Week 14 Word Roots, Year 2
A base word meaning:
sailor, ship |
A prefix with directional and intensifying meanings:
through, thoroughly |
A base word meaning:
fall |
Word Examples: astronaut, circumnavigate, nausea, nautical, navigator, and navy
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Word Examples: perforate, perfect, permit, persist, perspective, and perspire
Special Note:
The meaning through is directional. The meaning thoroughly is intensifying. |
Word Examples: accident, cadence, cascade, coincide, decadence, incident, occasion
Special Note:
Do not confuse cid-, meaning to fall, with the Latin root -cide from cidere, meaning to cut, kill. Examples of this root include: decide, herbicide, pesticide |