Word Roots

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Word Roots

• m-n

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Key

• Become familiar with the roots
• Use them to make connections to the definitions
  of words
• Its not a fool-proof system
• If you cant figure out the word based on the
  root, then look up the word
• This will greatly expand your vocabulary
• It will help you for the PSAT, the SAT, the GRE,
  and life!

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min small

• minutiae
• minute
• diminish

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Min to project, to hang over

• Eminent
• Prominent
• Preeminent

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Mis/mit to send

• Missive
• Emissary
• Remit
• intermittent
• remission

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misc (mixed)

• miscellaneous
• miscegenation
• promiscuous

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mon/monit (to warn)

• monument
• monitor
• summons
• admonish

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morph (shape)

• amorphous
• metamorphosis
• polymorphous

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mort (death)

• immortal
• morgue
• morbid
• moribund (declining or dying)
• mortify

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mut (change)

• commute
• mutation
• mutant
• immutable
• permutation (variation)

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nam/nom/noun/nown/nym (rule, order)

• economy
• autonomy
• taxonomy (classification)
• gastronomy (food/cooking)

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nom/nym/noun/nown (name)

• synonym
• nominate
• pseudonym
• misnomer
• nomenclature (ex. nomenclature of the rifles
  components)

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nat/nas/nai (to be born)

• natural
• native
• naïve
• cognate (similar/related)
• nascent
• innate
• renaissance

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nec/nic/noc/nox (harm, death)

• innocent
• innocuous
• pernicious (destructive)
• necromancy

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nov/neo/nou (new)

• novel
• renovate
• innovate
• neologism (ex. funner)
• novice (ex. Jake)
• nouveau riche

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nounc/nunc (to announce)

• announce
• pronounce
• denounce (condemn, censure)
• renounce (reject)