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Word Roots PAR-POST
Word roots PAR-POST
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| PAR | equal (par, disparity) |
| PARA | next to, beside (parallel, parody) |
| PAS/PAT/PATH | feeling, suffering, disease (apathy, compassion) |
| PATER/PATR | father, support (patron, patriarch) |
| PAU/PO/POV/PU | few, little, poor (poor, poverty) |
| PED | child, education (pediatrician, encyclopedia) |
| PED/POD | foot (pedal, pedestrian) |
| PEN/PUN | to pay, to compensate (penalty, punitive) |
| PEND/PENS | to hang, to weigh, to pay (depend, pensive) |
| PER | completely, wrong (persistent, perjury) |
| PERI | around (perimeter, peripheral) |
| PET/PIT | to go, to seek, to strive (appetite, compete) |
| PHIL | love (philosophy, philanthropy) |
| PHONE | sound (telephone, symphony) |
| PLAC | to please (placid, placate) |
| PLE | to fill (complete, complement) |
| PLEX/PLIC/PLY | to fold, to twist, to tangle, to bend (complex, comply) |
| PON/POS/POUND | to put, to place (component, dispose) |
| PORT | to carry (import, portable) |
| POST | after (posterior, posterity) |
| •FIN | end (final, define) |
| •FLAG/FLAM | to burn (flame, flagrant) |
| •FLECT/FLEX | to bend (deflect, flexible) |
| •FLICT | to strike (afflict, inflict) |
| •FLU, FLUX | to flow (fluid, influx) |
| •FORE | before (foresight, foreshadow) |
| •FORT | chance (fortune, fortuitous) |
| •FRA/FRAC/FRAG/FRING | to break (fracture, fragile) |
| •FRUIT/FRUG | fruit, produce (fruitful, frugal) |
| •FUND/FOUND | bottom (foundation, founder) |
| •FUS | to pour (transfusion, diffuse) |
| •GEN | birth, creation, race, kind (generous, indigenous) |
| •GN/GNO | know (recognize, cognitive) |
| •GRAND | big (grand, grandiose) |
| •GRAT | pleasing (grateful, gratuity) |
| •GRAV/GRIEV | heavy, serious (grave, grievous) |
| •GREG | hard (segregation, gregarious) |
| •GRESS/GRAD | to step (progress, gradual) |
| •HER/HES | to stick (coherent, cohesive) |
| •(H)ETERO | different (heterosexual, heterogeneous) |
| •(H)OM | same (homogeneous, anomaly) |
| •HYPER | over, excessive (hyperactive, hyperbole) |
| •HYPO | under, beneath, less than (hypochondriac, hypocritical) |
| •ID | one's own (idiom, idiosyncrasy) |
| •IM/IN | not, without (inactive, impartial) |
| •IM/IN/EM/EN | in, into (embrace, influx) |
| •INFRA | beneath (infrastructure, infrared) |
| •INTER | between, among (interstate, interim) |
| •INTRA | within (intrastate, intravenous) |
| •JECT | to throw, to throw down (inject, trajectory) |
| •JOIN/JUNCT | to meet, to join (junction, joint) |
| •JUR | to swear (jury, perjury) |
| •LECT/LEG | to select, to choose (collect, elegant) |
| •LEV | life, light, rise (elevator, lever) |
| •LOC/LOG/LOQU | word, speech (dialogue, eloquent) |
| •LUC/LUM/LUS | light (illuminate, lucid) |
| •LUD/LUS | to play (illusion, ludicrous) |
| •LUT/LUG/LUV | to wash (dilute, deluge) |
| •MAG/MAJ/MAX | big (magnify, major) |
| •MAL/MALE | bad, ill, evil, wrong (malfunction, malevolent) |
| •MAN | hand (manual, manufacture) |
| •MATER/MATR | woman, mother (matrimony, maternity) |
| •MIN | small (minute, diminish) |
| •MIN | to project, to hang over (imminent, prominent) |
| •MIS/MIT | to send (transmit, emissary) |
| •MISC | mixed (miscellaneous, promiscuous) |
| •MON/MONIT | to warn (monitor, summons) |
| •MORPH | shape (amorphous, metamorphosis) |
| •MORT | death (immortal, morgue) |
| •MUT | change (mutation, immutable) |
| •NAM/NOM/NOUN/ NOWN/NYM | rule, order (astronomy, autonomy) |
| •NAT/NAS/NAI | to be born (natural, naïve) |
| •NEC/NIC/NOC/NOX | harm, death (obnoxious, necromancy) |
| •NOM/NYM/NOUN/ NOWN | name (synonym, noun) |
| •NOV/NEO/NOU | new (novice, novel) |
| •NOUNC/NUNC | to announce (announce, pronounce) |
| •OB/OC/OF/OP | toward, to (against, completely, over obese, obtuse) |
| •OMNI | all (omnipresent, omnipotent) |
| •PAC/PEAC | peace (peace, pacify) |
| •PAN | all, everywhere (panorama, pantheon) |