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,...
and Madeline Contents Foreword ix Acknowledgements xi Preface xiii Thesaurus 1 English to Roots Index 975 Works Consulted 989 About the Author 991 Foreword When you read these words you probably do not fully understand what you have in your hands. Were I to say that you have a whole dictionary...