Seventh Grade Vocabulary Lists: Second Semester

For each word below (1)spell the word, (2) identify the part of speech, (3) copy the pronunciation guide, (4) write the definition, (5) use the word correctly in a sentence (underline the word). There will be weekly quizzes and periodic tests.

You are responsible for knowing all aspects of each word.

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List One
am, amor: “love, liking, friendliness”
anim: “mind, will, spirit”
  1. amateur
  2. amiable
  3. amicable
  4. amity
  5. amorous
  6. enamored
  7. animosity
  8. animus
  9. equanimity
  10. magnanimous
  11. unanimity
  12. unanimous
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List Two
fin: “end, boundary, limit”
flu, fluc, flux: “flow”
  1. affinity
  2. confine
  3. definitive
  4. finale
  5. finis
  6. fluctuate
  7. fluent
  8. fluid (2)
  9. flux
  10. influx
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List Three
gen, gener, genit:”birth, kind, class”
greg: “gather, flock”
  1. degenerate
  2. engender
  3. genre
  4. progenitor
  5. regenerate
  6. aggregate
  7. aggregation
  8. congregation
  9. gregarious
  10. segregation
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List Four
here, her: “stick”
lateral: “side”
  1. adhere
  2. cohere
  3. coherence
  4. cohesion
  5. incoherent
  6. inherent
  7. bilateral
  8. collateral
  9. equilateral
  10. lateral
  11. multilateral
  12. quadrilateral
  13. unilateral

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List Five
litera: “letter”
luc, lum: “light”
  1. alliteration
  2. literacy
  3. literal
  4. literary
  5. literate
  6. elucidate
  7. lucid
  8. luminary
  9. luminous
  10. translucent
MAJOR TEST POINT / Date:
List Six
man, manu: “hand”
pend, pens: “hang”
  1. emancipate
  2. manacle
  3. mandate
  4. manipulate
  5. manual (2)
  6. manuscript
  7. append
  8. appendix
  9. impending
  10. pendant
  11. pending (2)
  12. suspend
  13. suspense
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List Seven
pon, pos: “put”
scrib, script: “write”
  1. depose
  2. impose
  3. postpone
  4. superimpose
  5. transpose
  6. conscript
  7. inscription
  8. prescribe
  9. proscribe
  10. scribe
  11. script
  12. subscriber
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List Eight
simil, simul: “similar, like, same”
sol, soli:”alone, lonely, single”
  1. assimilate
  2. dissimilar
  3. similarity
  4. simile
  5. simulate
  6. simultaneous
  7. desolate (2)
  8. sole
  9. soliloquy
  10. solitary
  11. solitude
  12. solo

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List Nine
solv, solu,solut:”loosen”
und, unda: “wave, flow”
  1. absolute
  2. dissolution
  3. dissolve
  4. resolution
  5. resolve
  6. soluble
  7. solvent (2)
  8. abound
  9. abundant
  10. inundate
  11. redound
  12. redundant
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List Ten
ver, vera, veri: “true, truth”
vid, vis: “see, look, sight”
  1. aver
  2. veracity
  3. verdict
  4. verify
  5. veritable
  6. verity
  7. envision
  8. improvise
  9. invisible
  10. revise
  11. video
  12. videotape
  13. visibility
  14. visual
MAJOR TEST POINT / Date:
List Eleven
aut, auto: “self”
  1. authentic
  2. autobiography
  3. autocrat
  4. autograph
  5. automatic
  6. automation
  7. automaton
  8. autonomous
  9. autonomy
  10. autopsy
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List Twelve
cracy: “government”
dem, demo: “people”
  1. aristocracy
  2. autocracy
  3. bureaucracy
  4. democracy
  5. plutocracy
  6. technocracy
  7. aristocrat
  8. Democrat
  9. demagogue
  10. democratic
  11. democratize
  12. epidemic (2)

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List Thirteen
pan, panto: “all, complete”
chron, chrono: “time”
  1. panacea
  2. Pan-American
  3. pandemonium
  4. panoply
  5. panorama
  6. pantomime
  7. anachronism
  8. chronicle
  9. chronological
  10. chronology
  11. synchronize
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List Fourteen
mania: “madness, insane impulse, craze”
ped: “child”
  1. kleptomania
  2. mania
  3. maniac
  4. maniacal
  5. pyromania
  6. encyclopedia
  7. orthopedic
  8. pedagogue
  9. pedagogy
  10. pediatrician
  11. pediatrics
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List Fifteen
ortho: “straight, correct”
gen, geno, genea:”race, kind, birth”
  1. orthodontist
  2. orthodox
  3. orthography
  4. orthopedist
  5. unorthodox
  6. genealogy
  7. genesis
  8. heterogeneous
  9. homogeneous
  10. homogenize
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List Sixteen
meter, metr: “measure”
  1. barometer
  2. chronometer
  3. diameter
  4. meter
  5. odometer
  6. photometer
  7. speedometer
  8. symmetry
MAJOR TEST POINT