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| Word Roots Use these Latin and Greek word roots to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words. |
| Root | Meaning | Example | Root | Meaning | Example | |
| agogos | leading | demagogue | loquor | to speak | loquacious | |
| alma | soul | alma mater | magnus | large | magnitude | |
| alter | other | alternative | malus | bad, evil | malicious | |
| ambulo | to walk | perambulator | manus | hand | manuscript | |
| anthropos | mankind | anthropology | mater | mother | maternal | |
| anti | against | antithesis | monos | one | monotheism | |
| auris | ear | auricular | omnis | all | omniscient | |
| bene | good | beneficent | opus | work | opera | |
| centrum | center | ethnocentric | pan | all | pandemic | |
| chronos | time | chronology | pater | father | paternalistic | |
| demos | people | democracy | phone | sound | phonograph | |
| dexter | right hand | dexterous | polys | many | polyandry | |
| dono | to give | donate | post | after | posthumous | |
| dorsum | back | dorsal | psyche | mind | psychological | |
| ego | self | egocentric | retro | backward | retrospective | |
| equus | horse | equine | scriptus | to write | script | |
| fides | faith | fidelity | solus | alone | solitude | |
| frater | brother | fraternal | somnus | sleep | somnolence | |
| gamos | marriage | polygamy | soror | sister | sorority | |
| geras | old age | geriatric | summus | highest | summation | |
| gnosis | knowledge | agnostic | theo | god | theology | |
| gyne | woman | misogynist | verbum | word | verbose | |
| homos | the same | homonym | via | road | viaduct | |
| hyper | over | hyperactive | volo | to wish | volition | |
| hypos | under | hypodermic | vox | voice | vocal |
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