Are there any Latin words with sharply contrasting meanings?

1. What English words are directly from Latin?
2. What Latin words are related to love?
3. Why are most English words derived from Latin?

What English words are directly from Latin?

Some examples include aberration, allusion, anachronism, democratic, dexterity, enthusiasm, imaginary, juvenile, pernicious, sophisticated. Many of these words were borrowed directly from Latin, both in its classical and medieval forms.

What Latin words are related to love?

amor : love, affection, infatuation, passion.

Why are most English words derived from Latin?

English (and most other Western-European languages) adopted many words from Latin and Greek throughout history, because especially Latin was the Lingua Franca all through Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and later.