Greek Latin Roots…

Greek Latin roots are everywhere in the English language. You shouldn’t overlook them when it comes to exam preparation.

Why?

Because many English words have Greek and Latin roots from which they are derived.

By learning the words below, you will recognize more English words that are unknown to you. This should greatly help you on the vocabulary section of the Michigan Proficiency Exams.

This along with the following pages contain one of the most complete lists of Greek Latin roots available. I wish you good language learning and great vocabulary building!

ROOT MEANING EXAMPLES

fac, fic, fec, fect	to make, to do	factory, fiction, affect
fall, fals	to deceive	fallacious, infallible, falsify
fer, lat	to bring, to bear	transfer, translate, conifer
fid	belief, faith	infidel, confidence
fin	end, limit	confine, finite
flect, flex	to bend	flexible, deflect
fort	luck, chance	fortuitous, fortunate
fort	strong	fortitude, fortification,
frag, fract	to break	fragile, infraction, fractious
fug	to flee	fugitive, refuge
fus	to pour	effusive, diffuse
gam	marriage	monogamy, bigamy, polygamy
gen, gener	class, race	genus, generic, gender
grad, gress	to go, to step	digress, regress, gradual
graph, gram	writing	epigram, telegram,
greg	flock, herd	gregarious, aggregate,
helio	sun	heliotrope,heliograph
it, itiner	journey, road	exit, itinerary
jac, jact, jec	to throw	projectile, trajectoty, ejection
jur, jurat	to swear	perjure, jury, adjuration
labor, laborat	to work	laboratorary, collaborate
leg, lect, lig	to choose, to read	election, legible, eligible
leg	law	legislature, legitimate, legal
liber, libr	book	library, libretto, libel
liber	free	liberation, liberal
log	word, study	entomology, etymology,
loqu, locut	to talk	soliloquy. loquacious, eloquant
luc	light	elucidate, lucid, transculent
magn	great	magnify, magnanimity, magnitude
mal	bad	malevolent, malefactor
man	hand	manufacture, manuscript
mar	sea	maritime, submarine, mariner
mater, matr	mother	maternal, matriarch, matrilineal
mit, miss	to send	missile, dismiss, transmit
mob, mov, mot	to move	mobilize, motility, immovable
mon, monit	to warn	admonish, premonition, monitor
mori, mort	to die	mortuary, moribund, immorta
morph	shape,form	metamorphosis, anthropomorphic
mut	to change	immutable, mutate,
nat	born	innate, prenatal, nativity
nav	ship	navigate, naval
neg	to deny	negation, renege
nomen	name	nomenclature, nominal,
nov	new	novice, renovate, novelty
omni	all	omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous
oper	to work	operate, cooperation

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