Anim (Mind) Animal, Animated, Anime, Animosity, Equanimity, Magnanimous, Unanimous Latin

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anim (mind) animal, animated, anime, animosity, equanimity, magnanimous, unanimous Latin

apt/ept (fit) adapt, adaptation, adept, apt, aptitude, aptly, aptness, inept maladapted Latin

cur/cura (care for) accurate, curable, curate, curative, curator, cure, curious, inaccurate, incurable, insecure, insurance, manicure, pedicure,

procure, secure, security, sinecure, sure, surety Latin

gest/ger (carry) belligerent, congestion, digest, exaggerate, gestation, gesticulate, gesture, indigestion, ingest, jest, register, suggestion Latin

leg/lig/lex/lect (read) colleague, collect, collective, college, dialect, diligence, dyslexia, eclectic, elect, elective, electorate, elegant, eligible, Latin

elite, idiolect, illegible, intellect, intelligentsia, intelligible, lectern, lecture, legacy, legal, legend, legible, legion, legislation,

legitimate, legume, lesson, lexicon, neglect, negligee, negligence, predilection, recollect, religion, sacrilege, select, selective

man (hand) emancipate, legerdemain, manacles, manage, management, manicure, manifestation, manifesto, manipulate, maneuver, Latin

manual, manufacture, manure, mano a mano, manuscript

mir (wonder) admiral, admire, marvel, miracle, miracle play, mirage, mirror Latin

nom/ (name) anomaly, cognomen, denominator, ignominious, misnomer, nomenclature, nom de plume, nominal, nominate, nomination, renown, pronoun Latin

-onym acronym, anonymous, antonym, eponym, euonymus, malonym, metonymy, homonym, patronymic, pseudonym, synonym Greek

ocul (eye) binocular, inoculate, monocular, monocle, ocular, oculist, oculomotor nerve Latin

-oid (appearance) adenoid, android (droid), anthropoid, asteroid, factoid, geoid, haploid, Mongoloid, ovoid, Polaroid, spheroid, tabloid Greek

petr (rock) lamprey, parsley, Peter, petrify, petrochemical, petroglyph, petroleum Greek

rect (right) correct, direct, erect, insurrection, rectangle, rectify, rectilinear, rectitude, rector, resurrect, rectum Latin

retro (backward) retroactive, retro fire, retrofit, retrograde, retrogress, retrorocket, retrorse, retrospection, retrovirus Latin

rid/ris (laugh) deride, derision, ridicule, ridiculous, risibility Latin

sens/sent (feel) assent, consensus, desensitize, dissent, extrasensory, insensible, insensitive, nonsense, photosensitive, presentiment, Latin

resent, scent, sensible, sensation, sense, sensibility, sensitive, sensor, sensory, sensual, sentence, sententious, sentient,

sentiment, sentimental sentinel

tors/tort/tor (twist) contorted, distort, extort, nasturtium, retort, torch, torment, torque, tort, tortilla, tortoise, tortuous, torture Latin

ultra (beyond) ultraconservative, ultramarine, ultramundane, ultraviolet Latin

voc/vok (voice) advocate, avocation, avouch, convocation, equivocate, evoke, invocation, invoke, irrevocable, provocation, provoke, Latin

revoke, sotto voce, vocabulary, vocal, vocalize, vocational, vociferous, vouch, voucher, vouchsafe, vowel, vox populi

volv/volut (roll) convoluted, devolve, evolution, evolve, involved, revolt, revolution, revolve, revolver, vault, volt, valve, voluble, volume Latin