Latin/Greek Word Meaning and Examples

Students should know the meaning of these Latin and Greek words and be able to give examples of English words that are based on them

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Aequus [L]
Equal; equation
Ago, acta [L]
Do, things done; agent, enact, transact
Holos [G]
Whole; holistic, catholic
Jungo [L]
join; junction, conjugal
Lego, lectum [L]
Read; intellect, legible
Locus [L]
A place; local, dislocate
Loquor [L]
Speak; eloquent, loquacious
Medius [L]
Middle; mediate, mediocrity
Missio [L]
A sending; emissary, mission
Morior [L]
Die; mortal
Nego [L]
Deny; negate
Nihil [L]
Nothing; nihilism, annihilate
Occido [L]
Kill; homicide, suicide
Pathos[G]
Suffering or feeling sympathy; apathy
Pendo [L]
Weigh, hang; depend, pendant