LSAT root words: 145 roots to know
This list is for law students and paralegals. It covers the 145 roots behind the 159 words in WordPith's Law & Legal Latin pack, most-used first. Learn a root once and you can work out every word it builds.
-ORY
“relating to” · an English suffix
-EE
“one who is” · an English suffix
BAIL-
“a handing over, a custody” · French
-FY
“to make” · an English suffix
JUR
“law, right, oath” · Latin
LITIG-
“to carry on a dispute” · Latin
TORT
“twisted, a wrong” · Latin
APPELL
“call to, appeal to” · Latin
ARBITR
“a judge called in” · Latin
CUSTOD
“guard, keeper” · Latin
EQUIT
“fairness, evenness” · Latin
IFF
“one who” · an English suffix
PEN
“punishment” · Latin
VOC
“call, voice” · Latin
ABATE
“beat down” · French
ABROG
“repeal by asking” · Latin
ACQUITT
“set free from a charge” · French
ACTION
“a suit at law” · Latin
ADJOURN
“put off to another day” · French
AF-
“to, toward” · Latin
AFFID
“pledge faith” · Latin
-AGE
“the act or result of” · an English suffix
ALIEN
“belonging to another” · Latin
AMUS
“we do” · an English suffix
ANTE
“before” · Latin
ARRAIGN
“call to account” · French
ASSIGN
“mark out for someone” · Latin
-ATORY
“having the nature of” · an English suffix
ATTEST
“bear witness to” · Latin
AVIT
“he has” · an English suffix
BARRIST
“one called to the bar” · Old English
BEQU
“say, declare” · Old English
BIND
“bind” · Old English
CAVE
“beware” · Latin
CHATT
“a head of cattle” · French
CLAIM
“shout, cry out” · Latin
COD
“a book” · Latin
COLLATER
“side by side” · Latin
COMMITT
“entrust, send” · Latin
COMPLAIN
“beat the breast” · French
That's the first 40 of 145 roots. The full Law & Legal Latin pack, with all 159 words as puzzles, is in the WordPith app.
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