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Prefixes and Roots Final 2025 - ALT
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| a, ad | to, towards |
| a-, an- | without |
| ab-, abs- | apart, away from |
| anti- | against |
| auto- | self |
| bene- | favorable, well, good |
| belli- | war, warlike, fight, fighting |
| bio- | life, living, live, alive |
| chron- | time, times, a sequence of time |
| com- | with, together |
| de- | down, away |
| dis- | not, apart |
| dys- | bad, hard, difficult, ill |
| epi- | upon, on, over |
| ex- | out |
| in- | in, into, on, upon |
| in-, im- | not |
| inter- | between |
| ob- | against |
| omni-, omnis, omnibus | all |
| poly- | many |
| post- | after, behind, later |
| pre-, prae- | before in time and space |
| pro- | to, towards, forth |
| re- | back, again, backwards |
| se- | apart, aside, by itself |
| sub- | under, below, beneath |
| tele- | distant, far off, far away |
| trans- | across, through, over |
| clamare | to cry out, to shout |
| clamor | loud combination of noises |
| exclaim | to call out |
| claudere | to close, to shut |
| closet | a room that stores clothing and jewelry |
| include | to bring into one's circle |
| exclude | to keep out of one's circle |
| ducere | to lead |
| introduce | to make two or more people known to each other |
| fallere | to deceive |
| fallacy | a false belief often believed by many |
| fallible | to be able to make mistakes |
| infallible | unable to make mistakes |
| ferre | to bear or carry |
| fertile | able to bear young |
| aquifer | an underground lake |
| fidere | to trust |
| confident | the feeling of trusting yourself |
| confidential | something that you only share with those your trust |
| infidel | literally, one of a different faith; used as a curse word in parts of the world |
| gradi | to walk, step, go |
| egress | exit |
| ingredient | the items one mixes when one follows a recipe |
| aggression | showing an eagerness to resort to violence |
| scribere | to write |
| scribillare | to scribble |
| describe | to note down what something/someone's appearance |
| manuscript | hand written document |
| prescribe | to write down needed medicine |
| scribe | one who writes |
| spectare | to view, to watch |
| specere | to look |
| spectator | one who watches |
| spectacles | glasses, also grand and notable productions |
| torquere | to twist |
| torture | physically causing pain to punish or extract information |
| distort | to twist from its true shape or appearance |
| extort | to blackmail |
| trahere | to pull, to draw, to drag |
| abstract | non-representation of real life |
| distract | to pull attention away from |
| extract | liquid that has pulled some essential quality out of something else, like vanilla extract |
| retract | to take back |
| vivere | to live |
| viable | able to live |
| nonviable | not able to live |
| revive | to bring back to life |
| jectare | to throw |
| object | to lodge a complaint against |
| omnivore | eats both meat and plants (everything) |
| omnipotent | all- powerful |
| polygon | many angled figure |
| post script | PS |
| posthumous | after death (literally after burial) |
| postmortem | after death |
| mors | death |
| prefix | the part of the word attached before the root |
| premeditation | to plan out before |
| proceed | to go forth |
| cedere | to go |
| proclaim | to announce in front of |
| clamare | to cry out |
| recede | to go back |
| cedere | to go |
| refugee | one who flees from a war or disaster |
| fugere | to flee |
| seclude | to be apart from |
| claudere | to shut |
| segregate | to separate on some basis like race or religion |
| grex | herd or flock |
| succession | when an heir inherits a position |
| suffocate | to die from lack of oxygen |
| fauces | throat |
| telephone | sound transmitted through wires from a distance |
| telescope | an instrument that makes things in the distance seem closer |
| graphein | to write; writing |
| phonos | sound |
| skopos | seeing |
| transfer | to move from one place to another |
| ferre | to bear or carry |
| amare | love, liking |
| amicus | friend |
| inimicus | enemy |
| amateur | one who plays a sport for the love of it |
| amiable | friendly and cheerful |
| astrum | star |
| asterisk | a point of punctuation shaped like a star |
| asteroid | star-like |
| auditorium | a large building where concerts, speakers, etc. are hosted |
| audition | a try-out for a production like a play |
| audience | the people who came to hear a speaker or group |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| audire | to hear |
| cadere | to fall |
| cascade | something that falls in stages, like a waterfall or lace |
| capere | to take, to hold |
| capture | to take control of |
| capacity | a measure of how much something can hold |
| capable | being able to do a task well |
| except | to hold something apart from the rules that govern others of its type |
| emancipate | to free from slavery |
| caput | head, leader, chief |
| capitol | the seat of government |
| capital | a special way of writing a letter to indicate the start of a sentence or a title |
| escape | to get away, "ex cappa" |
| kaustikos | capable of burning |
| caustic | something that burns and hurts; can be metaphoric |
| Holocaust | historically, the attempted genocide of the Jews, Rom, and gays during WWII of |
| holocaust | any great destruction by fire |
| cedere | to move, go, yield, surrender |
| secede | to separate from |
| se- | apart, apart from |
| proceed | to go forth |
| recede | to go back |
| ante- | before |
| deceased | to be not living |
| cidere | to cut |
| -cide | the killing of |
| homicide | the killing of a human |
| concise | to use no wasted words |
| precise | to use exact language |
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