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Word Roots
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| two | duo,du |
| foot | pod,ped |
| to see, eye | op |
| twist | tort,tors |
| flesh | carn |
| hair | cil |
| mother, father | mater, pater |
| under | sub |
| wrong, amiss, ill | mis |
| shade | umber |
| to know | sci |
| to turn | vers, vert |
| before | pre |
| beyond, exceedingly | ultra |
| half | demi |
| city | polis |
| way | via |
| above | super |
| to hold | ten, tent |
| in place of | vice |
| to wash | lav |
| to conquer, to show conclusively | vinct, vict |
| man | homo,hom |
| to think, to feel | sent, sens |
| sun | sol |
| bird | avis |
| cutting, operation of incision | tom, tomy |
| light | photo, phos |
| across, through | trans |
| to touch | tang, tact |
| half | semi |
| new | nov, neo |
| to call | vocat, voc |
| to blame | culp |
| comfort, soothe | sol |
| again, back | re |
| time | tempor |
| holy | sanc |
| to follow | sequi, secut |
| old | sen |
| memory | mnem |
| to flee | fug |
| live, alive | viv |
| to judge | jud |
| to look at | spec,spect |
| friend | ami |
| many | poly |
| great | mega |
| fight | pug |
| to loosen | solv, solut |
| to seek | pet, petit |
| to roll | volv, volut |
| will, wish | vol |
| to write | script, scrib |
| truth | ver |
| to see | vid, vis |
| sleep | somn |
| light | lev |
| bind, draw tight | string, strict |
| old age | ger |
| to come | veni, vent |
| land | terr |
| eat greedily | vor |
| star | stella |
| pleasant, thank, favor | grat |
| stomach | gastr |
| bad, ill, difficult | dys |
| over, above, beyond the ordinary | hyper |
| city | urb |
| equal | iso |
| water | hydra |
| to change | mut |
| worship | latry |
| women | gyn |
| pertaining to, capable of | il, ile |
| within | intro, intra |
| break | fract, frag |
| between | inter |
| to make | fy |
| wisdom | soph |
| wall | mur |
| rule, government | cracy |
| not without | in, il, im, ir |
| under, beneath, less than ordinary | hypo |
| flock, herd | greg |
| bend | flect, flex |
| in, into, on, toward | in, il im, ir |
| faith, trust | fid |
| class, race, origin | gener, gen |
| god | theo |
| sun | heli, helio |
| name | nym |
| one and the same, like | homo |
| to make, to do | fac, fic, fec, fect |