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Latin Roots 7 meanings
- fer = carry, bear
- transfer – to carry across
- circumference – the line that goes around a circle
- fertile – able to bear fruit
- fertilizer – food for soil or plants
- offer – to bear a gift
- ferry – a boat to carry things across water
- deference – to show respect
- act = to move or do
- react – to move back or to respond
- activate – to make something start or work
- actor/actress – person who moves or acts
- act – to move or do
- transact – to move across, literally
- transaction – the act of doing something together
- agitate – to move in an irritating way
- actuary – a person who studies statistics and creates predictions about the expectancy of money or life
- mit = to send
- omit – to forget or not to send
- admit – to allow to come in
- remittance – a payment sent in
- remit – to send in a payment
- admission – to send money to get in
- missile – an object that is sent in the air
- missionaries – people who are sent for some purpose
- mission – the act or reason for being sent
- missive – a letter that is sent
- dismiss – to be sent away
- permit – to allow to go in
- fac = to make or do
- fact – something that is made or done
- factory – where something is made
- facility – a place where something is made
- facsimile – to make or do something similar, a fax
- factor – when you make or break something in two
- factions – separated into separate parts
- fraction – something that has been broken into two or more parts
- feasible – able to do
- facilitate – to make something be ready to do
- duc = to lead
- conduct – leading something
- induce – to lead into
- produce – to lead into creation
- seduce – to lead into a negative way
- deduce – to figure out
- deduct – to take away
- introduce – to lead into knowing
- productive – having the power to create
- traduce – to lead away from the truth, a lie
- traducer – a liar
- fug = flee or run away from
- fugitive – one who runs away
- refugee – one who runs away to be safe or free
- fugue – a type of music with light, fast-moving notes
- fleeting – brief, happening for a short time
- subterfuge – to lead secretly or undercover
- labor – work
- laboratory – place of work for scientific projects
- labored – difficulty with something
- elaborate – a lot of labor in doing
- laborious – describing something that is hard
- collaborate – to work together
- pell = to drive or push
- expel – to push out
- repel – to push away
- propel – to push forward
- repellent – something to keep away
- propellant – something that pushes forward, such as gas
- repulsive – something that pushes away, being ugly or nasty
- compulsive – drawn or pushed to do something
- compelled – driven to do something
- mov = to move
- remove – to take something away
- motivate – to get someone going
- motivation – the act of getting someone to do something
- motion – the act of being mobile, moving
- mobile – moving
- mobility – able to move
- commotion – a lot of movement together as in a fight
- locomotion – a place that move, as a train
- port = to carry
- transport – to move something from one place to another
- transportation – the act of moving something from place to the other
- important – something that is necessary to know
- report – to carry info to someone else
- importune – to beg
- portamento – a graceful run of notes in music
- turb = to disturb or to whirl
- turbine – motor that creates energy by whirling
- turbulence – disturbance in the air or water
- turban – a form of hat that wraps around the head
- trouble – the act of disturbing (verb)
- perturbed – being disturbed about something, internal worry
- turbid – unclear, as in water
- grad = to take steps
- graduate – to take steps in order to succeed
- gradually – slowly take steps
- digress – to take steps away from a subject
- egress – the place where you take steps in or out, to emerge in or to come out
- ingredients – the things you use in steps to make a recipe
- retrogression – going back in time, to take steps backwards