Root word:

MENT

Meaning of root:

ACT, PROCESS, OR INSTANCE OF

Examples:

1. Containment - the act of keeping something within limits

2. Contentment - the quality or state of being contented

3. Amendment - the act of amending something

Root word:

POLI

Meaning of root:

CITY

Examples:

1. Metropolis - capital of a city

2. Police - people who work for the government to maintain order in a city

3. Politics - actions of a government

Root word:

POLY

Meaning of root:

MANY

Examples:

1. Polygamy - marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time

2. Polynomial - a mathematical expression of one or more algebraic terms

3. Polyhedron - a solid formed by plane faces

Root word:

POS

Meaning of root:

PLACE, PUT

Examples:

1. Position - when you place things in a certain order

2. Deposit - to place or drop something

3. Expose - to place out in the open for all to see

Root word:

QUINT

Meaning of root:

FIVE

Examples:

1. Quintuple - when things come in 5

2. Quintet - a composition for 5 voices or instruments

3. Quintessence - pure essence, base on the ancient philosophy that there was a fifth element that was present in all things

Root word:

RETRO

Meaning of root:

BACKWARD, BACK

Examples:

1. Retroperitoneal - situated behind the peritoneum

2. Retrospect - the remembering of past events

3. Retroactive - relating to something in the past

Root word:

RID/RIDI/RISI

Meaning of root:

LAUGHTER

Examples:

1. Deride - to make fun of someone

2. Ridicule - to make fun or mock

3. Risible - capable of laughing

Root word:

SED/SID/SESS

Meaning of root:

SIT, SETTLE

Examples:

1. Sediment - a bunch of stuff that sits on the bottom

2. Reside - be stationed

3. Session - an actual or constructive sitting of a body

Root word:

SON

Meaning of root:

SOUND

Examples:

1. Sonata - an instrumental musical composition

2. Resonance - the sound elicited on percussion of the chest

3. Consonant - a speech sound

Root word:

STA

Meaning of root:

FIRM, STANDING

Examples:

1. Stable - when someone is firm 

2. Stagnant - standing still

3. Stationary - at a standstill

Root word:

STAT

Meaning of root:

STATIONARY, CONTROL

Examples:

1. Static - lacking in movement, action, or change

2. Status - position or rank in relation to others

3. State - condition of being

Root word:

TEN

Meaning of root:

HOLD, KEEP

Examples:

1. Tenure - the act of holding something

2. Tenant - one who holds or possesses real estate

3. Content - something contained

Root word:

TERM

Meaning of root:

END, BOUNDARY

Examples:

1. Terminate - when things are ending

2. Determine - to find something out in the end of an investigation

3. Exterminate - to destroy or get rid of completely

Root word:

TOM

Meaning of root:

CUT

Examples:

1. Anatomy - dividing into parts for detailed examination

2. Epitome - a typical or ideal example

3. Lobotomy - surgical severance of nerve fibers

Root word:

VER

Meaning of root:

TRUTH

Examples:

1. Verify - to know when something is the truth

2. Veracious - truthful, honest

3. Veracity - the truth

Root word:

VIV

Meaning of root:

LIVE

Examples:

1. Revive - to bring back to life

2. Revival - the act of bringing back to life

3. Vivacious - high-spirited and full of life

Root word:

Y

Meaning of root:

STATE, QUALITY, ACT, OR PRACTICE OF

Examples:

1. Cheery - the act of being cheery

2. Cheesy - containing cheese

3. Beauty - the quality in a person that gives pleasure to the senses

Root word:

AC

Meaning of root:

OF OR PERTAINING TO, RESEMBLING, TOWARD, TO

Examples:

1. Hypochondriac - pertaining to a person who is often or always worried about his or her own health

2. Maniac - a person characterized by an inordinate enthusiasm for something

3. Acceptable - capable or worthy of being accepted

Root word:

ANDR/ANDRO

Meaning of root:

MAN, MALE, MASCULINE

Examples:

1. Android - an electronic man

2. Androgynous - being both male and female

3. Misandry - hatred towards men

4. Androcentric - emphasizing masculine interests

Root word:

CAP/CEPT/CIP

Meaning of root:

TAKE, SEIZE, HOLD

Examples:

1. Capable - having legal right to own

2. Intercept - to stop, seize, or interrupt in progress or course or before arrival

3. Anticipate - to give advance thought