Root Power
This root means "to carry," like when you bring goods into a country.
What is port?
Combine dict (to speak) + pre- (before) to make a word that means "to guess the future."
What is predict?
An audience sitting in an auditorium relies on this sense, linked to the root aud.
What is hearing (or sound)?
"The bridge collapsed because its support ____________ [to build] was weak."
What is structure?
Identify the Latin root in the word CREDIT CARD.
What is cred (to believe/trust)?
This root means "to write" or "record," found in words like scribble or script.
What is scrib (or script)?
Combine dis- (burst apart) + rupt (to break) to name something that causes a sudden disturbance.
What is disrupt?
A spectator wearing spectacles uses the root spect, which relates to this action.
What is looking (or seeing)?
"Please ____________ [to write] your name at the bottom of the form."
What is inscribe (or transcribe)?
This word uses flex to describe an automatic, involuntary muscle twitch.
What is a reflex?
This root means "to bend," like yoga positions or flexible rules.
What is flex (or flect)?
Combine in- (not) + cred (to believe) + -ible to describe something so amazing you can't believe it.
What is incredible?
A volcano eruption uses the root rupt to describe this physical action.
What is breaking or bursting?
"The space station will ____________ [to send] a signal back to Earth."
What is transmit?
Identify BOTH Latin roots in the word AUDIOSPECTACLE (a show with great sound and visuals).
What are aud (hear) and spect (see)?
This root means "to build," as in building a skyscraper or a road.
What is struct?
Combine at- (toward) + tract (to pull) to describe drawing something closer to you.
What is attract?
A tractor pulls heavy farm equipment, using this root meaning "to pull or drag."
What is tract?
"You need a passport to ____________ [to carry across] into another country."
What is import / export / transport?
This word combines sub- (under) + tract (to pull) to mean taking a number away from a larger total.
What is subtract?
These two twin roots both mean "to send," found in words like mission and transmit.
What are miss and mit?
Combine trans- (across) + form (shape) to describe completely changing how something looks.
What is transform?
Giving a dictation or checking a dictionary relies on dict, which means this.
What is to speak or say?
"Gymnasts must be very ____________ [able to bend] to do flips and splits."
What is flexible?
Name a word that uses form to mean "a specific pattern or matching clothing worn by a group."
What is a uniform?