Latin Roots #5

Roots:

- cent(i) (hundred): century, centipede, centennial, centigrade, centimeter
- cid(e), cist(e) (cut, kill): homocide, incision, suicide, scissors, circumcise
- clam, claim (cry out, declare): clamor, exclaim, proclaim, disclaim
- cord, cour (heart): accord, courage, encouraged, cordiform, cordate

Words:

- bicentennial: (related to) a celebration of a 200th anniversary; The school's bicentennial party is going to be tomorrow for the reopening.
- centenarian: a person who has lived to be 100 years old; My grandmother is a centenarian old lady.
- centurion: a Roman officer commanding 100 men; The centurion of the navy army was my cousin due to his hard work made him leader.
- clamorous: characterized by continuous loud and complaining voices; There was a very irritating clamorous chatter in the conference room where they discussed about the student's schedule.
- concise: covering much in few words; The student was very concise with his words.
- concordance: a condition of harmony or agreement; People in the court room came to a concordance.
- cordial: of the heart, warm or friendly; The cordial old lady gave the poor boy a piece of candy.
- discordant: (sounding) harsh or inharmonious; A discordant person never gets their way because they are very rude and harsh.
- genocide: the systematic extermination of an ethnic group; The genocides eliminated the full of girls.
- incisive: keenly penetrating;
- proclamation: an official statement or announcement that informs or honors; The proclamation taught all of us kids to do good.
- reclaim: to claim again or to restore to former importance or usefulness; When the boy came to reclaim his skateboard, they had lost it so they had bought him a new skateboard.