Root Word: ped = foot

1. Root Word: ped= foot • biped (n) • centipede (n) • impediment(n) • millipede(n) • pedal (n) • peddler (n) • pedestrian (n) • pedicure (n) • quadruped (n) • tripod (n) a creature with two feet a creature with 100 feet something that stands in one’s way; an obstacle a creature with 1,000 feet a lever that is moved with one’s foot a person who goes from door to door on foot trying to sell a product a person who walks across the street on foot a foot treatment that could include soaking the feet and polishing the toenails a four-footed creature a three-footed stand often used to balance a camera

2. Root Word: man, manu = hand • emancipate (v) • manacles (n) • manager (n) • mandate(n) • maneuver(n) • manicure (n) • manipulate (v) • manual (n) • manufacture (v) • manuscript (n) to set free; to lend a hand in freeing someone; to release from someone’s hands handcuffs a person who has the upper hand; a person who is in charge of someone or something an order or command placed in one’s hands to handily or skillfully go around something a treatment for the hands or nails to skillfully operate by hand a handbook; a book of directions to make by hand or by machine; to change raw material into a new product a handwritten or typed piece of writing, such as a book

3. Root Word: spec = see, look • circumspect (adj) • inspect (v) • introspection (n) • perspective (n) • respect (v) • retrospective(adj) • spectacle (n) • spectacles (n) • spectator (n) • speculate (v) careful to look at all possibilities before acting; cautious; aware of consequences to look at carefully in search of flaws the act of looking into one’s own thoughts and feelings one way of looking at things to look up to someone; to show honor looking back at past things something displayed for the public to see glasses that help someone see better a person who watches something, such as a sporting event to look at and think about something from different points of view

4. Root Word: dict = speak • contradict (v) • dictation (n) • dictator (n) • diction (n) • dictionary (n) • dictum (n) • edict (n) • indictment (n) • predict (v) • verdict (n) to speak against; to say the opposite what is written down as someone says it a leader who speaks and rules with total power the manner in which something is expressed in words (written or spoken) a reference book in which spoken or written words are defined a judge’s ruling or statement public words issued by an official that explain a law or command formal words spoken or written by a jury that charge a person with a crime to say what will happen before it occurs the decision a jury makes in a trial; the decision said by the jury

5. Root Word: ject= throw • Dejected (adj) • Eject (v) • Injection (n) • Interjection (n) • Jettison (v) • Projectile (n) • Projector (n) • Reject (v) • Subject (v) • Trajectory (n) To feel sad; to feel thrown down in spirit To throw out A shot; the “throwing” of medicine into the body by a needle A word thrown into a sentence or conversation To throw goods overboard to lighten the load on a boat or an airplane An object thrown into the air with great force A machine that throws an image onto a wall To throw something out because it’s defective and can’t be used again To throw one’s self under someone else’s rule The curved path of an object thrown into space

6. Root Word: sect = cut, separate • bisect (v) • dissect (v) • insect (n) • intersection (n) • section (n) • sectional (n) • sector (n) • Transect (v) • trisect (v) • vivisection (n) To cut into two pieces To cut apart for the purpose of investigation A class of small arthropod animals that has three separate sections to their bodies: head,thorax, abdomen point where two lines or roads meet and cut across each other A separate part of something A couch that is made up of separate pieces A separate part of a society, group, or area To cutacross something To cut into three separate pieces Surgery on living animals; medical research that involves cutting into living animals to study organs, tissues, or diseases

7. Root Word: port = carry • deport (v) • export (v) • import (v) • portable (adj) • portage (n) • porter (n) • portfolio (n) • report (n) • support (v) • transport (v) to carry or send away from a country; to banish to carry out of the country to carry into the country capable of being easily carried route over which boats/ supplies are carried overland from one lake/river to another an attendant who carries travelers’ luggage for them a case for carrying loose papers a collection of writing that carries information to be shared again with someone new to carry the weight of something to carry something from one place to another

8. Root Word: miss, mit= send • admit (v) • dismiss (v) • emit (v) • intermission (n) 5. missile (n) 6. mission (n) 7. omit (v) 8. remit (v) 9. submit (v) 10. transmit (v) to send someone in; to allow someone to enter To send someone out; to let someone leave to send out or give off (such as an odor) A break between acts of a play or performance during which people are sent out for snacks or stretch breaks A weapon designed to be sent in the direction of a target a special duty or function which a person or group is sent out to do To leave out; to not send To send back (usually related to paying bills) to “send” yourself under someone else’s control; to give in to someone else’s power to send something across places; to pass along

9. Root Word: graph = writing • autobiography (n) • autograph (n) • bibliography (n) • biography (n) 5. cartography (n) 6. homograph (n) • paragraph (n) 8. phonograph (n) 9. photography(n) 10. seismograph (n) writing about a person’s life written by that person the writing of one’s own name the written list of all the books used in a report or book a book written about a person’s life mapmaking; the writing involved in making maps or charts a word written the same way as another word but having a different meaning (e.g., bow—hair and bow--ship a section of writing that has a topic and a concluding sentence record player; a device that turns the writing on records into sounds the use of light to record an image using a camera a device that writes down (records) the movements of the earth

10. Root Word: scrib, script = write • describe (v) • inscription (n) • manuscript (n) 4. postscript(n) 5. prescription (n) • scribble (n) • scribe (n) 8. script (n) 9. subscription (n) 10. transcribe (v) To say or write down how something or someone looks; to use adjectives in writing A short dedication written in a book or engraved on something, such as a coin or monument A piece of writing; a book P.S.; a short bit of writing added after a letter is finished A piece of paper written by a doctor that lets you get medicine at the pharmacy sloppy writing that is hard to read A person who writes things down A set of papers with writing that will be read and acted out A written agreement to buy and read a magazine or newspaper for a set period of time To write down or record; to translate

11. Root Word: cred= believe 1. accreditation (n) 2. credential (n) 3. credible (adj) 4. credit (v) 5.creditor (n) 6. credulous (adj) 7. creed (n) 8. discredit (v) 9. incredible (adj) 10. incredulous (adj) granting approval or belief in a school a document that proves a person is believable believable; reliable to believe that someone will do something a person who believes that he will be paid back the money that he loaned tending to believe too easily; easily convinced; easily fooled a set of religious beliefs or principles to refuse to believe; to reject as untrue not believable; improbable; unlikely doubting; unwilling or unable to believe

12. Root Word: jur, jus, jud= law; justice 1. abjure (v) 2. judge (n) 3. jurisdiction (n) 4. jurist (n) 5. jury (n) 6. just (adj) 7. justice (n) 8. justification (n) 9. justify (v) 10. perjure (v) To give up rights; to recant A person chosen to interpret laws, decide on a winner, or settle a controversy The territory or land in which justice and laws are administered An expert in law A group of people sworn to abide by the laws to determine the truth Lawful; fair Fairness; rightfulness The fact that is said to prove that something is true To prove; to offer To break the law by lying; to break a formal promise

13. Root Word: ben,bene,bon= good, well 1. benediction (n) 2. benefactor (n) 3. beneficial (adj) 4. beneficiary (n) 5.benefit (v) 6. benevolent (adj) 7. benign (adj) 8. bonafide (adj) 9. bonus (n) 10. bon voyage (n) a good blessing in a religious service a good person who offers help or donates money having a good outcome; favorable a person who receives something good from someone else such as an inheritance to gain or receive good results from something kind; good-hearted favorable; having a good effect; not harmful in good faith; authentic; genuine; real anything good that is received over and beyond what was expected (usually money) French for “have a good trip”