April Root Words

1. ab- (away from)

2. aesthet- (feeling, sensation)

3. archaeo- & paleo- (primitive, ancient)

4. brach(i)- (arm)

5. brady- (slow)

6. cochl- (shell)

7. dur- (to harden, to last)

8. femin- & gyn- (woman, female)

9. femor- (thigh)

10. fract- & frag- (break)

11. funct- (work, perform)

12. gest- (carry, produce)

13. gloss- (tongue)

14. glut- (buttock)

15. hyster- (womb)

16. lymph- (water)

17. melan- (black, dark)

18. oo- & ovi- (egg)

19. or- & stom- (mouth)

20. ped- (child)

21. phyl- (related group)

22. -pter- (wing)

23. -sect & -tom- (to cut)

24. serr- (saw, sawtoothed)

25. -rupt- (break, burst)

26. -serv- (save, protect)

27. stern- (chest)

28. tachy- (quick, swift)

29. traum- (wound)

30. -trop- & -volv- (turn, change)

31. ungul- (claw, hoof)

32. -uria (urinary system)

33. venti- (wind)

34. amni- (fetal membrane)

35. andro-, anthrop- & homo (man, human)

36. capt-, -cept & -ceive (take, hold)

37. chondr- (cartilage)

38. dys- (bad, abnormal)

39. mamm- & mast- (breast)

40. -ole (small)