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Words for our modern age especially English words from Latin and Greek sources.

Word Unit: jacent-, jacen- (Latin: to lie, to rest).

Word Unit: jani-, Janus (Latin: door, entrance; gate).

Word Unit: Janus Words + (contronyms or words which have definitions that are self-antonyms; that is, which have two meanings that are the opposites of each other).

Word Unit: jaundi-, jaun- (Latin: originally galbinus, "greenish yellow" related to galbanus, "yellow" then formed with the intrusive d; from Old French jaunice, jaunisse from jaune, "yellow").

Word Unit: jejuno-, jejun- + (Latin: the fasting [intestine], the portion of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum [so named because early anatomists typically found this organ to be empty in dissection]; original meaning, "hungry, not partaking of food").

Word Unit: jet-, -ject, -jecting, -jected, -jection, -jector, -jectory; jacu-, jac- (Latin: throw, send, fling, hurl, cast; gush; spurt).

Word Unit: jocu-, jocul-; jocund-; jest + (Latin: jest, joke, joking, humorous; cheerful and full of good humor).

Related "jest; joke; wit; humor; funny" word units: faceti-; farc-; humor-; lud-; satir-.


Word Unit: Journal Index of Word Info Efforts and Achievements (listings of logs, or blogs, sharing personal stepping stones and stumbling blocks).

Word Unit: jud-, judic- (Latin: decide, judge).

Word Unit: junct-, jug-, join- (Latin: join, unite, yoke).

Word Unit: Jupiter, words from myths (Jupiter, Iuppiter, Juppiter, or Jove, King of the Roman gods; fifth planet from the sun).

Word Unit: juris- (Latin: law).

Word Unit: jus-, just-, jur- (Latin: right, upright, equitable; legal right, law).

Word Unit: jut-, juv- + (Latin: help, give assistance).

Word Unit: juven-, juv- + (Latin: young, youthful).

Word Unit: juxta-, juxt- + (Latin: beside; close by, close to, near; adjoining; proximity).

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