Word Dissection ERWC 1-3

tang

touch

Examples: tangent, intangible, tangency, tangibility

sal

salt

Examples:  saliferous, saline, salification, salify

frang

break

Examples: frangible, infrangibility, diffrangible

sopor

deep sleep

Examples:  soporific, soporous, soporiferous

scrut/scruta/scrutin

examine

Examples: scrutable, inscrutable, scrutineer, scrutinous

brady

slow

Examples: bradycardia, bradyphagia

fung/fungi

fungus

Examples: fungicide, fungoid, fungose

mitig

soften(lessen)

Examples: mitigable, unmitigably, mitigator

evit/evita

avoid(shun)

Examples:  evitable, inevitably

leuco/leuko

white(colorless)

Examples: leucocyte, leukemia, leucoderma, leukorrhea

surg

rise

Examples: insurgent, resurgence, surge, assurgency 

tache/tacho/tachy/tachisto

rapid(fast/swift)

Examples:  tachycardiac, tachistoscope, hematachometer, tachygraphy

prehend/prehens

grasp(seize/take)

Examples:  apprehend, reprehend, comprehensive

corp/corpor/corpus

body

Examples: incorporate, corpulent, corporeal, corpore

chiro/cheiro

hand

Examples: chiropodist, chiroplasty, 

chirograph, cheiromegaly

esthes/ethesio/esthesia

sensation (feeling)

Note: Esthetic/esthetics/aesthetic= feeling-- 

beauty in art/nature/etc

odyno/odyne/odynia

pain (ache)

Examples: myodynia, osteodynia, odynophobia, 

odynometer

trus

thrust (push)

Examples:  intrusion, detrusive protrusion, extrusive

epi-

Examples:epicenter, epidemic, epigastralgia, epencephalic

upper (above/on/over/upon)

jact

boast

Examples: jactance, jactancy

rhizo

root

rhizogenic, rhizoid, 

rhizophagous, rhizotomy