Level F: Unit 1
Latin and Greek Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes
approbation / prob-, proba-, probat-, prov- + (Latin: upright, good, honest; to try, to test, to examine; to demonstrate)-ation, -ization (-iz[e] + -ation); -isation (British spelling variation) (Greek > Latin: a suffix; action, act, process, state, or condition; or result of doing something)
assuage / suad-, suas-, suav- (Latin: suavis, "sweet"; suadere, "to advise"; "to make something pleasant to, to present in a pleasing manner"; hence "to recommend, to advise")
-age (Latin: suffix; quality of, act of, process, function, condition, or place; forms nouns that denote an action; a product of an action; a place, an abode)
coalition / coalesc-, coalit- + (Latin > Medieval Latin > French: growing together, merging, combining, uniting)
-tion (suffix forming nouns;indicating an action, process, or state)
decadence / De- (from, away from, off; reverse the action of, undo)
cad-, cas-, cid- + (Latin: cadere to fall)
expostulate / ec-, ec- (out)
postul- (Latin: to demand, to ask)
hiatus / hiat-; -hisc- + (Latin: to stand open, to split; opening, aperture, gap; to yawn)
innuendo / in-2 a prefix of Latin origin meaning primarily “in”
intercede / inter-, intero- (Latin: between; among, mutually, together; on the inside, internal)
-cede, -ceed, -cess, -cease + (Latin: to be in motion; to go, to go away, to yield, to give up, to withdraw)
meritorious / merit-, meri-, mere- + (Latin: to deserve, deserve; earn, acquire, gain; entitled to)
-ous, -ious, -eous (Latin: full of or having the qualities of; in chemistry, a suffix denoting that the element indicated by the name bearing it, has a valence lower than that denoted by the termination -ic; as, nitrous, sulphurous, etc., as contrasted with nitric, sulphuric, etc.)
petulant / peti-, pet-, -pit- + (Latin: to aim at, aim for, go toward; to seek, seek out, ask, request; strive after)
-ant, -ants (Latin: a suffix; a person who, the thing which; people who, things which)
prerogative / rog-, roga-, -rogate, -rogation, -rogatory + (Latin: ask, inquiry, request, beg; propose)
simulate / simal-, simil-, simul-, -semble (Latin: same, like, alike; same time; to appear, to seem; together)
transcend / trans-, tran-, tra- (Latin: across, through, over, beyond, on the far side of; most often used as a prefix)
scend-, scen-, scand-, scan-, scans- (Latin: to climb; to mount; by extension, a ladder)
umbrage / umbra-, umbro-, umbr-, umbel- + (Latin: shade, shadow)
-age (Latin: suffix; quality of, act of, process, function, condition, or place; forms nouns that denote an action; a product of an action; a place, an abode)
unctuous / -uous + (Latin: a suffix; tending to, inclined to)