Roots 2 Flashcards
CRED
To believe, to trust
Credentials, credit, credo, credulity, incredible
CRE/CRESC/CRET
To grow
Accretion, accrue, creation, excrescence, increase, increment
CRYPT
Hidden
Apocryphal, crypt, cryptography, cryptology
CUB/CUMB
To lie down
Cubicle, incubate, incumbent, recumbent, succumb
CULP
Fault, blame
Culpable, culprit, inculpate, mea culpa
DAC/DOC
To teach
Didactic, docile, doctrine, indoctrinate
DE
Away, off, down, completely, reversal
Decipher, defame, deferential, defile, delineate, descend
DELE
Erase
Delete, indelible
DEM
People
Democracy, demographic, endemic, epidemic, pandemic
DEXT
Right hand, right side, deft
Ambidextrous, dexter, dexterity
DI
Day
Dial, diary, dismal, diurnal, meridian, quotidian
DI/DIA
In two, through, access
Diagnose, dialogue, diameter, dichotomy
DI/DIF/DIS
Away from, apart, reversal, not
Diffuse, dilate, dilatory, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, dissuade
DIC/DICT/DIT
To say, to tell, to use words
Dictionary, interdict, predict, verdict
DIGN
Worth
Condign, deign, dignitary, dignity, disdain
DOG/DOX
Opinion
Dogma, orthodox, paradox
DOL
to suffer, to pain, to grieve
Condolence, doleful, dolor out, indolence
DON/DOT/DOW
To give
Anecdote, antidote, donate, endow, pardon
DORM
Sleep
Dormant, dormitory
DORS
Back
Dorsal, dormitory
DUB
Doubt
Dubiety, dubious, indubitable
DUC/DUCT
To lead
Abduct, conducive, conduct, induce, induct
DULC
Sweet
Dulcet, dulcified, dulcimer
DUR
Hard, lasting
Dour, durable, duration, duress, endure, obdurate
DYS
Faulty, abnormal
Dysfunctional, dyslexia, dyspepsia, dystrophy
E/EX
Out, out of, from, former, completely
Efface, evade, exclude, exonerate, expire, extricate
EGO
Self
Ego, egocentric, egoism/egotism
EM/EN
In, into
Embrace, enclose
EPI
Upon
Epidemic, epidermis, epigram, epilogue, epithet
EQU
Equal, even
Adequate, equation, equidistant, iniquity
ERR
To wander
Arrant, err, erratic, error
ESCE
Becoming
Adolescent, convalescent, incandescent, obsolescent, reminiscent
EU
Good, well
Eulogy, eugenics, euphemism, euphony, euthanasia
EXTRA
Outside, beyond
Extract, extradite, extraordinary, extrapolate, extrasensory
FAB/FAM
To speak
Affable, defame, fable, famous, ineffable
FAC/FIC/FIG/FAIT/FEIT/FY
To do, to make
Configuration, counterfeit, deficient, effigy, faction, factory
FAL
To err, to deceive
Default, fail, fallacy, false, faux pas, infallible
FATU
Foolish
Fatuity, fatuous, infatuated
FER
To bring, to carry, to bear
Confer, offer, proffer, proliferate, referendum
FERV
To boil, bubble
Effervescent, fervid, fervor
FI/FID
Faith, trust
Affidavit, confide, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel