PREFIXES, SUFFIXES, AND ROOTS - EXAMPLES

  1. Chron – time: chronological, chronology, chronicle
  2. Cian – one who: physician, statistician, politician,
  3. Cide – kill, cut: suicide, homicide, insecticide
  4. Circum – around: circumference, circumstance,
  5. Cis – kill, cut: incision, incisor
  6. Co – with, together: cohere, coherent, cooperate, correlate
  7. Col – with, together: collect, collide, collision
  8. Com – with together: combine, compound, company, commemorate, competent
  9. Con – with, together: connect, congregate, congress, conference
  10. Contra – against: contradiction, contrary, contraband
  11. Contro – against: controversy, controversial
  12. Cor – together, with
  13. Corp – body: corpulent, corporate, corps, corpse
  14. Counter – against: counteract; counterintuitive
  15. Cred – believe: credence, credible, credulous, credit, creditor
  16. Cule – small: minuscule, molecule,
  17. De – down, away from: demote, debark, deprive, depose
  18. Deca – ten: decade
  19. Dem – people: democracy
  20. Derm – skin: dermatology, demas
  21. Dic – speak: diction, dictate, dictator, indict
  22. Dis – not, without: dishonest, disassociate, discontinue
  23. Du – two: duplicate, duo
  24. Ee – one who: payee, employee, fiancée, nominee, refugee, trustee
  25. Ence – act, quality state: reticence, competence, patience, influence