Katy Greiner English 9H Vocab List

Prefixes:

  • pre-: before, in front of (e.g., precede, predict)

  • post-: after, behind (e.g., postpone, posthumous)

  • tele-: distant (e.g., telephone, television)

  • a-/ab-/abs-: away, from (e.g., abstract, abstain)

  • ad-: to or toward (e.g., adhere, adjacent)

  • im-/in-: not (e.g., imperfect, invisible)

Roots/Bases:

  • aqua-/aque-: water (e.g., aquatic, aquarium)

  • duc-/duct-: lead (e.g., induce, conduct)

  • fin-/finit-: end, limit (e.g., final, infinite)

  • magn-: large, great (e.g., magnify, magnificent)

  • scrib-/script-: to write, written (e.g., manuscript, scribble)

  • sol-: alone (e.g., solitary, solo)

  • vid-/vis-: to see (e.g., video, vision)

  • ami-/amic-: love (e.g., amiable, amicable)

  • aud-: sound (e.g., auditorium, audible)

  • gram-/graph-: to write or draw (e.g., telegram, geography)

  • chron-: time (e.g., chronicle, synchronize)

  • grad-/gress-: to step (e.g., graduate, progress)

  • hydr(o)-: water (e.g., dehydrate, hydroplane)

  • mut-: change (e.g., mutant, mutate)

  • terr(a)-: earth, ground (e.g., terrain, territorial)

  • voc-/voke-: voice, to call (e.g., vocal, revoke)

Suffixes:

  • -ate: to make (e.g., donate, vibrate)

  • -ation: result of doing (e.g., donation, vibration)

  • -ify: to make (e.g., justify, magnify)

  • -er/-or: one who does (e.g., teacher, counselor)

  • -ologist: one who studies (e.g., biologist, zoologist)

  • -ology: study of (e.g., biology, geology)

Words from Readings:

  • assimilate: to absorb into a cultural tradition (e.g., “I walked a fine line between assimilating to American ways...”)

  • commemorate: to mark by ceremony (e.g., “to commemorate this moment, he wheels me around...”)

  • disillusioned: having lost faith in something (e.g., “when he returned as a traumatized, disillusioned vet...”)

  • frivolity: lacking seriousness (e.g., “I can’t help but notice the wasteful frivolity of it all.”)

  • grimaced: facial expression of disgust or pain (e.g., “Robert grimaced.”)

  • inadvertently: accidentally (e.g., “This is a song kids need to inadvertently memorize.”)

  • masochist: someone who takes pleasure in pain (e.g., “The masochist in me answers too quickly.”)

  • proposition: something offered for consideration (e.g., “California has just voted in favor of Proposition 187...”)

  • resounding: impressively resonant (e.g., “in resounding ways, you are here, you are seen...”)

  • syndicated: to sell to local stations (e.g., “gleaned it from a syndicated episode of 21 Jump Street”)

  • unironic: sincere, not using irony (e.g., “I love my country in the most unironic and earnest way...”)