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This vocabulary list features words with the Latin roots, sequ, secu and sue, meaning "follow."
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  1. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
    Coming into the assembly, where all the people had gathered together, he began first to appease the troublesome and turbulent element among them with obsequious and flattering words. Words Like Loaded Pistols
  2. subsequent
    following in time or order
    The initial meeting was quite stiff, but in subsequent sessions we were able to talk more freely and directly. Long Walk to Freedom
  3. consequential
    having important effects or results
    In contrast, today's young people, including many millennials and Gen Zers alike, view 9/11 as the beginning of one of the most devastatingly consequential events of our lives: an endless war.Salon
  4. sequence
    a following of one thing after another in time
    “No, I mean, where are you in the sequence, the youngest, the oldest?” In the Time of the Butterflies
  5. sequential
    in regular succession without gaps
    Dalcroze’s exercises are always sequential, beginning with the simplest and becoming more complex as students master and develop their skills. Music and the Child
  6. consequence
    a phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon
    Most significantly, there are many who are still willing to risk whatever medical consequences might occur by refusing to be vaccinated in order to preserve their personal liberty. 1919 The Year That Changed America
  7. consequent
    following or accompanying as a result
    The literature of veterinary medicine abounds in similar examples: swine eating sprayed cockleburs with consequent severe illness, lambs eating sprayed thistles, bees poisoned by pasturing on mustard sprayed after it came into bloom. Silent Spring
  8. sequel
    something that follows something else
    Cal’s bellyaching was not a welcome sequel to the morning with Naomi. Out of Darkness
  9. ensue
    take place or happen afterward or as a result
    Then Rob, who was bringing up the rear, caught up to Doug, and a brief conversation ensued. Into Thin Air
  10. pursue
    follow in an effort to capture
    In that despair my enemy was my only hope, and I pursued him, clutching at his heel. The Two Towers
  11. consecutive
    one after the other
    Minutes later the official results were announced: Ky Ebright and California had won their third consecutive national varsity title, by one-third of a second. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
  12. consequently
    as a result
    The entire first floor was covered with carpeting to muffle the noise made by spectators, and the folding seats had been replaced with upholstered and consequently “soundless” chairs. Endgame
  13. persecute
    cause to suffer
    I would explain to Makgatho in the simplest terms how the black man was persecuted by the white man. Long Walk to Freedom
  14. prosecute
    bring a criminal action against
    Despite all this, the private detectives somehow failed to secure enough evidence to prosecute any of the suspects, or perhaps the private eyes were bought off. Killers of the Flower Moon
  15. prosecutor
    an official conducting criminal cases on behalf of the state
    Nearly all criminal cases are resolved through plea bargaining—a guilty plea by the defendant in exchange for some form of leniency by the prosecutor. The New Jim Crow
Created on Mon Feb 10 12:24:38 EST 2025 (updated Tue Feb 25 20:09:34 EST 2025)

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