Look at Word Parts to Learn New WordsIf you already speak a Latin-based language like French, Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese, you have a huge advantage in reading academic English. If not, you can still increase your vocabulary faster by studying roots and affixes....
For example, Ilocano is a Northern Philippine language for which Rubino (2000: xviii–xxi) lists more than 450 different verbal affixes. Rubino (2005: 329) notes that all roots derive verbal and nominal forms, and that most verbs can be decomposed into a root and an affix. As a result,...
for example, biology, chem- ment of a word or form, exclusive of affixes (pre- istry, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy. fixes and suffixes) and inflectional phonetic changes This thesaurus lists over 1,200 roots; in addition, it is (e.g., -ed of waited; -er of prettier )....