SAT vocab roots

to help with the SAT vocab of the Reading & Writing portion

acu

sharp

agri

farming

alb

white

ambul

walk, move

amic

friendly

arche (archi)

primitive, origin

auto

self

bel

war, fight

bene

good

cata

intensive, according to

cede (cess, ced)

go, withdraw

cent

hundred

cerebr

brain

chron

time

cide

kill

circum

around

clam (claim)

shout, speak

clar

clear

clud (clus)

close

clin (cline)

lean

cog

know

corp

body

cred

believe

crypt

hidden, secret

culp

blame, fault

cumul

mass, heap

dem

people

domin

master

don

give

dorm

sleep

dur

harden, long lasting

dyn

power, energy

esth (aesth)

beauty, feeling

ethn

nation, race

fid

trust

flect (flex)

bend

fore

in front of, previous

fusc

dark

ger

old age

grad (gress)

to step, to go

gyn

woman

idio

peculiar, distinct

lab

work

lat

broad, wide

laud

praise

lex

word, law

loq

speech

luc

light

mal

bad, evil

medi

middle

melan

black, dark

migr

move

miss (mit)

send, cast

mort

death

nat

born

neg

no

nov

new

opt

best

oxy

sharp

paleo

ancient

pan

all

path

feeling

pel (puls)

drive, push

ped

foot, kid

peri

around

phil

loving

phob

fear

pos

put, place

psuedo

not genuine

pug

to fight

pul

urge

purg

clean

reg

guide, rules

san

health

scend

climb, go

sci

to know

scrib

write

sect

cut

sed

sit

sol

comfort

soph

wise

syn (sym)

with, together

tact

to touch

tax

arrangement

tele

far

tort

twist

vac

empty

viv/vit

life

vor (vour)

eat

xen

foreign