Word Parts
Greek and Latin root words make-up a significant part of the words in
English, so we will learn them, and be able to identifying and
understand more complicated vocabulary
Rules
• Copy the following five entries into the new word part section of your binder and
leave at least ten lines between each entry.
• When you have copied them, get a dictionary and look up more examples of
words using these word parts.
• Then copy the five most challenging words you find and the meaning of each. It
will be most helpful to find words that clearly incorporate the meaning of the
word part.
• Finally, as homework, write one sentence for each of the words you defined.
• This work will be your ticket to the test in four weeks.
• You will receive approximately five new entries each week. When we have
twenty word parts, we will test on those.
• I have done all of the work for the first entry for you to model what you should do
with the others.
Week One
Word Part
1. BeneBenediction
Meaning
Good
Words
Benefit
n. A blessing.
At the end of the service, the minister said the benediction.
Benevolent. adj. expressing good will or kindly thoughts.
He helped the older lady cross the street so I knew he was benevolent.
Beneficiary. N. Person who receives benefits (goods).
Some of my students are beneficiaries on their parent’s life insurance policies.
Beneficial. Adj. Producing a favorable result.
Coming to school each day is beneficial if you want to learn.
Benefactress. N. Woman who gives aid, esp. financial aid.
Oprah is often a benefactress for other women.
2. CircumAround
Circumve
3. Col-, Com-,
Con-, CorWith / Together
Collapse,
(You do not have to do five words for each, just total for the entry.) Compile
Construct, Correspond
4. ContraOpposed
Contradict
5. EquEqual
Equidistant
Week Two
Word Part
Meaning
Words
6. Extra7. Hemi8. Hyper9. Inter10. Intra-
Outside
Half
Over, Above
Between, Among
Within
Extralegal
Hemisphere
Hypercritical
International
Intracellular
Week Three
Word Part
Meaning
Words
11. Intro-
Into
Introvert
12. Mal-
Bad
Maltreat
13. Mid-
Halfway
Midday
14. Mis-
Wrong
Misspell
15. Non-
Not
Nonworking
Week Four
Word Part
Meaning
Words
16. Pre-
Before
Predawn
17. Post-
After
Postpone
18. Retro-
Backward/Behind
19. Sub-
Under/Below
Subzero
20. Dys-
Bad
Dysfunctional
Retroactive
Week Five
Word Part
Meaning
21. Ab-
Not; Away;
Up, out
Motion toward
nearness to
22. Ad-
23. Ante- Before; prior to
In front of
24. Antiagainst;
prevents, cures ;
opposite, reverse
25. Bearound; by about
Words
absent
abnormal
advent
adjoin
adolescence
antecedent
anteroom
anticensorship
antidote
antimatter
Beset
Bemoan
Week Six
Word Part
Meaning
Words
26. De-
away from; off;
down;
reverse action of
derail
decline
defrost
27. Dis-
lack of; not;
away
distrust
dishonest
dispatch
28. Em-, En-
to get into; on;
to make or cause;
in; into
embark
enfeeble
enclose
not; in; into
immature
Investigate
In favor of;
forward; ahead
Pro-labor
Propel
29. Il-, Im-,
In-, Ir30. Pro-
Week Seven
Word Part
31. Re-
Meaning
again; back
32. Semi-
half; partly;
twice in a period
33. Super34. Trans-
over and above;
very large
across; beyond
35. Un-
not; reverse of
Words
replant
repay
semicircle
semiannual
semiconscious
superhuman
supertanker
transatlantic
transcend
unhappy
unfasten
Week Eight: People who do something – 3 words
Word Part
36. -ant
37. -eer
38. –er
39. -ier
40. –ist
41. –ician
42. –or
42.5 -ee
Meaning
Words
Commandant / Occupant
Auctioneer / Puppeteer
Manager / Mother / Runner
Cavalier / Soldier
Boulevardier
Geologist/Somnambulist
Beautician / Statistician
Counselor / Executor
amputee / absentee
Week Nine
Word Part
Meaning
Words
43. Anthrop
44. Ast, Aster
45. Auto
46. Bibl
47. Chron
48. Dem
Human
Star
Self; Alone
Book
Time
People
Anthropology
Asterisk
Automobile
Bibliography
Chronology
Democracy
Week Ten – you can start ‘making up’ words with other word parts
Word Part
Meaning
Words
49. Crat, Crac
Govern
Democracy
Democracy—government by the people
Autocratic – Self-governed/government by one
body
Theocracy—government by the church
(theo=god)
Plutocracy—government by the wealthy
(Pluto=wealth because of Hades)
Aristocracy—government by one family
Bureaucracy—government by non-elected
officials
Bureaucrat—non-elected official who governs
50. Bio
Life
Biology
Biohazard
Bioastronautics—study of the effects of space
travel (to the stars) on living organisms.
Biogenesis
Biogenetic research
Autobiographer
51. Gen
Birth/Race/ Origins/Beginnings
Generation gap
Autoregeneration
Genesis
Word Part
Meaning
Words
52. Geo
Earth Geothermometer
Geographer—someone who writes about the
earth.
Geometry
Geochronometry—measurement of the earth’s
time
53. Graph/Gram Write Grammar/ paragraph
Geographer—someone who writes about the
earth.
Sonogram
Graphology—study of handwriting
Graphic novelist
Electrocardiogram
Biography
Telegram/ Telegraph
54. Hydr
Water
Hydrobiology
Hydrogeology
Hyrdrometer
Hydrothermal
Hydrogen
Week Eleven
Word Part
Meaning
55. Log
Word, Reason
56. Logy
57. Metr/Meter
58. Neo
59. Nom/Nym
Words
Dialogue
Monologue, logical
Study of
Geology
Measure
Barometer
New
Neophyte
Name, Word, Law Economic
Week Twelve
Word Part
Meaning
Words
60. Ortho
61. Pan
62. Phil
Straight, Correct
All; entire
Love
63. Phobia
Fear
Orthodontist
Panorama
Philosopher
Phobiaphilia
Hippophobia
Arachnophobia
Ambulophobia
Somnophobia
Philophobia
Neophobia
Claustrophobia
Cynophobia
Xenophobia
Nornatophobia
donophobia
64. Phon
Thermophobia
Anuptaphobia
Gehryrophobia
Chorophobia
Verbophobia
Acrophobia
Necrophobia
Papryophobia
Tonsuraphobia
Didaskaleinophobia
Sound
Bibliophobia
Musophobia
Pedaphobia
Ergophobia
Theophobia
Zoophobia
Aichmophobia
Dentophobia
Scriptophobia
Panophobia
Phonograph
Week Thirteen
Word Part
Meaning
Words
66. Psych
Mind; Soul
Psychology
67. Scope
See
Telescope
68. Soph
Wise, Wisdom Sophisticated
69. Tele
Far; Distant
Television
70. Theo
God
Theology
Week Fourteen
Word Part
Meaning
Words
71. Therm
Heat
Thermometer
SAMPLE ENTRY:
Geothermometer - instrument to measure the temperature/heat of the earth.
If I am a geologist, I may need to use a geothermometer if a volcano is imminent.
72. Capt / Capit
Take; Hold;
Seize; Head
Capture
73. Cede/Ceed/Cess Go; Yield; Give Away
Recession
Proceed
(HINT: USE PRIOR WORD PARTS to construct some easy to learn words: Inter/ Pro/
Re / Con)
74. Cred
Believe
Credit; Creed
75. Dic; Dict
Speak; Say;Tell
Dictionary;
Dictation
Week Fifteen
Word Part
Meaning
Words
76. Mob;Mot
Mov
77. Mit; Miss
78. Fer
79. Ject
80. Duc; Duct;Duce
81. Puls
Move
Send
Carry
Throw; Hurl
Lead
Throb; Urge
Automobile
Transmit; Submissive
Transfer; Refer; Ferry
Inject; Reject
Induce; Conductor
Pulsate; Repulsive
Week Sixteen
Word Part
82. Fac; Fec;
Foc; Fic
83. Par;Pair
84. Junct
85. Port
86. Pon; Pos;
Posit
87. Scrib, Script
Meaning
Do; Make
Get Ready
Join
Carry; Opening
Place; Put
Write
Words
Fiction; Factory
Prepare; Repair
Conjunction; Injunction
Portable; Airport
Impose;
Reposition; Component
Transcribe; Subscription
Week Seventeen
Word Part
Meaning
88. Spec, Spic
Look;See
Words
Spectacle;
Conspicuous
89. Stat
Stand; Put in Place Statue
90. Ten
Stretch; Hold Tendon
91. Tract
Pull; Move
Tractor
92. Ven, Vent
Come
Convention
Event
87. Scrib, Script
Write
Transcribe
Week Eighteen
Word Part
Meaning
Words
93. Vers, Vert
Turn
94. Vid, Vis
95. Voc, Vok
See
Call
Invert;
Versatile
(Con, Re, Sub)
Video; Vista
Invoke; Vocation
(Pro,In, Re)
Volunteer
(Bene, Mal, In,)
Revolver
(In, E, tion)
96. Vol
97. Volv
Wish
Roll
Week Nineteen
Word Part
Meaning
Words
•98. Cycl
•99. Mem
Turn; Wheel
Remember
•100. Clude
Clus
•101. Rupt
Shut
Recycle; Unicycle
Memorial;
Memoir
Include;
Conclusion
Disrupt;
Interrupt
Manufacture;
Manuscript
•102. Manu
Break; Burst
Hand
Week Twenty
Word Part
Meaning
•103. Sect
• 104. Pens
Divide; Cut Dissect; Section
Pay
Expense;
Compensation
Hang
Suspend; Depend
Number
Numerous; Numeral
First
Primary; Primate
•105. Pend
•106. Numer
•107. Prim
Words
This is the last set for the fifth test! Get busy!
Week Twenty One
Word Part
108. Macro
109. Micro
110. Eu
111. A (An)
112. Mono
Meaning
large, long
small; minute
Good; Well;
Advantageous
Not; Without
One; Single;Alone
Words
Macrocosm
Microphone
Eugenics
Euphemism
Amoral
Monarchy
Week Twenty-Two
Word Part
Meaning
113. Poly
114. Tomy (Tom)
Many
Polygamy
Cutting
Anatomy
Operation of incision
Foot
Anthropod
Like;
Homochromatic
One and the same
Different Heterogeneous
115. Pod
116. Homo
117. Hetero
Words
Week Twenty-Three
Word Part
118. Commun
119. Serv
120. Rad
121. Aer
122. Press
Meaning
Common
Save; keep
Ray
Air
Force
Words
Excommunicate
Preservation
Radiance
Aeronautics
Pressurize