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Words with Roots
Vocabulary biased on common Roots, Suffixes, and Prefixes
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| mar, mer | sea, pool |
| Marina | Harbor that provide docking/mooring for smaller boats |
| Maritime | connected with the sea |
| Marsh | low land that gets flooded in wet weather or during high tides. |
| Mermaid | a woman of the sea. typiclly half-fish, half-woman |
| Mariner | Sailor or someone who works at sea or on boats. |
| mob, mot, mov | move |
| demote | put in a lower level position (usually as punishment) |
| motivate | encourage, push or provide instinctive |
| immobile | can not be moved, unable to move |
| promotion | put in a high level position |
| Mobility | ability to move (level of movement) |
| grad, gres | step |
| graduate | move (step) up from |
| gradual | step by step, slowly |
| regress | decline, step down, go down |
| degrade | to treat badly, to make worse (take step down in quality) |
| progressive | continuing to change in steps, interested in new steps |
| hyper-/ super- | Above, Over |
| Hypo-/sub- | Under/below |
| Hypersensitive | Over sensitive |
| Superpose | Write over |
| Hypothermia | Below normal temperature |
| Superpose | Write over |
| Subpar | Below standard |
| dis- | not, opposite of |
| anti- | against |
| de- | away |
| counter- | opposite |
| Contra- | against |
| log, logue | word |
| Circuit | 1) a circular path 2) an event that will takes place in many different places |
| Circulate | 1)Go around to different points 2) Give out to a wide amount of people (like a flier) |
| Circumference | the length around a round shape |
| Circumspect | Someone that thinks carefully about all the risks before acting. |
| Circumvent | Avoid something or work around a rule, often dishonestly |
| Apology | words that express sorrow or regret for past actions |
| Dialogue | 1) Conversation (talk) between two people 2) lines that characters speak in a story |
| Epilogue | final section of a story that tells what happens after the main part of the story (example- “The all lived happily ever after”) |
| Eulogy | Speech that praises or honors someone who has died. |
| Monologue | Long speech given an actor or character in a story |
| Asterisk | a star symbol that looks like this * |
| Asteroid | a small body that circles (orbits) around the sun |
| Astronaut | a person who travels into outer space |
| Astronomer | a person who studies the stars, planets and other objects in outer space. |
| Astronomical | 1) Extremely (very) big. 2) Dealing with astronomy (the study of outer space) |
| Astr | Star |
| Hyper- | Over like in "hyperactive" |
| Super- | Above like in "superstar" |
| Hypo- | Under like in "hypothermia" |
| Sub- | Below like in "subway" |
| Contr- | against/different like in "contrary" |
Created by:
M.Boyle
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