COMMON ROOTS

ag, act

-do

-action, activity, agent

ambul

-walk, move

-ambulance, ambulatory, amble

ami, amo

-love

-amiable, amorous

anim

-mind, soul, spirit

-animal, animate, unanimous

anthro

-human

-anthropology, philanthropy

aud, audit

-hear

-audible, auditorium, audience

auto

-self

-automobile, autobiography, autograph

belli

-war

-belligerent, rebellious, bellicose

ben

-good

-benefactor, beneficial, benevolence

biblio

-book

-bibliography, bible

bio

-life

-biography, biology

carn

-flesh, meat

-carnivore, carnal, incarnate

chron

-time

-chronic, chronology, synchronize

cid, cis

-cut, kill

-incision, homicide, insecticide

civi

-citizen

-civilization, civilian, civil

corp

-body

-corporation, corporeal, corpse

dem

-people

-democracy, demographic

dic, dict

-speak

-dictate, contradict, prediction, verdict

domin

-master

-dominant, domain, domineering

err

-wander

-error, erratic, errand

eu

-good beautiful

-eulogize, euphoria, euphemism

fall, fals

-deceive

-fallacious, infallible, falsify

fid

-faith

-fidelity, confide, confidence

graph, gram

-writing

-grammar, telegram graphite

loqu, locut

-talk

-soliloquy, loquacious, elocution

luc

-light

-elucidate, lucid, translucent

magn

-great

-magnify, magnate, magnanimous

mal

-bad

-malevolent, malediction, malicious

mori, mort

-die

-mortuary, immortal, moribund

morph

-shape, form

-amorphous, metamorphosis

nat

-born

-innate, natal, nativity

nom

-name

-misnomer, nominal

nov

-new

-novice, innovate, renovate, novelty

omni

-all

-omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous

pac, pas, pax

-peace

-pacify, pacific, pacifist, passive

path, pass

-disease, feeling

-pathology, sympathetic, apathy, antipathy

phil

-love

-philanthropist, philosophy, philanderer

port

-carry

-portable, porter, trasport, export

poten

-able, powerful

-potential, omnipotent, potentate, impotent

psych

-mind

-psyche, psychology, psychosis, psychopath

reg, rect

-rule

-regicide, regime, regent, insurrection

sacr, secr

-holy

-sacred, sacrilegious, sacrament, consecrate

scribe, script

-write

-scribe, describe, script

somn

-sleep

-insomnia, somnolent, somnambulist

spec, spic

-see, look

-spectators, spectacles, retrospect, conspicuous

tang, tact, ting

-touch

-tactile, tangent, contact, contingent

terr

-land

-terrain, terrestrial, subterranean

urb

-city

-urban, urbane, suburban

vac

-empty

-vacation, vacuous, evacuate, vacant

ver

-truth

-veracity, verify, veracious

verb

-word

-verbose, verbatim, proverb

viv, vit

-alive

-revival, vivacious, vitality