Word Roots 4

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Word Roots 4

• I-L

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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

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Im/in (not, without)

• Innocuous
• Insipid w/o taste
• inept

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Infra (beneath)

• Infrastructure
• infrared

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Id (ones own)

• Idiosyncrasy
• idiom

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Hom (same)

• Homogeneous
• Homonym

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Hetero (different)

• Heterogeneous
• Heterodox holding unorthodox (different)
  doctrines or opinions

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Intra (within)

• Intramural
• intravenous

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Ject (to throw, to throw down)

• Inject
• Dejected
• Project
• conjecture

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Join/junct (to meet, to join)

• Adjoin
• Conjugal
• injunction

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Jur (swear)

• Jury
• Perjury
• Adjure swear against
• Adjure to command solemnly under oath

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Kilo one thousand

• Kilogram
• Kilometer (ex. 5K race)

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Lev lift, light, rise

• Levity
• Elevator
• Relieve
• Alleviate
• Levitate

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Litera word

• Literal
• literature

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Loc/log/loqu word, speech

• Dialogue
• Eloquent
• Elocution
• Prologue
• Soliloquy
• Eulogy
• Colloquial
• loquacious

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Luc/lum/lus light

• Illustrate
• Illuminate
• Luminous
• Lackluster
• Translucent
• Lucid
• elucidate

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Lud/lus (to play)

• Ludicrous
• Delude
• Interlude
• collusion

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Lut/lug/luv to wash

• deluge
• pollute
• dilute
• lavatory
• antediluvian the period before the flood

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Source

• Princeton Reviews Word Smart