INSTANT VOCABULARY 101 - 105
VOCABULARY
KEY
GRAD – GRED –
GRESS - GREE
CIAN
NUMBER - NUMER
TRACT - TRAH
DOM
DEFINITION AND USAGE
These ROOTS are GRAD, GRED, GREE & GRESS meaning
STEP, DEGREE & WALK. This ROOT is a most interesting
one to us in this stage of our vocabulary building. No
sooner do we put two roots together to make a word
conGRESS than we can think of another root and still
another on to add to it. And all by adding one root at a time.
The Latin adverb gradatim! Beautifully expresses this
method. One KEY A DAY! STEP BY STEP! Brings you to
SUCCESS!
This KEY is the Suffix CIAN, which is really an extension of
the Suffix AN, NATIVE OF and RELATING TO. CIAN means
HAVING A CERTAIN SKILL or ART. The beautiCIAN is one
who knows how to create beauty. The PolitiCIAN knows how
to manipulate politics. The musiCIAN knows how to create
music; and so on with the rest of the words using this
suffix.
These ROOTS are NUMBER and NUMER, which means
exactly what it looks like—NUMBER. How lucky we are that
we live in a world where we express numbers by numbers
and not by letters as the Latins did. I’ve copied out an
example using Roman numbers and the corresponding
Arabic numbers.
MCCLXXXXIX
1289
+MXXXVIII
+1038 NUMERation has certainly been made easy for us with the
Arabic NUMERals and the Hebrew base of ten.
This ROOT is TRACT and TRAH meaning DRAW & PULL. It
comes from the Latin trahere, to draw, pull. TRAH is rarely
used. TRACT lends itself readily to combination with other
ROOTS, as you see from the list. ABLE, ILE, ITY, TION, AT,
IVE, OR, ABS, CON, DE, DIS, EX, RE, SUB & PRO are all old
friends, more of less, a fine reunion. Just think of the
performance when all these get into the act. What a
company! And what a performance you’ll be able to give
when you recognize them one an all!
This KEY is the Suffix DOM, which has a Romany Gypsy
origin. It means QUALITY, REALM, OFFICE, and STATE. It
often indicates an area that is in a way, a world all its own.