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SAT Root Words 2
SAT root words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| CONTRA | against (controversy,contravene,incontrovertible) |
| CORP | body (corpse,corporeal,corpulence) |
| COSMO,COSM | world (cosmos,cosmopolitan,macrocosm) |
| CRAC,CRAT | rule,power (democracy,theocracy,autocrat,bureaucracy) |
| CRED | trust,believe (incredible,credulous,credence) |
| CRESC,CRET | grow (crescent,crescendo,accretion) |
| CULP | blame,fault (culprit,culpable,inculpate) |
| CURR,CURS | run (current,concur,cursory,precursor) |
| DE | down,out,apart (depart,debase,deface,delegate,deplete,detest) |
| DEC | ten,tenth (decade,decimal,decimate) |
| DEMO,DEM | people (democrat, demographics, epidemic, pandemic) |
| DI,DIURN | day (diary, quotidian, diurnal) |
| DIA | across (diagonal, diatribe, diaphanous) |
| DIC,DICT | speak (abdicate, diction, interdict, predict, verdict) |
| DIS,DIF,DI | not,apart,away (disaffected, discredit, dispirit, divert, diffuse) |
| DOC,DOCT | teach (docile, doctrine, doctrinaire) |
| DOL | pain (condolence, doleful, dolorous, indolent) |
| DUC,DUCT | lead (seduce,induce,conduct,induct) |
| EGO | self (ego,egoist,egocentric) |
| EN,EM | in,into (enter,entice,enthrall,empathy) |
| ERR | wander (erratic,aberration,errant) |
| EU | well,good (eulogy,euphony,euthanasia) |
| EX,E | out,out of (exit,excerpt,extremity,extricate,evoke) |
| FAC,FIC,FECT,FY,FEA | make,do (factory,facility,benefactor,fiction,magnify) |
| FAL,FALS | deceive (infallible,fallacious,false) |
| FERV | boil (fervent,fervid,effervescent) |
| FID | faith,trust (confident,diffidence,perfidious) |
| FLU,FLUX | flow (fluent,affluent,superfluous) |
| FORE | before (forecast,foreboding,forestall) |
| FRAG,FRAC | break (fragment,fracture,diffract,fractious,refract) |
| FUS | pour (profuse,infusion,diffuse) |
| GEN | birth,class,kin (generation,homogeneous,progeny) |
| GRAD,GRESS | step (graduate,gradual,centigrade,degrade,progress,congress,digress) |
| GRAPH,GRAM | writing (biography,bibliography,grammar) |
| GRAT | pleasing (grateful,gratitude, congratulate,gratuity) |