Root List Flashcards
a/an
not/without
examples:
- amoral
- atheist
- atypical
ab
off, away from, apart, down
examples:
- abduct
- abnormal
- abolish
- abstract
- abstruse
able/ible
capable of, worthy of
examples:
- changeable
- inevitable
- presentable
ac/acr
sharp, bitter, sour
examples:
- acerbic
- acid
- acrimonious
- acumen
- acute
- exacerbate
acou
hearing
examples:
- acoustic
act/ag
to do, to drive, to force, to lead
examples:
- agile
- agitate
- pedagogue
- prodigal
- synagogue
ad (often, the d is dropped and the first letter after ‘a’ is doubled)
to, toward, near
examples:
- addict
- address
- adhere
- admire
- attract
al/ali/alter
other, another
examples:
- alias
- alibi
- alien
- allegory
- alter ego
- alternative
- altruist
am
love
examples:
- amatory
- amiable
- amicable
- amity
- amorous
- enamored
- inamorata
ambi/amphi
both, on both sides, around
examples:
- ambidextrous
- ambient
- ambiguous
- amphibian
ambl/ambul
to go, to walk
examples:
- ambulatory
- perambulator
- preamble
anim
of the life, mind, soul, breath
examples:
- animal
- magnanimous
- unanimous
annui/enni
year
examples:
- annals
- anniversary
- annual
- annuity
- perennial
ant/ante
before
examples:
- antebellum
- antecedent
- antedate
- antediluvian
- anterior
anthro/andr
man, human
examples:
- androgen
- androgynous
- android
- anthropocentric
- anthropology
- misanthrope
anti
against, opposite
examples:
- antibody
- antidote
- antipathy
- antipodal
- antiseptic
apo
away
examples:
- apocalypse
- apocryphal
- apogee
- apology
- apostasy
aqua/aque
water
examples:
- aquamarine
- aquarium
- aquatic
- aqueduct
- subaqueous
arch/archi/archy
chief, principal, ruler
examples:
- anarchy
- archenemy
- architect
- monarchy
- oligarchy
ard
to burn
examples:
- ardent
- ardor
- arson
auto
self
examples:
- autocrat
- automatic
- autonomy
be
about, to make, to surround, to affect
examples:
- belie
- belittle
- bemoan
- bewilder
bel/bell
beautiful
examples:
- belle
- embellish
bell
war
examples:
- antebellum
- belligerent
- rebel
bi/bin
two
examples:
- biennial
- bilateral
- bilingual
- binocular
- bipartisan
- combination
ben/bene
good
examples:
- benediction
- benefit
- benevolent
- benign
bon/boun
good, generous
examples:
- bona fide
- bonus
- bountiful
brev/brid
short, small
examples:
- abbreviate
- abridge
- breviloquent
- brevity
burs
purse, money
examples:
- bursar
- bursary
- disburse
- reimburse
cad/cid
to fall, to happen by chance
examples:
- accident
- cascade
- coincidence
- decadent
- recidivist
cant/cent/chant
to sing
examples:
- accent
- chant
- enchant
- incantation
cap/cip/cept
to take, to get
examples:
- anticipate
- capture
- emancipate
- percipient
- precept
- susceptible
cap/capit/cipit
head, headlong
examples:
- capital
- caption
- precipitate
card/cord/cour
heart
examples:
- cardiac
- concord
- concordance
- discord
- encourage
carn
flesh
examples:
- carnage
- carnivorous
- incarnation
- reincarnation
cast/chast
to cut
examples:
- caste
- castigate
- chaste
- chastise
caus/caut
to burn
examples:
- caustic
- cauterize
- cautery
- holocaust
ced/ceed/cess
to go, to yield, to stop
examples:
- accede
- cessation
- concede
- incessant
celer
speed
examples:
- accelerant
- accelerate
- celerity
- decelerate
cent
hundred, hundredth
examples:
- bicentennial
- cent
- centigrade
- centimeter
- centipede
- century
- percent
centr
center
examples:
- centrifuge
- centrist
- concentrate
- concentric
- eccentric
cern/cert/cret/crim/crit
to separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide
examples:
- ascertain
- certitude
- criterion
- discreet
- discrete
- hypocrite
chrom
color
examples:
- chromatic
- chrome
- chromosome
- monochromatic
chron
time
examples:
- anachronism
- chronic
- chronology
- chronometer
- synchronize
circu/circum
around
examples:
- circuit
- circuitous
- circumference
cis
to cut
examples:
- exorcise
- incision
- incisive
- scissors
cla/clo/clu
to shut, to close
examples:
- claustrophobia
- cloister
- conclude
- disclose
- exclusive
- preclude
claim/clam
to shout, to cry out
examples:
- clamor
- disclaim
- exclaim
- proclaim
- reclaim
cli
to lean toward
examples:
- climax
- decline
- disinclination
- proclivity
- recline
co/col/com/con
with, together
examples:
- coerce
- collaborate
- collide
- commensurate
- compatible
- conciliate
- connect
cogn/conn
to know
examples:
- cognition
- incognito
- recognize
contra/contro/counter
against
examples:
- contradict
- contrary
- controversy
- counterfeit
- countermand
- encounter
corp/cors
body
examples:
- corporation
- corps
- corpse
- corpulent
- corset
- incorporation
cosm
order, universe, world
examples:
- cosmic
- cosmology
- cosmonaut
- cosmopolitan
- cosmos
- microcosm
cour/cur
running, a course
examples:
- courier
- curriculum
- cursive
- cursory
- excursion
cre/cresc/cret
to grow
examples:
- accretion
- accrue
- creation
- excrescence
- increase
- increment
cred
to believe, to trust
examples:
- credentials
- credit
- credo
- credulity
- incredible
crypt
hidden
examples:
- apocryphal
- crypt
- cryptography
- cryptology
cub/cumb
to lie down
examples:
- incubate
- incumbent
- recumbent
- succumb
culp
fault, blame
examples:
- culpable
- culprit
- inculpate
- mea culpa
dac/doc
to teach
examples:
- didactic
- doctrine
- indoctrinate
de
away, off, down, completely, reversal
examples:
- decipher
- defame
- deferential
- defile
- delineate
- descend
dele
to erase
examples:
- delete
- indelible
dem
people
examples:
- democracy
- demographics
- endemic
- epidemic
- pandemic
dext
right hand, right side, deft
examples:
- ambidextrous
- dexter
- dexterity
di
day
examples:
- dial
- diary
- diurnal
- quotidian
di/dia
in two, through, across
examples:
- dialogue
- diameter
- dichotomy
di/dif/dis
away from, apart, reversal, not
examples:
- diffuse
- dilate
- dilatory
- disperse
- disseminate
- dissipate
- dissuade
dic/dict/dit
to say, to tell, to use words
examples:
- dictionary
- interdict
- predict
- verdict
dign
worth
examples:
- condign
- deign
- dignitary
- dignity
- disdain
dog/dox
opinion
examples:
- dogma
- orthodox
- paradox
dol
to suffer, to pain, to grieve
examples:
- condolence
- doleful
- dolorous
- indolence
don/dot/dow
to give
examples:
- anecdote
- antidote
- donate
- endow
- pardon
dorm
sleep
examples:
- dormant
- dormitory
dors
back
examples:
- dorsal
- endorse
dub
doubt
examples:
- dubiety
- dubious
- indubitable
duc/duct
to lead
examples:
- abduct
- conducive
- conduct
- induce
- induct
- produce
dulc
sweet
examples:
- dulcet
- dulcified
- dulcimer
dur
hard, lasting
examples:
- durable
- duration
- duress
- endure
- obdurate
dys
faulty, abnormal
examples:
- dysfunctional
- dyslexia
- dyspepsia
- dystrophy
e/ex
out, out of, from, former, completely
examples:
- efface
- evade
- exclude
- exonerate
- expire
- extricate
ego
self
examples:
- ego
- egocentric
- egoism/egotism
em/en
in, into
examples:
- embrace
- enclose
epi
upon
examples:
- epidemic
- epidermis
- epigram
- epilogue
- epithet
equ
equal, even
examples:
- adequate
- equation
- equidistant
err
to wander
examples:
- err
- errant
- error
esce
becoming
examples:
- adolescent
- convalescent
- incandescent
- obsolescent
- reminiscent
eu
good, well
examples:
- eulogy
- euphemism
- euphony
- euthanasia
extra
outside, beyond
examples:
- extract
- extradite
- extraordinary
- extrapolate
- extrasensory
fab/fam
to speak
examples:
- affable
- defame
- fable
- famous
- ineffable
fac/fic/fig/fait/feit/fy
to do, to make
examples:
- configuration
- counterfeit
- deficient
- effigy
- faction
- factory
- prolific
- ratify
fal
to err, to deceive
examples:
- default
- fail
- fallacy
- false
- faux pas
- infallible
fatu
foolish
examples:
- fatuity
- fatuous
- infatuated
fer
to bring, to carry, to bear
examples:
- confer
- offer
- proffer
- referendum
ferv
to boil, to bubble
examples:
- effervescent
- fervid
- fervor
fi/fid
faith, trust
examples:
- affidavit
- confide
- fidelity
- fiduciary
- infidel
fin
end
examples:
- confine
- definitive
- final
- infinite
- infinitesimal
flagr/flam
to burn
examples:
- conflagration
- flagrant
- flambeau
- inflame
flect/flex
to bend, to turn
examples:
- deflect
- flexible
- genuflect
- inflect
- reflect
flu/flux
to flow
examples:
- confluence
- effluence
- fluctuation
- fluid
fore
before
examples:
- foreshadow
- foresight
- forestall
fort
chance OR strength
chance examples:
- fortuitous
- fortunate
- fortune
strength examples:
- forte
- fortify
- fortissimo
fra/frac/frag/fring
to break
examples:
- fractious
- fracture
- fragment
- infringe
- refractory
fug
to flee, to fly
examples:
- centrifugal
- fugitive
- fugue
- refuge
- refugee
- subterfuge
fulg
to shine
examples:
- effulgent
- refulgent
fum
smoke
examples:
- fume
- fumigate
- perfume
fus
to pour
examples:
- diffuse
- fusillade
- infusion
- profuse
- suffuse
gen
birth, creation, race, kind
examples:
- carcinogenic
- congenital
- gender
- generous
- genetics
- progeny
gni/gno
to know
examples:
- agnostic
- diagnose
- ignoramus
- ignore
- prognosis
grad/gress
to step
examples:
- aggressive
- degrade
- digress
- egress
- progress
- regress
gram/graph
to write, to draw
examples:
- diagram
- epigram
- grammar
- graph
- graphite
- photograph
grat
pleasing
examples:
- gracious
- grateful
- gratuity
- ingratiate
greg
flock
examples:
- aggregate
- congregate
- egregious
- gregarious
- segregate
hap
by chance
examples:
- haphazard
- hapless
- happen
- mishap
- perhaps
hemi
half
examples:
- hemisphere
- hemistich
her/hes
to stick
examples:
- adherent
- adhesive
- coherent
- inherent
(h)etero
different, other
examples:
- heterodox
- heterogeneous
- heterosexual
hol
whole
examples:
- catholic
- holocaust
- holograph
- holistic
(h)om
same
examples:
- anomaly
- homeostasis
- homogeneous
- homonym
- homosexual
hum
earth
examples:
- exhume
- humble
- humility
hyper
over, excessive
examples:
- hyperactive
- hyperbole
- hyperglycemia
hypo
under, beneath, less than
examples:
- hypochondriac
- hypocritical
- hypodermic
icon
image, idol
examples:
- icon
- iconic
- iconoclast
- iconology
idio
one’s own
examples:
- idiosyncrasy
- idiot
in/im
in, into OR not, without
in, into examples:
- implicit
- incarnate
- indigenous
- influx
- intrinsic
not, without examples:
- immoral
- impartial
- inactive
- indigent
- indolence
- innocuous
inter
between, among
examples:
- interim
- interloper
- intermittent
- intersperse
- interstate
intra
inside, within
examples:
- intramural
- intrastate
- intravenous
it/iter
way, journey
examples:
- ambition
- circuit
- itinerant
- itinerary
- reiterate
- transit
ject
to throw, to throw down
examples:
- abject
- conjecture
- dejected
- eject
- inject
joc
joke
examples:
- jocose
- jocular
- jocund
- joke
join/jug/junct
to meet, to join
examples:
- adjoin
- conjugal
- conjunction
- injunction
- junction
- junta
jour
day
examples:
- adjourn
- journal
- journey
jud
to judge
examples:
- adjudicate
- judiciary
- judicious
- prejudice
jur
law, to swear
examples:
- abjure
- jurisprudence
- perjury
juv
young
examples:
- juvenile
- juvenilia
- rejuvenate
lang/ling
tongue
examples:
- bilingual
- language
- linguistics
laud
praise, honor
examples:
- cum laude
- laudable
- laudatory
lav/lau/lu
to wash
examples:
- ablution
- antediluvian
- deluge
- dilute
- laundry
- lavatory
lax/leas/les
loose
examples:
- lax
- laxative
- lease
- leash
- relax
- release
lec/leg/lex
to read, to speak
examples:
- dialect
- lectern
- lecture
- legend
- legible
- lexicographer
- lexicon
lect/leg
to select, to choose
examples:
- collect
- eclectic
- elect
- predilection
- select
lev
to lift, to rise, light (weight)
examples:
- alleviate
- levee
- levitate
- levity
li/lig
to tie, to bind
examples:
- liable
- liaison
- lien
- ligament
- ligature
- oblige
liber
free
examples:
- liberal
- liberality
- liberate
- libertine
- liberty
lith
stone
examples:
- acrolith
- lithography
- lithology
- lithotomy
- megalith
- monolith
loc/log/loqu
word, speech, thought
examples:
- colloquial
- dialogue
- elocution
- eulogy
- grandiloquent
- loquacious
- prologue
luc/lum/lus
light (brightness)
examples:
- illuminate
- illustrate
- illustrious
- lackluster
- lucid
- luminous
- translucent
lud/lus
to play
examples:
- allude
- delude
- elude
- illusion
- ludicrous
- prelude
macro
great, long
examples:
- macro
- macrobiotics
- macrocephalous
- macrocosm
- macroscopic
mag/maj/max
big, great
examples:
- magnanimous
- magnate
- magnify
- magnitude
- maximum
mal/male
bad, ill, evil, wrong
examples:
- malady
- malapropism
- malediction
- malfeasance
- malfunction
- malicious
- malign
man/manu
hand
examples:
- manual
- manufacture
mand/mend
to command, to order, to entrust
examples:
- command
- commend
- countermand
- demand
- mandatory
- recommend
- remand
medi
middle
examples:
- intermediate
- mediate
- medieval
- medium
mega
large, great
examples:
- megalith
- megalomania
- megalopolis
- megaphone
- megaton
micro
very small
examples:
- microbe
- microcosm
- micron
- microorganism
- microscope
min
small OR to project, to hang over
small examples:
- diminish
- diminution
- miniature
- minute
- minutiae
project, to hang over examples:
- eminent
- imminent
- preeminent
- prominent
mis
bad, wrong, to hate
examples:
- misadventure
- misanthrope
- misapply
- mischance
- mischief
- misconstrue
- misfit
mis/mit
to send
examples:
- emissary
- remit
- transmit
misc
mixed
examples:
- miscellaneous
- promiscuous
mob/mom/mot/mov
to move
examples:
- automobile
- demote
- immovable
- locomotion
- mob
- mobile
- mobilize
- moment
- momentous
- momentum
- motion
- motive
- motor
- mutiny
- promote
- remove
moll
soft
examples:
- emollient
- mollify
- mollusk
mon/monit
to remind, to warn
examples:
- admonish
- monitor
- monument
- premonition
- remonstrate
mon/mono
one
examples:
- monarchy
- monochord
- monogram
- monograph
- monologue
- monomania
- monotonous
mor/mort
death
examples:
- immortal
- morbid
- moribund
morph
shape
examples:
- amorphous
- anthropomorphism
- metamorphosis
mult
many
examples:
- multiple
- multiplex
- multiply
- multitudinous
mut
to change
examples:
- immutable
- mutation
- permutation
- transmute
nat/nas/nai/gna
birth
examples:
- cognate
- nascent
- native
- natural
- renaissance
nau/nav
ship, sailor
examples:
- astronaut
- circumnavigate
- cosmonaut
- nauseous
- nautical
- naval
- nave
- navy
nihil
nothing, none
examples:
- annihilate
- nihilism
noc/nox
harm
examples:
- innocent
- innocuous
- noxious
- obnoxious
noct/nox
night
examples:
- equinox
- noctambulant
- nocturnal
- nocturne
nom
rule, order
examples:
- autonomy
- economy
- gastronomy
- taxonomy
nom/nym/noun/nown
name
examples:
- acronym
- anonymous
- nomenclature
- nominal
- nominate
- noun
- renown
- synoynm
non
not
examples:
- nonconformist
- nonentity
- nonpareil
- nonpartisan
nounc/nunc
to announce
examples:
- announce
- pronounce
- renounce
nov/neo/nou
new
examples:
- innovate
- neologism
- neophyte
- neoplasm
- nouveau riche
- novice
- renovate
null
nothing
examples:
- annul
- nullify
- nullity
ob
toward, to, against, over
examples:
- obese
- oblique
- obsequious
- obstinate
- obstreperous
- obstruct
- obtuse
omni
all
examples:
- omnibus
- omnipotent
- omnipresent
- omniscient
oner
burden
examples:
- exonerate
- onerous
- onus
oss/oste
bone
examples:
- ossify
- ossuary
- osteopathy
pac/peac
peace
examples:
- appease
- pacifier
- pacify
- pact
palp
to feel
examples:
- palpable
- palpate
- palpitate
pan/pant
all, everyone
examples:
- pandemic
- panegyric
- panoply
- panorama
- pantheon
par
equal
examples:
- apartheid
- disparate
- parity
para
next to, beside
examples:
- parasocial
- parable
- parallel
- parody
pas/pat/path
feeling, suffering, disease
examples:
- compassion
- dispassionate
- empathy
- impassive
- pathogenic
- sociopath
- sympathy
pau/po/pov/pu
few, little, poor
examples:
- impoverish
- paucity
- pauper
- poverty
- puerile
- pusillanimous
pec
money
examples:
- impecunious
- peculation
- pecuniary
ped
child, education
examples:
- encyclopedia
- pedagogue
- pedant
- pediatrician
ped/pod
foot
examples:
- pedal
- pedestrian
- podium
pel
to drive, to push
examples:
- compel
- dispel
- expel
- impel
- propel
pen/pene
almost
examples:
- penultimate
- peninsula
pen/pun
to pay, to compensate
examples:
- penal
- penalty
- penance
- penitent
- punitive
pend/pens
to hang, to weigh, to pay
examples:
- compensate
- depend
- indispensable
- stipend
per
completely
examples:
- persistent
- pertinacious
- peruse
peri
around
examples:
- perimeter
- periscope
pet/pit
to go, to seek, to strive
examples:
- appetite
- compete
- impetuous
- petition
phil
love
examples:
- bibliophile
- philatelist
- philology
- philosopher
phob
fear
examples:
- claustrophobia
- hydrophobia
- phobia
- xenophobia
phon
sound
examples:
- euphony
- megaphone
- phonetics
- polyphony
- telephone
photo
light
examples:
- photograph
- photon
- photosynthesis
plac
to please
examples:
- complacent
- complaisant
- implacable
ple/plen
to fill, full
examples:
- complete
- deplete
- plenitude
- plethora
- replete
- supplement
plex/plic/ply
to fold, twist, tangle, or bend
examples:
- complex
- duplicity
poly
many
examples:
- polyandry
- polygamy
- polyglot
- polygon
- polytheism
pon/pos/pound
to put, to place
examples:
- component
- expound
- repository
port
to carry
examples:
- export
- import
- portable
post
behind, after
examples:
- post facto
- posterior
- posterity
- posthumous
pot
to drink
examples:
- potable
- potation
- potion
pre
before, in front
examples:
- precedent
- precocious
- premonition
- presentiment
prehend/prise
to take, to get, to seize
examples:
- apprehend
- comprise
- surprise
pri/prim
first
examples:
- primal
- primary
- prime
- primeval
- pristine
pro
in front, before, much, for
examples:
- proceed
- propound
- proselytize
- provident
prob
to prove, to test
examples:
- probe
- probity
- reprobate
prop/prox
near
examples:
- approximate
- proximate
- proximity
prot/proto
first
examples:
- prototype
- protozoan
pseud/pseudo
false
examples:
- pseudonym
- pseudoscience
pug
to fight
examples:
- impugn
- pugilist
- pugnacious
- repugnant
punc/pung/poign
to point, to prick, to pierce
examples:
- compunction
- expunge
- punctilious
- puncture
- pungent
pyr
fire
examples:
- pyre
- pyromania
- pyrosis
- pyrotechnics
quad/quar/quat
four
examples:
- quadrant
- quadrille
- quadruple
- quadruplets
- quart
- quaternary
que/quis
to seek
examples:
- conquest
- inquisitive
- query
quie/quit
quiet, rest
examples:
- disquiet
- quiescence
- quiet
quin/quint
five
examples:
- quinquennial
- quintuple
raci/radi
root
examples:
- deracinate
- eradicate
- radish
rami
branch
examples:
- ramification
- ramiform
re
back, again
examples:
- recline
- regain
- remain
- reorganize
rect
straight, right
examples:
- correct
- direct
- erect
- rectangle
- rectitude
reg
king, rule
examples:
- interregnum
- realm
- regal
- regent
- regicide
- regiment
retro
backward
examples:
- retroactive
- retrofit
- retrograde
- retrospective
rid/ris
to laugh
examples:
- derision
- risible
rog
to ask
examples:
- interrogate
rub/rud
red
examples:
- rubella
- rubicund
rud
crude
examples:
- rude
- rudimentary
- rudiments
sacr/sanct
holy
examples:
- sacrament
- sacred
- sacrilege
- sanctify
- sanction
sag/sap/sav
taste, thinking, discerning
examples:
- insipid
- sagacious
- sage
- sapient
- savant
- savor
sal
salt
examples:
- saline
sal/sil/sault/sult
to lean, to jump
examples:
- assault
- resilient
- somersault
salu
health
examples:
- salubrious
- salutary
salv
to save
examples:
- salvage
- salvation
san
healthy
examples:
- sane
- sanitarium
- sanitary
sang
blood
examples:
- consanguinity
- sanguinary
sat
enough
examples:
- dissatisfied
- sate
- satisfy
- saturate
sci
to know
examples:
- conscience
- conscious
- omniscient
- prescient
scribe/script
to write
examples:
- circumscribe
- postscript
- scribble
- script
- transcript
se
apart, away
examples:
- secede
- sedition
- seduce
- segregate
- separate
- sequester
sec/sequ/sue/sui
to follow
examples:
- non sequitur
- pursue
- second
- sequence
sed/sess/sid
to sit, to settle
examples:
- preside
- resident
- sediment
- session
sem
seed, to sow
examples:
- semen
- seminary
semi
half
examples:
- semicircle
- semiconscious
sen
old
examples:
- senate
- senescent
- senile
sens/sent
to feel, to be aware
examples:
- dissent
- insensate
- presentiment
- resent
- sense
- sensory
- sentiment
sin/sinu
bend, fold, curve
examples:
- sinuous
sol
alone OR to loosen, to free OR sun
alone examples:
- desolate
- isolate
- soliloquize
- solipsism
- solitude
to loosen, to free examples:
- absolution
- dissolve
- resolution
sun examples:
- parasol
- solar
- solarium
- solstice
somn
sleep
examples:
- insomnia
- somnambulist
- somniferous
- somniloquist
- somnolent
soph
wisdom
examples:
- philosopher
- sophism
- sophisticated
sourc/surg/surrect
to rise
examples:
- insurgent
- insurrection
- resurrection
- surge
spec/spic
to look, to see
examples:
- circumspect
- conspicuous
- perspective
- perspicacious
- retrospective
- spectrum
spir
breath
examples:
- expire
- spirit
sta/sti
to stand, to be in place
examples:
- obstinate
- stasis
- static
strict/string/stran
to tighten, to bind
examples:
- astringent
- constrain
- restriction
- strangle
sua
sweet, pleasing, to urge
examples:
- assuage
- dissuade
- persuade
- suave
sub/sup
below, under
examples:
- subliminal
- submissive
- subsidiary
- subtle
- suppose
summ
highest, total
examples:
- consummate
- summary
- summit
super/sur
over, above
examples:
- supercilious
- superfluous
- superlative
- supersede
- surmount
- surpass
sym/syn
together
examples:
- symbiosis
- synonym
- synthesis
tac/tic
to be silent
examples:
- reticent
- tacit
- taciturn
tact/tag/tam/tang
to touch
examples:
- contact
- contagious
- contaminate
- contiguous
- intangible
- tactile
tain/ten/tent/tin
to hold
examples:
- pertinacious
- tenable
- tenacious
- tenure
tend/tens/tent/tenu
to stretch, to thin
examples:
- attenuate
- distend
- extenuating
- tension
test
to bear witness
examples:
- attest
- testify
theo
god
examples:
- theocracy
- theology
therm
heat
examples:
- thermal
- thermometer
- thermonuclear
- thermostat
tim
fear
examples:
- intimidate
- timid
tor/torq/tort
to twist
examples:
- contort
- distort
- torque
torp
stiff, numb
examples:
- torpid
- torpor
tox
poison
examples:
- antitoxin
- intoxication
- toxic
tract
to drag, to pull, to draw
examples:
- abstract
- attract
- contract
- detract
- protract
- tractable
- tractor
trans
across, beyond
examples:
- transcendent
- transition
- transparent
ult
last, beyond
examples:
- ultimate
- ultimatum
- ultraviolet
umbr
shadow
examples:
- adumbrate
- penumbra
- umbrage
- umbrella
un
not
examples:
- unseen
- unusual
und
wave
examples:
- inundate
- undulate
uni/un
one
examples:
- unanimous
- unicorn
- uniform
- universe
urb
city
examples:
- suburb
- urban
- urbanization
us/ut
to use
examples:
- abuse
- usage
- utilitarian
vail/val
strength, use, worth
examples:
- avail
- convalescent
- evaluate
- invalid
- valid
- value
ven/vent
to come or to move forward
examples:
- contravene
- convene
- intervene
- venturesome
ver
truth
examples:
- aver
- veracious
- verdict
- verisimilitude
- verity
verb
word
examples:
- proverb
- verbatim
- verbose
- verbiage
verd
green
examples:
- verdant
- verdure
vers/vert
to turn
examples:
- avert
- revert
vi
life
examples:
- joie de vivre
- viable
- vivacity
vid/vis
to see
examples:
- evident
- video
- vista
vil
base, mean
examples:
- revile
- vile
- vilify
viru
poison
examples:
- virulent
- viruliferous
- virus
voc/vok
call, word
examples:
- convoke
- invoke
- vocabulary
- vociferous
vol
wish
examples:
- benevolent
- malevolent
- volition
- voluntary
volu/volv
to roll, to turn
examples:
- convolution
- revolve
- voluble
vor
to eat
examples:
- carnivorous
- omnivorous
- voracious
