SAT / ACT / PSAT root words: 272 roots to know
This list is for high-school students and tutors. It covers the 272 roots behind the 415 words in WordPith's SAT / ACT / PSAT pack, most-used first. Learn a root once and you can work out every word it builds.
GREG
“flock, herd” · Latin
AG-
“to, toward” · Latin
-IENT
“doing, being” · an English suffix
TENU
“thin” · Latin
VERG
“incline, bend” · Latin
AMPL-
“large, roomy” · Latin
BELLI
“war” · Latin
CAND
“shining white” · Latin
CURR
“run” · Latin
ELOQU
“speak out” · Latin
EXEMPL
“sample, model” · Latin
GENI
“birth, nature” · Latin
GRAND
“great, grown” · Latin
IMPER
“command” · Latin
LAUD
“praise” · Latin
LUC
“light” · Latin
PRODIG
“lavish, marvellous” · Latin
REVER
“stand in awe of” · Latin
SUP-
“under, up from below” · Latin
TANG
“touch” · Latin
TIVE
“tending to” · an English suffix
TORP
“numb, stiff” · Latin
TREP
“alarm, trembling” · Latin
VAL
“strength, worth” · Latin
ABAT
“beat down” · French
ABOL
“destroy, do away with” · Latin
ACLE
“a thing that” · an English suffix
AESTHET
“perceive by the senses” · Greek
AGIT
“drive, set in motion” · Latin
AIL
“to make” · French
ALESCE
“grow together” · Latin
ALIGN
“bring to a line” · French
ALLEVI
“lighten” · Latin
ALLUD
“play with, touch on” · Latin
ANCY
“the state of” · an English suffix
ANE
“relating to” · an English suffix
ANTAGON
“struggle against” · Greek
ARCAN
“shut up, hidden” · Latin
ARCHA
“ancient, from the beginning” · Greek
ARD
“burn” · Latin
That's the first 40 of 272 roots. The full SAT / ACT / PSAT pack, with all 415 words as puzzles, is in the WordPith app.
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