Root word:

FAC/FACT/FEC/FECT/FIC/FAS/FEA

Meaning of root:

TO DO, TO MAKE

Examples:

1. Factory - a place that makes things

2. Faculty - people who work for a company

3. Defect - a fault or shortcoming

4. Affect - to produce an effect

5. Fiction - something invented or imagined

6. Fascinate - to attract and hold attention

7. Feasible - capable of being done

Root word:

FLECT/FLEX

Meaning of root:

BEND

Examples:

1. Reflex - when your body moves and bends on its own

2. Flexible - capable of bending easily without breaking

3. Deflect - to bend course because of hitting something

4. Inflection - a bending in the voice's tone or pitch

Root word:

LEV

Meaning of root:

TO LIFT

Examples:

1. Lever - a bar used to lift heavy things

2. Levitate - when you are lifted off the ground with nothing holding you

3. Levity - lightness in weight

Root word:

LINGU

Meaning of root:

LANGUAGE, TONGUE

Examples:

1. Bilingual - when you know two languages

2. Linguistics - the study of language

3. Linguist - one who studies language

Root word:

MATER/MATR

Meaning of root:

MOTHER

Examples:

1. Maternal - a motherly instinct

2. Maternity - the state of being a mother

3. Matriarch - a woman head of a household

4. Matron - a married woman

Root word:

MEDI

Meaning of root:

MIDDLE

Examples:

1. Medium - middle between two extremes of size

2. Mediate - someone who is in the middle of an argument trying to reason with both sides

3. Medieval - pertaining to the Middle Ages

Root word:

METER/METR

Meaning of root:

MEASURE

Examples:

1. Centimeter - a small unit of measurement

2. Meter - a unit of measurement in the metric system

3. Metric - measured

4. Metro - a combining form meaning 'measure'

Root word:

MICRO

Meaning of root:

SMALL

Examples:

1. Microscope - a device used to look closely at tiny things

2. Microorganism - creatures that are very very small

3. Microbe - a very small living thing

Root word:

MIN

Meaning of root:

LESS, SMALLER

Examples:

1. Miniature - a small version of something

2. Minor - lesser in importance

3. Mini - something that is very small

Root word:

MORPH

Meaning of root:

FORM, SHAPE

Examples:

1. Morph - when something changes to another shape

2. Morphic - a specific shape or form

3. Amorphous - without distinct shape or form

Root word:

PERI

Meaning of root:

AROUND, TRIAL, TEST, TRY

Examples:

1. Peripheral - looking around at the edge of something

2. Periodontal - pertaining to bone and tissue around a tooth

3. Perimeter - the outer boundary of an area

Root word:

PORT

Meaning of root:

CARRY

Examples:

1. Portable - when you can carry something

2. Portal - a doorway, gate, or other entrance

3. Export - to carry goods out of a place to another

Root word:

QUAD

Meaning of root:

FOUR

Examples:

1. Quadruple - when you times something by 4

2. Quadrilateral - a shape that has four sides

3. Quadrant - open space with buildings on 4 sides

Root word:

REND

Meaning of root:

GIVE UP

Examples:

1. Surrender - when you give up

2. Downtrend - a downward trend

3.Rendition - the act of rendering

Root word:

SUPER

Meaning of root:

HIGHER IN QUALITY OR QUANTITY

Examples:

1. Superior - when something is better than another thing

2. Superfan - someone who has a lot of merchandise and love for a certain person or thing

3. Supersonic - faster than the speed of sound

Root word:

TEM

Meaning of root:

TIME

Examples:

1. Temporary - for a short period of time

2. Attempt - an act of trying to achieve something over time

3. Contemporary - existing at the same time

Root word:

VEN/VENT

Meaning of root:

COME

Examples:

1. Venue - a place where people come to gather

2. Vendor - a person or company offering something for sale, especially a trader in the street

3. Circumvent - to go around or bypass restrictions

4. Event - the outcome, issue, or result of anything

Root word:

BREV

Meaning of root:

SHORT

Examples:

1. Abbreviate - when your shorten a phrase

2. Brevity - shortness in time

3. Brevier - a size of type between minion and bourgeois

Root word:

DE

Meaning of root:

AWAY, OFF, REVERSAL, UNDOING, DOWNWARD COMPLETELY

Examples:

1. Depart - when you leave or go away

2. Devalue - when something lessens in value

3. Debug - to remove bugs

Root word:

DEC

Meaning of root:

TEN, TENTH

Examples:

1. Decade - ten years

2. Decagon - a shape with ten sides

3. Decathlon - athletic contests that includes 10 disciplines in which each participants competes