Word Roots

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Word Roots

• R-S

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Key

• Become familiar with the roots
• Use them to make connections to the definitions
  of words
• Its not a fool-proof system
• If you cant figure out the word based on the
  root, then look up the word
• This will greatly expand your vocabulary
• It will help you for the PSAT, the SAT, the GRE,
  and life!

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Rid/ris to laugh

• Ridicule mock
• derision

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rog to ask

• interrogate question/grill
• derogatory
• surrogate

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sal/sil/sault/sult to leap, to jump

• Resilient elastic
• Desultory aimless (like your jumping all over
  the place)

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Sacr/sanct/secr (sacred)

• sanctify
• sacrament
• Sacrilege blasphemy or irreverence

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Sci (to know)

• conscience scruples
• omniscient
• conscientious
• nescient (ignorant)

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Scribe/scrip (to write)

• scribble
• describe
• postscript (i.e. p.s.)
• proscribe (ban)
• inscribe
• manuscript

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Se (apart)

• separate
• seclude
• sequester
• sedition (inciting to rebel)

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Sec/sequ (to follow)

• second
• prosecute
• sequel
• sequence
• obsequious
• non sequitur (a logical fallacy)

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Sens/sent (to feel, to be aware)

• sensual
• sensory
• resent
• consent
• dissent
• consensus
• presentiment feeling or hunch

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Sol (to loosen, free)

• Resolve
• Resolution
• Dissolution

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Spec (to look, to see)

• perspective
• aspect
• auspicious
• spectrum
• retrospective
• introspection
• perspicacious

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sua (smooth)

• suave
• persuasion
• dissuade
• assuage

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sub/sup (below)

• submissive
• subliminal
• sublime
• subdue
• Subterfuge
• submarine

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Super/sur (above)

• surpass
• superfluous
• superlative
• supersede
• surmount overcome

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Source

• Princeton Reviews Word Smart