Movement
Roots about going, sending, carrying, and getting somewhere.
11 roots in this category · Built for grades 4 through 8
Latin roots
- portrootLatin
to carry
transport, import, export
- jectrootLatin
to throw
eject, inject, reject
- mitrootLatin
to send
submit, transmit, mission
- tractrootLatin
to pull or drag
attract, extract, tractor
- venrootLatin
to come
convene, prevent, invent
- cedrootLatin
to go or yield
precede, recede, secede
- ferrootLatin
to carry or bear
transfer, refer, prefer
- motrootLatin
to move
motion, motor, promote
- ductrootLatin
to lead
conduct, introduce, produce
- gressrootLatin
to step or go
progress, congress, regress
- cursrootLatin
to run
cursor, excursion, recur
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 · 4 roots in this category
- Level 3 · challenge · 3 roots in this category