Part 4: Root Words
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rawrcrystalx on October 15, 2010
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German | English |
|---|---|
 MIT, MISS | send ex. transmit, emit, missive |
| MOLL | soft ex.mollify, emollient, mollusk |
| MON, MONIT | warn ex. admonish, monitor, premonition |
| MOR | custom, manner ex. moral, mores, morose |
| MOR, MORT | dead ex. morbid, moribund, mortal |
| MUT | change ex. mutate, mutability, immutable |
| NAT, NASC | born ex. native, cognate, nascent |
| NAU, NAV | ship, sailor ex. nautical, nauseous, navy |
| NEO | new ex. neoclassical, neophyte, neologism |
| NIHIL | none, nothing ex. annihilation, nihilism |
| NOM, NYM | name ex. nominate, nomenclature, nominal |
| NOV | new ex. novelty, innovation, novitiate |
| NOX, NIC, NEC, NOC | harm ex. obnoxious, internecine, innocuous |
| OB | against ex. obstruct, obdurate, obsequious |
| OMNI | all ex. omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient |
| ONER | burden ex. onerous, exonerate |
| OPER | work ex. operate, cooperate, inoperable |
| PAC | peace ex. pacify, pacifist, pacific |
| PALP | feel ex. palpable, palpitation |
| PAN | all ex. panorama, panacea, pandemic |
| PATER, PATR | father ex. paternal, paternity, patriot |
| PATH, PASS | feel, suffer ex. sympathy, antipathy, pathos |
| PEC | money ex. pecuniary, impecunious, peculation |
| PEL, PULS | drive ex. compel, compelling, expel |
| PEN | almost ex. peninsula, penultimate, penumbra |
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