American Literature Vocabulary Words and Prefixes/Suffixes
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Root Word
Meaning
Example Words
SEM 1
PORT
To Carry
Export, Portable, Deporter, Portfolio
RUPT
To Break
Rupture, eruption, interrupt
GREG
gather, flock
gregarious, egregious, segregate
SPIR
to breathe
inspire, respiratory, expiration
LOQU/LOCU
to speak
loquacious, eloquent, colloquial
CRED
to believe
credulous, incredible, discredit
SOLI
alone, single
soliloquy, desolate, isolation
SEM/SIMIL/SIMU
same, alike
simulate, simultaneous, similarly
SCRIB
to write
subscribe, prescription, description
SEM 2
 
AUD
to hear
audible, inaudible, audiology
SPEC
to see
spectator, inspect, respect
BENE
good
 beneficial, benediction, benign
DICT
to speak
dictionary, contradiction, predict
MANU/MANI
hand
 manufacture, manual, emancipation
SEQU
to follow
sequential, consequence, non-sequitor
JECT
throw
 project, eject, interjection
FORM
shape
 transform, reformation, deformed
ANNU/ENNU
yearly
 annual, centennial, perennials
PATH
feeling, love
empathy, sympathy, pathology
PED/POD
foot
 pedal, pedestrian, impede
GRAPH/GRAM
to write, written
telegraph, graphite, grammatical

 

Prefixes
Meaning
  
Suffixes
Meaning
EX-
 OUT  
-ER/OR
 ONE WHO GIVES
IM/IN-
 IN  
-EE
 ONE WHO RECEIVES
INTER-
 BETWEEN  
-TION
 ACT OF
DIS-
 APART, NOT  
-NESS
 CONDITION OF
TRANS-
 ACROSS  
-IBLE/ABLE
 CAPABLE OF
RE-
 BACK, AGAIN  
-OUS
 FULL OF
DE-
 DOWN, AWAY  
-IVE
 QUALITY OF
SE-
 APART  
-IST
 PERSON
CON/CO-
 TOGETHER  
-ISM
 BELIEF
AS,AG, AC, AD-
TO DO  
-ITY
 STATE OF BEING
SUB/SUP-
 UNDER  
-AL
 RELATING TO
PRE-
 BEFORE  
-ARY/ORY
 RELATING TO
PER-
 THROUGH  
-LESS
 WITHOUT
PRO-
 FORWARD, IN FRONT OF  
-ATE
 TO MAKE
MIS-
 WRONG  
-IZE
 TO MAKE
AB-
 OFF  
-TUDE
 CONDITION OF
PUR-
 FORWARD  
-ENT/ANT
 STATE OF
EN-
 IN, INTO  
-ENCE/ANCE
 CONDITION OF

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