Meaning: grain

1. granary : a store house
2. granule : a small particle
3. grenade : a small shell
4. garner : together
5. ingrain : to fix deeply

Root: grat

Meaning: thankful

1. grace: elegance
2. gratis : free of cost
3. gratuitous : given freely
4. ingrate: ungrateful
5. ingratiate : to establish favor of others

Context:

1. A repository of grain is granary
2. A granule is a little grain
3. Hand grenades were used in World War –II
4. He garnered courage to speak to the boss
5. An ingrained superstition prevented him from venturing abroad
6. Fine paintings graced the stately home
7. Companies provide service gratis
8. The article was a gratuitous insult to the senior
9. The uncharitable ingrate ignored his benefactor
10. He ingratiated himself with his boss

Meaning: to have, to hold as customary

1. habiliment : equipment
2. habitude: customary condition
3. inhabit : dwell
4. prohibit : to forbid
5. inhibit : restrain

Root: no, not, note, notation

Meaning: knowledge, known

1. notoriety : bad repute
2. connotation : a secondary meaning
3. connoisseur : expert in matters of art
4. incognito : to avoid notice
5. quaint : strange, pleasant

Context:

1. Clothes as worn by people in particular profession is habiliment
2. A person’s habitude reflects his belief
3. Weird notions inhabit is mind
4. Smoking is prohibited here
5. His extreme inhibition made him go unnoticed in the meeting
6. His notoriety lent him no credibility
7. The word fireplace has a possible connotation of hospitality
8. A connoisseur is reliable in matters of taste and fine arts
9. The star decided to travel incognito to avoid fans
10. The quaint old house evoked happy memories

ubermensch - a superman

ujamaa - a village community in Tanzania

ultima Thule - a distant unknown region

untermensch - a racially inferior person in Nazi terms

vendeuse – a saleswoman, especially in a fashionable dress-shop

ventre a terre - at full speed

verboten - forbidden, especially by an authority

verkrampte - conservative or reactionary as regards South African apartheid

verligte – progressive and enlightened as rebgards South African apartheid

vers libre - irregular or unrhymed verse

via media – a compromise

victor ludorum - a sports champion

vide - (as an instruction in a reference to a passage in a book etc.) see, consult.

vieux jeu – old-fashioned, hackneyed

vingt-et-un – the card-game pontoon

vin ordinaire - cheap (unusually red) French wine.

vin rose - light pink wine

vis-a-vis - in relation to, compared with

viva - (cried as a salute etc.) long live

volkerwanderung - a migration of peoples, especially that of Germanic and Slavic peoples into Europe from the second to the eleventh centuries

volte-face - a complete reversal of position

vox populi - public opinion

wehrmacht- the German armed forces, especially the army, from 1921 to 1945

weltanshauung - a particular philosophy or view of life; a conception of the worl

zollverein - a customs union, especially of German Stales in the nineteenth cent

Meaning: link, join, meet

1. conjoin: to unite
2. conjunct : connected
3. disjoin : disunite
4. enjoin : direct order
5. injunction : a legal command
6. joust : a tournament
7. junta : a council
8. juxtapose : to place close to each other
9. rejoinder : an answer
10. sub-junction : to append

Context:

1. When born they were conjoint twins
2. The moon and earth were in conjunction forming an eclipse
3. The disjointed train ran out of control
4. The court enjoined the tenant to vacate
5. The owner was restrained from evicting the tenant by the injunction of the court
6. The two contenders in the joust were tired
7. After the coup the junta acted as the interim government
8. The two pictures were placed in juxtaposition
9. The defendant’s rejoinder shocked the judge
10. The sub-junction to the tenth amendment was revoked

Meaning: poison

1. noxious : harmful
2. internecine : mutually destructive
3. obnoxious : offensive
4. pernicious : ruinous
5. innocent : pure

Root: grad, grade, gress

Meaning: to step, to go, a grade, degree

1. egress: exit
2. ingress: enter
3. regress : back words
4. retrogress : worsen
5. transgress : to break laws

Context:

1. The inhalation of noxious gases causes cancer
2. An internecine feud among proxy holders led to disaster
3. The obnoxious remarks of the politician caused unpleasantness
4. Smallpox was a pernicious disease
5. Children are innocent and indulge in harmless fun
6. To egress is to depart
7. To ingress is to enter
8. In spite of the advanced treatment he regressed into a coma
9. Society is in retrogression with strife everywhere
10. Transgression of traffic rules results in accidents

Meaning: born, birth

1. naïve : unsophisticated
2. impregnate : to infuse
3. innate : native, born
4. renascent : being reborn
5. cognate: same percentage

Root: neg, negate, negatun

Meaning: to deny

1. negate : to nullify
2. abnegate : refusal of one’s right
3. renege : to renounce
4. renegade : one who deserts a cause
5. denial : refuse to believe or disavowal

Context:

1. A naïve realist perceives the world as it is
2. His advice was impregnated with wisdom
3. There is an innate defect in the hypotheses
4. A renascent interest in Henry James brought further information
5. Closely related languages have cognate words
6. Pessimism negates the hope of the situation
7. The king abnegated the throne
8. To renege a promise is to go back on one’s word 
9. A renegade deserts a cause for another
10. Peter’s denial of the fact is very well known

Meaning: hand, handmade, entrust

1. mandatory: an obligation, compulsory
2. manumit : to liberate
3. countermand : to cancel
4. emancipate : to free from bondage
5. maneuver: planned moves

Root: mem, mart

Meaning: to remember

1. memoir : records of events
2. immemorial : extending memory beyond
3. reminiscent : suggestive of earlier events
4. memento : souvenir
5.   memory : retain in mind

Context:

1. Learning one’s mother tongue is mandatory
2. To manumit a slave is an act of benevolence
3. The prohibitory law was countermanded
4. In Roman civil law to emancipate is to end paternal control
5. He maneuvered his way into the confidence of the army
6. A memoir is also a biography
7. From time immemorial man has been selfish
8. His style is reminiscent of Hemingway’s
9. A memento serves as a reminder of past events
10. To have good memory is a blessing while learning vocabulary

Meaning: death, mortal

1. moribund : in a dying state
2. mortgage : pledge property
3. amortize : to liquidate a debt
4. morbid : gloomy
5. immortal : not subject to death

Root: man, main

Meaning: stay, dwell

1. manor: man, main
2. menagerie: a collection of wild animals
3. immanence : inherent
4. menial : servile
5. remnant : remaining, left over

Context:

1. A stagnant company is moribund
2. A conveyance of property as security is a mortgage
3. A loan is amortized by periodic payments to the creditor
4. He evinced a morbid interest in death
5. God is immortal
6. The main house of a plantation is a manor
7. A menagerie is  made of glass
8. Thoughts are immanent within the mind of  a person
9. Menial tasks are relegated to the lowest cadre
10. The remnants of cloth are sewn into a quilt

Meaning: flower, bloom

1. florescence: flowering
2. florid: reddish, decorated
3. efflorescence : blooming
4. inflorescence : arrangement of flowers on the axis
5. flourish : thrive

Root: flu, flux, flur, fluoro

Meaning: to flow

1. fluorescence: emission of light
2. affluent : wealthy
3. refluent : ebbing
4. superfluous : unnecessary
5. confluence : a flow together of tow or more streams 

Context:

1. The flowers became fluorescent in spring
2. His florid face reflected his embarrassment
3. Flowers in bloom are efflorescent
4. The flowering part of the plant is the inflorescence
5. During 16^th century art flourished
6. Fire flies are fluorescent in the dark
7. A business tycoon is affluent
8. His speech was superfluous
9. The refluent waters receded
10. The sea is the confluence of rivers

Meaning: to carry

1. proliferate : to grow by multiplication
2. sufferance : tolerance
3. odoriferous : fragrant
4. inferential : derived by meaning
5. fertile : bearing, productive

Root: flag(r), flam (m), fulg, flame

Meaning: to burn, flame

1. flagitious : villainous, wicked
2. flagrant: notorious
3. refulgent : brilliant
4. effulgence : radiant
5. inflame: set on fire, worsen

Context:

1. A sudden nuclear proliferation has been observed recently
2. The passive sufferance of injustice is evident
3. The odoriferous flowers triggered the senses
4. The meaning of the statement is inferential
5. A fertile land yields abundance of crop
6. The flagitious act of convict landed him in trouble
7. A diamond is refulgent in its brightness
8. An effulgent object shines forth brilliantly
9. The flagrant error invited contempt
10. The remarks inflamed tension