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| lud,lus | to play; Latin: prelude-introduction to the major performance;illusion- misleading optical image or impression; delude- to mislead,deceive |
| lumin | light; Latin: illuminate- to fill with light lumen- unit measuring light. |
| lun/a/i | moon; Latin: lunar- relating to the moon; lunarscape- the surface of the moon; lunatic - insane (as if driven to mad by the moon). |
| macro | large,great; greek: macroevolution- large scale evolution; macromolecule- large molecule;macroeconomics - study of overall forces of economy. |
| magn/a/i | great/large; Latin: magnify- make larger; magnificent- grand;magnate- a powerful person.especially in business and industry. |
| mal/e | bad,ill,wrong; Latin: malcontent- wrong content; malaria - "bad air", infectious disease thought to originate from the "bad air" of the swamps, but caused by the bite of an infected mosqutio;malicious - showing strong ill will. |
| man/i/u | hand; Latin : maneuver - to move by hand;manual - done with the hands; manuscript- a book written by hand. |
| mand | to order; Latin: command- an order or instruction; demand - a hard-to-ignore order; mandate - an offical order. |
| mania | madness,insanity,excessive desire; Greek: bibliomania - a crazy love of books; egomina - a mad love of oneself; maniac an insane person. |
| mar/i | sea; Latin: marina - habor of pleasure boats; maritime - relating to the sea; submarine - an unndersea boat; aquamarine - color of sea water |
| mater,mart/i | mother; Latin: maternal - relating to mother hood; maternity - the state of being a mother; matriach - a women head of the household. |
| max | greatest; Latin: maximal - the best or greatest possible; maximize - to make as great as possible; maxium - the greatest amount. |
| medi | middle; Latin: medieval - pertaining to the middle ages; medium - in the middle; mediocre - only of medium (inferior) quality |
| mega | great, large, million; Greek: megalopois - an area with many nearby cities; megaphones - a device that projects a loud voice- megastruture - huge building or other structure |
| melan/o | black; Greek: melancholy - state of dark emotions; melanoma - mallgnant dark tumor of the skin; melodrama - a dark, pathetic drama |
| memor/i | remember; Latin: commemorte - to honor the memory of, as by a cermony; memorial - related to remembering a person or event; memory: an ability to retain knowledge or an individual's stock or retained knowledge |
| merge,mers | dip,dive; Latin: immerge or immerse - to put or dip something into liquid; submerge to dip something completely under water. |
| meso | middle; Latin: mesoameria - middle america; meson - elementary particle with a mass between an electron and a proton. |
| meta | change, after,beyond,between; Greek: metaphysics - study of nature and reality; metamorphosis - a complete change of form; metastasis - the transmission of disease to other parts of the body. |
| meter,metr/y | measure; Greek: audiometer - an instrument that measures hearing acuteness; chronometer - an instrument that measures time; metric - measured |
| micro | very small, short, minute; Greek: microbe - a very small living thing; microchip - a tiny wafer with an integrated circuit; micrscope - a device to see very small things. |
| mid | middle; Latin Greek: midriff - the area between the chest and the waist; midterm- middle of term in school;midway - halfway between. |
| migr | move; Latin: immigrant - a person who moves to a new country to settle; migrant - person who moves from place to place; migrants - the process of moving |
| milli | onethousandth; Latin: millimeter - one thousandth of a meter; milibar - one thousandth of a bar; millimeter - one thousandth of a liter. |
| min/i | smal,less; Latin: mini- something that is very small; minuscule- extremely tiny- minutiae- very small or trivial details. |
| mis/o | bad,badly,wrong,wrongly, to hate ; Greek: misbehave - to behave badly; misprint- an error in printing; misnomer - an error in naming a person or thing. |
| miss,mit | send, let go; Latin: dismiss - to send someone away; missle - a weapon sent into the air; emit - to send something out; admittance-entry |
| mob | move; Latin: immobilize - to stop from moving; mobile - able to move freely; mobility - the quality of being able to move. |
| mon/o | one,singe,alone; Greek: monochromat - having one color; momologue - a speech spoken by one person; momothesim - belief in one god |
| mot,mov | move; Latin: motion - the act of moving; motivate - to move someone to action; promote to move someone forward; removable- able to be taken or carried away |
| morph/o | mortform; Greek: metamorphosis - complete change of form; endorphine - chemical in the brian able to transform pain; amorphous - without distinct shape or form. |
| mort | death; Latin: immortal - living forever, unable to die; mortal - certain to die; mortican - an undertaker. |
| a/n | not without; Greek: abyss- without bottom;achromatic - without color; anhydrous - without water |
| a | on; Latin: afire - on fire; ashore - on the shore; aside - one the side |
| a/ab/s | from,away,off; Latin: abduct - carry away by force; abnormal - away from normal, not normal; abesent - away, not present; aversion - the act of turning away from; abbreviate: to shorten |
| a/c/d | to,towards,near; Latin: accelerate - to increase the speed of; accessible - easily entered, approached, or obtained; admittance - allowing into; |
| acro | top,height,tip,beginning; Greek acrobat - a "higher walker"; acronym - word formed from the first (capital) letters of a word; acrophobia - fear of heights |
| act | do; Latin: activity- something that a person does; react - to do something in response; interaction - communication between two or more things |
| aer/o | air; Greek: aerate - to let air reach something;aerial - relating to the air; aerospace - the air space |
| agr/i/o | farming; Latin greek: agriculture - management of the land, - agribusiness - making money by utillizing land; agrarian - relating to the mangement of land |
| alg/o | pain; Latin: neuralga - pain caused by a nerve; analgesic - a drug that makes one pain free; nostalgia - aching for the familar |
| ambi,amphi | both, on both sides, around; Latin: ambidextrous - able to use both hands equally; ambiguous - having more than one meaning; ambivalence - conflicting or opposite feelings towards a person or thing |
| ambul | walk,move; Latin: amble - to walk in a slow, relaxed way; ambulant - walking or moving around; ambulance - a vehicle that moves a patient |
| ami/o | love; Latin: amiable - friendly, plesant, lovable; amity - friendly and peaceful relations; amorous - showing romantic love |
| ana | up,back,against,again,throughout; Greek:analysis - a close examination of something; anatomy - the structure of something as visible when cut up for analysis; anachronsim - not being in the right place in time |
| andr/o | man, male; Greek- androgynous - being both male and female; android - resmbling a human; misandry - hatred towards men |
| anim | life,spirit; Latin- animal - living organism; animate - to make alive; equanimity - of balanced spirit |
| ann/enn | year; Latin- anniversary - a date observed once a year; annual - happening once a year; millennium - 1,000 years |
| ante | before, in front; Latin - antecede - to come before somethimg in time; antemeridian - before noon; anteroom - a small room before the main room |
| anth/o | flower; Greek: chrysanthemum and amaranth - names of flowers; anthology- a collection of treasured writings; anthozoan - half plant, half animal, like anemones and corals. |
