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SAT Root Words 1
SAT root words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A,An | not,without (amoral,asymmetrical) |
| AB,A | not,without (abnormal,abdicate,avert) |
| AC,ACR | sharp,sour (acid,acute,acrid) |
| AD,A | to,towards (adjacent,adjunct,alleviate) |
| ALI,ALTR | another (alienate,inalienable,alias) |
| AM,AMI | love (amicable,amiable,amity) |
| AMBI,AMPHI | both (ambiguous,amphibian,ambivalent) |
| AMBL,AMBUL | walk (amble,ambulatory,perambulator) |
| ANIM | mind,spirit,breath (animal,animosity,unanimous) |
| ANN,ENN | year (annual,annuity,biennial) |
| ANTE, ANT | before (antecedent,antebellum,anticipate) |
| ANTHROP | human (anthropology,philanthropy) |
| ANTI,ANT | against,opposite (antidote,antonym,antagonist) |
| AUD | hear (audio,audience,audition,audible) |
| AUTO | self (autobiography,autocrat) |
| BELLI,BELL | war (antebellum,rebellion) |
| BENE,BEN | good (benevolent,benefactor,beneficent) |
| BI | two (bicycle,bisect,biped) |
| BIBLIO | book (Bible, bibliography) |
| BIO | life (biography,biology,amphibious) |
| BURS | money,purse (reimburse,bursar) |
| CAD,CAS,CID | happen,fall (accident,cadence, cascade, deciduous) |
| CAP,CIP | head (captain,decapitate,capitulate,precipitate) |
| CARN | flesh (carnal,carnivorous,carnage) |
| CAP,CAPT,CEPT,CIP | take,hold,seize (capable,captivate,intercept,anticipate,deception) |
| CED,CESS | yield,go (cease,precede,antecedent,cession) |
| CHROM | color (chrome,chromatic,monochrome) |
| CHRON | time (chronology,anachronism) |
| CIDE | murder (suicide, homicide,patricide) |
| CIRCUM | around (circumference,circumlocution,circumvent) |
| CLIN,CLIV | slope (incline,declivity,proclivity) |
| CLUD,CLUS,CLAUS,CLOIS | shut,close (conclude,claustrophobic,occlude) |
| CO,COM,CON | with,together (congress,concur,compassion,cognate,conjure,complicity) |
| COGN,GNO | know (recognize,diagnosis,agnostic,ignorant) |