GRE Root List1 Flashcards
Vol
To wish
Voluntary: undertaken of one’s own accord or by free choice
Malevolent: characterized by or expressing bad will
Benevolent: characterized by or expressing goodwill
Volition: free choice, free will, act of choosing
Vor
To eat
Voracious: having a great apetite
Carnivorous: meat-eating
Omnivorous: eating or absorbing everything
Vid/vis
To see
Evident: plain or clear to the sight or understanding
Video: the elements of television
Adviser: one who gives counsel
Survey: to view in a general or comprehensive way
Vista: a view or prospect
Vi
Life
Vivid: strikingly bright or intense
Vicarious: performed , exercised, received, or suffered in place of another
Viable: capable of living
Vivacity: the quality of being lively, animated, spirited
Joie de vivre: joy of life
Convival: sociable
Vers/ vert
To turn
Controversy: a public dispute involving a matter of opinion
Revert: to return to a former habit
Diverse: of a different kind, form, character
Aversion: dislike
Introvert: s person concened primarily with inner thoughts and feelings
Extrovert: an outgoing person
Inadvertent: unintentional
Covert: hidden, clandestine
Avert: to turn away from
Ver
Truth Verdict: any judgment or decision Veracious: habitually truthfull Verity: truthfulness Verisimilitude: the appearance or semblance of truth Aver: to affirm, to declare to be true
Ven/ vent
To come or move toward
Convene: to assemble for some public purpose
Venturesome: showing a disposition to undetake risks
Intervene: mediate, to come between disputing fractions
Contravene: to come into conflict with
Adventitious: accidntal
Us/ ut
To use
Abuse: to use wrongly or improperly
Usage: a customary way of doing something
Usurp: to seize and hold
Utilitarian: efficient, functional, useful
Trans
Across
Transaction: the wct of carrying on or conduct to a conclusion or settlement
Transparent: easily seen through, recognized or detected
Transition: a change from one way of being to another
Transgress: to violate a law, command, or moral code
Transcendent: going beyond ordinary limits
Intransigent: refusing to agree or compromise
Tract
To drag, to pull, to draw tractor: Attract: to draw either by a physical force or by an appeal to emotions or senses Comtract: a legally binding document Detract: to take away from, Abstract: to draw or pull away, remove Tractable: easily managed or controlled Protract: to prolong , draw out, extend
Theo
God
Atheist: one who does not belive in a diety or divine system
Theocracy: a form of government in which a diety is recognized as the supreme rule
Theology: the study of divine things and the divine faith
Apotheosis: glorification( tajlil, takrim)
Tend/ tens/ tent/ tenu
To stretch, to thin
Tension: the act of stretching or straining
Tentative: of the nature of, or done as a trial, attempt
Tendentious: having a predisposition towards a point of view
Distend: to expand by stretching
Attenuater: to weaken or reduce in force
Extenuating: making less serious by offering excuses
Contentious: quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent
Tain / ten/ tent/ tin
To hold
Detain: to keep from proceeding
Pertain: to have reference or relation
Tenacious: holding fast
Abstention: the act of refraining voluntarily
Tenure: the holding or possessing of anything
Tenable: capable of being held, maintained, or defended
Pertinacious: persistent, stubborn
Tac/ tic
To be silent
Reticent: disposed to be silent or not to speak freely
Tacit: unspoken understanding
Taciturn: uncommunicative
Super/ sur
Above
Surpass: to go beyond in amount, extent, or degree
Superlative: the highest kind of order (aali)
Supersede: to replace in power, as by another person or thing
Supercillious: arrogant, haughty, condescending ( motekabber)
Superfluous: extra, more than necessary
Surmount: to get over or across, to prevail
Surveillance: a watch kept over someone or something
