Learn root words from Latin

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Many English words come from Greek and Latin root words. Knowing roots lets you decode thousands of words. Common Latin roots: port (carry: transport, portable), rupt (break: interrupt, erupt), aud (hear: audible, audience), vid/vis (see: video, visible), scrib/script (write: describe, manuscript). Common Greek roots: bio (life: biology, biography), geo (earth: geography, geology), phon (sound: telephone, symphony), graph (write: photograph, paragraph), astro (star: astronomy, astronaut). Strategy: when you see an unfamiliar word, look for a familiar root and use it as a clue. "Inaudible" = in (not) + aud (hear) + ible (capable) = not capable of being heard.

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