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