Root Words
This root word means "good."
"Bene"
This word means "the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience."
"Narration"
"an unwholesome or disordered condition" or "a disease or disorder of an animal body."
"Malady"
"of or relating to the pictorial arts"
"Graphic"
"Word choice" or "enunciation."
"Diction"
This root means "bad."
"Mal"
This word means "a leaning, a preference, or a predisposition that can influence how we interpret information or events ."
"Bias"
"someone or something that provides help or an advantage."
"Benefactor"
"a graphic design that explains rather than represents."
"Diagram"
"A proclamation having the force of law."
"Edict"
This root means "to say or tell."
"Dict"
"The viewpoint from which a story is told or the lens through which the reader experiences the events, characters, and settings."
"Perspective"
"Marked by kindness or generosity: disposed to doing good."
"Benevolent"
The word "secure" is one of these for "rescue."
"Anagram"
"To make a claim of wrongdoing against."
"Indict"
This root is the verb form of a Latin root meaning "to write."
"Graph"
"The quality or state of allowing more than one interpretation."
"Ambiguity"
"Highly improper" ot "having a bad odor."
"Malodorous
"a communication in cipher or code."
"Cryptogram"
"To make an assertion that is contrary to one made by (another)."
"Contradict"
This root is the noun form of the Latin word meaning "a written thing or letter."
"Gram"
"ro expand something in detail."
"Elaborate"
"An expression of good wishes OR "the short blessing with which public worship is concluded"
"Benediction"
"The science or art of making maps."
"Cartography"
"A prohibitory decree."
"Interdict"