Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

succor

 

(v.) to help, to aid; (n.) help, aid

 

The salesman's intention was not to succor the flood victims but to sucker them into buying "retroactive flood insurance."

 

Latin root words: succurro, succurrere, succurri, succursurus - to go under; to hasten to help; curro, currere, cucurri, cursurus - to run

 

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