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Ling 150 Ch. 4
Morphemes from Ch. 4 of English Vocabulary Elements
| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| am~im | love | amorous, amative, amicable, inimical |
| ann~enn | year | per annum, perennial, annals, millennium |
| apt~ept | fit | aptitude, inept, adapt, adept, coapt |
| bol~bl | throw | parabola, emblem, hyberbole, metabolism, problem |
| cap~cep~cip~cup | take | captive, except, incipient, recuperate, principle, precept, percipient, occupy, capacious |
| cid~cis | cut, kill | homicide, incision, excise, circumcise, concise |
| cri | judge, separate | critic, criterion, crisis, endocrine, hypocrisy |
| cri~cre~cer | separate | discern, secern, secret, secrete, certain, criminal |
| cub~cumb | lie down | incubate, incumbent, concubine, recumbent, cubicle |
| de~div | god | deity, divinity, deification, divine, deism, diva |
| equ~iqu | even | equity, iniquity, equanimity, equadistant, equal, equator, equation, adequate |
| erg~org~urg | work | energy, metallurgy, organ, orgy, demiurge, ergative, georgic, liturgy |
| fac~fec~fic | do, make | factory, defect, artificial, perfect, prefect, fact, factotum, factor, facsimile, deficit, suffice, artifice |
| frag~frang~fring | break | fragile, frangible, infringe, fragment, refrangent |
| fund~fus | pour, melt | refund, effusive, fuse, fusion, infuse, infusion, refuse, affusion, fusile, diffuse |
| gen~gn~na | birth | general, genus, genius, genial, genital, progeny, ingenious, indigenous, genuine, gentile, benign, pregnant, innate, native, nation, natal, agnate |
| gen~gon | birth | gene, genocide, genisis, heterogeneous, epigene, gonad |
| men~mon | think | mental, memento, dementia, mention, admonish |
| mne | remember | amnesia, mnemonic |
| mov~mo | move | move, motion, motility, motive, emotion, motor, promote, mobile |
| nec~necr | die | nectar, nectarine, necrosis |
| nec~noc~nic~nox | harm | innocuous, internecine, pernicious, innocent, noxious |
| pend~pond | hang, weigh | depend, appendix, expend, ponder, pendulum, preponderate, vilipend |
| sacr~sanc~secr | holy | sacredn, sanctify, consecrate, desecrate |
| semen, semin | seed | semen, inseminate, seminal, disseminate, seminary |
| spec~spic | look | inspect, despicable, spectacle, spectrum, retrospect |
| sta~ste | stand | static, ecstasy, thermostat, stasis, system |
| sta~ste~sti~st | stand | status, stamen, obstetician, institute, stationary, stable, prostitute, constitution, statute, insist |
| tag~teg~tig~tang~ting | touch | contagion, integer, tangent, contingent, tangible |
| tempor | time | temporary, temporize, contemporary, extemporaneous |
| ten~tin | hold | tenable, continuous, tenure, tenacious, retention |
| tom~tm | cut | anatomy, tmesis, atom, microtome, entomology, epitome, tmema |
| vic~vinc | conquer | victor, invincible, evict, evince, convince, conviction |
| vor | eat | voracious, omnivore, carnivore |
| zo | animal | zoology, protozoon, azote, zoomorphic, azoic |
| al~ol | nurture, grow | alma mater, abolish, alimentary, adolecent |