root words Flashcards
a, an
not, without
ab, a
from, away, apart
ac, acr
sharp, sour
ad, a
to, toward
ali, altr
another
am, ami
love
ambi, amphi
both
ambl, ambul
walk
ann, enn
year
ante, ant
before
anthrop
human
anti, ant
against, opposite
aud
hear
auto
self
belli, bell
war
bene, ben
good
bi
two
biblio
book
bio
life
burs
money, purse
cad, cas, cid
happen, fall
cap, cip
head
carn
flesh
cap, capt, cept, cip
take, hold, seize
ced, cess
yield, go
chrom
color
chron
time
cide
murder
circum
around
clin, cliv
slope
clud, clus, claus, clois
shut, close
co, com, con
with, together
cogn, gno
know
contra
against
corp
body
cosmo, cosm
world
crac, crat
rule, power
cred
trust, believe
cresc, cret
grow
culp
blame, fault
curr, curs
run
de
down, out, apart
dec
ten, tenth
demo, dem
people
di, diurn
day
dia
across
dic, dict
speak
dis, dif, di
not, apart, away
doc, doct
teach
dol
pain
duc, duct
lead
ego
self
en, em
in, into
err
wander
eu
well, good
ex, e
out, out of
fac, fic, fect, fy, fea
make, do
fal, fals
decieve
ferv
boil
fid
faith, trust
flu, flux
flow
fore
before
frag, frac
break
fus
pour
gen
birth, class, kin
grad, gress
step
graph, gram
writing
grat
pleasing
grav, griev
heavy
greg
crowd, flock
habit, hibit
have, hold
hap
by chance
helio, heli
sun
hetero
other
hol
whole
homo
same
homo
man
hydr
water
hyper
too much, excess
hypo
too little, under
in, ig, il, im, ir
not
in, il, im, ir
in, on, into
inter
between, among
intra, intr
within
it, iter
within
ject, jet
throw
jour
day
jud
judge
junct, jug
join
jur
swear, law
lat
side
lav, lau, lu
wash
leg, lec, lex
read, speak
lev
light
liber
free
lig, lect
choose, gather
lig, li, ly
bind
ling, lang
tongue
liter
letter
lith
stone
loqu, loc, log
speech, thought
luc, lum
light
lud, lus
play
macro
great
mag, maj, mas, max
great
mal
bad
man
hand
mar
sea
mater, matr
mother
medi
middle
mega
great
memor, memen
remember
meter, metr, mens
measure
micro
small
mis
wrong, bad, hate
mit, miss
send
moll
soft
mon, monit
warn
mono
one
mor
custom, manner
mor, mort
dead
morph
shape
mov, mot, mob, mom
move
mut
change
nat, nasc
born
nau, nav
ship, sailor
neg
not, deny
neo
new
nihil
none, nothing
nom, nym
name
nox, nic, nec, noc
harm
nov
new
numer
number
ob
against
omni
all
oner
burden
oper
work
pac
peace
palp
feel
pan
all
pater, patr
father
path, pass
feel, suffer
pec
money
ped, pod
foot
pel, puls
drive
pen
almost
pend, pens
hang
per
through, by, for, throughout
per
against, destruction
peri
around
pet
seek, go toward
phil
love
phob
fear
phon
sound
plac
calm, please
pon, pos
put, place
port
carry
pot
drink
pot
power
pre
before
prim, pri
first
pro
ahead, forth
proto
first
prox, prop
near
pyr
fire
quad, quar, quat
four
ques, quer, quis, quir
question
quie
quiet
quint, quin
five
radi, rami
branch
rect, reg
straight, rule
reg
king, rule
retro
backward
rid, ris
laugh
rog
ask
rud
rough, crude
rupt
break
sacr, sanct
holy
scrib, script, scriv
write
se
apart, away
sec, sect, seg
cut
sed, sid
sit
sem
seed, sow
sen
old
sent, sens
feel, think
sequ, secu
follow
sim, sem
similar, same
sign
mark, sign
sin
curve
sol
sun
sol
alone
somn
sleep
son
sound
soph
wisdom
spec, spic
see, look
sper
hope
spers, spar
scatter
spir
breathe
strict, string
bind
struct, stru
build
sub
under
summ
highest
super, sur
above
surge, surrect
rise
syn, sym
together
tacit, tic
silent
tact, tag, tang
touch
ten, tin, tain
hold, twist
tend, tens, tent
stretch
term
end
terr
earth, land
test
witness
the
god
therm
heat
tim
fear, frightened
top
place
tort
twist
torp
stiff, numb
tox
poison
tract
draw
trans
across, over through, beyond
trem, trep
shake
turb
shake
umbr
shadow
uni, un
one
urb
city
vac
empty
val, vail
value, strength
ven, vent
come
verb
word
vert, vers
turn
vict, vinc
conquer
vid, vis
see
vil
base, mean
viv, vit
life
voc, vok, vow
call, voice
vol
wish
volv, volut
turn, roll
vor
eat
