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Word Roots

Word Roots. Key . Become familiar with the roots Lyn: Use them to make connections to the definitions of words Lyn: It’s not a fool-proof system. Fac/fic/fig/fait/feit/fy (to do, to make). Facile Munificent Prolific Soporific Fait accompli Ex post facto.

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Word Roots

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  1. Word Roots

  2. Key • Become familiar with the roots • Lyn: • Use them to make connections to the definitions of words • Lyn: It’s not a fool-proof system

  3. Fac/fic/fig/fait/feit/fy (to do, to make) • Facile • Munificent • Prolific • Soporific • Fait accompli • Ex post facto

  4. Fer (to bring, to carry, to bear) • Infer • Proffer • Defer • Proliferate • Vociferous

  5. Ferv (to boil, to bubble, to burn) • Fervor • Ferment • Fervid • Effervescent

  6. Fid (faith, trust) • Confide • Confidant • Affidavit • Diffident • Fidelity • Perfidy • Fiduciary • Infidel • Semper Fidelis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  7. Fin (end) • Finale • Confine • Infinite • Infinitesimal

  8. Flu, flux (to flow) • Affluent • Influx • Confluence • mellifluous

  9. Fore (before) • Foreshadow • Forgo

  10. Fort (chance) • Fortuitous • fortune

  11. Fra/frac/frag/fring (to break) • Fractious • Infraction • Refractory • Infringe

  12. Fruit/frug (produce) • Fruition • Frugal

  13. Fund/found (bottom) • Foundation • profound

  14. Fus (to pour) • Profuse • Suffuse • transfusion

  15. Gen (birth, creation, race, kind) • Genetics • Genealogy • Homogeneous • Genre • Engender • genesis

  16. Gn/gno (know) • Ignoramus • Cognizant • Agnostic • incognito

  17. Grand (big) • Grandeur • Aggrandize • grandiose

  18. Grat (pleasure) • Ingratiate • Gratuity • grateful

  19. Grav/griev (heavy, serious) • Grievous • Gravity • Grave

  20. Greg (herd) • Congregation • Segregation • aggregation

  21. Grad/gress (to step) • Regress • Degrage • Retrograde • Transgress • Digress • egress

  22. Flag/flam (to burn) • Flamboyant • Flagrant • Conflagration • In flagrante delicto

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