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Home > High School > Vocabulary building with roots & visual cues

Vocabulary building with roots & visual cues

08/30/2011 By Lisa Moore

You may not realize it, but you already know  enough to help your vocabulary grow exponentially. English  is a language based on Latin, Greek and  Germanic prefixes, suffixes  and roots. If you understand the meaning of  these word parts and how they  fit together, you have the tools to understand hundreds of thousands of other  words. I didn’t invent this approach, but I have expanded the prefix and root list considerably, and added a unique visual learning component which could be helpful to the visual/spatial learner.

Here’s how roots vocabulary works. You take apart  a word such as expect, breaking it down into prefixes and roots that  each mean something.

So expect= ex-e- (out, former) +spect-spic-spi (see,  look, consider) = expect, to look out for.

Other words containing these prefixes or roots are excursion (short trip “running out”), expository (explanatory, interpretive “setting out)” edict (an official announcement , “speaking out”) exorbitant (extremely expensive, “out of this world”) and  prospective (“forward-looking” overview), retrospective (“backward looking” overview) introspection (“inward-looking” insight) despicable someonethat is “looked down upon”.  In the coming weeks, I will post additional prefix and root combinations, eventually creating an a data base with vocabulary words & exercises at the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade levels.

Filed Under: High School, Vocabulary Skills Tagged With: learning styles, mneumonics, visual learning

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