Build, break, make
Roots about building, breaking, joining, and making things.
14 roots in this category · Built for grades 4 through 8
Greek roots
Latin roots
- structrootLatin
to build
construct, destruction, structure
- fractrootLatin
to break
fracture, fragment, fraction
- ruptrootLatin
to break or burst
erupt, interrupt, rupture
- facrootLatin
to make or do
factory, manufacture, effect
- formrootLatin
shape
transform, uniform, reform
- versrootLatin
to turn
convert, reverse, introvert
- tensrootLatin
to stretch
extend, tension, intense
- -tionsuffixLatin
act, state, or result
action, fraction, construction
- -ersuffixLatin
one who
teacher, writer, builder
- -orsuffixLatin
one who
actor, tractor, spectator
- cisrootLatin
to cut, to kill
scissors, incision, concise
Roots shared by both
Where to start
Level 1 holds the word parts students meet first. Level 3 holds the ones that turn up in harder reading.
- Level 1 · most common · 4 roots in this category
- Level 2 · expanding · 7 roots in this category
- Level 3 · challenge · 3 roots in this category