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Latin and Greek Root

TermDefinition
-plec- / -plex to fold or twist ex: implication, perplex, complex, implicit
poli- city ex: politics, cosmopolitan
-port after ex: deport, export
po- / pov- without ex: poverty
post- after ex: postscript, postpone
pre- before ex: prehistoric, predilection, precognition
pro- for, forward ex: promote, procrasinate
pun- / pen- pay, punish ex: punitive, punish, penalty, penitentiary
pyr- fire ex: pyre, pyrotechnics pyromania
que- / quis- to look for, to obtain ex: question, quest, inquisitive
re- again, back ex: regain, recreation, recognition
rupt- break ex: corrupt, rupture, interrupt
sal- / sil- to jump ex: resilient, salient
sanct- / sacre- / secre- sacred ex: sanction, desecrate, sanctuary
sci- to know ex: science, conscience, prescient, omniscient
-scope to see ex: microscope, telescope
-scrib / -script to write, to draw ex: transcript, proscribe, postscript
se- apart, away ex: segregate, separate
sec- / sequ- to follow ex: sequence, secondary
sens- / -sent to feel, to perceive ex: sensual, sensation, presentiment
-sis the condition of ex: prognosis, psychosis
soc- companion ex: social, society, associate
sol- / solv- / solut to free, to loosen ex: solve, solvent, solution, insoluble
somp- / sop- sleep ex: insomnia, soporific
soph- wisdom ex: sophomore, sophists, philosophy
spec- / spic- to look ex: inspect, introspective, spectacles, conspicuous
sta- / sti- to stand ex: statement, stasis, institute, apostatize, destitute
stella- star ex: stellar, interstellar, constellation
-struct / stru- to build ex: construction,
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