1. Root Words Communication Arts II

2. ACT Meaning: to do Examples: action, active, react

3. ANIM Meaning: life, spirit Examples: animal, animation, inanimate

4. AUD Meaning: to hear Examples: auditory, audience, inaudible

5. BEN / BENE Meaning: good Examples: benefit, benign, benevolent

6. CHRON Meaning: time Examples: chronological, synchronous, chronicle

7. COGN Meaning: to know Examples: cognitive, cognizant, recognize

8. CRED Meaning: to trust or believe Examples: credible, accreditation, credence

9. DIC / DICT Meaning: to say or speak Examples: dictator, dictionary, indicate, contradict, predict

10. DOC / DOCT Meaning: to teach or prove Examples: doctor, document, doctrine

11. DUC / DUCT Meaning: to lead or guide Examples: introduction, education, produce

12. FIC/FICT Meaning: to shape or make Examples: fiction, deficiency, personification

13. FIG Meaning: a shape or form Examples: figment, figure, disfigured

14. FRAC / FRAG Meaning: a break or part Examples: fracture, fraction, fragment

15. GEO Meaning: earth Examples: geology, geographical

16. GRAD / GRESS Meaning: to go or move Examples: graduate, gradual, digress, progress

17. GRAPH Meaning: to write or draw Examples: telegraph, calligraphy, graphic

18. JUNCT Meaning: to join Examples: juncture, adjunct, conjunction

19. LOC Meaning: place or area Example: location, local, dislocate

20. LUC / LUM / LUN Meaning: light Examples: lunar, translucent, luminous

21. MAN Meaning: hands Examples: manual, manufacture, manicure

22. MEM Meaning: recall Examples: memory, remember, memo

23. MENT Meaning: mind Examples: mentor, mental, demented

24. MIN Meaning: small Example: minimal, minimize, miniscule

25. MOV / MOT Meaning: move Examples: motor, motivate, movie

26. NOM / NYM Meaning: name Example: synonym, nominate, homonym

27. NOV Meaning: new Examples: novice, innovate, novelty

28. OPER Meaning: to work Examples: operate, operatory, operose

29. PATH Meaning: to feel Examples: sympathy, apathetic, empathy

30. PHIL Meaning: love Examples: philanderer, philanthropist, philosophy

31. PHON Meaning: sound Examples: telephone, cacophony, homophone

32. PICT Meaning: to show Examples: depict, picture, Pictionary

33. PSYCH Meaning: mind Examples: psychology, psychopath, psyche

34. RUPT Meaning: to break Examples: interrupt, bankrupt, rupture

35. SCI Meaning: to know Examples: science, conscience, omniscient

36. SEN Meaning: to feel or think Example: sentiment, sensitive, sense

37. SOCI Meaning: to join or connect Examples: social, associate

38. SOL Meaning: alone Examples: solidarity, soliloquy, solo

39. SPEC Meaning: to watch or see Examples: spectacle, spectator, specious

40. TELE Meaning: far away Examples: telephone, telepathic, telescope

41. THERM Meaning: heat Examples: thermal, thermometer

42. UNI Meaning: one Examples: unicycle, unicorn, unite

43. VER Meaning: true Examples: verify, very, verdict

44. VERS Meaning: change Examples: versatile, version, versation

45. VIT / VIV Meaning: to live Examples: vitality, vivacious, survive