vocab
Anglo | English | Anglophile, Anglophobe, Anglican, Anglicism, Anglo-Saxon |
-ist | one who | artist, funambulist, anthropologist, solipsist, centrist, atheist, sophist |
-saur | lizard | dinosaur, pterosaur, tyrannosaurus, stegosaurus, saurian, plesiosaur |
pithec | ape | pithecanthropus, australopithecus, dryopithecus, oreopithecus |
calli | beautiful | calligraphy, calliope, calisthenics, calliopsis, callithumpian |
austro | south | australopithecus, Australia, austral, Austronesia, austromancy |
cephalo | head | cephalic, cephalopod, cephalothorax, microcephalic, encephalitis |
chiro | hand | chiromancy, chiropody, chiropteran, chiropractor |
caust | burn | caustic, holocaust, cauterize, caustically, causticity |
terr | land | extraterrestrial, subterranean, Mediterranean, terrain, terra firma |
cata | down | catapult, catastrophe, catacombs, catalepsy, cataclysm, cataract |
jur | swear | abjure, adjure, perjure, jury, jurisdiction, jurisprudence, jurist |
flu | flow | confluence, fluid, influence, fluent, superfluous, effluent, fluvial |
here | stick | coherence, adhesive, adhere, inherent, incoherent |
pos | put | position, deposit, superimpose, transpose, depose, imposition |
mund | world | mundane, transmundane, intermundane, mundanity, mundo |
-cracy | government | autocracy, democracy, aristocracy, plutocracy, meritocracy |
-mania | madness | kleptomania, egomania, pyromania, dipsomania, megalomania |
-ize | make | victimize, harmonize, temporize, mobilize, fossilize, polarize, bowdlerize |
antho | flower | anthology, anthozoan, anthocyanin, anthophilous, anther |
algia | pain | neuralgia, analgesic, arthralgia, hemialgia, algometer, algophobia |
somn | sleep | insomnia, somniferous, somnolent, somnambulate, somniloquy |
quadr | four | quadruped, quadratic, quadrant, quadruplet, quadrilateral, quadriplegic |
err | wander | error, erratic, Knight-errant, erroneous, erratum |
sine | without | sinecure, sine qua non, sine die, sine prole |