Latin Roots #5

Roots and Derivatives

1. cent(i): Hundred, century
2. cid(e): Cut, kill, homicide
3. clam, claim: Cry out, declare, clamor
4. cord, cour: Heart, accord

Word List

1. bicentennial: Related to a celebration of a two hundreth anniversary; happening once in a period of two hundred years or lasting two hundred years.  The US celebrated their first bicentennial in 1976. 
2. centenarian: A person who has lived to be one hundred years old.  My great-great-grandmother lived to be a centenarian. 
3. centurion: Roman officer commanding one hundred men; related to the military mind, especially as it favors military solutions for handling social problems.  Several centurions participated in Roman warfare. 
4. clamorous: Characterized by continuous loud and complaining voices; noisily complainin; insistent.  Students generally generate clamorous reactions to when their instructors assign an excessive quantity of assignments. 
5. concise: Covering much in few words: brief and to the point.  One usually talks in a concise manner amongst people whom they don't wish to associate with but have to do professional tasks accompanied by eachother's presence. 
6. concordance: A condition of harmony or agreement; an alphabetical index indicating reference passage, as from a writer's works.  Two forces usually experience concordance after resolving and compromising a conflict between eachother. 
7. cordial: Of the heart; warm and friendly; amiable.  My grandmother always greets company in a cordial manner. 
8. discordant: Harsh or inharmonious: clashing.  Two persons possessing different points of view on a universal issue tend to experience discordant encounters with one another. 
9. genocide: The systematic extermination of an ethnic group.  The Nazi dictatorship was responsible for the genocide of six million Jews in World War Two. 
10. incisive: Keenly penetrating; cutting into.  Surgeons perform incisive procedures throughout the duration of conducting opperations. 
11. proclamation: An official statementor announcement that informs or honors.  The Imancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in the US. 
12. reclaim: To claim again; to restore to former importance or usefulness.  Luke reclaimed galactic order after leading the rebel alliance in defeating the galactic empire.