Perennial - Continuing regularly, living longer than two years, (said mostly for plants)
Per: ‘Through’
Annus: ‘Year’
Subservient - Excessively willing to yield, submissive
Sub: ‘Under’
Servare: ‘To serve’
Extraterrestrial - Outside or originating outside earths limits of the atmosphere.
Extra: ‘On the out side’
Terra: ‘Earth, Land’
Condone - To forgive; to disregard an offense
Cum: ‘With’ ‘together with’
Donum: ‘Gift’
Superfluous - Beyond what is required, extra.
Super: ‘Above’
Fluere: ‘To flow’ (Flumen: ‘river’)
Reticent - Of silent nature; reserved manner.
Re: ‘Back’ ‘again’
Tacere: ‘To be silent’
Procrastinate - to put off doing something
Pro ‘Before’ ‘for’
Crastinus ‘Of tomorrow’
Cras: ‘Tomorrow’
Malevolent - Wishing harm to others; malicious.
Volo, velle, volui: to wish
Malus: ‘Bad ‘
Male: ‘Ill’
Circumspect - Cautious, watchful, prudent.
Circum: ‘Around’
Spectare ‘To look at.’
(circumsolar - around the sun
Sol: ‘sun’
Circumterrestrial - around the earth
terra: ‘earth’)
TENEO, TENERE, TENUI, TENTIUM “to hold” “to keep”
Abstain - To refrain from something by one’s choise.
Ab: ‘Away from’
Impertinent - Rude.
Im : ‘not’
Pertinacious - Holding firmly, even stubbornly, to a belief.
Per: ‘Through’
Tenacity - Hanging on to something persistently or stubbornly.
VIDEO, VIDERE, VIDI, VISUM “To see”
Improvise - to make up something without preparation.
Im: “Not”
Visionary - Existing only in imagination; fanciful; not practical.
SPECTO, SPECTARE, SPECTAVI, SPECTUM: “To look at”
Introspection - Examination o one’s own thoughts and feelings.
Intro: ‘Within’ ‘inward’
Retrospect - A survey of past times or events.
Retro: ‘Backward’
Speculate - To form opinions without definite knowledge or evidence.
