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Root word Meanings
a/n
a
a, ab/s

a/c/d
acro
act

aer/o
agr/i/o

alg/o
ambi,
amphi
ambul
ami/o
ana

andr/o
anim
ann/enn
ante
anth/o

not, without

Origin Examples and Definitions

Greek abyss - without bottom; achromatic - without color; anhydrous
- without water
on
Latin afire - on fire; ashore - on the shore; aside - on the side
from, away, off Latin abduct - carry away by force; abnormal - away from normal,
not normal; absent - away, not present; aversion - the act of
turning away from; abbreviate: to shorten
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Root word Meanings
anthrop/o human

anti

apo, apho

aqu/a
arbor
arch/i

arch/a/i

arthr/o

art
astro,
aster
aud/i/io
auto

avi/a
bar/o

bell/i
bene

bi/n

Origin Examples and Definitions
Greek anthropology - the study of mankind; anthropomorphism giving human form to non-human things; philanthropy - the
love to mankind (expressed through good deeds)
against,
Greek antibody - a substance that destroys micro-organisms;
opposite of
antiseptic - preventing infection; antisocial - opposing social
norm
away, off,
Greek aphorism - a short expression of a general truth; apology - an
separate
explicit expression of regret, apostrophe - a small dash used in
place of an omitted letter
water
Latin aquarium - a water container for fish; aquatic- relating to
water; aqueduct - a pipeline for water
tree
Latin
chief, most
Greek archbishop - the highest ranking bishop; archenemy - chief or
important, rule
worst enemy; matriarch - a female who rules a group; monarch
- a king or queen
primitive,
Greek archaeology - the study of ancient cultures; archaic - belonging
ancient
to an earlier period; archive - a collection of historical
materials
joint
Latin arthroscope - a tool to see inside a joint; arthritis Greek inflammation of a joint; arthropod - invertebrates with jointed
legs, like spiders, crustaceans, insects
skill
Latin artifact - object made by a person's skill; artisan - a person
skilled in a craft; artist - a person who creates skillfully
star, stars,
Latin astronaut - a person traveling to the stars; astronomer outer space
someone who studies the stars; asterisk - a star-shaped sign
used as a reference tool
hear
Latin audible - loud enough to be heard; audience - people who
listen to a program; audiovisual - relating to sound and vision
self, same, one Greek autocrat - a person who governs with absolute power;
autograph - a person's own signature; automatic - moving by
itself
bird
Latin aviary - a large enclosure for birds; aviatrix - a female airplane
pilot; aviation - the art of designing or operating aircraft
pressure,
Greek baric - pertaining to pressure, esp
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Latin digression - a departure from the main issue, subject; disappear
- to move out of sight; dissect - to cut apart piece by piece
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Latin

contradict - to express the opposite of; prediction - a statement
foretelling the future; dictate - to speak out loud for another
person to write down
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duplicate - make an identical copy; duet - a musical
composition for two voices or instruments; duo - a pair
normally thought of as being together
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dynamo - a generator of energy; dynamic - having physical
energy/power; dynamite - a powerful explosive
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eloquent - speaking beautifully and forcefully; emissary - a
representative of a country or group sent on a mission; eject throw out forcefully
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empathy - intention to feel like another person; empower - put
into power; engorge - make larger
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Greek

Root word Meanings
enn/i, anni years

en, in
ep/i

equ/i

erg/o

esth/aesth

ethno

eu

ex
extra,
extro
fac/t
fer
fid
flect

flor/a,
fleur
for

Origin Examples and Definitions
Latin bicentennial - of or relating to an age or period of 200 years;
centennial - of or relating to an age or period of 100 years;
perennial -lasting through many years
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on, upon,
Greek epidemic - the rapid spread of something negative; epilogue - a
over,
short speech delivered after a play; epicenter - the center of an
among, at,
earthquake
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work
Greek ergonomics - study of the working environment; energy - the
power to accomplish work; energetics - science that looks at
energy and its transformation
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race, people
Greek ethnic - pertaining to a defined group of people; ethnocentric focusing on the ethnicity of people; ethnology - the science of
people and races
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from, out,
Latin excavate - to dig out; exhale - to breathe out; extract - to pull
out
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make, do
Latin artifact - an object made by a person; factory - a place where
things are made; malefact - a person who does wrong
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faith
Latin confide - place trust in someone, fidelity - faithfulness;
fiduciary - a trustee;
bend
Latin deflect - to bend course because of hitting something;
inflection - a bending in the voice's tone or pitch; flexible easily bending
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intensify

Root word Meanings
Origin Examples and Definitions
the meaning of
a word)
fore
in front of,
forebear - ancestor; forebode - to give an advance warning of
previous,
something bad; forecast - a preview of events to be
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fus
pour
Latin confusion - being flooded with too much information that is
hard to make sense of; fuse - to melt by heating; infuse - to put
into
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gen/o/e/
birth,
Greek genealogy - the study of the history of a family; generation genesis
production,
all the people born at approximately the same time; genetic formation, kind
relating to heredity encoded in the genes
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ger
old age
Greek geriatrics - medicine pertaining to the elderly; gerontocracy the rule of the elders; gerontology - the science of aging
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gon
angle
Latin decagon - a polygon with 10 angles; diagonal - a slanting line
Greek running across a space; octagon - a geometrical figure with 8
angles
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gran
grain
Latin granary- a storehouse or repository for grain especially after it
is threshed or husked; granola- a mixture of rolled oats and
other ingredients; granule- a little grain (as of sugar)
graph/y
writing,
Greek Graphology - the study of handwritings; autograph - written
recording,
with one's own hand; seismograph - a machine noting strength
written
and duration of earthquakes
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woman, female Greek gynecology - the science of female reproductive health;
gynephobia - fear of women; gynecoid - resembling a woman
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;
progress - movement forward or onward; gradual - step by
step
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spiral, circular Greek helicopter - an aircraft with horizontal rotating wing; helix - a
spiral form; helicon - a circular tuba
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half, partial
Greek hemicycle - a semicircular structure; hemisphere - one half of
the earth; hemistich - half a line of poetry
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liver
Latin hepatitis - inflammation of the liver; hepatoma - a tumor of the
liver; hepatotoxic - toxic and damaging to the liver
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grass, plant
Latin herbicide - any chemical used to kill unwanted plants, etc
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different, other Greek heterogeneous - made up of unrelated parts; heteronyms words with same spelling but different meanings; heterodox not conforming to traditional beliefs
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tissue
Greek histology - study of the microscopic structure of tissues;
histochemistry - study of the chemical constitution of cells and
tissues
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moisture,
Greek hygrometer - tool used to measure humidity; hygrograph humidity
instrument for recording variations in atmospheric humidity
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Greek hypoglycemia - an abnormally low level of sugar in the blood;
hypothermia - abnormally low body temperature; hypothesis a theory that is unproven but used under the assumption that it
is true
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image
Latin icon - an (often religious) image, in modern usage a simplified
Greek graphic of high symbolic content; iconology - science of
symbols and icons; iconoclast - someone who destroys
religious images and traditional beliefs
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in, into
Latin illuminate - to give light to; innovation - a new idea, method,
or device; inspection - the act of examining or reviewing
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likeness
Latin image - a likeness of someone; imaginative - able to think up
new ideas or images; imagine - to form a picture or likeness in
the mind
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between,
Latin international - involving two or more countries; intersection among, jointly
place where roads come together; intercept - to stop or
interrupt the course of
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not
Latin irredeemable - not redeemable; irreformable - not reformable;
irrational - not rational
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throw
Latin eject - to throw someone/something out; interject - to throw a
remark into a discussion; project - to cast or throw something
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join
Latin conjunction - a word that joins parts of sentences; disjunction a disconnection; junction - a place where two things join
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thousand
Greek kilobyte - 1,000 bytes; kilometer - 1,000 meter; kilograms 1,000 grams
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work
Latin collaborate - to work with a person; elaborate - to work out the
details; laborious - requiring a lot of hard work
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side
Latin bilateral - of or involving two sides; unilateral - affecting one
side of something
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word, law,
Greek lexicology - the study and history of words; alexia -loss of the
reading
ability to read; illegal - not authorized by the official rules or
laws
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language,
Latin linguist - one who studies languages; multilingual - able to
tongue
communicate in multiple languages; linguine - long, flat
"tongue-shaped" pasta
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mineral, rock, Greek apatite - a group of common minerals; granite - a hard,
fossil
granular rock; monolith - a remarkable, unique stone
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word, doctrine, Greek logic - correct reasoning; monologue - a long speech by one
discourse
speaker;analogy - similarity, especially between things
otherwise dissimilar
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light
Latin elucidate - to explain, to throw light on; lucid - easily
understood, giving off light; translucent - allowing light
through
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Root word Meanings
lumin
light
lun/a/i
moon
macro

magn/a/i
mal/e

man/i/u
mand
mania

mar/i

mater,
matr/i
max
medi
mega

melan/o
memor/i

merge,
mers
meso

Origin Examples and Definitions
Latin illuminate - to fill with light; lumen - unit measuring light
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large, great
Greek macroevolution - large scale evolution; macromolecule - a
large molecule; macroeconomics - study of the overall forces
of economy
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bad, ill, wrong Latin malcontent - wrong content; malaria - "bad air", infectious
disease thought to originate from the "bad air" of the swamps,
but caused by the bite of an infected mosquito; malicious showing strong ill will
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to order
Latin command - an order or instruction; demand - a hard-to-ignore
order; mandate - an official order
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excessive
desire
sea
Latin marina - a harbor for pleasure boats; maritime - relating to the
sea; submarine - an undersea boat; aquamarine - color of sea
water
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greatest
Latin maximal - the best or greatest possible; maximize - to make as
great as possible; maximum - the greatest amount
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great, large,
Greek megalopolis - an area with many nearby cities; megaphone - a
million
device that projects a loud voice; megastructure - huge
building or other structure
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remember
Latin commemorate - to honor the memory of, as by a ceremony;
memorial - related to remembering a person or event; memory:
an ability to retain knowledge or an individual's stock of
retained knowledge
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r
middle
Latin Mesoamerica - Middle America; meson - elementary particle
Greek with a mass between an electron and a proton
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Greek audiometer- an instrument that measures hearing acuteness;
chronometer- an instrument that measures time; metric measured
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middle
Latin midriff - the area between the chest and the waist; midterm Greek middle of a term in school; midway - halfway between
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onethousandth Latin millimeter - one thousandth of a meter; millibar - one
thousandth of a bar; milliliter - one thousandth of a liter
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bad, badly,
Greek misbehave - to behave badly; misprint - an error in printing;
wrong,
misnomer - an error in naming a person or thing
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move
Latin immobilize - to stop from moving; mobile - able to move
freely; mobility - the quality of being able to move
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move
Latin motion - the act of moving; motivate - to move someone to
action; promote to move someone forward; removable - able to
be taken or carried away
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death
Latin immortal - living forever, unable to die; mortal - certain to die;
mortician - an undertaker
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change
Latin immutable - not changing; mutant - an organism that has
undergone change; mutate - to undergo a change
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Latin narrate - to tell a story; narrative - a story; narrator - a person
who tells a story
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Latin circumnavigate - to sail around a place; naval - relating to a
navy or warships; navigate - to sail a ship through a place
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Latin negate - to say it didn't happen; negative - meaning "no";
renege - to go back on a promise
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Greek nephritis - inflammation of the kidneys; nephrotomy - surgical
incision of a kidney; nephron - a single, excretory unit in the
kidney
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Latin misnomer - an error in naming a person or thing; nominal being something in name only but not in reality; nominate - to
name for election or appointment, to designate
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Latin notable - marked as worthy of attention; notarize - to certify a
signature on a legal document; annotate - to add remarks
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Latin innovate - to introduce a new way; novelty - something new;
novice - a person who is new at a job; renovate - to make
something like new again
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Latin object - to be against something; obscure - hard to understand;
opposition - the act of resistance or action against
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Latin binoculars - lens device for seeing distances; monocula -

Root word Meanings
od

omni
op/t/s
opt
ortho

osteo

out

over

oxi/oxy
pale/o

pan

para

para
pater,
patr/i
path

Origin Examples and Definitions
relating to one eye; oculist - an eye doctor
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eye, visual
Greek optic - relating to the eyes; optician - a person who fits
condition, sight
eyeglasses; autopsy - the examination of a dead body
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straight
Greek orthodontist - a dentist that straightens teeth; orthopedic - a
doctor concerned with the proper alignment of the bones;
orthography - the correct way of writing
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goes beyond,
Outgoing - being of lively, sharing nature; outdoing - doing
surpasses,
better than; outdoor - outside
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sharp
Greek oxymoron - combining two ideas that sharply contradict each
other; oxidize - corrode a surface
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all, any,
Greek panacea - a cure for all diseases or problems; panorama - an
everyone
all-around view; pantheism - the worship of all gods;
pandemic - affecting all
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protection from
parachute - protection from falling; parasol - an umbrella used
to protect from the sun;
father
Latin paternal - relating to fathers; paternity - fatherhood; patriarch Greek a man who rules a group
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Root word Meanings
ped/i/e
foot, feet

Origin Examples and Definitions
Latin pedal - a lever pushed by the foot; pedestrian - one who walks;
pedicure - cosmetic treatment of feet and toes
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Greek pentagon - shape having 5 angles and 5 sides, pentagram - a
five-pointed star formerly used as a symbolic figure in magic;
pentathlon - an athletic contest that includes five events
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Latin permanent - lasting throughout all time; permeate - to spread
throughout; persist - to continue for a long time; perennial lasting through many years
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Greek esophagus - muscular tube that carries food to the stomach;
anthropophagy or sarcophagy - cannibalism; xylophagous feeding on wood
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Greek cacophony - loud, unpleasant sounds; microphone - a device
that records and amplifies sound; phonetic - relating to human
speech sounds
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Greek chlorophyll - a group of green pigments found in leaves;
phyllotaxis - the arrangement of leaves on a stem; phyllite - a
rock that forms sheets, similar to slate
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pel

drive, force

pent/a

five

pept,
peps
per

digestion

peri

around,
enclosing

phag/e

to eat

phil/o

love, friend

phon/o
/e/y

sound

phot/o

light

phyll/o

leaf

phys

nature,
medicine, the
body
plant, to grow Greek epiphyte - a plant growing independently on the surface of
another; hydrophyte - a plant that grows only in water;
neophyte - a beginner, especially a person recently converted
to a new belief
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approve, clap Latin applaud- to show approval of especially by clapping the
hands; explosion- an act of exposing something as invalid or
baseless; plausible- worthy of being applauded

phyt/o/e

plas/t/m

plaud,
plod,
plaus, plos

through,
throughout

Root word Meanings
Origin Examples and Definitions
pneum/o
breathing,
Greek pneumonia - inflammation of the lungs; pneumatic - using the
lung, air, spirit
force of air; dyspnea - difficulty breathing
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poli
city
Greek metropolis - a large city; police - people who work for the
government to maintain order in a city; politics - actions of a
government or political party
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pon
place, put
Latin opponent - a person who places him/herself against an action,
idea, etc
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pop
people
Latin popular - appealing to a lot of people; population - all of the
people who live in a particular area; populist - a supporter of
the rights of people
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pos
place, put
Latin deposit - to place or drop something; expose to place out into
the open for all to see; position - the place where someone is
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pre
earlier, before, Latin preamble - a part in front of a formal document; prepare - to
in front of
get ready in advance; prediction - a statement foretelling the
future
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prot/o
primitive, first, Greek prototype - the first of a kind; proton - on of the very basic
chief
parts of an atom; protocol - a first draft from which a
document is prepared
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psych/o
mind, mental Greek psyche - the human spirit or soul; psychic - relating to the
human mind or someone who has supernatural mental abilities;
psychology - the study of the mind
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pul
urge
compulsion - a very strong urge; expulsion - to someone out;
impulsive - having a spontaneous urge to do something
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think
Latin computer - an electronic thinking device; dispute - to disagree
with what another person thinks; input - contribution of one's
thinking
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four
Latin quadrant - open space with buildings on 4 sides; quadrennium
- period of 4 years; quadruped - a 4-footed animal
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five, fifth
Latin quintett - a composition for 5 voices or instruments;
quintessence - pure essence, based on the ancient philosophy
that there was a fifth element that was present in all things;
quintuple - fivefold
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radiation, ray
radioactive - emitting radiation; radiologist - someone
diagnosing or treating via radiation
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again, back,
Latin rebound -to spring back again; rewind - to wind something
backward
backward; reaction: a response; recognize: to identify someone
or something seen before
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backward,
Latin retroactive - relating to something in the past; retrogress - to go
back
back to an earlier condition; retrospect - the remembering of
past events
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red
Greek rhododendron - a flower with red/pink flowers; rhodium - an
element which produces a red solution; rhodopsin - a purple
pigment in the retina that is needed for vision
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flow, discharge Latin diarrhea - abnormally excessive bowl movement; hemorrhage
Greek - heavy blood flow; catarrh - inflammation of a mucous

Root word Meanings
rub

red

rupt

break, burst

san

health

scend

climb, go

sci

know

scler/o

hard

scop/e/y

see, examine,
observe

scrib,
script

write, written

se

apart

sect

cut

sed, sid,
sess

sit

self

of, for, or by
itself

semi

half, partial

sept/i

seven

serv

save, keep

Origin Examples and Definitions
membrane, especially the nose and throat
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Latin bankrupt - unable to pay because you're "broke"; interrupt - to
break into a conversation or event, to disturb; rupture - a break
in something
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Latin ascend - to climb upward; crescendo - a climbing up of the
volume of music; descend - to go or climb down
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Greek arteriosclerosis - hardening of the arterial walls; multiple
sclerosis - disease which causes the tissue of the brain and
spinal cord to harden; sclerometer - instrument for measuring
hardness
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Latin inscribe - to write letters or words on a surface; scribe - a
person who writes out documents; describe - to represent with
words or pictures
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Latin dissect - to cut apart piece by piece; intersection - the place or
point where two things cross each other; bisect - to cut into
two equal parts
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Latin semiannual - every half year; semicircle - half a circle;
semiconscious - partly conscious; semiannual - every half of a
year
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Latin conserve - to save or keep something safe; preserve - to save
something; reservation - a place kept for a person
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Latin desolate - lonely, dismal, gloomy; solitary - done alone, by
yourself; solo - a performance done by one person alone
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Latin insomnia - inability to fall asleep; somniloquy - talking in your
sleep; somnolent - feeling sleepy
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Greek philosopher - a wise person; sophisticated - wise about the
ways of the world; sophism - a clever but misleading
argument
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Greek biosphere - the whole round surface of the earth; hemisphere half the earth spherically shaped like a ball
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Latin stable - standing steady and firm; stagnant - standing still, not
moving; stationary - at a standstill, fixed
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Latin construct - to build; destruction - the act of destroying
something that was built; structure - something built;
infrastructure - underlying framework of a system
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Latin

sum - the combined total of everything; summation - the total,
highest amount; summit the highest point or top
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together, with, Greek symmetry -similarity in size, form or arrangement; synergy same
the combined effect; synchronize - to cause to occur at the
same time
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arrangement
Greek syntax - the systematic arrangement of words; taxonomy - the
science of classification; ataxia - loss of the ability to
coordinate muscle action
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far, distant,
Greek telephone - a device to talk to a distant person; telescope - a
complete
device to view distant objects; television - a device to receive
pictures from afar; telecommuting - working remotely,
bridging the distance via virtual devices
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hold
Latin continent- serving to restrain or limit; detention- the act or fact
of detaining, tenacious- having parts or elements strongly
adhering to each other
rub
Latin attrition- the act of rubbing together or wearing
down; detritus- a product of disintegration or wearing
away; trite- used or occurring so often as to have lost interest,
freshness, or force
end, limit
Latin determine - to find something out at the end of an
investigation; terminate - to end; exterminate - to destroy or
get rid of completely
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four
Latin tetrapod - having 4 legs; tetrarchy - government by 4 rulers;
tetrose - a monosaccharide with four carbon atoms
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heat
Greek thermal - relating to heat; thermos - an insulated jar that keeps
heat in; thermostat - a device that controls heat
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poison
Latin detoxification - the process of removing poisons; toxic poisonous; toxicology - the study of poisons; intoxicated influenced by drugs
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Root word Meanings
Origin Examples and Definitions
trans
across,beyond, Latin transcontinental - across the continent; transfer - to move from
through
one place to another; transport - to carry something across a
space
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ultra
beyond,
Latin ultrahigh - extremely high; ultramodern - more modern than
extreme, more
anything else; ultrasonic - sound waves beyond human
than
hearing
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uni
one, single
Latin unicycle - a vehicle with one wheel; unilateral - decided by
only one person or nation; unique - the only one of its kind;
unison - as one voice
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vac
empty
Latin evacuate - to empty a dangerous place; vacant - empty, not
occupied; vacation - a time without work
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ver/I
truth
Latin veracious - truthful, honest; veracity - the truth; verify - to
make sure that something is true
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vers,
turn
Latin reverse - to turn around; introvert - being turned towards the
vert
inside; version - a variation of an original; controversy - a
conversation in which positions are turned against each other
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vis, vid
see
Latin vision - the ability to see; envision - to picture in the mind;
evident - clearly visible
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voc/i
voice, call
Latin advocate - to speak in favor of; equivocate - to use misleading
language that could be interpreted two different ways; vocalize
- to produce with your voice
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Latin carnivorous - meat-eating; voracious - desiring or eating food
in great quantities; devour - to eat quickly
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Greek xerophyte - a plant that grows in dry climate; xerography - a
dry photocopying process; xeric - requiring small amounts of
moisture
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Greek zygote - a cell formed by the union of two gametes and the
organism developing from that; zygomorphic - pertaining to
organisms that can be divided into symmetrical halves along
one axis only

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