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GRE Root Words

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1. JUD
Root - Branch
Suffer - Feel
Burden
Judge

2. MACRO
Great - Long
Blood
Fill - Full
Nothing - None

3. SAT
Enough
Before - In Front
One
Purse - Money

4. HOL
Sweet
Color
Whole
Two

5. PHIL
Short - Small
Trust - Believe
Love
Poison

6. MICRO
Sound
Around
Very Small
Down - Out - Away - Apart

7. SEMI
Half
Praise
Hand
Same

8. MOR - MORT
Death
Poison
Well - Good
First

9. MAL
Free
Sharp - Sour
Bad
Erase

10. ONER
Sweet
Away - Apart
Burden
Across - Beyond

11. LITH
Boil
Hard - Lasting
Speed
Stone

12. UND
Follow
New
Wave
Other

13. LUX - LUC
Bend - Turn
Rise
Many
Light

14. TRANS
Well - Good
New
First
Across - Beyond

15. HOMO
Green
Same
Color
Bad

16. JUV
Salt
Young
Purse - Money
Almost

17. ERR
With - Together
City
Wander
Smoke

18. TORQ - TORT - TOR
Twist
Holy
Last - Beyond
Healthy

19. TACIT
Write
Between - Among
Fire
Silent

20. PERI
Around
Burn
Dog
Quiet - Test

21. BELL - BELLI
Tight
Backward
War
Change

22. LEG - LEC - LEX
Old
Backward
Read - Speak
Yield - Go

23. SUPER - SUR
Mind - Spirit - Breath
Dog
Above
Hand

24. POST
Hundred - Hundreth
Foot
Behind - After
Through - Across

25. VERD
From - Away - Apart
Base - Mean
Green
Down - Out - Away - Apart

26. PALP
Please
Quiet - Test
Nothing - None
Fell

27. FERN
Boil
Last - Beyond
Bad - Wrong Hate
Down - Out - Away - Apart

28. PAN - PANT
Sweet
All
Foot
Smoke

29. NON
Great - Long
Flesh
Liable To Err To Deceive
Not

30. SEM
Straight - Right
Seed - Sow
Not
Taste - Think

31. INTRA
Great - Long
Joke
All
Inside - Within

32. CARN
Above
Holy
Bend - Turn
Flesh

33. CORD - CARD
By Chance
Hand
Behind - After
Heart

34. CELER
Speak
Fire
Speed
Well - Good

35. IM - IN
Shadow
Sharp - Sour
Not
Wander

36. TACT - TAG - TAM - TANG
Back
Harm
Touch
Around

37. SALU - SALV
Health - Save
In - On
Child - Education
False

38. BI - BIN
First
Beautiful
Against - Opposite
Two

39. DELE
Erase
Across - Beyond
Near
Two

40. INTER
Self
Between - Among
Not
Both - On Both Sides - Around

41. IT - ITER
Highest
Way - Journey
Mind - Spirit - Breath
False

42. DOL
Grieve
City
Drive - Push
Name

43. PROTO - PROT
Green
Erase
Enough
First

44. MON - MONO
Burn
Old
One
Purse - Money

45. ACOU
Day
Color
Hearing
Stone

46. PRIM - PRI
Last - Beyond
Write
First
Smoke

47. RADI - RACI - RAMI
Hard - Lasting
Order - Universe - World
Root - Branch
Hit - Prick

48. VIT - VIV
Life
Birth - Class - Kin
Ship - Sailor
Word

49. PED - POD
Bone
Highest
Foot
Half

50. PEC
From - Away - Apart
Bend - Turn
Hit - Prick
Money