The Crucible Words--Vocabulary List Second Six Weeks:
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Prefix/Root/Suffix/Etymology
Latin Root: qui- “rest”
Word
acquiesce
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Latin Root: caus- or cus“cause” or “motive”
accuse
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Etymology: Old English
belēogan meaning “deceive by
lying”
belie
Etymology: Latin clamitas
meaning damage, loss,
destruction Old French
calamite
Middle English calamity
meaning disaster and distress
Latin Root: capit- “head”
calamity
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Latin Prefix: co- “with” or
“together”
capitulate
coincident
Definition
V: to accept, agree, or allow
something to happen by staying
silent or by not arguing.
V: to blame (someone) for
something wrong or illegal; to say
that someone is guilty of a fault
or crime.
V: to give a false impression of
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acquiescent, acquit, quiet,
requiem
because, causal, excuse
V: to present an appearance not
in agreement with; to run
counter to—contradict.
N: an event that causes great
harm or suffering
N: a state of deep distress or
misery caused by major
misfortune or loss.
V: to stop fighting an enemy or
opponent; to admit that an
opponent has won.
V: to stop trying to fight or resist
something; to agree to do
something that you have been
resisting.
ADJ: happening at the same time.
capitulation, captain,
capital, recap, decapitate
coagulate, collide, connote,
compress
ADJ: of similar nature.
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Latin Prefix: com- “with” or
“together”
complicit
ADJ: helping to commit a crime
or do wrong in some way; being
associated in a wrongful act.
Latin Root: plic- “fold”
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Latin Prefix: con- “with” or
“together”
Latin Root: -cept- “hold” or
“take”
Latin Prefix: con- “with” or
“together”
Latin Root: fa- or fess- "say" or
"speak"
10 Latin Prefix: con- “with” or
“together”
Latin Root: form- "shape"
conception
confessed
conformist
N: a general idea; a complex
product of abstract or reflective
thinking; the sum of a person’s
ideas and beliefs concerning
something.
ADJ: having admitted to having
done or having committed sins
against God.
N: a person or group who obeys
or agrees with another person or
group; a person who does what
other people do.
coagulate, collide, connote,
compress
duplication, application,
supplicant, imply, replicate
contiguous, connote,
conscientious
concept, except, forceps,
intercept
contiguous, connote,
conscientious
profess, confess, affable,
defamation
contiguous, connote,
conscientious
form, deform, uniform
11 Latin Prefix: con- “with” or
“together”
conjure
Etymology: Latin con + jurare
meaning "together swear"
12 Latin Root: cruc- "cross"
V: to make something appear by
using magic.
contiguous, connote,
conscientious
V: to summon by or as if by
invocation.
crucible
V: to charge or entreat earnestly
or solemnly.
N: a pot in which metals or other
substances are heated to a very
high temperature and melted.
Crucial, crucifix, crucify,
excruciating
N: a difficult test or challenge
13 Greek Root: dog- "opinion" or
"tenet"
14 Latin Root: equ- "even" or
"equal" or "level"
dogma
equivocate
Latin Root: voc- "call" or
"voice"
15 Latin Root: radic- "root"
N: a place or situation that forces
people to change or make
difficult decisions.
N: a belief or set of beliefs that is
accepted by the members of a
group without being questioned
or doubted.
N: a belief or set of beliefs that is
taught by a religious
organization.
V: to use unclear language to
deceive or mislead someone.
V: to avoid committing oneself in
what one says.
eradicate
16 Latin Root: fact- "do" or
"make"
Faction
17 Etymology: Medieval Latin
foris factum meaning "to do
too much or to go beyond
what is right"
Forfeit
V: to remove something
completely.
V: to eliminate or destroy
something (a people, an idea, a
place, a thing) completely.
N: a group within a larger group
that has different ideas and
opinions than the rest of the
group.
V: to lose or give up something
as a punishment or because of a
rule or law.
N. something that is lost or given
up as punishment or because of a
rule or law.
Dogmatic, orthodox,
paradox
Equilibrium, equinox,
equity, equivalence,
iniquity
Advocate, evoke, provoke,
invoke, disavow
Eradication, radical
Factory, malefaction,
olfaction, benefactor,
facsimile
18 Etymology: Old
English hæðen meaning "not
Christian or Jewish"
heathen
ADJ: of or relating to
heathens/and or their religious
customs.
Heathenish, heathenism,
heathenistic
ADJ: strange, uncivilized.
N: an unconverted member of a
nation that does not
acknowledge the God of the
Bible.
19 Greek Root: heter- "different"
or "other"
Greek Root: gen- "birth" or
"beget" or "race" or "kind"
20 Greek Root: hom- "same"
heterogeneous
N: an uncivilized or irreligious
person.
ADJ: made up of parts that are
different.
Genocide, genesis,
genealogy
homogenous
ADJ: made up of the same kind
(or people or things).
Greek Root: gen- "birth" or
"beget" or "race" or "kind"
21 Etymology: from the Greek
word hystera meaning
"womb" or "uterus"
22 Greek Root: ide- "idea" or
"thought"
23 Latin Prefix: im- "not"
hysterical
24 Latin Prefix: in "in" or "on"
injunction
ideology
impenetrable
Latin Root: junct- "join"
25 Etymology: Latin integer
meaning "wholeness or
perfect condition"
integrity
26 Latin Root: judic- "judge"
judicial
27 Etymology: Latin licentiosus
meaning "full of license"
28 Etymology: Latin magistrare
meaning "chief or director or
magistrate"
licentious
29 Latin Prefix: o- "against"
Latin Root: miss "send"
Heterodoxy, heterosexual
magistrate
omission
ADJ: behaving or exhibiting
overwhelming or unmanageable
fear or emotional excess.
N: the set of ideas and beliefs or
a group or political party.
ADJ: impossible to pass (move) or
see through; impossible to
understand.
N: an order from a court of law
that says something must be
done, or something must not be
done.
N: the quality of being honest
and fair.
N: the state of being complete or
whole (intact).
ADJ: of or belonging to a court of
justice
ADJ: morally unrestrained or
unsound (frequently sexually).
N: a public functionary,
frequently a legal one.
N: a local official who has some
of the powers of a judge.
N: something that has not been
included or done; the act of not
including or doing something; the
state of being not included.
Homophone, homonym,
homosexual
Genocide, genesis,
genealogy
Hysterics, hysteria
Ideogram, ideologue,
idealist
Impossible
Conjunction, junction,
juncture
Integer, integral
Judiciary, adjudicate
License
Magistracy
Oppose, ostensible,
obfuscate
Commission, omit,
permissible, permission
30 Latin Root: secut- "follow"
31 Latin Prefix: per- "thoroughly"
or "through"
persecution
perverse
N: oppression for holding a belief
or opinion
N: the state of experiencing
social torment for one's beliefs or
actions
ADJ: to be wicked or wrong
Latin Root: vers- "turn"
32 Latin Root: pi- "kind" or
"devout" or "pity"
33 Latin Root: hibit- "have"
piety
N: mercy, kindness, gentleness.
prohibition
34 Latin Prefix: pro- "before"
proscribe
N: something which is forbidden
by authority, banned.
V: to make something illegal; to
not allow something.
Latin Root: scrib- "write"
35 Latin Root: secut- "follow"
prosecution
N: the act or process of holding a
trial against a person who is
accused of a crime to see if that
person is guilty.
Obsequious, pursue,
sequel, ensue
Permeate, pernicious,
persistence
Converse, reverse, revert,
subvert, transverse
Impious, pious, pity
Habit, inhibition
Prologue, prostate
Script, scribe, inscribe,
subscribe
Obsequious, pursue,
sequel, ensue, prosecute
N: the side of a legal case which
argues that a person who is
accused of a crime is guilty.
36 Etymology: from 18th century
English ritualist
37 Etymology: Latin saecularis
meaning "worldly, secular,
pertaining to a generation or
age"
ritualistic
secular
ADJ: being excessive in devotion
or ritual or ceremony.
ADJ: not spiritual; of, or relating
to, the physical world and not the
spiritual world.
Ritualist, ritualism.
ADJ: not religious.
38 Etymology: Greek systema
meaning "combined in a
whole"
39 Greek Root: the- "god" or
"gods"
Greek Root: -cracy
"government" or "rule" or
"authority"
40 Greek Root: zel-"jealousy" or
"zeal"
systematic
theocracy
ADJ: of, or relating to, or
controlled by the government
rather than by the church.
ADJ: organized according to a
plan.
N: a system of government in
which priests rule in the name of
God or a god.
System, systemic.
Theocratic, theology,
polytheism
Democracy, plutocracy,
aristocracy
zealot
N: a person who is fanatical and
uncompromising in pursuit of
their religious, political, or other
ideals.
Zeal, zealous