(cf. vates)

cant - (n.) 1) insincere talk about ideals or morality: They used cant and chicanery to pull millions from the pockets of the poor. 2) the language of a special group; (v.) to talk hypocritically or in the manner of a beggar. Also: canted, canting, outcant, outcanted, outcanting

recant - to withdraw (a statement or opinion); to retract: Senate majority leader Trent Lott recanted a racial slur made on the occasion of Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday; however, the damage had already been done. Also: recanted, recanter, recanting, recantingly, recantation

canto, -are, -avi, -atus - to sing

(cf. incanto)

incapacitate - to disable; to deprive of ability or power: The accident incapacitated her for the remainder of the basketball season. Also: incapacitant, incapacitated, incapacitating, incapacitation, incapacit

(cf. capacitas)

capacious - able to hold much; spacious; large: The tiny bedrooms of their house contrast strangely with the capacious bathroom. Also: capaciously, capaciousness, capacitation, capacitate, capacitated, capacitating, capacitative, capacity, overcapacity

caper - (v.) to play or skip about playfully; (n.) 1) a playful leap or skip; 2) a frivolous, carefree action; a prank: He put the capers of his youth behind and became a responsible husband and father. Also: capered, caperer, capering

(cf. capax, captio, captiosus, captivus, concipio, exceptio, incipio, occupo, participium, percipio, praeceptum, suscipio)

capital (n.) - 1) money or wealth capable of being used to make more wealth: Finding himself without sufficient capital for routine business expenses, Jerome sold the store and moved to the West. 2) a seat of government. Also: capitalization, capitalizable, capitalize, capitalized, capitalizer, capitalizing, decapitalization, decapitalize, decapitalized, decapitalizing, noncapital, noncapitalized, recapitalization, recapitalize, recapitalized, recapitalizing, uncapitalized, overcapitalization, overcapitalize, overcapitalized, overcapitalizing, undercapitalization, undercapitalize, undercapitalized, undercapitalizing

capital (adj.) - 1) punishable by death: Convicted of a capital offense when he was only eighteen, the young man spent the next four years on death row; then his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. 2) involving the loss of life; 3) most important; 4) having to do with wealth; 5) excellent.

capitalism - an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and are operated for a profit: Capitalism has been criticized for its tendency toward concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. Also: anticapitalism, anticapitalist, anticapitalistic, anticapitalistically, capitalist, capitalistic, capitalistically, noncapitalist, noncapitalistic, noncapitalistically, precapitalist, precapitalistic, procapitalism, procapitalist, semicapitalistic, semicapitalistically, uncapitalistic

(Additional derivatives of capio: captive, captivity, captor, capturable, capture, captured, capturer, capturing, recapturable, recapture, recaptured, recapturing, uncapturable, uncaptured)

capitulate - to surrender (upon stipulated conditions): When the general became aware of the numerical imbalance between the two armies, he sought to capitulate. Also: capitulant, capitulated, capitulating, capitulation, capitulationism, capitulationist, capitulator, capitulatory, uncapitulated, uncapitulating

recapitulate - to restate the main points briefly, summarize: Having completed an exhaustive and exhausting three-hour presentation, she was asked by the chairman of the committee to recapitulate. Also: recapitulated, recapitulating, recapitulation, recapitulative, recapitulatory

capsula, -ae, f. - a small box

encapsulate - 1) to put in or as if in a capsule: If pharmaceutical companies could encapsulate good health and offer it for sale, who wouldn’t want a prescription? 2) to summarize. Also: capsular, capsule, capsulate, capsulated, capsulation, encapsulated, encapsulating, encapsulation, encapsule, encapsuled, encapsuling, incapsulate, incapsulated, incapsulating, incapsulation, multicapsular

caption - (n.) 1) a title or a brief explanation or description accompanying a picture or an illustration: The members of the yearbook staff enjoyed writing creative captions. 2) a title or heading for a chapter, an article, or the like; (v.) to supply with a caption or captions. Also: captioned, captioning, miscaption, miscaptioned, miscaptioning, recaption, uncaptioned

captious - 1) disposed to find fault; hypercritical: They were made for each other--a captious husband and a masochistic wife. 2) made only for the sake of faultfinding. Also: captiously, captiousness, noncaptious, noncaptiously, noncaptiousness, overcaptious, overcaptiously, overcaptiousness, uncaptious, uncaptiously, uncaptiousness

captivate - to attract and hold the attention, interest, or affection of: Women captivate men as much with their personalities as with their bodies. Also: captivated, captivating, captivation, captivative, captivator, uncaptivated, uncaptivating, uncaptivative

(Additional derivatives of captivus: captive, captivity, semicaptivity)

(cf. capitalis, capitulum, praeceps)

decapitate - to cut off the head of, behead: Robespiere, a leader of the French Revolution, was decapitated by the guillotine, a device that the revolutionaries had invented for use on their monarchist enemies. Also: decapitated, decapitating, decapitation, decapitator

carnage - slaughter of a large number of people; massacre: In modern warfare, missiles are shot from planes and ships too far away for their occupants to see the carnage.

carnal - pertaining to bodily appetites and passions; sexual: When Mary says to the angel that she does not know man (Luke 1, 34), the reference is to carnal knowledge, i.e., sexual intercourse. Also: carnalism, carnality, carnally, carnalness, hypercarnal, hypercarnally

carnivorous - flesh-eating (habitually eating flesh or meat): Some animals are carnivorous, e.g., lions and tigers; others are herbivorous (habitually eating plants), e.g., cows and sheep; while still others are omnivorous (habitually eating both flesh and plants), e.g., pigs and humans. [voro, -are, -avi, -atus - to devour] Also: carnivoral, carnivore, carnivorism, carnivorously, carnivorousness, noncarnivorous, noncarnivorously, noncarnivorousness, uncarnivorous, uncarnivorously, noncarnivorousness

incarnate - (adj.) 1) having been given a (human) body; 2) being a living example of, personified: In the minds of his students, old Mr. Wilson was patience incarnate. (v.) to endow with a (human) body; to be a living example of; to give concrete form to. Also: incarnated, incarnating, incarnation, incarnational, unincarnate, unincarnated 

reincarnate - to cause to have a body again: What if every human being were reincarnated as exactly the same person he or she was in this lifetime, with exactly the same family, exactly the same friends, and exactly the same course of life? Also: reincarnated, reincarnating, reincarnation

(cf. discerpo)

castigate - 1) to criticize severely; 2) to punish, chastise: Many a loving parent finds it necessary to castigate a disobedient child. Also: castigated, castigating, castigation, castigative, castigator, castigatory, noncastigating, noncastigation, uncastigated, uncastigative

imprecor, -ari, -atus sum - to invoke, call down upon [precor, -ari, -atus sum - to entreat, request, pray, beg]

imprecate - to call down or invoke (curses, evil) upon a person: On the Tonight Show, the Great Swami (played by Johnny Carson) imprecated "the fleas of a thousand camels" on the less than properly deferential Ed McMann. Also: imprecated, imprecating, imprecation, imprecator, imprecatory

imprimo, -ere, impressi, impressus - to press upon or against [premo, -ere, pressi, pressus - to press]

imprimatur - 1) official permission, especially permission by a Roman Catholic bishop, to print or publish a book; 2) any sanction or approval: The project developer wanted to begin work immediately, but he had to wait for the chief’s imprimatur.

(Additional derivatives of imprimo: impress, impressed, impresser, impressibility, impressible, impressibleness, impressibly, impressing, impression, impressionism, impressionist, impressionistic, impressionistically, impressive, impressively, impressiveness, impressment, impressure, nonimpressionability, nonimpressionable, nonimpressionableness, nonimpressionistic, preimpress, preimpressed, preimpressing, preimpression, preimpressive, reimpress, reimpressed, reimpressing, reimpression, subimpressed, unimpressed, unimpressibility, unimpressible, unimpressionable, unimpressive, unimpressively)

improbitas, -atis, f. - wickedness [probitas, -atis, f. - honesty, uprightness] 

improbity - a lack of integrity; dishonesty: The contractor’s improbity was known to many residents, but his business thrived nevertheless.

impudent - impertinent, rude, disrespectful, insolent: She liked all her students (the ones who talked and the ones who didn’t, the ones who slept and the ones who stayed awake, the lazy and the diligent)--all, that is, except the impudent ones; those she could not abide. Also: impudence, impudency, impudently, impudentness, impudicity

impugn - to attack by words; to call into question: Not wishing to impugn the veracity of the headmistress, the girls attributed her statement to misinformation. Also: impugnability, impugnable, impugner, impugnment, unimpugnable, unimpugned

impulsive - acting or likely to act suddenly (with little or no premeditation): You need to think before you act; impulsive behavior can get you in trouble. Also: impulse, impulsion, impulsively, impulsiveness, impulsivity, nonimpulsive, nonimpulsively, nonimpulsiveness, unimpulsive, unimpulsively 

impunitas, -atis, f. - impunity [punio, -ire, -ivi, -itus - to punish]

impunity - exemption from punishment, injury, or loss: No young person should be allowed to violate school or domestic rules with impunity.

imputo, -are, -avi, -atus - to attribute, ascribe [puto, -are, -avi, -atus - to think]

impute - to attribute; to ascribe (usually faults, weaknesses, etc.): The beleaguered superintendent imputed rashness and superficiality to his chief detractors. Also: imputable, imputation, imputative, imputatively, imputativeness, imputed, imputedly, imputer, imputing, nonimputability, nonimputable, nonimputableness, nonimputably, nonimputative, nonimputatively, nonimputativeness, unimputable, unimputed 

inanimate - 1) not alive, lifeless: In some languages, even inanimate objects are masculine or feminine. 2) sluggish. Also: inanimately, inanimateness, inanimation

inane - lacking sense, silly: Don’t just call ideas that don’t accord with yours inane; demonstrate their inanity. Also: inanely, inanity

inanition - 1) exhaustion from lack of nourishment; 2) a lack of vigor: Try as they may, American presidential candidates are unable to rouse some voters from their inanition.

inaugurate - 1) to make a formal beginning of: The World Series was inaugurated in 1903 with a best-of-nine-games series. 2) to install in office ceremoniously. Also: inaugural, inaugurated, inaugurating, inauguration, inaugurator

incantation - words, or the saying of words, purported to have magical power: Who doesn’t know that incantations spoken by magicians are just theatrical hocus-pocus? Also: incantational, incantator, incantatory

incendiary - (adj.) 1) used for or pertaining to the willful destruction of property by fire: On Feb. 13 and 14, 1945, British and American planes dropped incendiary bombs on the German city of Dresden, killing more than 35,000 people and accomplishing little militarily. 2) stirring up strife, rebellion, or sedition; inflammatory; (n.) 1) a person who willfully destroys property by fire; 2) one who stirs up strife, rebellion, etc. Also: incendiarism

(cf. incendiarius)

incense (v.) - to make angry, enrage: Does a country not damage its national interests by incensing the international community? Also: incensed, incensement, incensing

inceptio, -onis, f. - a beginning [incipio, -ere, incepi, inceptus - to take to, begin]

inception - a beginning: Four years had gone by since the inception of the ambitious project, and still no definite date could be given for its completion. Also: incept, incepted, incepting, inceptive

coincident - 1) happening at the same time: Coincident occurrences are usually coincidental. 2) occupying the same position; 3) in agreement. Also: coincide, coincided, coincidence, coincidental, coinciding, noncoincidence, noncoincident, noncoincidental, noncoincidentally

incidence - 1) a range of occurrence or extent of influence of something: The incidence of smallpox infection worldwide had been reduced to zero. 2) a befalling, striking. Also: incident, incidentless, nonincident

incidental - 1) happening in conjunction with something else; 2) associated with but minor or of little importance: For the state meet, each athlete was given fifty dollars to cover food and incidental expenses. Also: incidentalness, nonincidental, nonincidentally

incise - to cut into; to cut (marks, designs, etc.) into. As a precaution against theft, she incised her name into the back of her new scientific calculator. Also: incised, incising, incision, incisor, incisory, incisure, incisural, unincised

incisive - sharp, keen, penetrating, cutting: Having been lauded by some for his incisive intellect and assailed by others for his caustic wit, the newspaper’s newest pundit knew he had found his niche. Also: incisively, incisiveness, unincisive, unincisively, unincisiveness

(cf. inceptio) 

incipient - (adj.) beginning; in the first stages: Waning classicism was contemporaneous with incipient romanticism, waning romanticism with incipient realism, etc., with each new literary movement overlapping its predecessor. Also: incipiently, incipience, incipiency

incite - to stir up, urge on, move to action: Dr. Martin Luther King was able to incite large numbers of people to active participation in the civil rights movement. Also:

(Additional derivatives of parasitus: antiparasitic, antiparasitical, antiparasitically, hyperparasite, nonparasitic, nonparasitical, nonparasitically, nonparasitism, pseudoparasitic, superparasite, superparacitic, superparacitism, unparasitic, unparasitical, unparasitically, unparasitized)

parricide - the act of murdering one’s father, mother, or other close relative: It is said that absolute rulers fear becoming victims of parricide, for their demise delivers absolute power to their ambitious offspring. Also: parricidal

(cf. appareo)

transparency - the capability of being seen through, literally or figuratively: She habitually envelopes herself in a screen of lies and is unaware of their transparency. Also: nontransparence, nontransparency, nontransparent, nontransparently, nontransparentness, subtransparent, subtransparently, subtransparentness, transparence, transparent, transparently, transparentness, untransparent, untransparently, untransparentness

(cf. aperio, ovum, reperio, vivus)

multiparous - bearing more than one offspring at a time: Cats, dogs, rats, and rabbits are multiparous, as are many other mammals. [multus, -a, -um - much; pl. many] Also: multipara, multiparity

parturient - 1) giving birth or about to give birth; 2) pertaining to giving birth; 3) about to bring forth a discovery or a new idea: We knew by the expression on his face that the chief’s parturient mind would explode any minute. Also: parturiency, parturifacient, parturition, postparturient

postpartum - of or pertaining to the time after childbirth: Some mothers experience postpartum depression. Also: antepartum

primiparous - having borne only one child or pregnant with a first child: Despite China’s one-child policy, some Chinese mothers are not primiparous. Some conceal births from the authorities, while others resort to female infanticide. [primus, -a, -um - first] Also: primipara, primiparity

uniparous - producing only one offspring at a time: One of the workers at the zoo told us that most primates are uniparous. [unus, -a, -um - one] Also: multiparous, nonparous, oviparous, viviparous 

(cf. comparo, reparo)

pare - 1) to cut away or remove the outer layer of: He wanted to shuck the corn and pare the apples before his wife got home. 2) to cut away or remove; (the outer layer); 3) to reduce gradually. Also: pareable, pared, paring, unpared

(cf. participium, particula, quadripartitus, tripartitus)

counterpart - 1) a person or thing that closely resembles another, especially in function: Mr. Jones, our physics teacher, and Herr Schmidt, his counterpart in a school in Germany, exchanged positions for a year. 2) a person or thing that complements another.

impart - 1) to make known, tell, reveal; 2) to give, bestow: Teachers try to impart more than mere knowledge of subject matter. Also: impartable, impartation, imparted, imparter, imparting, impartment, impartibility, impartible, impartibly

multipartite - having several or many parts: Mr. Anderson’s semester exam was long, multipartite, and impossibly hard.

parse - 1) to analyze the grammar (of a sentence) by identifying the parts of speech, the functions of nouns and pronouns, the syntactic relations, etc. In order to diagram a sentence correctly, one must be able to parse it correctly. 2) to analyze (a word in a sentence) by identifying its part of speech, function, etc. Also: misparse, misparsed, misparsing, parseable, parsed, parsing, unparsed

partake - 1) to take some: On days when the old hermit was hungry, he partook of bland food; on most days, he fasted. 2) to have some of the qualities (of). Also: partakable, partaken, partaker, partook, prepartake, prepartaken, prepartaking, prepartook, unpartaken, unpartaking

partiality - the unfair favoring of one person, group, party over another: Accused one time too many of partiality, she retired from officiating and took up coaching. Also: impartial, impartiality, impartially, impartialness, overpartial, overpartiality, overpartially, overpartialness, partial, partialize, partialized, partializing, partially, partialness

partisan - (n.) a person who strongly and unreasoningly supports one person, party, or cause; (adj.) unreasoningly supportive of a single person, party, etc.; like a partisan: It is common in Washington, when one cannot garner support from the opposition party, to complain of partisan politics. Also: multipartisan, nonpartisan, nonpartisanship, partisanry, partisanship, partisanism, partizan, prepartisan, unpartisan, unpartizan

(Additional derivatives of pars: part, parted, partedness, participable, participance, participancy, participant, participantly, participate, participated, participating, participation, participative, partricipatively, participator, participatory, partier, parting, partition, partitionable, partitionary, partitioned, partitioner, partitionist, partitionment, partitive, partitively, partner, partnerless, partnership, partway, party, partyer, partygoer, partyism, partyless)

parsimonious - excessively thrifty or frugal; stingy: It’s one thing to be careful how you spend your money and quite another to be parsimonious. Also: parsimoniously, parsimoniousness, parsimony, unparsimonious, unparsimoniously

participle - a word having characteristics of both verb and adjective; a verbal adjective: In the phrase "the man eating a sandwich," the word "eating" is a present active participle. Also: participial, participiality, participialization, participialize, participialized, participializing, participially

particle - 1) a tiny or very small piece or bit; 2) a subordinate word that is uninflected, i.e., doesn’t change its form to reflect changes in tense, number, function, or the like: English particles include prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, articles, and expletives. Also: interparticle, nonparticulate, particulate

particularism - exclusive devotion to one particular party, system, etc.: The keynote speaker exhorted us to avoid particularism by being open-minded and tolerant. Also: particularist, paticularistic, particularistically

particularize - 1) to make single or specific: To understand poverty, one must particularize it. 2) to indicate specifically; 3) to treat in detail; 4) to give details. Also: particularization, particularized, particularizer, particularizing

(Additional derivatives of particula: overparticular, overparticularly, particular, particularity, particularly, unparticular, unparticularized, unparticularizing)

pasco, -ere, pavi, pastus - to feed, supply with food

repast - something taken as food; a meal: The wedding guests had scarcely finished one repast when a second was brought, which was no sooner gone than a new dish appeared, and this cycle repeated itself from noon till midnight.

impassive - 1) without feeling or emotion: The lottery winner banked his millions and remained impassive to the pleas of individuals and agencies. 2) not feeling pain. Also: impassively, impassiveness, impassivity

passive - 1) inactive; submissive; quiescent; 2) denoting the voice of a verb whose subject is the recipient of the action of the verb: In the sentence "The injured person was rushed to a hospital," the verb "was rushed" is in the passive voice. Also: passively, passiveness, passivism, passivist, passivity

(Additional derivatives of passivus: passivate, passivated, passivating)

impasse - 1) a position from which there is no escape; a difficulty with no solution; a deadlock: Once again, peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine seem to have reached an impasse. 2) a road, way, or passage that is open only at one end: Also: impassable, impassability, impassableness, impassably