Words for Week 6
| arrogate "claim for oneself" < Latin rogare, rogatum ask + AD- "to" Also from rogare: derogate "detract from"; derogatory "disparaging"; abrogate "abolish" |
| peremptory "imperative', "not allowing debate" < Latin emere, emptum "buy", "take" + PER- "through", "thorough" |
| exigency "pressing need requiring action" < Latin agere, actum "do", "drive" + EX- "out" * |
| recidivism "tendency to relapse" [especially into criminal activities] < Latin cadere, casum "fall" + RE- "back", "again". Also from cadere: cadaver, cascade, accident, deciduous, incident, case, occasion, chance [< through French < Latin cadentia "a fall], decay [< through French < Latin "fall down"], caducous "drooping", "tending to fall" * |
| transitory "passing" < Latin ire, itum "go" + TRANS- across. Also from ire: preterite "past", "gone by", perish, ambience, transient, circuit, transitive, intransitive; Latin iter, itiner- "road, journey" > itinerary, itinerant, errant. |
| canorous "tuneful" < Latin canere, cantum "sing". Also from canere: cant ["monotonous, whining hypocritical speech"], recant, chant, incantation, cantata, canticle, accent. |
| interdiction a ban or prohibition < inter + dicere |
| equivocate "to speak with equal voices" that is, "be evasive" < aequus + vox, -voc- + ate [verbal suffix added to noun bases] |
| rogation "prayer" or "supplication" < rogare "to ask", "beg" |
* See notes on vowel reduction.
Prefixes are found here.