Mini-Lesson Notes
Latin Roots
Words | Definition | Sample Words |
1/12/2010 | ||
-dict- | to say | contradict, dictate, diction, edict, predict |
-duc- | to lead, bring, take | deduce, produce, reduce |
1/19/2010 | ||
-gress- | to walk | digress, progress, transgress |
-ject- | to throw | eject, inject, interject, project, reject, subject |
1/26/2010 | ||
-pel- | to drive | compel, dispel, impel, repel |
-pend- | to hang | append, depend, impend, pendant, pendulum |
2/2/2010 | ||
-port- | to carry | comport, deport, export, import, report, support |
-scrib-, -script- | to write | describe, description, prescribe, prescription, subscribe, subscription, transcribe, transcription |
2/16/2010 | ||
-tract- | to pull, drag, draw | attract, contract, detract, extract, protract, retract, traction |
-vert- | to turn | convert, divert, invert, revert |
Latin Prefixes
| Latin prefix | Basic meaning | Example words |
| 2/23/2010 | ||
| co- | together | coauthor, coedit, coheir |
| de- | away, off; generally indicates reversal or removal in English | deactivate, debone, defrost, decompress, deplane |
| dis- | not, not any | disbelief, discomfort, discredit, disrepair, disrespect |
| 3/2/10 | ||
| inter- | between, among | international, interfaith, intertwine, intercellular, interject |
| non- | not | nonessential, nonmetallic, nonresident, nonviolence, nonskid, nonstop |
| post- | after | postdate, postwar, postnasal, postnatal |
| 3/9/10 | ||
| pre- | before | preconceive, preexist, premeditate, predispose, prepossess, prepay |
| re- | again; back, backward | rearrange, rebuild, recall, remake, rerun, rewrite |
| sub- | under | submarine, subsoil, subway, subhuman, substandard |
| trans- | across, beyond, through | transatlantic, transpolar |
