Essential Greek and Latin Roots for Twelfth Grade Students: cede, deed, cess

This vocabulary list features words with the Latin roots cede, cede, and cess, meaning "go, yield."
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  1. proceed
    move ahead; travel onward in time or space
  2. succeed
    attain success or reach a desired goal
  3. process
    a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
  4. exceed
    be or do something to a greater degree
  5. precede
    be earlier in time
  6. concede
    acknowledge defeat
  7. cede
    give over
  8. recede
    pull back or move away or backward
  9. excessive
    beyond normal limits
  10. incessant
    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
  11. recess
    a pause from doing something (as work)
  12. accession
    the act of attaining a new office or right or position
  13. intercede
    act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
  14. secede
    withdraw from an organization or polity
  15. antecedent
    a preceding occurrence or cause or event
Created on Wed Jun 18 11:35:27 EDT 2025

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