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