TOEFL / IELTS / PTE root words: 143 roots to know
This list is for english-language test candidates. It covers the 143 roots behind the 417 words in WordPith's TOEFL / IELTS pack, most-used first. Learn a root once and you can work out every word it builds.
-IFIC
“making” · an English suffix
-DOX
“opinion, belief” · Greek
INCID
“fall upon” · Latin
RELAT
“carried back” · Latin
CREDIT
“a thing entrusted” · Latin
GENE
“kind, birth” · Greek
HETERO
“other, different” · Greek
HIER
“sacred” · Greek
IENCY
“the quality of” · an English suffix
ROS
“gnaw” · Latin
STRAINT
“a drawing tight” · French
SUMPT
“taken up” · Latin
THET
“placed, put” · Greek
AFTER
“following” · Old English
AGR
“a field” · Latin
ALTER
“the other of two” · Latin
ANDA
“things to be done” · an English suffix
ANGUL
“a corner” · Latin
AQUI
“water” · Latin
ARCHITECT
“a chief builder” · Greek
ARCHIV
“a public record office” · Greek
ATURE
“the result of” · an English suffix
ATUS
“a thing prepared” · an English suffix
AUGMENT
“increase” · Latin
AUTHOR
“originator, maker” · Latin
AUXILI
“help” · Latin
BATE
“beat” · French
BOTAN
“a plant, a herb” · Greek
BUST
“burn” · Latin
CALEND
“the first day of the month” · Latin
CAPAC
“able to hold” · Latin
CAPITAL
“of the head” · Latin
CARTO
“a map, a leaf of paper” · Greek
CELER
“swift” · Latin
CELL
“a small room” · Latin
CENSOR
“an assessor of morals” · Latin
CEREMONI
“a sacred rite” · Latin
CHAPT
“head” · Latin
CHARISMAT
“a favour, a gift” · Greek
CHEM
“alchemy” · Arabic
That's the first 40 of 143 roots. The full TOEFL / IELTS pack, with all 417 words as puzzles, is in the WordPith app.
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