Common Roots Flashcards
Ami/ amic
Friend e.g amiable (friendly)
Anthro
Mankind (anthropology) (study of humans and their works)
Aus
Sound (audible)
Bell or belli
Belligerence (aggressive behaviour)
Bio
Life
Brev
Briefness (abbreviation)
Cap
Take or seize (capture)
Card
To go, yield (accede - to give consent) (secsede- to withdraw from)
Chron
Time
Cohn
Know (cognition - process of knowing)
Corp
Body (corpse)
Crac , Crat
- rule or ruler (auto craft - an absolute ruler)
Cred
Believe (credulous - gullible)
Culp
Guilty (culprit)
Cur, curse
To run (concurrent) running at the same time
Dem(o)
People (democracy)
Dic
Speak, say (dictate- a command) , dictum ( an authoritative pronouncement)
Equ
Equal (equable- steady)
Fac, fact, fect, fic
To make or do (effective) (malefactor- one who makes evil)
Gen
Birth (generate, progeny- offspring)
Graph
Writing (autobiography)
Greg
Group (gregarious- likes to be in a group) (aggregate - to cluster together)
Laud
Praise (applaud)
Luc
Light (elucidate- to clarify or shed light on)
Min
Small (minute, minimum)
Mor
Death (moratorium - halt in activity) (moribund- dying) morgue
Mut
Change (mutation , transmute - one form to another)
Nov
New (novelty, novice)
Nym
Name (pseudonym- fake name)
Pac
Peace - pacifist (peace loving)
Path
Feeling (sympathy)
Phon
Sound (phone, euphony- pleasant sounds, cacophony- unpleasant sounds)
Pug
Fight (pugnacious- tending to fight, pugilist - a fighter or boxer)
Quer, quis, quir
Ask - (query, inquire, inquisition)
Sci
To know (science)
Scrib, scrip
To write ( prescription)
Sens, sent
To feel (sensitive) (sentient - having sensation or consciousness)
Simil
Same (similar, similitude)
Son
Sound (sonar)
Soph -
Wisdom (philosopher)
Spec
To look (circumspect - cautious)
Sta, stat
To stay in position (stagnant, stationary)
Temp
Time (temporary) (temporal)
Terra
Earth - terrain
The, theo
God (theocracy - government in which god is the supreme ruler) (atheist)
Vac
Empty (vacuum - space of empty matter) (vacuity - absence of thought/intelligence)
Ver
Truth (verify, verity)
Vert
To turn- convert, invert
Vit, viv
Life - vital, (vivacity- to call back)
Voc, vok
Call - vocal - revoke