#7 Root Words

Question 1

Mand

Answer 1

[command] Word Examples: mandatory (commanded), remand (order back), mandate

Question 2

Mania

Answer 2

[madness] Word Examples: mania (insanity, craze), monomania (mania on one idea), kleptomania, pyromania (insane tendency to set fires), maniac

Question 3

Mar, mari, mer

Answer 3

[sea, pool] Word Examples: marine (a soldier serving on shipboard), marsh (wetland, swamp), maritime (relating to the sea and navigation), mermaid (fabled sea creature, half fish, half woman)

Question 4

Matri

Answer 4

[mother] Word Examples: maternal (relating to the mother), matrimony, matriarchate (rulership of women), matron

Question 5

Medi

Answer 5

[half, middle, between, halfway] Word Examples: mediate (come between, intervene), medieval (pertaining to the Middle Ages), Mediterranean (lying between lands), mediocre, medium

Question 6

Mega

Answer 6

[great, million] Word Examples: megaphone (great sound), megalopolis (great city; an extensive urban area including a number of cities), megacycle (a million cycles), megaton

Question 7

Mem

Answer 7

[remember] Word Examples: memo (a reminder), commemoration (the act of remembering by a memorial or ceremony), memento, memoir, memorable, barometer, thermometer

Question 8

Micro

Answer 8

[small] Word Examples: microscope, microfilm, microcard, microwave, micrometer (device for measuring small distances), omicron, micron (a millionth of a meter), microbe (small living thing)

Question 9

Migra

Answer 9

(wander] Word Examples: migrate (to wander), emigrate (one who leaves a country), immigrate (to come into the land)

Question 10

Mit, Miss

Answer 10

[send] Word Examples: emit (send out, give off), remit (send back, as money due), submit, admit, commit, permit, transmit (send across), omit, intermittent (sending between, at intervals), mission, missile

Question 11

Mob, Mot, Mov

Answer 11

[move] Word Example: mobile (capable of moving), motionless (without motion), motor, emotional (moved strongly by feelings), motivate, promotion, demote, movement

Question 12

Mon

Answer 12

[warn, remind] Word Examples: monument (a reminder or memorial of a person or an event), admonish (warn), monitor, premonition (forewarning)