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Contributor: Allison Crews. Lesson ID: 13489
Expanding your academic vocabulary becomes much easier when you are familiar with root words. They're like vocabulary building bricks! This lesson focuses on some of the most common Latin roots.
Close your eyes and picture a huge tree in your mind. Think of the roots, the trunk, the branches, and the leaves.
The structure of trees has a lot in common with words!
In language, there are roots or word parts that can be used like building blocks to make other words.
Many of our root parts come from Latin and Greek. In this lesson, you'll learn about common Latin roots.
All of these words have a form of scribe / script.
The root scribe / script means to write.
When you see this root used in a word, you'll know what it means even if you're unfamiliar with the specific word as a whole.
Give this drag-and-drop interactive a try to see how well you can identify words that share a root.
Drag each word and drop it in the space for each root.
The table below includes many common Latin roots and their meanings. Check your guess on the drag-and-drop activity as you review these roots.
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