Word Roots

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Word Roots
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Key

• Become familiar with the roots
• Lyn
• Use them to make connections to the definitions
  of words
• Lyn Its not a fool-proof system

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Fac/fic/fig/fait/feit/fy (to
do, to make)

• Facile
• Munificent
• Prolific
• Soporific
• Fait accompli
• Ex post facto

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Fer (to bring, to carry, to bear)

• Infer
• Proffer
• Defer
• Proliferate
• Vociferous

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Ferv (to boil, to bubble, to burn)

• Fervor
• Ferment
• Fervid
• Effervescent

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Fid (faith, trust)

• Confide
• Confidant
• Affidavit
• Diffident
• Fidelity
• Perfidy
• Fiduciary
• Infidel
• Semper Fidelis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Fin (end)

• Finale
• Confine
• Infinite
• Infinitesimal

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Flu, flux (to flow)

• Affluent
• Influx
• Confluence
• mellifluous

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Fore (before)

• Foreshadow
• Forgo

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Fort (chance)

• Fortuitous
• fortune

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Fra/frac/frag/fring (to break)

• Fractious
• Infraction
• Refractory
• Infringe

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Fruit/frug (produce)

• Fruition
• Frugal

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Fund/found (bottom)

• Foundation
• profound

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Fus (to pour)

• Profuse
• Suffuse
• transfusion

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Gen (birth, creation, race, kind)

• Genetics
• Genealogy
• Homogeneous
• Genre
• Engender
• genesis

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Gn/gno (know)

• Ignoramus
• Cognizant
• Agnostic
• incognito

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Grand (big)

• Grandeur
• Aggrandize
• grandiose

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Grat (pleasure)

• Ingratiate
• Gratuity
• grateful

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Grav/griev (heavy, serious)

• Grievous
• Gravity
• Grave

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Greg (herd)

• Congregation
• Segregation
• aggregation

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Grad/gress (to step)

• Regress
• Degrage
• Retrograde
• Transgress
• Digress
• egress

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Flag/flam (to burn)

• Flamboyant
• Flagrant
• Conflagration
• In flagrante delicto