Greek & Latin Root Words: Unit 9

Greek & Latin Root Words: Unit 9 12th Grade

JUD Judgment Latin

JUDICIOUS • Having or showing good judgment • The cow was judicious when it came to eating its brethren [delicious veal…]. D0$$. Word.

ADJUDICATE • To settle a dispute or argument • Boss Hog adjudicated the town policy on moonshine in the city limits. -VestMaster

MOR Law, custom, habit, humor Latin

AMORAL • Not concerned about morality • Beware the amoral chickens! They will peck your eyes out with no provocation!

MORES • Attitudes and behaviors that are so firmly fixed that they are followed like laws • The farm children demonstrated a proper understanding of social mores when they chose not to birth the cow in front of Brandon Minter. – Step Nanie

MOROSE • Gloomy, bad-tempered • The horse had a morose attitude after he saw the glue factory truck. 

PI Law-abiding, pious, dutiful OR atone Latin

EXPIATE • To make up for doing wrong • Eyore II, the pasty-faced mule, was forced to expiate for kicking the farmer. – Step Nanie, Vestmaster

IMPIOUS • Lacking respect for what should be worshipped • In Annabel’s Wish, the horse was impious when it bit and attempted to consume Santa, rejecting forever his offer of communication. –Vest Master, 35 cent, D0$$

SACR Holy, sacred Latin

CONSECRATE • To set apart as holy; to give up to a purpose • Farmer De-Wayne consecrated the silo following a covert goat operation to abscond with the grain. – Step Nanie

EXECRABLE • Very bad; hateful • The old gray mare who “ain’t what she used to be” was execrable following the onset of cataracts; even the glue factory denied her entrance.  Curses to the domineering jerks at the glue factory who unnecessarily deem some animals not worth their time or processing. –Step Nanie

SACROSANCT • So sacred or revered as to be off-limits • The Muslim goat considered the hay loft to be sacrosanct; sadly he would never visit the promise land due to his lack of opposable thumbs. 

Greek & Latin Root Words: Unit 9