Vocabulary List #4
Mrs.Willshire
path
• Meaning: feeling, emotion
• Psychopath• Empathy• Pathological• Sympathy• apathy
psych
• Meaning: mind/spirit
• Psychic• Psychology• Psychedelic• Psychiatry• Psychopathic• psychosomatic
gen
• Meaning: birth, gender
• Generation• Genetics• Genocide• Genes• Genesis
mor, mort
• Meaning: death
• Voldemort• mortal/immortal• postmortem• Land of Mordor• Morbid• Mortify• morgue
non
• Meaning: Not
• Nonexistent• nonsense• Nonfat
ob, opp
• Meaning: Against, opposed
• Opposite• Obstacle• Opponent• Obstruct
re
• Meaning: Again
• Reheat• Reuse• Recycle• reread• rewind, replay• rewrite
de
• Meaning: down, away, separate• demote• Dehydration• Detach• Decompose• Descend• Destroy!• Decrease• decapitation
man
• Meaning: hands
• Manicure• manmade• Mandible• Manual• Manhandle• manacles
aud
• Meaning: speech, listen
• Audio• auditorium• audible• Audience• audition
dic
• Meaning: Say, tell, speech, wording
• Dictionary• dictator• contradict• diction
spec
• Meaning: look
• Speculate• Spectacular• Spectacles• Specter• Inspect
Ambi, amphi
• Meaning: both
• Ambidextrous• Ambiguous• ambivalent • amphibian
uni
• Meaning: One
• Unicorn• United• Uni-brow• Unison• universal• unicycle
ten
• Meaning: to hold
• Words: tension, tentacles, tenure, tentative, attention, tenacious
pos
• Meaning: place
• Words: position, positive, post, posture, postulate
Intro/intra
• Meaning: Inside
• Words: Introduce, Introduction
fin
• Meaning: end
• Words: finale, finish, final, infinite,
fore
• Meaning: before, in front
• Words: forehead, foreword, foreshadow, foreman, forewarn, foreground
dia
• Meaning: through
• Words: diagonal, diagram, dialysis, dilate, dial, diabolical, diameter