Essential Greek and Latin Roots for Eleventh Grade Students: cas, cad, cid

Learn these words derived from the Latin roots cas, cad, cid meaning "to fall or happen."
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  1. accident
    an unfortunate mishap
  2. cadence
    the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  3. cascade
    a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
  4. casual
    without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand
  5. coincide
    happen simultaneously
  6. coincidence
    the property of two things happening at the same time
  7. decadence
    the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
  8. deciduous
    shedding foliage at the end of the growing season
  9. incident
    a single distinct event
  10. occasion
    an event that occurs at a critical time
  11. recidivist
    someone who lapses into undesirable patterns of behavior
Created on Wed Jun 18 10:58:48 EDT 2025 (updated Wed Jun 18 11:03:12 EDT 2025)

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