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MEANING
WORD
alter
other
ami, amic-
love
amiable, amicable
amphi
amphibian
ann, enni
year
anthrop
human, man
aqua, aque
water
arch
arthro
joint
arthritis
aud
sound
bell
war
belligerent, bellicose
biblio
book
bibliography, bibliophile
bio-
life
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brev
short
brief, abbreviate
cap
take, seize
carn
meat
ced
yield, go
chrom-
color
chron-
time
cogn
know
cord/chord
cord
harpsichord
corp
body
crac, crat
rule, ruler
cred
believe
cruc
cross
crucifix, crucial
crusta
shell
crustacean
crypt
hidden
culp
guilt
culpable, culprit
dei
god
deity, deify
demo-
people
dent
tooth
derm-
skin
dic
speak, say
dox
belief, opinion
duc, duct
lead
duo
two
duo
dynam-
power
dynamo, hydrodynamics
ego
self
egotist, egomania
equ
equal
fac
make, do
fil
threadlike
filament
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frater
brother
fraternal, fraternize
gam-
marriage
geo-
earth
glyph
vertical groove
grad, gress
step
graph-
writing, printing
gym
naked
gymnasium
gyn-
woman
gynecologist, androgynous
blood
holo
whole, entire
holograph
hydro, hydr
water
iso
equal, identical
isolate
ject
throw
jud
judge
leg, lect
read, choose
liter
letter
loc
place
local, location
log
word
monologue, epilogue
luc
light
lucid, elucidate
magn
large
man
hand
mar
sea
marine, mariner
mater
mother
mere
part, segment
mere
meta, met
behind, between
metri, meter-
measure
min
small
mit, miss
send
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move
mon
warn
premonition, admonition
mor, mort
death
morph
form, structure
mut
change
neuro
nerve
nomen /nomin
name
nov
new
nym, onym
word, name
odonto
tooth
ortho-
straight, correct
pac
peace
pater
father
path
feeling, suffering
ped, pod
foot
pel, puls
push
pend
hang, weigh
phon-, phono-
sound, voice
plan
flat
pneum
lung
pneumatic
pod
feet
podiatrist
port
carry
pot
power
psych-
pugna
fight
pugnacious, pugilist
quer, quis
ask
query, inquisition,
scent, scend
climb
ascend, ascent
schizo, schiz
division, split
schizophrenic
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sci
know
scientific
sciss
cut
scissors
scrib, script
write
sec, sect
cut
dissect, section
sed, sess
sit
sedentary, session
sens, sent
feel, be aware
sensible, sentient
sequ, secu
follow
serv
serve, protect
service
simil
same
siphon
tube
siphon
sol
sun
solar
son
sound
soph
wisdom, knowledge
spec, spic
look, see
spir
coil
spiral
spir
breathe
spond, spons
respond, responsible
spont
spontaneous
stat
stay, position
station
tang, tact
touch
tactile, tangible
temp
time
temporary, temporize
ten, tent
hold
terr
earth
theo
god, deity
therm-
heat
trophy
nutrition, food
atrophywithout nutrition
uro
urine
urologist
vac
empty
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ven, vent
come, go
ver
truth
vert
turn
vit
life
voc
call
zoo
animal
PREFIXES
PREFIX
MEANING
EXAMPLES
a-, an-
not, without
ab-
away from
ad-
to, toward
ambi-
both
ambidextrous, ambivalent
ana-
anti-
against
apo-
apology, apologize
auto-
self
bene-
good
cata-, cat-
down, against
centro, centri-
around, center
concentric, centrifugal
circum-
around
com-
with, together
communal, community
con-
with, together
contra-
against
contradict, contravene
de-
down, away
dia-, di-
through, across
diameter, division
dis-
apart, not
dys-
dysfunctional, dysentery
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e-
ecto-
on the outside
ectoderm--outer skin
en-, em-
in
empathy--feeling in
endo-
within, inside
epi-
upon
eso-
inward, within
eu-
well, good
euthanasia--good death
ex-
hetero-
other, different
homo-
same
hyper-
over
hypo-
under
hypotension, hypodermic
il-
not
im-
not
im-
into
in-
not
indiscreet, invisible
in-
into
inter-
between
intra-
within
intrastate, intramural
ir-
not
macro-
large
macrocosm, macroeconomics
mal, male-
bad, evil
meta-
beyond
metaphysical
micro-
small
mono-
one, single
neo-
new, recent
ob-
against
palin-, pali-
back, again
palindrome
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pan-
all, every
para-
false
per-
through
peri-
around
perimeter, periscope
phil-, philo-
like, lover of
poly-
many, several
post-
after
pre-
before
pro-
for, forward
promote, project
pros-
toward, in front
proto-
first
pseudo
false
pseudonym, pseudoscience
re-
again, back
retro-
back
retrogression, retroactive
se-
away from
sub-
under
sur-, super-
over, above
with, together
tele-
trans-
across
SUFFIXES
SUFFIX
DEFINITION
EXAMPLE
-agog, -agogue
leader
demagogue, pedagogue
-cide
kill(ing)
-ectomy
cutting
appendectomy, splenectomy
-ia, -y
act, state
having to do with
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-ics
optics, physics
-isk, -iscus
small
-ism
the belief in
-ist
-ite
-logy
study field of
-oid
resembling, like-shaped
asteroid, spheroid
-or, -er
-phobia
exaggerated fear
-sis
analysis
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