Friday 8 July 2011

Vocabulary session - 6

Our today's root is VITA (life) or VIVO (to live). It is a latin root that has given birth to many important English words. Let us see few of them today. We shall also see some related words.

Have you ever encountered someone who, when you met him/her for first time are seemed to be knowing you since days?! The words that describe this kind of person is friendly, extroverted, outgoing, happy to go with. They are full of life. They are sociable,amiable, affable, cordial, genial, congenial, companionable, clubbable, forthcoming. All these words mean same.

They are convivial. (con means together + viva means life). These are the people who love to live together.



Few other words are:

  • vivacious 
    •  Something that has quality of life. Full of life. Something that is spirited or vibrant, animated, peppy.
  • vivid  
    • Vivid means fresh, sharp, strong, lively, bright, realistic, clear. It also means intense or saturated. (e.g. vivid green).
  • revive
    • re (back, again) +  vive (to live) = to bring back to life. To improve, to resuscitate, improve, resurrect, redux, upraise, rejuvenate.
  • vivisection
    • Cutting live animals to study the cause of disease.


  • vital
    • essential to life, needed, crucial, critical, indispensable.
  • devitalize and revitalize (judge their meanings???)
  • vitamin is also from this root.

Revise this an many times as you can! have fun and take care.