Our vocabulary text for the year is Vocabulary for the College-Bound Student. 

In each root category, you are not doing all of the words under that root. I will list here which words under each root you need to know. In fact, you are only doing a total of about a dozen new words each week. You also need to know what the root means. You should put each word or root on a separate index card...make flashcards!   The weekly quiz includes not only the new words, but all of the previous words studied. Watch your index card stack of words grow during the year.

SEMESTER 1

Unit 1. Latin prefixes 1-30

    Know all 30 Latin prefixes (you also need to know them for subsequent quizzes)

Unit 2. Latin roots - RUPT, CIDE, STRICT, VOR

    abrupt, incorruptible, rupture, fratricide, genocide, matricide, patricide, pesticide, sororicide, astringent (adj. and n.), constrict, stricture, stringent, carnivorous, devour, herbivorous. omnivorous, voracious

Unit 3. Latin roots - VIV, TORT

    convivial, vivacious, vivid, vivify, vivisection, distort, extort, retort (v. and n.), torsion, tortuous, torture

Unit 4. Latin roots - VICT, FRACT, OMNI

    conviction, evict, evince, invincible, vanquish, victor, fractious, refract, refractory, omnifarious, omnipotent, omniscient, omnivorous

Unit 5. Latin roots - FLECT, TEN

    genuflect, inflection, detention, impertinent, pertinacious, pertinent, retentive, retinue, tenacity, tenet, tenure, untenable

Unit 6. Latin roots - MON, MAND, CRED

    admonition, premonition, countermand, mandate, mandatory, remand, credence, credible, credulous, creed, discredit, incredulity

Unit 7. Latin roots - FID, GRAT

    affadavit, bona fide, confidant, diffident, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel, perfidious, perfidy, gratify, gratis, gratuitous, gratuity, ingrate, ingratiate

Unit 8. Latin roots - MOR, CORP, DUC

    moribund, mortification, mortify, corporal, corpulent, esprit de corps, habeas corpus, conducive, ductile, induce, induct, seduction, traduce

Unit 9. Latin roots - SECUT, CUR

    consequence, inconsequential, prosecute, concur, concurrent, cursory, discursive, excursion, incur, incursion, precursor, recur

Unit 10. Latin roots - GRESS, PED, TACT

    egress, gradient, progressive, regressive, retrograde, transgress, expedite, impede, impediment, pedestrian (n. and adj.), contingent, intangible, tangential

Unit 11. Latin roots - PREHEND, JECT

    apprehensive, comprehensible, comprehensive, prehensile, reprehensible, abject, conjecture, dejected, eject, interject

Unit 12. Latin roots - VERT

    aversion, avert, diversion, extrovert, inadvertently, incontrovertible, introvert, perverse, pervert, vertigo

Unit 13. Latin roots - MIS, LOCUT, FER

    demise, emissary, emit, intermittent, remiss, remission, remit, circumlocution, colloquy, eloquent, loquacious, obloquy, somniferous, vociferous

SEMESTER 2 - You do NOT need to know the words from Semester 1, but you DO need to still know the 30 Latin prefixes from the first unit of Semester 1.  You also need to know the meaning of the Greek roots for each unit below.

Unit 14. Mythology I - pp. 187-190

    Adonis, aegis, amazon, bacchanalian, Cassandra, chimerical, Draconian, fauna, flora, forum, hector, herculean, hermetic, iridescent, jovial, labyrinthine, laconic, lethargic

Unit 15. Mythology II - pp. 190-194

    martial, mentor, mercurial, narcissistic, nectar, nemesis, odyssey, paean, plutocratic, protean, Pyrrhic, saturnine, siren, Spartan, stentorian, tantalize, thespian

Unit 16. Greek roots - PHOBIA, PHIL, MIS, DYS

    acrophobia, agoraphobia, claustrophobia, hydrophobia, xenophobia, philanthropy, philately, bibliophile, misanthropy, misogyny, dysentery, dysfunction, dyslexia, dyspepsia

Unit 17. Greek roots - EU, MACRO/MICRO, A

    eugenics, eulogize, euphemism, euphonious, euphoria, euthanasia, macrocosm, microcosm (opposite of macrocosm). amoral, amorphous, anarchy, anomaly, anonymous, atheism, atrophy, atypical

Unit 18. Greek roots - MONO/POLY, LOGY, BIO, TOMY (TOM), POD

    monolith, monomania, polyglot, anthropology, ecology, pathology, theology, symbiosis, dichotomy, tome, podiatrist

Unit 19. Greek roots - HOMO/HETERO, HYPER/HYPO, ENDO/EXO, ARCHY, GEO, PATH

    homogeneous, heterogeneous, heterodox, orthodox (opposite of heterodox), hypertension, hypotension, hyperactive, hyperbole, hypothetical, exotic, anarchy, oligarchy, geopolitics, antipathy, apathy, empathy, telepathy

Unit 20. Greek roots – MORPH, PERI, Spanish words

    amorphous, anthropomorphic, metamorphosis, peripheral, aficionado, desperado, macho, peon, renegade, bravado, flotilla, bonanza, sierra, peccadillo

 Unit 21. Ideas - Joy, Sadness

    blithe, buoyant, convivial, jocund, jubilant, jubilation, ascetic, chagrined, compunction, contrite, dejected, disgruntled, maudlin, pensive, poignant, sullen, tribulation

Unit 22. Ideas - Stoutness, Thinness, Flattery, Animal

    cherubic, emaciated, haggard, svelte, adulation, cajole, ingratiate, lackey, obsequious, sycophant, badger, halcyon, parasitic

Unit 23. Ideas - Health/Medicine, Praise, Defamation, Jest, Willingness

    benign, malignant, salubrious, virulent, laudable, derogatory, malign, stigmatize, flippant, sardonic, aversion

Unit 24. Ideas – Height, Lowness/Depth, Relatives, Smell

    acme, consummate, ethereal, exalt, dregs, nadir, nepotism, fusty, noisome, pungent, putrid, rancid

Unit 25. Ideas – Age, Sobriety, Sea, Cleanliness, Nearness, Reasoning

    antediluvian, callow, hoary, pristine, abstemious, jettison, expurgate, squalid, juxtapose, axiomatic, crux, eclectic