Tag Archives: word roots

Here is a worksheet on the Greek word roots gyr and gyro. They mean, simply, circle. You’ll find these roots at the basis of words like gyroscope, gyro, and gyrate, which aren’t exactly high-frequency words in English. Nor are gyrocompass, autogiro, or spirogyra, which also grow from these roots. Still, if the book from which I drew both the inspiration and the content for word root worksheets is trustworthy, these are all words which will show up on the SAT and other high-stakes college and graduate school gatekeeping tests.

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Here is a worksheet on the Latin word roots intra and intro. They mean within, inward, inside, and into. You’ll find these roots at the base of words used in the medical profession like intradermal, intramuscular, and intravenous, but also in higher frequency English words like intramural and introduce–all included on this worksheet.

These roots should not be confused with inter which means between and among; if you seek a word root worksheet on inter, you can find that here.

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Here is a worksheet on the Latin word root inter. It means between and among. As you have no doubt already recognized, this is an extremely productive root in English, growing such high-frequency words as interfere, intercept, and interim (all present in this document), among many others. Inter should not be confused with intra and intro, which mean within, inward, inside, and into (a worksheet on which is forthcoming).

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Here is a worksheet on the Greek roots gon/o and -gony. They mean reproduction, origination, and generation. Unsurprisingly, then, you’ll find gon/o at the base of gonad. Otherwise, besides cosmogony, (and, alas, gonorrhea ) the words on this worksheet are all new to me. If the book from which they are drawn is believable, these are words that will turn up on the SAT.

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Here is a worksheet on the Latin roots ig, il, in, im, ir; they mean not and without. These are though of in English language arts classes as prefixes, which they are for the purposes of this worksheet. You’ll find these root at the beginning of many high-frequency words in English adjectives in English such as ignorant and illegal. And while words like illegible, immutable, incongruous, and irrefutable (all present in this document) are less frequently used in common discourse, they are quite useful in academic prose.

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Here is a worksheet on the Latin word roots gress, grad, gradi, and grade. They mean to step and to go. Unsurprisingly, they are at the base of such high-frequency words in English as egress, digress, graduate, and regress, and the many parts of speech in which these words end up –e.g. regressive, graduation, regressive and aggressive.

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