Word Roots

Question 1

mal

Answer 1

bad

e.g. malediction, malady, maladroit

Question 2

luc/lum/lus

Answer 2

• clear
• light
• brightness

e.g. lucid, illuminate, lackluster

Question 3

ire

Answer 3

anger

e.g. ire, irascible

Question 4

ben/bon

Answer 4

good

e.g. benevolent, benediction, bona fide

Question 5

bell

Answer 5

war

e.g. antebellum, belligerent, rebel

Question 6

pug

Answer 6

to fight

e.g. impugn, repugnant, pugnacious

Question 7

sens/sent

Answer 7

• to feel
• to be aware

e.g. dissent, sense, resent, sentinel

Question 8

ob

Answer 8

• toward / to
• against
• over

e.g. obstruct, obsequious, oblique, obstinate

Question 9

appro

Answer 9

approving

e.g. approval, appropriate

Question 10

equ

Answer 10

• fair
• equal

e.g. equivalent, equanimity

Question 11

di/dif/dis

Answer 11

• away from / apart
• reversal
• not

e.g. disperse, dissuade, diffuse, dilate

Question 12

pan

Answer 12

all

e.g. panacea, panorama

Question 13

sol

Answer 13

• sun
• alone
• to loosen
• to free

e.g. solar, desolate, dissolve, resolution

Question 14

ced/ceed/cess

Answer 14

• to go
• to yield
• to stop

e.g. cessation, incessant, accede

Question 15

cap/capit/cipit

Answer 15

• head
• headlong

e.g. caption, capital, capitulate

Question 16

cre/cresc/cret

Answer 16

to grow

e.g. accretion, increase, increment

Question 17

a/an

Answer 17

• not
• without

e.g. agnostic, anomaly, atrophy

Question 18

ac/acr

Answer 18

• sharp
• bitter
• sour

e.g. acid, acute, acerbic

Question 19

al/ali/alter

Answer 19

• other
• another

e.g. alias, alternative, altruist

Question 20

voc/vok

Answer 20

• call
• word

e.g. equivocate, vocabulary, invoke

Question 21

cred

Answer 21

• to believe
• to trust

e.g. credentials, credulity, credo

Question 22

soph

Answer 22

wisdom

e.g. philosopher, sophism, sophisticated

Question 23

brev/brid

Answer 23

• short
• small

e.g. abbreviate, brief, abridge

Question 24

ard

Answer 24

to burn

e.g. ardor, ardent, arson

Question 25

am

Answer 25

love | e.g. amateur, amiable, enamored, amity

Question 26

culp

Answer 26

- fault - blame | e.g. culpable, culprit, mea culpa

Question 27

dac/doc

Answer 27

to teach | e.g. didactic, doctrine, indoctrinate

Question 28

dol

Answer 28

- to suffer - to pain - to grieve | e.g. condolence, doleful, dolorous, indolence

Question 29

fi/fid

Answer 29

- faith - trust | e.g. confide, infidel, fidelity

Question 30

greg

Answer 30

flock | e.g. gregarious, aggregate, segregate

Question 31

hap

Answer 31

by chance | e.g. haphazard, mishap, perhaps

Question 32

it/iter

Answer 32

- way - journey | e.g. circuit, itinerant, itinerary, transit

Question 33

lect/leg

Answer 33

- to select - to choose | e.g. eclectic, predilection, select

Question 34

peri

Answer 34

around | e.g. perimeter, peripatetic

Question 35

prot

Answer 35

first | e.g. protagonist, prototype, protozoan

Question 36

salu

Answer 36

health | e.g. salubrious, salutary

Question 37

torp

Answer 37

- stiff - numb | e.g. torpor, torpedo, torpid

Question 38

ficare

Answer 38

- to do - to make

Question 39

vi/vit

Answer 39

strongly negative connotation | e.g. vitriol, vituperate

Question 40

ex

Answer 40

- out of - away from - lacking in | e.g. expire, exclude

Question 41

eu

Answer 41

good | e.g. euphemism, eulogy, euphoria