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A tree can’t stand alone without roots. A word CANNOT stand alone without a word root or base
word.
A BASE WORD CAN STAND ALONE. THAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A
ROOT AND A BASE.
A WORD ROOT IS PART OF A WORD THAT CONTAINS ITS BASIC MEANING.
AmAmor
Love,Liking,Friendliness
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BENE = GOOD, WELL
Benefits means to aid in the well being of someone/something.
Benefactor means someone who helps someone else.
Beneficient means to do good.
MAL = EVIL, ILL, BAD, BADLY
Mal-adroit means to be clumsy or awkward.Mal- ady means sickness.Mal-content means rebellious and bad tempered.
FLU, FLUC, FLUX = FLOW
Effluence means the process of flowing out.Refluxes means a backward flow of body fluid.Fluctuations means continual change.Influxes means to flow in.
You’ve heard of a “herd of Zombies”, but have you heard of the root GREG?
Greg = Gather, Flock
Gregarious means living with and moving with the herd.
Aggregation means to collect in a living mass.
Congregate means to flock together.
LITERATURE AND ALLITERATION
Litera= letter
Alliteration means recurrence of the same letter sound.Literature means the best works written over the centuries.
Obliteration means to erase the letters.
You’ve been using these words already this year.
YOU TELL ME WHAT LUC, LUM MEANINGS ARE.
LIGHT
Lucent means giving light.
Luna is a moon goddess.
Illuminate means to bring in light and to light up.
Luminescence means brightness.
= Hand
Manual means relating to the hand.
Manufacture means the act of making by hand.
Manifest means seen at hand or obvious.
Emancipation means the act of freeing something
7TH GRADE ENGLISH TEACHERS ARE SCRIBACIOUS.
Transcript means to copy something in writing.
Scribable means it can be written upon.
Circumscribe means to draw a line around.
Scripture any sacred writings.
Addicted to Writing
NOT ALIKE BUT …………?
Similar means resembling in many aspects.
Simultaneously means happening at the same time.
Assimilate means to make similar.
Simil, Simul
Similar, like, same
Have you ever felt this way?
Then you could be thinking of words with the root:Sol, soli
Solemn means serious or thoughtfully.
Solace means comfort during times of disappointment.
Soli means an act you are doing on your own without assistance.
Solitude means a state in being alone.
WE USE THESE EVERYDAY FOR THIS ROOT.
Vid, Vis
See, Look, SightVisible means relating to
vision.
Evident means to be easily seen.
Vista means a view from a distance.
YOU ARE USING THIS WORD EVERY OTHER DAY THIS YEAR.
What is the Root of this word? BI
OBiography means the study of someone’s life.
Biographer means someone who writes about a life of another person.