AFOQT Word Knowledge - Roots

alter

e.g. alternate, alter ego

other

ambi

e.g. ambidextrous

both

ami, amic

e.g. amiable

love

amphi

e.g. amphibian

both sides

anthrop

e.g. misanthrope, anthropologist

human

apert

e.g. aperture

open

aqua

e.g. aqueduct, aquarium

water

aud

e.g. audience

to hear

auto

e.g. autobiography

self

bell

e.g. belligerent, bellicose

war

bene

e.g. benevolent

good

bio

---

e.g. biology

life

ced

e.g. secede, intercede

yield, go

cent

e.g. century

one hundred

chron

e.g. chronological

time

circum

e.g. circumference

around

contra, counter

e.g. contradict

against

crac, cat

e.g. autocrat, bureaucrat

ruler

crypt

e.g. cryptogram, cryptic

hidden

curr, curs, cours

e.g. precursory

to run

dict

e.g. dictator, dictation

to say

dyna

e.g. dynamic

power

dys

e.g. dysfunctional

bad, hard, unlucky

equ

e.g. equanimity

equal

fac

e.g. factory

to make

form

e.g. reform, conform

shape

fort
e.g. fortitude

strength

fract

e.g. fracture

to break

grad, gress

e.g. progression

step

gram

e.g. epigram

thing written

graph

e.g. graphic

writing

hetero

e.g. heterogeneous

different

homo

e.g. homogeneous

same

hypo

e.g. hypothermia

below

iso

e.g. isolate

identical

ject

e.g. projection

to throw

logy

e.g. biology

study of

luc

e.g. elucidate

light

mal

e.g. malevolent

bad

meta, met

e.g. metacognition, behind the thinking

behind, between

meter, metr

e.g. thermometer

measure

micro

e.g. microbe

small

mis, miso

e.g. misanthrope

hate

mit

e.g. transmit

to send

mono,

e.g. monologue

one

morph

e.g. morphology

form, shape

mort

e.g. mortal

death

multi

e.g. multiple

many

phil

e.g. philanthropist

love

port

e.g. transportation

to carry

pseudo

---

e.g. pseudonym

false

psycho

e.g, psychic

soul, spirit

rupt

e.g. disruption

to break

scope

e.g. microscope

viewing instrument

scrib, scribe

e.g. inscription

to write

sect, sec

e.g. section

to cut

sequ, secu

e.g. consecutive

follow

soph

e.g. philosophy

wisdom, knowledge

spect

e.g. spectator

to look

struct

e.g. restructure

to build

tele

e.g. telephone

far off

terr

e.g. terrestrial

earth

therm

e.g. thermal

heat

vent, vene

e.g. convene

to come

vert

e.g. vertigo

turn

voc

e.g. vocalize, evocative

call