SAT Prep - Common Roots/Prefixes/Suffixes

Cogn/Gnos

Know

Log/Logue

Speech, reason

Act/Ag

Do, drive

Ced/Ceed/Cess

Go, yield

Ben/Bene

Good

Mal

Bad

Path

Feeling, suffering

Magn

Large

Min

Small

Omni

All

Chron

Time

Prim/Prime

First

Retro

Backward

Anthrop

Human

Dem/Demo

People

Pop

People

Graph/Gram

Write

Scrib/Script

Write

A-/An-

Not, without

Dis-/Di-

Apart, not

In-/Im-/Il-/Ir-

Not

Non-

Not

Un-

Not

Bi-/Di-

Two

Multi-/Poly-

Many

Uni-/Mono-

One

Circum-

Around

Inter-

Between

Sub-/Sup-

Under, below

Trans-

Across

Pre-

Before

Post-

After

Re-

Again, back

Bene-

Good

Mal-

Bad

Hyper-

Excessive

-ion/-tion/-sion

Act, result

-ity/-ty

State, quality

-ment

Result, act

-ism

Belief, practice

-ance/-ence

State, quality

-able/-ible

Capable of

-ic/-ical

Pertaining to

-ive

Tending to

-ous/-ious

Full of

-ize/-ise

Make, become

-ly

In a manner