Build, break, make
Roots about building, breaking, joining, and making things.
13 roots in this category · Aligned to Common Core L.4.4b, Common Core L.5.4b, Common Core L.6.4b, Common Core L.7.4b, Common Core L.8.4b
Greek roots
Latin roots
- structrootLatin
to build
construct, destruction, structure
L.4.4bL.5.4b - fractrootLatin
to break
fracture, fragment, fraction
L.5.4bL.6.4bL.7.4b - ruptrootLatin
to break or burst
erupt, interrupt, rupture
L.6.4bL.7.4b - facrootLatin
to make or do
factory, manufacture, effect
L.5.4bL.6.4bL.7.4b - formrootLatin
shape
transform, uniform, reform
L.4.4bL.5.4b - versrootLatin
to turn
convert, reverse, introvert
L.6.4bL.7.4b - tensrootLatin
to stretch
extend, tension, intense
L.7.4bL.8.4b - -tionsuffixLatin
act, state, or result
action, fraction, construction
L.4.4bL.5.4b - -ersuffixLatin
one who
teacher, writer, builder
L.4.4bL.5.4b - -orsuffixLatin
one who
actor, tractor, spectator
L.5.4bL.6.4b
Roots shared by both
What this category covers
- L.4.4b · Grade 4: Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., telegraph, photograph, autograph).
- L.5.4b · Grade 5: Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., photograph, photosynthesis).
- L.6.4b · Grade 6: Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible).
- L.7.4b · Grade 7: Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., belligerent, bellicose, rebel).
- L.8.4b · Grade 8: Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., precede, recede, secede).