root words 6-10
Terms
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- logy
- Study of (genealogy, biology, geology)
- Mon
- To warn (premonition)
- Pend/pens
- To hang (suspense, pendulous, suspend)
- Tact/tang
- To touch (tactile, tangible)
- Gress
- To step (progress, congress, egress)
- Temp
- Time (tempo, temporary, temporize)
- Cred
- Belief (incredible, credence, credulous
- Gest
- To carry (digest, gestation)
- Aud
- Self (autobiography, autocracy)
- Magn
- Large or great (magnificent, magnanimous, magnify)
- Geo
- Of the earth (geology, geography)
- Nov
- New (innovate, novel, novice)
- Clud/clued/clus
- To shut or close (exclude, conclusion
- Vid/vis
- To see (evident, video, visualize)
- Pseudo
- False (pseudoscience, pseudonym)
- Corp
- Body (corporeal, corps, corpse)
- Chron
- Time (chronic, chronicle, chronometry)
- Mit/miss
- To send (remittance, missile)
- Vert/vers
- To turn (versus, revert, convert)
- Greg
- To flock or group (gregarious, egregious)
- Fid
- Faith/trust (fidelity, infidel, fiduciary)
- Hemo
- Blood (hemostat, hemophilia)
- Tort
- To bend or twist (contort, contortion, tortuous)
- Fract/frag
- Break (fragile, fragment, fraction)
- Psych
- Of the mind (psychic, psychiatry, psychedelic)
- Ten/tain
- To hold (obtain, tenable, tenacious)
- Man
- By hand (manuscript, manual, amanuenis)
- Morph
- Shape or dreams (metamorphosis)
- Cede/Ceed/Cess
- Step (proceed, process)
- Techni
- Skill (technique, technology)
- Vict/vinc
- To conquer (convince, victim, convict, victorious, victor)
- Fin
- End (finalize, finality, finale)
- Pel/puls
- To drive (repel, impulse, pulsate)
- Cide
- To kill (suicide, insecticide)
- Sim/syn
- The same or alike (similar, synonym)
- Aud
- To Hear (audience, audition)
- Path
- Feelings (sympathy, empathy)
- Rupt
- To burst or break (corrupt, rupture, bankrupt)
- Sequ/secu
- To follow (sequential, insecure)
- Carn
- Flesh (carnage, carnal)
- Dyna
- Power/energy (dynamic, dynamo, dynasty)
- Port
- To carry (import, portable, portage)
- Bio
- Life (biography, biology)
- Graph
- To draw/write (autograph, telegraph, graphic)
- Don
- To give or gift (donation, donor)
- Leg
- Law/of the law (legal, legislate, legitimate)
- Derm
- Skin (dermatology, dermatitis)
- Tend/tens
- To stretch (tendon, tension, tendency)
- Phobia
- Specific irrational fear of (agoraphobia-open spaces, hydrophobia- water)
- Pot/poss
- Power (potent, posse, possessive)
- Cur/curs
- To run or flow (cursive, curfew
- Phil
- Love of (philatel -stamps, philharmonic-orchestra)
- Loqu
- To talk or speak (eloquent, soliloquy, ventriloquist)
- Dict
- To tell or say (dictation, edict, dictator, diction)
- Hydro
- Water (hydroponics, hydrophobia, hydrometer)
- Sent/sens
- Thought (dissent, nonsense)
- Voc/voke
- To call (vocation, provoke, provocative, vocalize, invoke)
- Viv/vit
- To live, have life (vivid, vivacious, vitality)
- Poli
- Of the city (politics, metropolis, policy)
- Mand
- To order (mandate, reprimand)
- Duce/duct
- To lead (seduce, reduce, ductile)
- Flu
- To flow (fluency, flue)
- Grat
- To please or thank (gratify, gratitude)
- Tract
- To pull (tractor, traction, tractable)
- Spir
- To breath (inspire, spirit, expire)
- Vac
- Empty (vacuum, vacate, vacuous)
- Gen
- Beginning (genesis, genetic, generate)