Transcript Common Word Roots for Academic Subjects

Word Components:
Word Components: Level 1 (usually known in elementary grades)
Prefixes
exprereundisnonimmisminimaxi-
Word Components: Level 2 (usually known in intermediate grades)
Prefixes
co-; con-; comsyn-; symin-; en- (into)
sub-; supea-; abinterintramonounibi-; tri-; quad-, etc.
cent-; milli-; megapoly-; multiomnitranssemibio-; geo-; eco-
Word Components: Level 3 (usually known in high school)
Prefixes
pseudodemiendo-; ectoproperperihemiobbenemal-
photonomigmunicontraphilo-
Common Word Roots for Academic Subjects:
Basic:
Often combine with:
-ject (to throw)
-port (to carry)
-scrip, scribe (to write)
-vert, vers (to turn)
-pos, pon (to place)
-tract (to draw)
-pel, pul (to drive)
-struct (to build)
-grad, gress (to step)
-plic, plex (to fold)
-flic, flex (to bend)
-fic, fac (to make)
-miss, mit (to send)
-sid, sed (to sit)
-spec (to see)
-voc (to call)
-dict (to say)
-rupt (to break)
subexdecontrans-
reoba-; abeex-
properco-
Often end with:
-ive
-ation; sion
-ate
-able; ible
-or
Case against teaching word roots:
Many words have wandered away from their roots:
ex: mortgage; torture; vocation, adverse
Some word roots have multiple forms:
Case for teaching word roots
1. The more information you have about a word,
the more likely you are to remember it
2. The more you can associate words with their
look-alikes, the deeper your understanding
3. Root meanings reveal “deep truths” about a
word
Common Word Roots for Academic Subjects:
Advanced:
Often combine with:
-cad, -cas,-cid (to fall)
-dyna (force; power)
-magn (great; large)
-quir, -quis (to seek)
-gen (race, kind origin)
-cham, -cam (vault)
-cen (to judge)
-doc, -dox (to think)
-greg (to flock)
-cau (to burn)
-ess, -sent (to exist)
-close, -clud, -clus (to close)
-mand, -mend (to order)
-junct (to join)
-jur, -jus (to swear)
-lith (stone)
subexdecontrans-
reoba-; abeex-
Often end with:
-ive
-ation; sion
-ate
-able; ible
-or
-ize
-ence, ance
-ary
properne-
Word Components Chart II
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Write the words that you’ve heard of that would logically fill in the chart.
(Note: Not all of the blanks should be filled in.)
-tion
tractportvert-
pelstruct-
scriptcredspecduct-
attraction
-ment
-able
-ible
-er, or
contractor
-ence
-ance
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Word Components Chart I
Write the words that you’ve heard of that would logically fill in the chart:
(Note: Not all the blanks should be filled in.)
-tract
-struct
prereuna, absubdeproobcon-
-port
-verse
-pel
report
averse
subtract
propel
construct
10 Key Words:
INTERMITTENT
REFLECT
SUBTRACT
COMPLIANCE
CORRESPONDENT
PROPELLER
TRANSPORTATION
DESTRUCTIVE
PERSPECTIVE
These 10 words display
enough word components
(prefix, suffix, root) to
form at least 10,000
words.