Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

exiguous

 

scanty, meager, small

 

Exiguous federal support brought the highway project to a standstill.

 

Related English words: exiguity, exiguousness

 

Latin root words: exiguus, exigua, exiguum - small, scanty; exigo, exigere, exegi, exactus - to drive out, force out; exiguitas, exiguitatis, f. - smallness; ago, agere, egi, actus - to do; to drive

 

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