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A comprehensive list of greek and latin root words commonly used in the english language, along with their correct meanings. It covers a wide range of topics, including medicine, science, and humanities, making it a valuable resource for students, researchers, and language enthusiasts. The root words and their corresponding definitions, allowing users to expand their vocabulary and improve their understanding of the etymology of words. By studying this document, individuals can enhance their ability to decipher the meaning of unfamiliar terms, which is particularly useful in academic and professional settings. The extensive list of root words, along with their correct answers, makes this document an excellent study aid for anyone interested in expanding their linguistic knowledge and improving their language skills.
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pel, pulse - Correct Answer Push, drive quire - Correct Answer Ask, seek solve/solut - Correct Answer Loosen spic/spect - Correct Answer Look at, see sume - Correct Answer Use up, take vene/vent - Correct Answer Come feder - Correct Answer A union of states creat - Correct Answer Make, build medic - Correct Answer Medicine tend/tens/tent - Correct Answer Stretch, exert oneself prehens/ prehend - Correct Answer To clasp, reach, attain, size duc/duct - Correct Answer To lead script/scribe - Correct Answer Write trop - Correct Answer Turn enter - Correct Answer The inside, intestines gen - Correct Answer Give birth to, be born
log - Correct Answer Study, science, word pept/peps - Correct Answer Cook, digest phon/phem - Correct Answer Sound pne - Correct Answer Blow, breathe thanas/thanat - Correct Answer Die patri - Correct Answer Father arch - Correct Answer Rule mon - Correct Answer One phob - Correct Answer Fear phil/phile/philo - Correct Answer Extreme liking, love biblio - Correct Answer Books anglo/englo - Correct Answer People from England anthrop/anthropo - Correct Answer Man (particularly primitive man) theo - Correct Answer God or gods soph - Correct Answer Wisdom hellene - Correct Answer Greek hydro/hydr - Correct Answer Water dynam - Correct Answer Power acro - Correct Answer Height, point
crac - Correct Answer Rule dermato/derm - Correct Answer Skin entomo - Correct Answer Insect etymo - Correct Answer Real meaning graph - Correct Answer Write helio - Correct Answer Sun man - Correct Answer Madness ochlo - Correct Answer Mob ophio - Correct Answer Snake ornitho - Correct Answer Bird phag - Correct Answer Eat pyro - Correct Answer Fire path/pathy - Correct Answer Feeling, emotion drom - Correct Answer Run, swim ba - Correct Answer Go meter - Correct Answer Measure scope - Correct Answer Look, see therm - Correct Answer Heat
esthes/aesthet - Correct Answer Feeling, sensation hema/em - Correct Answer Blood ly - Correct Answer Break top - Correct Answer Place the - Correct Answer Put chron/chrono - Correct Answer Time kine/cine - Correct Answer Move odont - Correct Answer Tooth chromat - Correct Answer Color phylac - Correct Answer Guard, protect onym - Correct Answer Name, word helion/elion - Correct Answer Sun ge/gee - Correct Answer Earth athlet - Correct Answer Contest, athlete err - Correct Answer Wander duct/duce - Correct Answer Lead, take hes/here - Correct Answer Stick it - Correct Answer Go ject - Correct Answer Throw
tract - Correct Answer Draw, pull bibe - Correct Answer Drink fus - Correct Answer Pour, gush viscer - Correct Answer Intestines mit/miss - Correct Answer Send, let go apt - Correct Answer Fit, fasten similat - Correct Answer Like ced/cede/ceed/cess - Correct Answer Go, come flu - Correct Answer Flow gress - Correct Answer step, move loc - Correct Answer Place nounce - Correct Answer Proclaim petit - Correct Answer Seek, desire pose/pone/posit - Correct Answer Put, place labor - Correct Answer Work mens - Correct Answer Table linqu - Correct Answer Leave litera - Correct Answer Letter
lumin - Correct Answer Light ambula - Correct Answer Walk col - Correct AnswerStrain mur - Correct Answer Wall fer - Correct Answer Carry rupt - Correct Answer Break, burst tain - Correct Answer To hold back cure - Correct Answer Care anthrop - Correct Answer Human (Greek) human - Correct Answer human (Latin) ov/ovi - Correct Answer Egg aster - Correct Answer Star gastr/gastro - Correct Answer Stomach larynx/laryng/laryngo - Correct Answer Larynx, throat tom - Correct Answer Cut halito - Correct Answer Breath hypno - Correct Answer Sleep neuro - Correct Answer Nerve psycho - Correct Answer Mind
sclero - Correct Answer Hard carcin - Correct Answer Crab, cancer oste - Correct Answer Bone my - Correct Answer Muscle, mouse lymph - Correct Answer Spring water card/cardio - Correct Answer Heart graph/gram - Correct Answer Write cyst/cysto - Correct Answer Urinary bladder metro/meter - Correct Answer Measure ot/oto - Correct Answer Ear media - Correct Answer Middle rhin/rhino - Correct Answer Nose ceros - Correct Answer Horn rrhea - Correct Answer Flow, discharge logo - Correct Answer Talk, words enter/entero - Correct Answer Intestine acid - Correct AnswerSharp alti - Correct Answer High
apert - Correct Answer Open arid - Correct Answer Dry compet - Correct Answer Strive in competition with someone, be qualified to strive confid - Correct Answer Trust conscript - Correct Answer Enroll, enlist correct - Correct Answer Rule, guide eras - Correct AnswerRub out ferv - Correct AnswerHeat, glow grati/grate - Correct AnswerThanks humid - Correct AnswerWet invent - Correct AnswerCome upon, find invest - Correct AnswerPut (something) into liberal - Correct AnswerGenerous magni - Correct AnswerLarg object - Correct AnswerThrow against pall - Correct AnswerPale sculpt - Correct AnswerCarve sequ - Correct AnswerFollow
stup - Correct AnswerBe motionless asin - Correct AnswerDonkey audi - Correct AnswerHear can - Correct AnswerDog flex - Correct AnswerBend frag - Correct AnswerBreak gel - Correct AnswerFrost, ice glori - Correct AnswerFame infant - Correct AnswerYoung child juven - Correct AnswerYoung leon - Correct AnswerLion morb - Correct AnswerSick naviga - Correct AnswerSail a boat pecuni - Correct AnswerMoney sen - Correct AnswerOld ven - Correct AnswerVein verb - Correct AnswerWord vir - Correct AnswerMan, male schizo - Correct AnswerSplit
phren - Correct AnswerMind, diaphragm lira - Correct AnswerFurrow ment - Correct AnswerMind via - Correct AnswerPath, road, journey sess - Correct AnswerSit ob - Correct AnswerAgainst iatr(o) - Correct AnswerDoctor necr(o) - Correct AnswerCorpse somat/soma/some - Correct AnswerBody strat(i)/strat(o) - Correct AnswerLayer cen(o) - Correct AnswerNew, period of new life mes(o) - Correct AnswerMiddle; period of middle life pale(o) - Correct AnswerOld; period of old life phanero - Correct AnswerEvident, visible, apparent zo - Correct AnswerAnimal, life archaeo - Correct AnswerOld, original proter(o) - Correct AnswerEarlier pharmacum - Correct AnswerDrug, poison cis/o - Correct Answerto cut
laryng/o - Correct Answerlarynx ot/o - Correct Answerear a-, an-, de- - Correct Answerwithout brady- - Correct Answerslow dys- - Correct Answerpainful, difficult, abnormal eu- - Correct Answernormal