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abandon | | from Late Latin bannum (“proclamation”), bannus, | |
abdicate | | , formed from ab (“away”) + dicō (“proclaim, dedicate, declare”), akin to dīcō (“say”). | |
ability | | from Latin habilitās (“aptness, ability”), from habilis (“apt, fit, skillful, able”); | |
access | | from ad (“to, toward, at”) + cēdō (“move, yield”). | |
agree | | from Latin ad (“to”) + gratum (“pleasing”), | |
allow | | from Medieval Latin allaudāre, present active infinitive of allaudō, merged with alouer, from Medieval Latin allocō (“to assign”). | |
analysis | | from ἀνα- (ana-, “thoroughly”) + λύω (lúō, “I loosen”). | |
approximate | | From Latin approximatus, past participle of approximare (“to approach”); ad + proximare (“to come near”) | |
aptitude | | from Medieval Latin aptitudo, from Latin aptus (“apt, fit”). | |
attitude | | from Medieval Latin aptitūdō (“aptitude”) and actitūdō (“acting, posture”), from Latin aptō and actitō. | |
awkward | | From awk (“odd, clumsy”) + -ward. | |
behaviour | | Compare Scots havings (“behavior”), from have (“to behave”). | |
bias | | Latin *biaxius with two axes | |
calculate | | perfect passive participle of calculō (“I reckon, originally by means of pebbles”), from calculus (“a pebble”). | |
categorize | | Late Latin catēgoria (“class of predicables”), | |
cautious | | caution (“from Latin cautus”) + -ous | |
comittment | | from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). | |
common sense | | | |
compete | | from com- (“with”) + petō (“I seek, I aim for, I strive for”). | |
competency | | From competēns (“meeting”) + -ia. | |
concept | | from Latin conceptus (“a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc.”), from concipiō (“to take in, conceive”). | |
connote | | Latin connotō (“signify beyond literal meaning”), from com- (“together”), + notō (“mark”) | |
consciousness | | From Latin cōnscius, itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + scīre (“to know”) + -us. | |
conspiracy | | From con- + spīrō. (breath) | |
control | | from Latin contra (“against, opposite”) + Medieval Latin rotulus, Latin rotula (“roll, a little wheel”), | |
creativity | | from Late Latin creativus, from Latin creō. - cresco – grow | |
deceive | | from Latin dēcipiō (“to deceive; beguile; entrap”), from dē- (“from”) + capiō (“to seize”); | |
decision | | From dē- (“down from”) + cadō (“I fall”). | |
define | | Latin dēfīniō (“limit, settle, define”), from dē + fīniō (“set a limit, bound, end”) | |
delete | | from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”). | |
demonstrate | | dē- (“concerning”) + mōnstrō (“I show”) | |
denote | | from Latin denotare, from de- (“complete”) and notare (“to mark out”). | |
deny | | from Latin denegare (“to deny, to refuse”), from de- (“away”) and negare (“to refuse”), | |
depend | | and Latin dependeō, from Latin dē- + pendeō (“to hang”). | |
describe | | from dē (“off”) + scrībō (“write”) | |
design | | from de- (or dis-) + signō (“I mark”), from signum (“mark”) | |
determination | | From dē- + terminō (“I limit”), from terminus. | |
dignity | | from Latin dīgnitās (“worthiness, merit, dignity, grandeur, authority, rank, office”), from dīgnus (“worthy, appropriate”), | |
diligence | | From dis- (“apart, asunder”) + legō (“to choose, to take”), or from dis- (“apart, asunder”) + Proto-Italic *legō (“to care”). | |
disagree | | dis + from Latin ad (“to”) + gratum (“pleasing”) | |
discernness | | from dis- (“apart”) + cernere (“to separate”); | |
discrepancy | | From dis- + crepō. | |
dismiss | | dīmittō (“send away, dismiss”), from dis- + mittere (“to send”). | |
doubt | | dwóh₁ (“two”)) + habeō (“to have, hold”) | |
Erase | | from ex- (“out of”) + radere (“to scrape”). | |
error | | from Latin error (“wandering about”), infinitive of errō (“to wander, to err”) | |
estimate | | from Latin aestimatus, past participle of aestimō, older form aestumo (“to value, rate, esteem”); | |
evaluate | | from Latin valēre (“be strong, be worth”) | |
experience | | from ex (“out”) + peritus (“experienced, expert”), past participle of *periri (“to go through”); | |
explain | | from ex- (“out”) + planō (“I flatten, make level”), from planus (“level, plain”); | |
express | | From ex- (“out of, from”) + premō (“press”). | |
falsify | | from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). | |
favour | | from Latin favor (“good will; kindness; partiality”), from faveō (“to be kind to”), | |
fiction | | from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”) | |
find | | Latin pōns (“bridge”), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos, “sea”), | |
foolishness | | from Latin follis | |
Form | | from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, | |
hoax | | Possibly from hocus-pocus or Latin iocus (“joke”). | |
honor | | From Old Latin honos, | |
idea | | from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”), | |
idealize | | from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”), | |
identify | | from Medieval Latin identicus + Latin faciō. | |
idiot | | from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private”). | |
ignore | | from ignārus (“not knowing”), from in + gnārus (“knowing”) | |
illustrate | | From in- + lūstrō (“to purify via sacrifice; to illuminate”). | |
imagine | | from Latin imāginor, from imāginem, the accusative singular of imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”). | |
impartiality | | From Middle French partial, borrowed from Late Latin partiālis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”). | |
imply | | from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”). | |
indicate | | indicāre (“to point out, indicate”), from in (“in, to”) + dicāre (“to declare, originally to point”); | |
instinct | | īnstinguō (“to incite, to instigate”), from in (“in, on”) + stinguō (“to prick”) | |
intelligence | | which is from inter- (“between”) + legere (“choose, pick out, read”), | |
introspection | | | |
intuition | | from Latin intueor (“to look at, consider”), from in- (“in, on”) + tueor (“to look, watch, guard, see, observe”). | |
judge | | from Latin iūdex. | |
liberty | | from Latin libertas (“freedom”), from liber (“free”); | |
lie | | with Latin lectus (“bed”) | |
logic | | From λόγος (lógos, “speech, reason”) + -ῐκός (-ikós) | |
magic | | from Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós, “magical”), from μάγος (mágos, “magus”). | |
maintain | | from Latin manū (“with the hand”) + teneō (“I hold”). | |
manage | | from Old Italian maneggiare (“to handle, manage, touch, treat”), from mano, from Latin manus (“the hand”); | |
memorize | | | |
model | | diminutive of modus (“measure”); | |
mood | | Latin mōs (“will, humour, wont, inclination, mood”) | |
morality | | from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”), from mōs (“manner, custom”) | |
mould | | Diminutive from modus (“measure; manner, way”). | |
neglect | | itself from nec (“not”) + legō (“pick up, select”). | |
optimize | | From French optimiste, from Latin optimus (“best”). | |
organize | | from Medieval Latin organizō, from Latin organum (“organ”); | |
perceive | | from per (“by, through”) + capiō (“to take”); | |
perfect | | from Latin perfectus, perfect passive participle of perficere (“to finish”), from per- (“through, thorough”) + facere (“to do, to make”) | |
permit | | from Latin permittō (“give up, allow”), from per (“through”) + mittō (“send”). | |
perseverence | | from per- + sevērus. - severe - serious | |
persistence | | from per- + sistere (“to stand”) | |
personality | | from Latin persōnālitās | |
plan | | from Latin planus (“flat, plane”); | |
ponder | | from Latin ponderare (“to weigh, ponder”), from pondus (“weight”), | |
potentiality | | From Late Latin potentialis, from Latin potentia (“power”), from potens (“powerful”); | |
practice | | from Ancient Greek πρᾱκτική (prāktikḗ), from πρᾱκτικός (prāktikós, “practical”) | |
probability | | from *pro- (“forward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”) | |
problem | | from προ- (pro-, “in front of”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw, to cast, to hurl”). | |
profession | | from Latin professiō (“avowal, public declaration”), from the participle stem of profitērī (“to profess”). | |
pseudo | | Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”) | |
punish | | from Latin puniō (“I inflict punishment upon”), from poena (“punishment, penalty”) | |
reasoning | | from Latin ratiō, from ratus, past participle of reor (“reckon”), | |
recall | | From re- + call, probably modelled on Latin revocāre, | |
recognize | | From re- (“back; again”) + cognōscō (“know, recognize”). | |
recollect | | from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”) | |
reflect | | from Latin reflectō (“I reflect”), from re- (“again”) + flectō (“I bend, I curve”) | |
refuse | | from a blend of Latin refutō and recusō. | |
regulate | | from regula (“rule”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”). | |
reject | | from rē- (“back”) + iacere (“to throw”). | |
relinquish | | from Latin relinquere, itself from re- + linquere (“to leave”). Compare also Sanskrit रिणक्ति (riṇakti, “to leave”). | |
remember | | from Late Latin rememorari (“to remember again”), from re- + memor (“mindful”), | |
remove | | from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre (“to move”). | |
reward | | from re- + warder (“to guard, keep”) | |
sapience | | Present active participle of sapiō (“I discern”). - sapiens | |
schema | | From Latin schēma, from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”). | |
search | | , from Late Latin circō, circāre (“to circle; go around; search for”), | |
self - respect | | from re- (“back”) + speciō (“to see”). | |
Self-esteem | | from Latin aestimō (“to value, rate, weigh, estimate”); | |
sense | | partly from Latin sensus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive”); | |
signal | | Late Latin signālis, from Latin signum; | |
situation | | from situare (“to locate, place”), from Latin situs (“a site”). | |
skepticism | | from Ancient Greek σκεπτικός (skeptikós, “thoughtful, inquiring”), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai, “I consider”), compare to σκοπέω (skopéō, “I view, examine”). | |
solve | | From se- (“away”) + luō (“to untie, set free, separate”). | |
statue | | from Latin statua, derived from statuō (“set up or erect”). | |
stupid | | from stupeō (“be amazed or confounded, be struck senseless”), | |
support | | From sub- (“under”) + portō (“I carry”). | |
Suppose | | equivalent to prefix sub- (“under”) + poser (“to place”) supponere (“to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit”), | |
tackle | | From Middle English takel (“gear, apparatus”) | |
think | | Latin tongeō (“know”). | |
ultimatum | | From Latin ultimatus (“late, last final”), from Latin ultimus (“extreme, last, furthest, farthest, final”) | |
value | | from Latin valēre (“be strong, be worth”) | |
volition | | from Latin volō (“to wish; to want; to mean or intend”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose; to want”)) | |
wonder | | Cognate with Scots wunner (“wonder”), | |
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