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GRE Root Words

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1. SURG - SOURC - SURRECT
Sleep
City
Rise
First

2. HUM
Read - Speak
Earth
Smoke
Body

3. FAL
Liable To Err To Deceive
Half
Burn
Love

4. DIA
Through - Across
Hard - Lasting
Look - See
Poison

5. CRED
Well - Good
Night
Life
Trust - Believe

6. FERN
Boil
Smoke
Sit
Out

7. LAV - LAU - LU
Nothing - None
Wash
Two
Hundred - Hundreth

8. CORD - CARD
Heart
King - Rule
Way - Journey
Purse - Money

9. SEN
First
Four
Old
Nothing - None

10. EQU
Equal
Great - Long
Soft
Loose

11. NOV
Light
New
Whole
Young

12. HAP
By Chance
Day
Liable To Err To Deceive
Equal

13. SUA
Seed - Sow
Lead
Please
Tie - Bind

14. SAT
Command - Order
Under
Burn - Shine
Enough

15. TORQ - TORT - TOR
Not
Twist
Drink
Write - Draw

16. PEL
Drive - Push
Not
Dog
Two

17. SYM - SYN
Quiet - Test
Hand
Together
Trust - Believe

18. THERM
Great - Long
Against
Hearing
Heat

19. DULC
Sweet
Middle
Sharp - Sour
Lie Down

20. MEDI
Four
Many
Middle
Backward

21. A - AN
Not - Without
Before - In Front
Grieve
Fly

22. SED - SID
Praise
Sit
Life
Inside - Within

23. LIG - LI
Enough
Tie - Bind
Speech - Thought
Grieve

24. PLEN - PLET - PLE
Tongue
Fear
Fill - Full
Both - On Both Sides - Around

25. CULP
Poison
Flesh
Fault - Blame
Speak

26. LUX - LUC
One
Follow
Root - Branch
Light

27. CUMB - CUB
Highest
Many
Healthy
Lie Down

28. JUR
Drink
Law
Wave
Large - Great

29. AD - A
To
Not - Without
Salt
Child - Education

30. AQUA - AQUE
Five
Water
Law
Mant

31. NOM - NYM - NEC
Birth - Class - Kin
Bad - Wrong Hate
Name
Away - Apart

32. PHOB
Fear
Blood
Please
Half

33. EU
Well - Good
Above
Root - Branch
Tight

34. BON - BOUN
Well - Good
Good - Generous
Twist
Joke

35. MULT
Mant
Five
Fault - Blame
King - Rule

36. NAU - NAV
Under
Ship - Sailor
Earth
Fell

37. JOUR
Suffer - Feel
Birth
Burn
Day

38. SE
Sweet
Backward
Life
Down - Out - Away - Apart

39. HOL
Stiff - Numb
Whole
Lead
Faith

40. CHROM
Nothing
Money
Color
Health - Save

41. POLY
Many
Color
Almost
Not

42. LEG - LEC - LEX
Hearing
Read - Speak
To
Base - Mean

43. STRICT - STRING - STRAN
Rise
Both - On Both Sides - Around
Tight
Nothing

44. BURS
Purse - Money
Burn - Shine
Burn
Salt

45. PROTO - PROT
Flee
Breath
Joke
First

46. MIS
Right Hand - Right Side
Speech - Thought
Bad - Wrong Hate
Flee

47. VIL
Judge
Down - Out - Away - Apart
Enough
Base - Mean

48. PEC
Wisdom
Wave
Money
Join

49. UN
Poison
Breath
Capable Of - Worth Of
Not

50. UMBR
Well - Good
Whole
Shadow
New