ROOT LIST - IV

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SACR, SANC, SECR - sacred
sacred, sacrosanct, sanction, consecrate, desecrate

SALV, SALU - safe, healthy
salvation, salvage, salutation

SAT, SATIS - enough
satient (giving pleasure, satisfying), saturate, satisfy

SCI, SCIENTIA - know
science, conscious, omniscient, cognoscenti

SCOPE - see, watch
telescope, microscope, kaleidoscope, periscope, stethoscope

SCRIB, SCRIPT - write
scribe, scribble, inscribe, describe, subscribe, prescribe, manuscript

SED, SESS, SID - sit
sediment, session, obsession, possess, preside, president, reside, subside

SEN - old
senior, senator, senile

SENESCERE - to grow old
senescence, evanescent

SENT, SENS - feel
sentiment, consent, resent, dissent, sentimental, sense, sensation, sensitive, sensory, dissension

SEQU, SECU, SUE - follow
sequence, consequence, sequel, subsequent, prosecute, consecutive, second, ensue, pursue

SERV - save, serve
servant, service, subservient, servitude, preserve, conserve, reservation, deserve, conservation, observe

SIGN, SIGNI - sign, mark, seal
signal, signature, design, insignia, significant

SIMIL, SIMUL - like, resembling
similar, assimilate, simulate, simulacrum, simultaneous

SIST, STA, STIT - stand
assist, persist, circumstance, stamina, status, state, static, stable, stationary, substitute

SOLUS - alone
solo, soliloquy, solitaire, solitude

SOLV, SOLU - loosen
solvent, solve, absolve, resolve, soluble, solution, resolution, resolute, dissolute

SOMNUS - sleep
insomnia, somnambulist

SOPH - wise
sophomore (wise fool), philosophy, sophisticated

SPEC, SPECT, SPIC - look
specimen, specific, spectator, spectacle, aspect, speculate, inspect, respect,
prospect, retrospective, introspective, expect, conspicuous

SPHERE - ball, sphere
sphere, stratosphere, hemisphere, spheroid

SPIR - breath
spirit, conspire, inspire, aspire, expire, perspire, respiration

STRING, STRICT - draw tight
stringent, strict, restrict, constrict, boa constrictor

STRU, STRUCT - build
construe (build in the mind, interpret), structure, construct, instruct, obstruct, destruction, destroy

SUME, SUMP - take, use, waste
consume, assume (to take, to use), sump pump presumption (to take or use before knowing all the facts

TACT, TANG, TAG, TIG, TING - touch
tactile, contact, intact, intangible, tangible, contagious, contiguous

TELE - far
telephone, telegraph, telegram, telescope, television, telephoto, telecast, telepathy

TEMPO - time
tempo, temporary, extemporaneously, contemporary, pro tem, temporal

TEN, TIN, TAIN - hold
tenacious, tenant, tenure, untenable, detention, retentive, content, pertinent, continent, obstinate, contain, abstain, pertain, detain

TEND, TENT, TENS - stretch, strain
tendency, extend, intend, contend, pretend, superintend, tender, extent, tension, pretense

TERRA - earth
terrain, terrarium, territory, terrestrial

TEST - to bear witness
testament, detest, testimony, attest

THE, THEO - God, a god
monotheism, polytheism, atheism, theology

THERM - heat
thermometer, theorem, thermal, thermos bottle, thermostat, hypothermia

THESIS, THET - place, put
antithesis, hypothesis, synthesis, epithet

TOM - cut
atom (not cuttable), appendectomy, tonsillectomy, dichotomy, anatomy

TORT, TORS - twist
torture (twisting to inflict pain) retort, extort, distort, contort, torsion, tortuous, torturous

TOX - poison
toxic, intoxicate, antitoxin

TRACT, TRA - draw, pull
tractor, attract, traction, subtract, tractable, abstract (to draw away), subtrahend (the number to be drawn away from another).

TRIB - pay, bestow
tribute, contribute, attribute, retribution, tributary

TURBO - disturb
turbulent, disturb, turbid, turmoil

TYP - print
type, prototype, typical, typography, typewriter, typology, typify

ULTIMA - last
ultimate, ultimatum

UMBER, UMBRATICUM - shadow
umbra, penumbra, (take) umbrage, adumbrate

UNI - one
unicorn, unify, university, unanimous, universal

VAC - empty
vacate, vacuum, evacuate, vacation, vacant, vacuous

VALE, VALI, VALU - strength, worth
equivalent, valiant, validity, evaluate, value, valor

VEN, VENT - come
convene, intervene, venue, convenient, avenue, circumvent, invent, convent, venture, event, advent, prevent

VER, VERI - true
very, aver, verdict, verity, verify, verisimilitude

VERT, VERS - turn
avert, divert, invert, introvert, convertible, reverse, controversy, versatile

VIC, VICIS - change, substitute
vicarious, vicar, vicissitude

VICT, VINC - conquer
victor, evict, convict, convince, invincible

VID, VIS - see
video, evident, provide, providence, visible, revise, supervise, vista, visit, vision

VIV, VITA, VIVI - alive, life
revive, survive, vivid, vivacious, vitality, vivisection

VOC - call
vocation, avocation, convocation, invocation, evoke, provoke, revoke, advocate, provocative, vocal

VOL - will
malevolent, benevolent, volunteer, volition

VOLCAN - fire
volcano, vulcanize, Vulcan

VOLVO - turn about, roll
revolve, voluble (easily turned about or around or talkative), voluminous, convolution

VOR - eat greedily
voracious, carnivorous, herbivorous, omnivorous, devour

ZO - animal
zoo (short for zoological garden), zoology, zoomorphism (attributing animal form to god), zodiac (circle of animal constellations), protozoan

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