Roots Part III

                                  Roots

            The following is a list of some of the most important roots of English words.

ROOT                  MEANING                             SAMPLE WORDS

FIRM	steady	confirm, infirm, affirm, confirmation
FIX	fasten	suffix, affix, fixture, prefix
FLAM	blaze	flame, inflammable, flammable, flamboyant
FLECT	bend	reflect, reflector, deflect, inflection
FLEX	bend	reflex, flexible, flex, circumflex
FLOR	flower	flora, floral, efflorescent, florist
FLU	flow	fluid, fluent, influx, affluent
FOL	leaf	portfolio, foliage, folio, defoliate
FORM	shape	uniform, reform, formation, transform
FORT	strong	fort, fortify; fortification, fortitude
FRACT, FRAG	break	fraction, fracture, fragment, fragile
FRAT	brother	fraternity, fraternal, fraternize, fratricide
FRU	enjoy	fruit, fruitful, fructify, fruition
FUG	flee	fugitive, refuge, refugee, centrifugal
FUNCT	perform	functional, malfunction, defunct, dysfunction
FUS	pour	transfusion, fusion, diffuse, profuse
GAM	marriage	monogamy, bigamy, trigamy, polygamy
GEN	race, birth	generation, progeny, genetics, genocide
GEO	earth	geography, geology, apogee, perigee
GNOS	know	agnostic, diagnose, diagnostic, prognosticate
GON	angle	trigonometry, octagonal, polygon, pentagon
GRAD	step	degrade, graduation, gradation, retrograde
GRAM	letter, written	monogram, telegram, grammar, epigram
GRAN	grain	grain, granary, grange, granulated
GRAPH	write	autograph, paragraph, graphite, biography
GRAT	please, thank	grateful, congratulate, gratis, gratitude
GREG	herd	congregation, gregarious, aggregate, desegregate
GYN	woman	monogamy, polygamy, gynecologist, misogynist
HEDR	side, seat	polyhedron, tetrahedron, cathedral, ex cathedral
HELI	sun	helium, heliotrope, heliocentric, heliography
HOM	man	homage, homo sapiens, homicide, hombre
HOMO	same	homogenized, homonym, homograph, homophone
HUM	earth, soil	humus, humiliate, exhume, inhumane
HYDR	water	hydrant, hydrogen, hydrophobia, dehydrate
IATRIK, IATRO	healing art	pediatrician, psychiatric, geriatrics, podiatry
IDENT	same	identify, identical, identification, identity
IDIO	peculiar	idiot, idiom, idiomatic, idiosyncrasy
IGN	fire	ignite, ignition, igneous, ignition
IMPERI	command	imperative, empire, emperor, imperious
INSUL	island	peninsula, insulate, insularity, insular
INTEG	whole untouched	integrity, integrate, integral, integer
IR	anger	irritate,  irate, ire,  irascible
IT	go	exit, initiate, obit
JECT	throw	project, inject, reject, eject
JOCUS	joke	joke, jocose, jocular, jocund
JOURN	daily	journal, journalism, journey, sojourn
JU, JUD	law, right	judge, judicial, judgment, judicious
JUNCT	join	junction, conjunction, juncture, adjunct
JUR	law, right	jury, perjury, jurisdiction, jurisprudence
JUS	law, right	just, justice, injustice, justification
LABOR	work	collaborate, laboratory, elaborate, laborious
LAPS	slip	elapse, relapse, lapse, collapse
LAT	side	lateral,  unilateral, bilateral, quadrilateral