GRE vocab roots

bene

good

→ benevolent, benefit

mal

bad

→ malicious, malfunction

dict

say/speak

→ dictate, contradict

cred

believe

→ credible, incredulous

vid/vis

see

→ visible, evidence

aud

hear

→ audible, audience

scrib/script

write

→ describe, manuscript

port

carry

→ transport, portable

tract

pull/drag

→ attract, distract

ject

throw

→ reject, inject

cog/cogn

think/know

→ cognition, recognize

sci

know

→ science, conscious

spec

look

→ inspect, spectacle

luc/lum

light

→ lucid, illuminate

doc

teach

→ doctor, doctrine

log/logue

word/study

→ logic, dialogue

mot/mov

move

→ motion, promote

grad/gress

step/go

→ progress, regress

ven/vent

come

→ convene, invent

cede/ceed/cess

go/yield

→ proceed, concede

chron

time

→ chronology

prim

first

→ primary

sequ/sec

follow

→ sequence, consequence

ord

order

→ ordinary, coordinate

magn

large

→ magnify, magnificent

micro

small

→ microscope

multi

many

→ multiple

uni

one

→ unify

reg

rule

→ regulate, reign

arch

chief

→ monarch

dom

power

→ dominate

potent

powerful

→ potential

am

love

→ amiable

od

hate

→ odious

path

feeling

→ sympathy, apathy

form

shape

→ transform

struct

build

→ construct

fac/fact

make/do

→ factory, manufacture

rupt

break

→ rupture, disrupt

cid/cis

cut

→ incision, precise

anti-

against

pro-

for

sub-

under

super-

above

inter-

between

intra-

within

pre-

before

post-

after

re-

again

trans-

across

un-

not

in-/im-/il-/ir-

not

non-

not

a-

without

-ology

study of

-phobia

fear

-philia

love

-ist

person

-ism

belief

-ous

full of

-ive

having quality

-ity

state of