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SSAT_roots
SSAT roots
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aqua, aque | water |
| auto | self |
| biblio | book |
| bio | life |
| cap | take |
| ible/able | changes words into adjectives |
| chron | time |
| cide, cis | cut |
| ize | changes words into verbs |
| cog, cogn | knowledge of |
| visualize | make a mental picture |
| duce, duct | lead |
| fact, fect, fict | make, do |
| affectation | something made up; a pretense |
| flect, flex | bend, turn |
| fring, fract | break |
| graph, gram | picture or writing |
| greg | group, gather |
| gress, grad | move (2) |
| hydr | water |
| Ject | throw |
| junct | join |
| juris | law, justice |
| logue | speaking, speech |
| loq, loc | talk, speak |
| mand | order, command |
| manu | hand |
| mem, ment: | Mind, memory |
| commemorate | to remember with |
| demented | out of one's mind |
| reminisce | to call back memories |
| mis, miss, mit | send |
| emit | to send out |
| remission | state of being sent back |
| transmit | to send across |
| ped, pod, | foot |
| pel, pulse | drive, push |
| pend, pense | hang, weigh |
| plac | please |
| biped | animal that walks on two feet |
| pedestrian | person who is walking |
| podiatrist | foot doctor |
| tripod | an object with three feet |
| dispel | to drive away |
| propel | to push forward |
| repel | to push back |
| appendix | part that hangs, portion of book in the back |
| impending | hanging over something |
| suspend | to hang from |
| implacable | not able to be pleased or appeased |
| placate | to please |
| fictictious | made up, not true |
| vers/vert | turning |
| contra | against |
| contrary | turn back |
| contrary | stubbornly against |
| versus | against |
| vertigo | spinning, turning sensation |
| avert | turn sideways or away, ward off |
| introvert | a person who is turned inward, not social |
| cosmopolitan | representative of many countries |
| poli | belonging to city or government |
| gen | belonging to family or race |
| nat | belonging to birthplace or nation |
| metropolitan | having to do with city |
| policy | plan of action or governing principle |
| spir | breath, alive |
| photo | light |
| flam | fire |
| flammable | able to catch fire |
| photosynthesis | Using sunlight |
| spirited | very alive, lively |
| respiration | act of breathing |
| deplorable | aweful, terrible |