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LATIN and GREEK WORD CLUES

 

GROUP 1         

Prefixes and Roots

 

WORD          MEANING         HELPFUL MEMORY AIDS AND EXAMPLES

 

 

ad                    to, toward                   _________________________________

anti                  against                         _________________________________

aud                  hear                             _________________________________

auto                 self                              _________________________________

bene                well, good                   _________________________________

bi                     two                              _________________________________

bio                   life                               _________________________________

cept, capt        take, seize                    _________________________________

cess, ced          go, move                     _________________________________

circum              around                       _________________________________

com                 with, together              _________________________________

con                  with, together              _________________________________

contra             against                         _________________________________

cred                 believe                         _________________________________

de                    down, from                 _________________________________

derm               skin                              _________________________________

dic, dict           say, speak                    _________________________________

dis                   apart, away                  _________________________________

duc, duct        take, lead                     _________________________________

equ                  equal                            _________________________________

ex                    out of                          _________________________________

extra               more than                    _________________________________

gen                  birth, beginning           _________________________________

geo                  earth                            _________________________________

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LATIN and GREEK WORD CLUES

 

More Prefixes and Roots

 

WORD          MEANING         HELPFUL MEMORY AIDS AND EXAMPLES

 

 

graph              write                            _________________________________

gress                go                                _________________________________

hetero             different                      _________________________________

homo               same, man                   _________________________________

hydr                water                           _________________________________

hyper              above                           _________________________________

hypo                below                          _________________________________

il, ir                 not                               _________________________________

in, im               into, within                  _________________________________

in, im, un        not                               _________________________________

inter                between, among          _________________________________

intra                within                          _________________________________

mal                  bad                              _________________________________

meter              measure                       _________________________________

mis                  wrong, badly               _________________________________

mit, miss         send                             _________________________________

mono               one                              _________________________________

multi               many                           _________________________________

path                feeling, suffering           _________________________________

phon               sound                          _________________________________

poly                 many                           _________________________________

port                 carry                            _________________________________

post                 after                             _________________________________

pre                  before                          _________________________________

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Even More Prefixes and Roots

 

WORD          MEANING         HELPFUL MEMORY AIDS AND EXAMPLES

 

pro                  before, in favor           _________________________________

re                     back, again                  _________________________________

scop, spec       to look                         _________________________________

sub                  under                           _________________________________

super               above                           _________________________________

tele                  far                                _________________________________

therm              heat                             _________________________________

tract                draw, pull                    _________________________________

trans               over, across                 _________________________________

tri                    three                            _________________________________

uni                   one                              _________________________________

vid, vis            to see                           _________________________________

 

 

Some Important Suffixes

 

-able, -ible       able to, able to be        _________________________________

-er, -or                        one who,

                        that which                   _________________________________

-ful                  full of                            _________________________________

-ion, -tion        the act of                     _________________________________

-ism                 belief in                       _________________________________

-itis                  inflammation               _________________________________

-ize                  to make                       _________________________________

-less                 without                        _________________________________

-logy                the study of                 _________________________________

-mania            madness for                 _________________________________

-ment              the state of                  _________________________________

-ness                the condition of          _________________________________

-phobia           fear of                         _________________________________

 

 

 

 

More Helpful information

 

 

Helpful pairs (these are already on the list)

 

 

multi and poly            many

uni and mono             one

 

 

 

Helpful Opposites (these are already on the list)

 

 

bene and mal              good and bad

hypo and hyper          below and above

sub and super             below and above

mono and poly           one and many

uni and multi              one and many

pre and post               before and after

 

 

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