Root Words — Decode Any Unknown Word

Knowing roots lets you figure out unfamiliar words on test day.

Common Latin/Greek roots:

Bene (good): beneficial, benevolent, benediction

Mal (bad): malevolent, malicious, malignant

Cred (believe): credulous, incredible, credibility

Dict (say): dictate, predict, contradict

Duc/Duct (lead): deduce, conduct, induce

Graph (write): biography, autograph, geography

Loqui (speak): eloquent, loquacious, soliloquy

Path (feeling): empathy, apathy, antipathy

Phil (love): philosophy, philanthropy, bibliophile

Voc/Vok (call): invoke, provoke, advocate

Prefixes to know:

Anti (against), dis/un/in (not), pre (before), post (after), re (again), mis (wrong), hyper (excess), hypo (under)

Reference:

Wikipedia: Root Words

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_(linguistics)