Kaplan Root List C Exam Questions and Answers

CAD/CID - ANSWER to fall, to happen by chance accident - ANSWER happening by chance; unexpected cascade - ANSWER a waterfall descending over a steep surface coincidence - ANSWER a striking occurrence of two or m ...

CAD/CID - ANSWER to fall, to happen by chance accident - ANSWER happening by chance; unexpected cascade - ANSWER a waterfall descending over a steep surface coincidence - ANSWER a striking occurrence of two or more events at one time, apparently by chance decadent - ANSWER decaying; deteriorating recidivist - ANSWER one who repeatedly relapses, as into crime CANT/CENT/CHANT - ANSWER to sing accent - ANSWER prominence of a syllable in terms of pronunciation chant - ANSWER a song; singing enchant - ANSWER to subject to magical influence; bewitch incantation - ANSWER the chanting of words purporting to have magical power incentive - ANSWER that which incites action recant - ANSWER to withdraw or disavow a statement CAP/CIP/CEPT - ANSWER to take, to get anticipate - ANSWER to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee capture - ANSWER to take by force of stratagem emancipate - ANSWER to free from restraint percipient - ANSWER having perception; discerning; discriminating precept - ANSWER a commandment or direction given as a rule of conduct susceptible - ANSWER capable of receiving, admitting, undergoing, or being affected by something CAP/CAPIT/CIPIT - ANSWER head, headlong capital - ANSWER the city or town that is the official seat of government capitulate - ANSWER to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms caption - ANSWER a heading or title disciple - ANSWER one who is a pupil of the doctrines of another precipice - ANSWER a cliff with a vertical face precipitate - ANSWER to hasten the occurrence of; to bring about prematurely CARD/CORD/COUR - ANSWER heart cardiac - ANSWER pertaining to the heart concord - ANSWER agreement; peace; amity concordance - ANSWER agreement, concord, harmony discord - ANSWER lack of harmony between persons or things encourage - ANSWER to inspire with spirit or confidence CARN - ANSWER flesh carnage - ANSWER the slaughter of a great number of people carnival - ANSWER a traveling amusement show carnivorous - ANSWER eating flesh incarnation - ANSWER a being invested with a bodily form reincarnation - ANSWER rebirth of a soul in a new body CAST/CHAST - ANSWER to cut cast - ANSWER to throw or hurl; fling caste - ANSWER a hereditary social group, limited to people of the same rank castigate - ANSWER to punish in order to correct chaste - ANSWER free from obscenity; decent chastise - ANSWER to discipline, esp. by corporal punishment CAUS/CAUT - ANSWER to burn caustic - ANSWER burning or corrosive cauterize - ANSWER to burn or deaden cautery - ANSWER an instrument used for branding; branding holocaust - ANSWER a burnt offering; complete destruction by fire or other means CED/CEED/CESS - ANSWER to go, to yield, to stop accede - ANSWER to yield to a demand; to enter office antecedent - ANSWER existing, being, or going before cessation - ANSWER a temporary or complete discontinuance concede - ANSWER to acknowledge as true, just, or proper; admit incessant - ANSWER without stop predecessor - ANSWER one who comes before another in an office, position, etc. CELER - ANSWER speed accelerant - ANSWER something used to speed up a process accelerate - ANSWER to increase in speed celerity - ANSWER speed; quickness decelerate - ANSWER to decrease in speed CENT - ANSWER hundred, hundredth bicentennial - ANSWER two-hundredth anniversary cent - ANSWER a hundredth of a dollar centrigrade - ANSWER a temperature system with one hundred degrees between the freezing and boiling points of water centimeter - ANSWER one-hundredth of a meter centipede - ANSWER a creature with many legs century - ANSWER one hundred years percent - ANSWER in every hundred CENTR - ANSWER center centrifuge - ANSWER an apparatus that rotates at high speed and separates substances of different densities using centrifugal force centrist - ANSWER of or pertaining to moderate political or social ideas concentrate - ANSWER to bring to a common center; to converge, to direct toward one point concentric - ANSWER having a common center, as in circles or spheres eccentric - ANSWER off-center CERN/CERT/CRET/CRIM/CRIT - ANSWER to separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide ascertain - ANSWER to make sure of; to determine certitude - ANSWER freedom of doubt criterion - ANSWER a standard of judgement or criticism discreet - ANSWER judicious in one's conduct of speech, esp. with regard to maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature discrete - ANSWER detached from others, separate hypocrite - ANSWER a person who pretends to have beliefs that she does not CHROM - ANSWER color chromatic - ANSWER having to do with color chrome - ANSWER a metallic element (chromium) use to make vivid colors or something plated with chromium chromosome - ANSWER genetic material that can be studied by coloring it with dyes moochromatic - ANSWER having only one color CHRON - ANSWER time anachronism - ANSWER something that is out-of-date or belonging to the wrong time chronic - ANSWER constant, habitual chronology - ANSWER a highly accurate clock or watch synchronize - ANSWER to occur at the same time or agree in time CIRCu/CIRCUM - ANSWER around circuit - ANSWER a line around an area; a racecourse; the path traveled by electrical current circuitous - ANSWER roundabout, indirect circumference - ANSWER the outer boundary of a circular area circumspect - ANSWER cautious; watching all sides circumstances - ANSWER the existing conditions or state of affairs surrounding and affecting an agent CIS - ANSWER to cut exorcise - ANSWER to seek to expel an evil spirit by ceremony incision - ANSWER a cut, gash, or notch incisive - ANSWER penetrating, cutting precise - ANSWER definitely stated or defined scissors - ANSWER cutting instrument for paper CLA/CLO/CLU - ANSWER to shut, to close claustrophobia - ANSWER an abnormal fear of enclosed places cloister - ANSWER a courtyard bordered with covered walks, esp. in a religious institution conclude - ANSWER to bring to an end; finish; to terminate disclose - ANSWER to make known, reveal, or uncover exclusive - ANSWER not admitting of something else; shutting out others preclude - ANSWER to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of CLAIM/CLAM - ANSWER to shout, to cry out clamor - ANSWER a loud uproar disclaim - ANSWER to deny interest in or connection with exclaim - ANSWER to cry out or speak suddenly and vehemently proclaim - ANSWER to announce or declare in an official way reclaim - ANSWER to claim or demand the return of a right or possession CLI - ANSWER to lean toward climax - ANSWER the most intense point in the development of something decline - ANSWER to cause to slope or incline downward disinclination - ANSWER aversion, distaste proclivity - ANSWER inclination, bias recline - ANSWER to lean back CO/COL/COM/CON - ANSWER with, together coerce - ANSWER to compel by force, intimidation, or authority collaborate - ANSWER to work with another, cooperate collide - ANSWER to strike one another with a forceful impact commensurate - ANSWER suitable in measure, proportionate compatible - ANSWER capable of existing together in harmony concilate - ANSWER to placate, win over connect - ANSWER to bind or fasten together COGN/CONN - ANSWER to know cognition - ANSWER the process of knowing incognito - ANSWER with one's name or identity concealed recognize - ANSWER to identify as already known CONTRA/CONTRO/COUNTER - ANSWER against contradict - ANSWER to oppose; to speak against contrary - ANSWER opposed to; opposite controversy - ANSWER a disputation; a quarrel counterfeit - ANSWER fake; a false imitation countermand - ANSWER to retract an order encounter - ANSWER a meeting, often with an opponent CORP/CORS - ANSWER a body corporation - ANSWER a company legally treated as an individual corps - ANSWER a body (an organized group) of troops corpse - ANSWER a dead body corpulent - ANSWER obese; having a lot of flesh corset - ANSWER a garment used to give shape and support to the body incorporation - ANSWER combining into a single body COSM - ANSWER order, universe, world cosmetic - ANSWER improving the appearance (making it look better ordered) cosmic - ANSWER relating to the universe cosmology - ANSWER a theory of the universe as a whole cosmonaut - ANSWER an astronaut; an explorer of outer space cosmopolitan - ANSWER worldly cosmos - ANSWER the universe; an orderly system; order microcosm - ANSWER a small system that reflects a larger whole COUR/CUR - ANSWER running, a course concur - ANSWER to accord in opinion; agree courier - ANSWER a messenger traveling in haste who bears news curriculum - ANSWER the regular course of study cursive - ANSWER handwriting in flowing stokes with the letters joined together cursory - ANSWER going rapidly over something; hasty; superficial excursion - ANSWER a short journey or trip incursion - ANSWER a hostile entrance into a place, esp. suddenly recur - ANSWER to happen again CRE/CRESC/CRET - ANSWER to grow accretion - ANSWER an increase by natural growth accrue - ANSWER to be added as a matter of periodic gain creation - ANSWER the act of producing or causing to exist excrescence - ANSWER an outgrowth increase - ANSWER to make greater in any respect increment - ANSWER something added or gained; an addition or increase CRED - ANSWER to believe, to trust credentials - ANSWER anything that provides the basis for belief