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50 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 a, an | not, without (ex. amoral, atrophy, anarchy, anomaly) |
| ab,a | from, away, apart (ex. abnormal, abdicate, aberration, abhor) |
| ac, acr | sharp, sour (ex. acid, acerbic, exacerbate, acute) |
| ad, a | to, toward (ex. adhere, adjacent, admonish, allure) |
| ali, altr | another (ex. alias, alienate, altruism, inalienable) |
| am, ami | love (ex. amorous, amicable, amiable, amity) |
| ambi, amphi | both (ex. ambiguous, ambivalent, ambidextrous) |
| ambi, ambul | walk (ex. amble, perambulator, somnambulist) |
| anim | mind, spirit, breath (ex. animal, animosity, unanimous, magnanimous) |
| ann, enn | year (ex. annual, annuity, superannuated, biennial) |
| ante, ant | before (ex. antecedent, antebellum, anticipate) |
| anthrop | human (ex. anthropology, misanthrope, philanthropy) |
| anti, ant | against, opposite (ex. antidote, antipathy, antithesis, antacid) |
| aud | hear (ex. audio, audience, audition, audible) |
| auto | self (ex. autobiography, autocrat, autonomous) |
| belli, bell | war (ex. belligerent, bellicose, rebellion) |
| bene, ben | good (ex. benevolent, benefactor, benign) |
| bi | two (ex. bisect, bilateral, bilingual, biped) |
| biblio | book (ex. bible, bibliography, bibliophile) |
| bio | life (ex. biography, biology, symbiotic, macrobiotic) |
| burs | money, purse (ex. reimburse, disburse, bursar) |
| cad, cas,cid | happen, fall (ex. accident, cadence, cascade, deciduous) |
| carn | flesh (ex. carnal, carnage, carnival, incarnate) |
| cap, capt, cept, cip | take, hold, seize (ex. capable, capacious, captivate, emancipation) |
| ced, cess | yield, go (ex. cease, cessation, cede, cession, recede) |
| chrom | color (ex. chrome, chromatic, monochrome) |
| chron | time (ex. chronology, chronic, anachronism) |
| cide | murder (ex. suicide, homicide, infanticide, regicide) |
| circum | around (ex. circumference, circumvent,, circumscribe) |
| clin, cliv | slope (ex. incline, declivity, proclivity, inclination) |
| clud, clus, claus, clois | shut, close (ex. conclude, reclusive, cloister, preclude) |
| co, com, con | with, together (ex. coeducation, coalesce, contrite, compassion) |
| cogn, gno | know (ex. recognize, incognito, gnostic, ignorant) |
| contra | against (ex. controversy, incontrovertible, contravene) |
| corp | body (ex. corpse, corporeal, corpulence) |
| cosmo, cosm | world (ex. cosmopolitan, cosmos, microcosm) |
| crac, crat | rule, power (ex. democracy, theocracy, autocrat, aristocrat) |
| cred | trust, believe (ex. incredible, credulous, credence) |
| cresc, cret | grow (ex. crescent, crescendo, accretion) |
| culp | blame, fault (ex. culprit, concur, cursory, incursion) |
| de | down, out, apart (ex. depart, debase, debilitate, decry, devoid) |
| dec | ten, tenth (ex. decade, decimal, decathlon, decimate) |
| demo, dem | people (ex. democrat, demagogue, epidemic, pandemic) |
| di, diurn | day (ex. diary, quotidian, diurnal) |
| dia | across (ex. diagonal, diatribe, diaphanous) |
| dic, dict | speak (ex. abdicate, diction, predict, indict, verdict) |
| dis, dif, di | not, apart, away (ex. disaffected, disparage, dissonant, diffuse) |
| doc, doct | teach (ex. docile, doctrine, doctrinaire) |
| dol | pain (ex. condolence, doleful, indolent) |
| duc, duct | lead (ex. seduce, induce, conduct, viaduct) |
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