Latin Roots #5

Roots and Derivatives
1. cent(i) (hundred): century, centipede, centennial, centigrade, centimeter

2. cid(e), cis(e) (cut, kill): homicide, incision, suicide, scissors, circumcise

3. clam, claim (cry out, declare): clamor, exclaim, proclaim, disclaim

4. cord, cour (heart): accord, courage, encouraged, cordiform, cordate

Word List
1. bicentennial: a celebration of a two hundredth anniversary; happening once in a period of two hundred years or lasting two hundred years
Example: The bicentennial of the first town with plumbing is next week.

2. centenarian: a person who has lived to be one hundred years old
Example: One of my life goals is to live to become a centenarian.

3. centurion: a Roman officer commanding one hundred men; related to the military mind, especially as it favors military solutions for handling social problems
Example: Society tends to think of people with a centurion point of view are tougher.

4. clamorous: characterized by continuous loud and complaining voices; noisily complaining; insistent
Example: The moment the teacher announced the group project, the class became clamorous .

5. concise: covering much in few words; brief and to the point
Example: I admire people who are concise; since I have a tendency to babble .

6. concordance: a condition of harmony or agreement; an alphabetical index indicating reference passages, as from a writer's works
Example: My best friend and I were forced to come to a concordance, as we needed to work on a project.

7. cordial: of the heart; warm and friendly; amiable
Example: Even though they were mad, the gift was cordial.

8. discordant: (sounding) harsh or inharmonious; clashing
Example: The choirs performance was so discordant, the instructor quit. 

9. genocide: the systematic extermination of an ethnic group
Example: One of the most well known examples of  genocide is the Holocaust. 

10. incisive: keenly penetrating; cutting into
Example: The detective's interrogation was so incisive, he found out more than he was looking for.

11. proclamation: an official statement or announcement that informs or honors
Example: The king sent out a proclamation to honor the birth of his son and the heir to the throne.

12. reclaim: to claim again; to restore to former importance or usefulness
Example: The king sent his best troops to reclaim their captured land from the invaders.