GRE Root Words

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• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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• Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. DIC - DICT - DIT
Sleep
Speak
Down - Out - Away From - Apart
Purse - Money


2. SEN
Capable Of - Worth Of
Old
Straight - Right
Bend - Turn


3. PEC
Money
Lie Down
Wander
Quiet - Test


4. HEMI
In Front - Before
Fire
Half
Away - Apart


5. HOMO
Same
Image - Idol
Join
Call - Word


6. PROTO - PROT
Right Hand - Right Side
First
Wave
Five


7. SOMN
Sleep
Money
Join
Write - Draw


8. LEG - LEC - LEX
Read - Speak
Follow
Half
Drink


9. PLAC
New
Please
Erase
Dog


10. SACER - SACR - SANCT
Light
Holy
Bend - Fold
Lie Down


11. EGO
Roll - Turn
Self
Yield - Go
By Chance


12. INTER
Other
Not
Between - Among
Backward


13. ANTI - ANT
Move
Against - Opposite
Equal
Wash


14. QUIE - QUIT
Quiet - Test
Hide
Inside - Within
Four


15. CULP
Speak
Fault - Blame
Five
Young


16. NOCT - NOX
Boil
Night
Hide
Together


17. SPEC - SPIC
Flee
Day
Fire
Look - See


18. PRE
Soft
Hit - Prick
Before - In Front
Enough


19. SCRIB - SCRIV - SCRIPT
Large - Great
Fell
Write
War


20. CORD - CARD
Tight
Roll - Turn
Law
Heart


21. VERB
Word
Burn
Flock
Image - Idol


22. PENE - PEN
Almost
Hard - Lasting
Trust - Believe
Out


23. AD - A
King - Rule
False
To
Through - Across


24. JOUR
Earth
Day
Foot
Birth


25. FUG
Water
Flee
Seed - Sow
Shadow


26. ICON
Image - Idol
Praise
One
Bone


27. DORM
Flock
Burn
Sleep
Look - See


28. SANG
Life
Nothing
Well - Good
Blood


29. GRAM - GRAPH
Purse - Money
Look - See
Write - Draw
Shadow


30. LIG - LI
Love
Tie - Bind
Flee
Old


31. DUR
Rise
Image - Idol
Away - Apart
Hard - Lasting


32. TIM
Green
Fear
Middle
Almost


33. GNO - GNI - COGN - CONN
Smoke
Know
Between - Among
Fell


34. MOR - MORT
Burn
Death
Sound
Hit - Prick


35. NOX - NOC
Not - Without
Foot
Harm
Same


36. QUINT - QUIN
City
Five
Heat
Judge


37. FATU
Foolish
Soft
Loose
Sound


38. PATH
Back
Wisdom
Suffer - Feel
Earth


39. POLY
Many
Love
Yield - Go
Under


40. CED - CESS
Fear
City
Liable To Err To Deceive
Yield - Go


41. PHON
Beautiful
Move
Sound
Free


42. SUMM
From - Away - Apart
Enough
Liable To Err To Deceive
Highest


43. GREG
Wave
Flock
Half
Root - Branch


44. OMNI
True
Please
All
Image - Idol


45. SOL
Burden
Sun
Both - On Both Sides - Around
Suffer - Feel


46. PERI
Tight
Around
Follow
Loose


47. NEO
New
Fire
Salt
Drink


48. DEXT
Above
Bad - Wrong Hate
Not - Without
Right Hand - Right Side


49. AMIN
Birth
False
Smoke
Mind - Spirit - Breath


50. SEQU - SECU - SUE - SUI
Follow
Short - Small
Blood
Trust - Believe