, below subsidiary: serving to assist or 3. supplement 4. subliminal: operating below one's 5. consciousness subtle: thin, tenuous, or rarefied subterfuge: an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule