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Vocabulary: Roots

Vocabulary: Roots. Roots 81-100. Grad, gress. Step, go Grade (step, degree), gradual (step by step), graduate (make all the steps, finish a course), aggressive (stepping toward, pushing), congress (a going together, assembly). graph. Write, written

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Vocabulary: Roots

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  1. Vocabulary: Roots Roots 81-100

  2. Grad, gress • Step, go • Grade (step, degree), gradual (step by step), graduate (make all the steps, finish a course), aggressive (stepping toward, pushing), congress (a going together, assembly)

  3. graph • Write, written • Graph, graphic (written, vivid), photography (light-writing), graphite (carbon used for writing), autograph (self-writing; signature), phonograph (sound-writing), bibliography

  4. grat • Pleasing • Congratulate (express pleasure over success), gratuitous (gratis), gratuity (mark of favor, a tip), grateful, gracious, ingrate (not thankful; hence, not pleasant)

  5. grav • Heavy, weighty • Grave, gravity, aggravate, gravitate

  6. greg • Herd, group, crowd • Congregation (a group functioning together), gregarian (belonging to a herd), segregate (tending to group aside or apart)

  7. Hab, habit • Have, live • Habitat (the place in which one lives), inhabit (to live in; to establish as residence), rehabilitate, habitual

  8. helio • Sun • Heliograph (an instrument for using the sun’s rays), heliotrope (a plant that turns to the sun)

  9. Hema, hemo • Blood • Hematid (red blood corpuscle), hemotoxic (causing blood poisoning), hemorrhage, hemoglobin, hemophilia

  10. Here, hes • Stick • Adhere, cohere, cohesion

  11. hetero • Different • Heterogeneous (different in composition) • Heterograft (a tissue graft taken from a different species)

  12. homo • Same • Homogeneous (the same in composition), homonym (a word with same name or pronunciation as another), homogenize

  13. Hum, human • Earth, ground, man • Humility (quality of lowliness), humane (marked by sympathy, compassion for other human beings and animals), humus, exhume (to take out of the ground)

  14. Hydr, hydro, hydra • Water • Dehydrate (take water out of; dry), hydrant (water faucet), hydraulic (pertaining to water or to liquids), hydraulics, hydrophobia (fear of water), hydrogen

  15. hypn • Sleep • Hypnosis, Hypnos (god of sleep), hypnotherapy (treatment of disease by hypnosis)

  16. ingis • Fire • Ignite, igneous, ignition

  17. ject • Throw • Deject, inject, project (throw forward), eject, object

  18. Join, junct • Join • Junction (act of joining), enjoin (to lay an order upon; to command), juncture, conjunction, adjoining, joiner, injunction

  19. Jud, judi, judic • Judge, lawyer • Judge (a public officer who has the authority to give a judgment), judicial (relating to administration of justice), judicious, prejudice

  20. Jur, jus • Law • Justice (a just judgment), conjure (to swear together), jurisdiction, juror

  21. juven • Young • Juvenile, rejuvenate (to make young again)

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