Word Root SPEC and SPIC for "see"
These two word roots are just variations of each other. Consider how the word "suspect" becomes "suspicion." It simply sounds better than "suspection."
Notice how the word "perspicacity," which means "the ability or capacity
to discern or shrewdly look through situations" can be analyzed for its word parts.
Per = through; spic = see; capacity -> acity.
Consider the word "inconspicuously," which means "in a manner intended to avoid attracting attention; unnoticeably, sneakily." If you break apart the word, you get this:
in = not; con = with/together; spic = see, ous = full of;
-ly = in the manner of (a common adverb ending)
So that would literally be "in the manner of not easily being seen with."
Group #1:
circumspect -- introspection -- perspective -- respect -- inspect
spectacle -- spectacles -- spectacular -- speculate -- retrospect
Group #2:
conspicuous -- suspicion -- suspect -- prospector -- spectator
auspicious -- aspect -- spectrum -- specimen -- spectre
Group #3:
specious -- inconspicuously -- despicably -- despicable -- specific
perspicacious -- retrospectively -- irrespective -- disrespect -- perspicacity
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