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MP1 Vocab
Latin and Greek Roots
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a, an | not, without (atypical, asexual, anarchy, anonymous) |
| ab, a | from, away, apart (abdicate, abduct, ) |
| am, ami | friend, love (amicable, amiable) |
| cide | murder, kill (suicide, insecticide, genocide) |
| clin | slope, lean (incline, recline, decline, inclination) |
| clud | shut, close (include, conclude, exclude, preclude) |
| dic | proclaim, say (abdicate, dedicate, indicate) |
| dict | speak, say (dictate, predict, contradict, verdict) |
| doc/doct | teach (docile, document, docility) |
| demo, dem | people (democracy, demographic, endemic) |
| ego | self (egocentric, egoism, egomania) |
| fac | make, do (factory, manufacture, benefactor) |
| frag, frac | break (fracture, fraction, infraction, fragile) |
| hetero | other, different (heterosexual, heterogeneous) |
| homo | same (homosexual, homogenous) |
| homo | man (homicide, hombre, homage) |
| eg | law, ambassador (legal, illegal, legitimate) |
| ling, lang | tongue (linguistic, language, bilingual) |
| mal | bad (dismal, maladroit, malady, malaria) |
| man | hand (manacle, manicure, manifest) |
| mono | one (monochromatic, monocle) |
| mor, mort | death (mortician, mortuary, mortal, immortal) |
| mut | change (mutation, immutable, mutual, commute) |
| neg | not, deny (negate, negative) |
| neo | new (neophyte, neoclassical, neonatal) |
| omni | all (omnipotent, omniscient, omniformity) |
| ori | beginning (origin, original, originate, aboriginal) |
| orn | furnish (ornate, adornment) |
| ortho | straight, right (orthopedist, orthodontist, orthodox) |
| palp | feel (palpable, palpability, palpitation) |
| path, pass | feel, suffer (pathology, sympathy, pathos) |
| ped, pod | foot (pedal, pedestrian, pedestal, podiatry, podium, tripod) |
| pel, puls | drive (propel, compel, expel, repel, repellant) |
| phon | sound (phonograph, symphony, telephone) |
| port | carry (portable, transport, import, export) |
| prim, pri, prin | first (primary, primate, principal, principle) |
| pro | ahead, forth (proceed, procedure, produce) |
| ques, que, quir | question, seek, gain (inquest, request, conquest, inquire, acquire) |
| rud | rough, crude rude, rudiment, erudite, erudition) |
| rur, rus | country (rural, ruralistic, rustic, rustication) |
| rupt | break (rupture, erupt, interrupt, abrupt) |
| scend | climb, leap (ascend, transcend, descend) |
| sci | know (science, conscience, conscious) |
| sec, sect, seg | cut (dissect, intersect, segment) |
| serv | watch over, slave, serve, save (service, conserve, observation) |
| soci | companion (associate, sociable, society) |
| struct, stru | build (structure, construct, instruct, destruction) |
| sub | under (subordinate, subject) |
| summ | highest (summit, summary, summons) |
| syn, sym | together, alike (symbiosis, symbiotic, synchronize) |
| tard | slow (tardy, retardation) |
| term | end (terminal, terminate, determine) |
| terr | earth, land, fright (territory, terrestrial, terrace, terror, terrible, deterred) |
| test | witness (attest, contest, protest, testify) |
| tim | fear, frightened (timid, timorous, intimidate) |
| tract | draw, pull (attract, traction, extract) |
| trans | over, across, through, beyond (transgender, transcontinental, transcendentalism) |
| turb | shake, confusion (disturb, turbulence, perturb) |
| vac, vacu, van | empty (vacant, vacation, vacate, vacuous, evacuate) |
| verb | word (verbal, verbatim, verbiage, verbose) |