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CAT 2011 Root and Word List: Ac, Acr
CAT 2011 Root and Word List: Ac, Acr
CAT 2011 Root and Word List: Ac, Acr
aev
ev
age
era
leader
agog
Words
acrimonious
acerbic
exacerbate
Word Meaning
bitter in nature
harsh or severe, as of temper or expression
to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of
primeval
coeval
medieval
demagogue
pedagogue
agaro
a formal praise
am
love
amorous
amity
amicable
anim
mind,soul
animadvert
unanimous
magnanimity
year
annuity
biennial
perennial
yearly remittance
every two years
present all years
man
anthropology
misanthrope
philanthropy
study of man
hater of mankind
lover of mankind
fit
aptitude
apt
adept
inept
skill
suitable
aqua
water
aqueduct
aqua fortis
aqueous
arch
first
ruler
archaeology
monarch
anarchy
arch bishop
annu
enn
anthrop
apt
ept
star
space
astronomy
asterik
disaster
astronaut
study of starts
star like character (*)
catastrophe (contrary star)
one who travels in space
hear
audible
inaudible
auditory
auditorium
able to be heard
unable to hear
related to hearing
a place where people may be heard
bellum
war
bellicose
belligerent
rebellious
inclined to fight
inclined to wage war
resisiting authority
biblio
book
bibliography
bibliophile
bible
list of books
a lover of books
the book
bio
life
biography
biology
biochemistry
breve
short
brevity
abbreviate
breviloquent
briefness
shorten
marked by brevity of speech
to fall
decadent
cadence
aster
aud
cad
audit
cas
cascade
capt
capit
cap
cept
participate
cip
precept
capital
the city or town that is the official seat of government in acountry, state,
etc
captain
capt
to take
head
capture
flesh
carn
carnage
carnivore
carnal
ced
cess
to yield
to go
recede
antecedent
process
swift
cele
hundred
cent
time
chron
celerity
decelerate
accelerate
speed
to decrease the velocity of
to cause faster or greater activity, development, progress,advancement,
etc., in:
century
centennial
centipede
chronology
anachronism
chronicle
cid
cis
to cut
to kill
regicide
incision
homicide
cit
citat
to call
to start
incite
excite
recitation
citizen
civil
civilian
civilization
courteous
member of community
society of citizens
civi
clam
clamat
to cry out
clamorous
declamation
acclamation
loud
speech
shouted approval
claud
claus
clos
to close
claustrophobia
conclude
clud
seclude
cord
heart
accord
cordial
discord
corpor
body
incorporate
corporeal
corpse
cracy
rule
theocracy
democracy
plutocracy
to believe
incredulous
credible
incredible
not believing
believable
so extraordinary as to seem impossible
culpa
blame
culprit
culpable
exculpate
cura
to take care
curator
manicure
pedicure
cred
credit
curr
curs
to run
cursory
precursor
cursive
brief
forerunner
in flowing strokes with the letters joined together.
da
dat
to give
data
mandate
date
facts,statistics
command
given time
deb
debit
to owe
debit
debitor
indebt
something owed
the one who is in debt
debt
demos
people
democracy
demagogue
epidemic
derm
skin
epidermis
pachyderm
dermatology
skin
thick-skinned quadruped
study of skin and its disorders
dic
dict
to say
diction
dictionary
benediction
speech
lexicon
good speech
doc
doct
to teach
docile
document
doctor
easily taught
something that provides evidence
learned person (originally teacher)
rule
dominate
domain
dominant
domin
dour
dur
hard
severe
sour
obdurate
duress
indurated
hard to move
under threat
morally hardened
duc
duct
to lead
aqueduct
viaduct
artificial waterway
arched roadway
ductile
dynam
power
dynamic
dynamite
dynamo
powerful
powerful explosive
engine making electrical power
ego
egoist
egotist
egocentric
work
energy
ergatocracy
power
rule of the workers
wander
error
erratic
knight-errant
mistake
wandering
wandering knight
erg
urg
err
fac
fic
fect
fec
to make
to do
factory
fiction
affect
fal
fals
to decieve
fallacious
infallible
falsify
misleading
not prone to error
lie
fer
to bring
to hear
conifer
infer
defer
fid
belief
confident
faith
confidant
fidelity
belief
a close friend or associate to whom secrets are confided or withwhom p
rivate matters and problems are discussed.
honesty (belief in some person)
end
limit
confine
finite
infinite
bend
flexible
deflect
genuflect
able to bend
bend away
to bend knees in prayer
strong
comfort
fort
fortress
luck
chance
fortune
fortunate
fortuitous
luck
lucky
strength,firmness of mind
break
fragile
fraction
refract
easily broken
to deflect,to break
fin
flect
flex
fort
fort
frag
fract
fugere
flee
fugitive
refuge
fuls
pour
effusive
diffusive
pouring out
poured in many directions (widespread)
gam
marriage
monogamy
bigamy
polygamy
class
race
birth
genus
generic
gender
genesis
gen
gener
grad
gress
go
step
digress
regress
gradual
graph
gram
write
epigram
telegram
graphology
pithy statement
instantaeous messages over great distance
study of handwriting
flock
aggregate
combined
herd
segregate
gregarious
to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group
tending to group together as in a herd
sun
heliocentric
heliopolis
heliotrope
greg
helio
jac
jec
jact
to throw
projectile
trajectory
jur
jurat
to swear
jury
perjury
labor
laborat
to work
labour
collaborate
laborious
work
work together with others
difficult
leg
lect
lig
to choose
to read
legible
election
eligible
able to read
choice
able to be selected
law
legal
legislative
legitimate
lawful
law making
lawful
book
libel
library
libretto
free
liberty
freedom
leg
liber
liber
libr
liberation
log
logy
word
study
ratio
monologue
entomology
analogy
loqu
locut
to talk
soliloquy
loquacious
elocution
luc
light
elucidate
lucid
translucent
enlighten
clear
allowing some light to pass through
manu
hand
manual
manuscript
manufacture
sea
mar
maritime
of or pertaining to the sea:
submarine something situated or living under the surface of the sea, asa plant or animal.
mariner
mater
matr
mother
maternal
matriarch
mit
miss
to send
missile an object or weapon for throwing, hurling, or shooting, as astone, bullet, or arrow.
transmit
to pass on (a genetic characteristic) from parent tooffspring:
admit
o allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to:
mob
mot
mov
move
mobilize
motile
immovable
to organize or adapt
moving or capable of moving spontaneously:
incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
mon
monit
warn
admonish
premonition
monitor
mortuary
moribund
immortal
a funeral home
in a dying state; near death.
not mortal; not liable or subject to death; undying:
mori
mort
to die
shape
morph
form
amorphous
the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure oforganisms.
morphology
anthropomorphic
resembling or made to resemble a human form:
mut
change
mutate
immutable
mutable
to change
not mutable; unchangeable
liable or subject to change or alteration.
nat
born
innate
national
native
nav
ship
navigate
naval
circumnavigate
neg
deny
negate
abnegate
negative
nomen
name
cognomen
nomenclature
nominative
a nick name
the names or terms comprising a set or system.
made out in a person's name, as a certificate or security.
nov
new
onoma
oper
nym
novice a person who is new to the circumstances, work, etc., in which he or she is placed;
novel
of a new kind
innovate
to introduce something new
name
anonymous
word
homonym
toponym
work
operate
operation
cooperate
pac
peace
pacify
pacific
pacifist
make peaceful
peaceful
person opposed to war
pass
feel
dispassionate
impassive
free of emotion
showing no feeling
father
patriotism
patriarch
paternal
pater
patr
feelings
path
sympathy
apathy
empathy
ped
pod
feet
child
information
pedestal
paediatrician
encyclopedia
pel
puls
to drive
compulsion
expel
impel
a forcing to do
drive out
to drive or urge forward
pet
petit
to seek
petition
appetite
request
craving desire
phil
love
philosophy
philanthropy
anglophile
phobia
fear
astraphobia
claustrophobia
pleos
full
plenary
plethora
plenitude
fully attended
over abundance
fullness
pon
posit
to place
postpone
position
preposition
place after
place after
placed before a noun
port
portat
to carry
portable
import
able to be carried
carry into the country
export
poten
potens
able
powerful
potentate
potent
omnipotent
powerful person
powerful
all powerful
psych
psychos
mind
psychology
psychosis
psychopath
put
putat
to trim
to calculate
putative
computation
amputate
supposed (calculate)
calculation
cut off
pyr
pyro
fire
antipyretic
heat
fever
pyre
pyrophobia
quer
ques
quir
quis
to ask
inquiry
inquisitive
query
investigation
question
question
reg
rect
rule
regicide
regent
insurrection
muder of a ruler
ruler
overthrown of a ruler
rid
ris
to laugh
ridicule
risible
deride
to laugh at
inclination to laugh
to laught at someone mockingly
rog
rogat
to ask
interrogate
prerogative
question
privilege
to break
interrupt
bankrupt
rupture
break into
insolvent
to break
holy
sacred
sacrilegious
sacrament
holy
violating something holy
religious act
rupt
sacr
sanct
sci
to know
science
omnsicient
conscious
to know
to know all
to know oneself
scop
to watch
to see
microscope
telescope
periscope
to write
transcribe
script
circumscribe
cut
dissect
bisect
sector
cut apart
cut into two pieces
a distinct part, especially of society or of a nation's economy
scrib
script
sect
sess
sid
sed
to sit
sedentary
session
resident
inactive (sitting)
meeting
to dwell permanently or for a considerable time
sent
sens
to think
to feel
sensible
sentimental
consent
sequi
secut
seque
to follow
sequel
prequel
consecutive
solv
solut
to loosen
absolve
dissolute
somn
sleep
insomnia
somnolent
somnambulist
inability to sleep
sleepy
sleep walker
soph
wisdom
philosophy
sophisticated
sophomore
to look at
spectator
circumspect
spectacles
respire
expire
spirited
to breathe in
to breathe out
full of life (breathe)
spec
spir
spect
breathe
string
strict
bind
stringent
constrict
stricture
strict
become tight
something that restrains
stru
struct
build
constructive
construe
destruct
helping to build
analyse (how something is build)
serving or designed to destroy
suit
sal
sil
sault
jump
leap
somersault
exultant
salient
tang
tact
ting
to touch
tangent
contingent
contact
touching
depending upon
to touch
time
temporary
contemporary
temporal
to hold
tenable
tenure
retentive
able to be held
holding of office
holding,having good memory
term
end
terminal
terminate
interminable
terr
land
terrain
terrestrail
sub terranean
tempor
ten
tent
therm
heat
thermal
thermostat
diathermy
related to heat
instrument tha regulates heat
sending heat through body tissues
tome
a slice
atom
a piece
cut off
dichotomy
echtomy
division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves orpairs.
surgical cutting
twist
distort
contort
tortuous
tors
tort
tract
trud
trus
drag
pull
tractor
distract
attract
helps to pull
pull away
pull toward
push
shove
intrude
protrude
intrusion
turb
trouble
perturb
disturb
imperturbable
urb
city
urban
urbane
suburban
pertaining to city
polished pertaining to a city dweller
outside a city
vac
empty
vacuous
evacuate
vacuum
empty headed
compel to empty an area
a space entirely devoid of matter.
vad
vas
go
invade
evasive
veni
vent
ven
to come
intervene
convention
circumvent
come between
meeting
to go around or bypass
ver
TRUE
verity
verify
verdict
truth
check the truth
a true saying
verb
word
verbose
verbatim
verbiage
wordy
word for a word
excessive usage of words
turn
vertigo
invert
introvert
truning dizzy
turned upside down
turned inside
way
viaduct
trivial
roadway (arched)
small talk at crossroads (junction of three roads)
to see
evidence
vista
things seen
view
vers
vert
via
vid
vis
television
vinc
vict
vanq
to conquer
invincible
convince
vanquish
unconquerable
persuaded
defeat
viv
vit
alive
vivisection
vivacious
vitality
voc
vocat
to call
vocal
provocation
avocation
vol
vollens
to wish
malevolent
benevolent
volition
voluntary
volv
volut
to roll
convolution
revolution
evolution
coiled state
a procedure or course, as if in a circuit, back to a starting point
any process of formation or growth; development