GRE / GMAT root words: 217 roots to know
This list is for graduate applicants. It covers the 217 roots behind the 483 words in WordPith's GRE / GMAT pack, most-used first. Learn a root once and you can work out every word it builds.
NOM
“law, arrangement” · Greek
-SCRIBE
“write” · Latin
ACERB
“bitter, sharp” · Latin
-CISE
“cut” · Latin
-CLUDE
“shut, close” · Latin
DUR
“hard, lasting” · Latin
EMPT
“take, buy” · Latin
FERV
“boil, glow” · Latin
GNOST
“know” · Greek
-TYPE
“stamp, model” · Greek
-ULATE
“to do repeatedly” · an English suffix
BLEM
“throw, cast in” · Greek
CLAST
“breaker” · Greek
CULP
“blame, fault” · Latin
CUMB
“lie down” · Latin
DISPAR
“unequal” · Latin
DOLE
“grieve, feel pain” · Latin
EPT
“fitted, suited” · Latin
ESCENT
“becoming” · an English suffix
FABLE
“speak, tell” · Latin
FICE
“making, a thing made” · Latin
FUTE
“beat back, refute” · Latin
GOGUE
“leader, one who drives” · Greek
ICONO
“image” · Greek
LAX
“loose, slack” · Latin
MOLLI
“soft” · Latin
MUT
“change” · Latin
NOMIN
“name” · Latin
OMAL
“even, level” · Greek
OROUS
“full of” · an English suffix
PASS
“suffer, feel” · Latin
PHEM
“speech, what is said” · Greek
PITI
“appease, make favourable” · Latin
PLEN
“full” · Latin
QUIESC
“becoming still” · Latin
SATI
“enough, full” · Latin
SPIRE
“breathe” · Latin
TARD
“slow, late” · Latin
ACEA
“a cure” · Greek
ACU
“sharp, needle” · Latin
That's the first 40 of 217 roots. The full GRE / GMAT pack, with all 483 words as puzzles, is in the WordPith app.
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