Roots - English Flashcards
(211 cards)
1
Q
alter
A
other (alternate)
2
Q
ami
A
love (amiable)
3
Q
amphi
A
both ends or all sides
4
Q
ann
A
year
5
Q
anthrop
A
human, man
6
Q
aqua, aque
A
water
7
Q
arch
A
chief, leader, ruler (archangel, monarch)
8
Q
arthro
A
joint
9
Q
aud
A
sound
10
Q
bell
A
war (belligerent, bellicose)
11
Q
biblio
A
book
12
Q
bio-
A
life
13
Q
brev
A
short (brief, abbreviate)
14
Q
cap
A
take, seize (capture, captivate, capacity)
15
Q
carn
A
meat
16
Q
ced
A
yield, go
17
Q
chrom-
A
color
18
Q
chron-
A
time
19
Q
cogn
A
know (incognito, recognize)
20
Q
cord/chord
A
cord
21
Q
corp
A
body
22
Q
crac
A
rule, ruler
23
Q
cred
A
believe
24
Q
cruc
A
cross (crucial, crucifix)
25
crusts
shell (crustacean)
26
crypt
hidden (cryptogram, cryptology, cryptic)
27
culp
guilt
28
dei
god
29
demo-
people (epidemic)
30
dent
tooth
31
derm-
skin
32
dic
speak, say
33
dox
belief, opinion
34
duc
lead (induce, conduct)
35
duct
lead (abduct, seduct)
36
crat
rule, ruler
37
enni
year
38
amic
love (amicable)
39
dynam
power (hydrodynamics)
40
ego
self
41
equ
equal
42
fac
make, do (manufacture, factory, benefactor)
43
fil
threadlike
44
frater
brother
45
gam
marriage (monogamy)
46
geo
earth
47
glyph
vertical groove (Hieroglyphics)
48
grad
step (gradual)
49
gress
step (progression)
50
graph
writing, printing
51
gym
naked (gymnasium)
52
gyn
woman
53
hemo
blood
54
hema
blood
55
hem
blood
56
holo
whole, entire (holograph)
57
hydr
water
58
iso
equal, identical (isolate)
59
ject
throw
60
jud
judge
61
leg
read, choose (legible)
62
lect
read, choose (election, lectern, lecturer)
63
liter
letter (literate, literal)
64
loc
place
65
log
word (monologue)
66
luc
light (lucid)
67
magn
large
68
man
hand (manufacture, manuscript)
69
mar
sea (marine)
70
mater
mother
71
mere
part, segment
72
meta
behind, between (metacognition)
73
met
behind, between (metacognition)
74
metri
measure
75
meter
measure
76
min
small
77
mit
send (permit, emit)
78
miss
send (submission, mission)
79
mob
move (mobile)
80
mot
move (motion)
81
mov
move (movie)
82
mon
warn (premonition)
83
mor
death
84
mort
death
85
morph
form, structure (amorphous)
86
mut
change (mutate)
87
neuro
nerve
88
nomen
name (nomenclature)
89
nomin
name (nominate)
90
nov
new
91
nym
word, name (pseudonym)
92
odonto
tooth
93
ortho
straight, correct
94
pac
peace (pacify, Pacific Ocean)
95
pater
father
96
path
feeling, suffering (sympathy)
97
ped
foot (pedal)
98
pod
foot (gastropod)
99
pel
push (compel)
100
pend
hang, weigh (pendant)
101
phon
sound, voice
102
plan
flat (plantation)
103
pneum
lung
104
port
carry (report)
105
pot
power (potent)
106
psych
soul, mind, spirit
107
pugna
fight (pugnacious, pugilist)
108
quer
ask
109
quis
ask (inquisition)
110
scent, scend
climb
111
schizo
division, split
112
sci
know
113
sciss
cut
114
scrib, script
write
115
sec
cut
116
sed
sit (sedentary)
117
sens
feel, be aware
118
sequ, secu
follow (sequence, sequel, consecutive)
119
serv
serve, protect (service)
120
simil
same
121
siphon
tube
122
sol
sun
123
son
sound
124
soph
wisdom, knowledge (philosophy, sophisticated)
125
spec, spic
look, see (spectacles, inauspicious)
126
spir
coil (spiral)
127
spir
breathe (inspire, perspire)
128
spond, spons
promise, answer for (respond, responsible)
129
spont
by one's own force
130
stat
stay, position (station)
131
tang
touch (tangible)
132
tact
touch (tactile)
133
temp
time (temporary)
134
ten, tent
hold (tentative, tenuous)
135
terr
earth
136
theo
god, deity
137
therm
heat
138
trophy
nutrition, food (atrophy - without nutrition)
139
uro
urine
140
vac
empty (vacation)
141
ven, vent
come, go (intervene, convene)
142
ver
truth (verify)
143
vert
turn (introvert, vertigo, irreversible)
144
vit
life
145
voc
call (revoke)
146
pel
push (pulsate)
147
a-, an-
not, without (amoral, anesthetic)
148
ab-
away from (abstain)
149
ad-
to, toward (adjacent)
150
ambi-
both (ambivalent)
151
ana-
up, back, again (analogy, anatomy, anagram)
152
anti-
against
153
apo-
from, away from (apology)
154
auto-
self
155
bene-
good
156
cata-, cat-
down, against (catastrophe)
157
centro-, centri-
around, center
158
circum-
around (circumvent)
159
com-
with, together (community)
160
con-
with, together (connect)
161
contra-
against
162
de-
down, away (deject - cast down)
163
dia-, di-
through, across (diameter)
164
dis-
apart, not (disengage)
165
dys-
ill, difficult, bad (dysentery)
166
e-
out of, from (elect - choose out of, eject - throw out)
167
ecto-
on the outside (ectoderm)
168
en-, em-
in (empathy - feeling in)
169
endo-
within, inside (endoscope)
170
epi-
upon (epitaph, epidermis, epicenter)
171
eso-
inward, within (esoteric, esophagus)
172
eu-
well, good (euthanasia - good death)
173
ex-
out of, from (exhume, exodus)
174
hetero-
other, different (heterodox)
175
homo-
same
176
hyper-
over (hypertension)
177
hypo-
under (hypodermic)
178
il-
not (illegitimate)
179
im-
not (imperfect)
180
im-
into (imbibe)
181
angio
blood
182
rhino
nose
183
nephr(o)
kidney
184
cyto
cell
185
cysto
bladder
186
megalo
enlarged
187
megaly
enlarged
188
ostomy
make a (permanent) opening
189
otomy
make an incision
190
brady
slow
191
tachy
fast
192
cyano
blue
193
pathy
disease
194
-ia
condition of
195
ectomy
removal
196
peri
around
197
algia
pain
198
cephal
head
199
encephal
brain
200
-ectomy
surgical removal
201
-itis
inflammation
202
neur
nerve
203
micro
small
204
my/o
muscle
205
myel/o
spinal cord
206
-pathy
disease
207
phren
mind
208
-plegia
paralysis
209
rachi
spinal column, vertebrae
210
spondyl
vertabra, vertabral column
211
gnosis
knowledge
