COMMON WORD ROOTS, PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES - Ivy Global

COMMON WORD ROOTS, PREFIXES AND SUFFIXESIn English grammar, many words can be broken into commonly shared components. Learningthese basic components will help you decipher unfamiliar vocabulary—learning only thirty keyword components can help you decode over 10,000 words!Roots carry the basic meaning, prefixes come before roots and alter their meaning, and suffixescome after roots and alter either their meaning or their part of speech (noun, verb, adjective,adverb). Because English is related to French, German, Latin, and Greek, many of thesecomponents will look familiar to students of those languages.ag, act do activity, interaction, agentambul walk, move ambulance, ambulatory, ambleami, amo love amiable, amorous, amityanim mind, soul, spirit animate, unanimous, magnanimityanthro human anthropology, misanthrope, philanthropyapt skill aptitude, adaptarch chief, first archetype, archbishop, archeology, monarchaud, audit hear audible, auditorium, audienceauto self autocrat, autography, autobiographybelli war belligerent, rebellious, bellicoseben good benefactor, beneficial, benevolencebiblio book bibliography, bibliophile, Biblebio life biography, biology, biospherecarn flesh, meat carnivore, carnal, incarnateced, ceed, cess yield, go recede, process, exceed, accessiblechron time chronic, chronology, synchronize, anachronismIvy Global

cid, cis cut, kill incision, homicide, insecticidecivi citizen civilization, civilian, civilcogn know cognizant, recognize, incognitocorp body corporation, corporeal, corpsecred believe credence, credulous, incredibledem people democracy, demographic, demagoguedic, dict speak dictate, contradict, prediction, verdictdomin master dominant, domain, domineeringesth/aesth feeling, beauty esthetician, kinesthesia, aestheticerr wander error, erratic, errandeu good, beautiful eulogize, euphoria, euphemismfact/fict make, do artifact, factory, fictionfall, fals deceive fallacious, infallible, falsifyfid faith fidelity, confide, confidencegrad, gress go, step digress, progress, gradualgraph, gram writing grammar, telegram, graphitegyn woman misogyny, gynecologyjuven young rejuvenate, juvenilekine/cine motion kinetics, telekinesis, cinemalog word, study logic, biology, monologueloqu, locut talk soliloquy, loquacious, elocutionluc light elucidate, lucid, translucentmagn great magnify, magnate, magnanimousIvy Global

mal bad malevolent, malediction, maliciousmiss, mit send emit, transmit, dismiss, missilemori, mort die mortuary, moribund, immortalmorph shape, form amorphous, metamorphosis, anthropomorphicnat born innate, natal, nativitynom name misnomer, nominal, cognomennov new novice, innovate, renovate, noveltyomni all omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorouspac, pas, pax peace pacify, pacific, pacifistpath, pass disease, feeling pathology, sympathetic, apathy, antipathyphil love philanthropist, philosophy, philandererport carry portable, porter, transport, exportpoten able, powerful potential, omnipotent, potentate, impotentpsych mind psyche, psychology, psychosis, psychopathreg, rect rule regicide, regime, regent, insurrectionsacr, secr holy sacred, sacrilegious, sacrament, consecratesci know science, omniscient, consciousscribe, script write describe, script, circumscribesomn sleep insomnia, somnolent, somnambulistspec, spic see, look spectators, spectacles, retrospecttang, tact, ting touch tactile, tangent, contact, contingentterr land terrain, terrestrial, subterraneanurb city urban, urbane, suburbanIvy Global

vac empty vacation, vacuous, evacuate, vacantver truth veracity, verify, veraciousverb word verbose, verbatim, proverbviv, vit alive revival, vivacious, vitalityvoc, vok to call vocation, advocate, invoke, equivocateCommon Prefixesab, abs from, away absent, aversion, abduct, abjureac, ad to, near admit, accord, accessibleambi, amphi both ambidextrous, ambiguous, ambivalentan, a without anarchy, anemia, amoralante before antecedent, antechamber, antediluviananti against antibody, antipathy, antisocialcircum around circumnavigate, circumspect, circumscribeco, col, com, con with, together coauthor, collaborate, composition, commercecontra, contro against contradict, contravene, controversyde down, away debase, decelerate, decadence, decantdi, dif, dis not, apart digress, discord, differ, disparitydia through, across diagonal, diameter, dialoguedys abnormal, bad dysfunction, dyslexia, dystopiae, ex, extra, extro out, beyond expel, excavate, eject, extrovertem, en, endo inside, within enclose, endothermic, envisionIvy Global

in, il, im, ir (1) not inefficient, inarticulate, illegible, irrepressiblein, il, im, ir (2) in, upon invite, incite, impression, illuminateinter between, among intervene, international, interjection, interceptintra within intramural, introvert, intravenousiso equal isobar, isometric, isothermalmis bad, hatred misdemeanor, mischance, misanthropemono one monarchy, monologue, monotheismnon not, without noncommittal, nonentity, nondescriptob, oc, of, op against obtrude, obscure, offend, opponentpan all, every panacea, panorama, pandemicperi around, near perimeter, periphery, periphrasticpoly many polygamist, polyglot, polychrome, polyglotpost after postpone, posterity, postscript, posthumouspre before preamble, prefix, premonition, predictionpro forward, for, before propulsive, proponent, prologue, prophetre, retro again, back reiterate, reimburse, react, retrogressse away, apart seclude, secede, seducesub, suc, sup, sus under, less subway, subjugate, suppresssuper, sur over, above superior, supernatural, supervise, surtaxsyn, sym, syl , sys with, together symmetry, synchronize, synthesize, sympathizetrans across transfer, transport, transposeun not unabridged, unkempt, unwittingvice in place of vicarious, viceroy, vice-presidentIvy Global

Common Suffixesable, ible ADJ: capable of edible, presentable, legibleac, ic, ical ADJ: like, related cardiac, mythic, dramatic, musicalacious, icious ADJ: full of malicious, audacious, perspicaciousal, il, ile ADJ/N: pertaining to maniacal, logical, civil, puerileant, ent ADJ/N: full of eloquent, verdantary ADJ/N: connected with dictionary, honoraryate V: make, become consecrate, enervate, eradicatecy, ty, ity N: state of being democracy, accuracy, veracityescent ADJ: becoming evanescent, pubescent, adolescentfy V: to make magnify, petrify, beautifyiferous ADJ: producing pestiferous, vociferousism N: doctrine, belief monotheism, fanaticism, egotismist N: dealer, doer fascist, realist, artistive ADJ: like expensive, quantitative, effusiveize, ise V: make victimize, rationalize, harmonizeoid ADJ: resembling ovoid, anthropoid, spheroidose/ous ADJ: full of verbose, lachrymose, nauseous, gaseousosis N: condition psychosis, neurosis, hypnosistion, sion N: state of being exasperation, irritation, transition, concessiontude N: state of fortitude, beatitude, certitudeIvy Global