The Latin root wordsducandductmean to ‘lead.’ Some common English vocabulary words that come from this root word include educate, reduce, produce, and product. Perhaps the best way to remember this root word is to think of someone who is educated, or has been ‘led’ forth into knowled...
This Latin root is the word origin of a good number of English vocabulary words, including verb, adverb, and proverb. The Latin root word verb is easily recalled through the English word verb, for a verb is simply a “word” which tells what’s going on in a sentence, usually an ...
This root is the word origin of many English vocabulary words, including maintenance, tenor, and tenacious. Perhaps the easiest way to remember this root word is through the English noun tenant, for a tenant “holds” the lease of the property where she lives....
The root wordmotmeans “move.” Let’s really “move” on thismotivational Latin roots podcast so as tomotor through many English vocabulary words that havemotin them! Humans love to move, and to move fast. Automotives, ormotorcars, a more formal word for car, were built with such “movem...
Many English words are created from Greek or Latinroot words. Root words hold the most basic meaning of a word. Most root words need aprefixand/orsuffixto create a stand-alone word — for example, the Latin root word aud- meaning “to hear or listen” is not a word on its own, but...
The Latin root word fin means an ‘end,’ as in a ‘boundary’ or ‘limit.’ Some common English vocabulary words that come from this Latin root word include final, finish, and definition. Perhaps the easiest way to remember that this root word means ‘end’ is through the word infinite...
The Latin root wordficmeans to ‘make.’ A good number of common English vocabulary words come from this root, including magnificent, difficult, and artificial. One easy word that is helpful in rememberingficis efficient, for efficient people are able to ‘make’ things happen. ...
The Latin root worderrmeans “wander.” Let’s “wander” about in the English lexicon amidst those words which have the rooterrin them! All humans makeerrors of one kind or another, that is, we all “wander” from the correct or right path, whatever that may be. There is a common ...
This root is the word origin of many English vocabulary words, including malformed, maltreat, and malice. You can recall that mal means “bad” through malfunction, or a “badly” working part, and that it means “evil” through malice, or intentional “evil” done to another....
Many English words are created from Greek or Latinroot words. Root words hold the most basic meaning of a word. Most root words need aprefixand/orsuffixto create a stand-alone word — for example, the Latin root word aud- meaning “to hear or listen” is not a word on its own, but...