Roots

Sept. 12- Sept. 16 (spec =see, look)

circumspect - careful to look at all possibilities before acting; cautious; aware of consequences inspect - to look at carefully in search of flaws introspection - the act of looking into one's own thoughts and feelings perspective - one way of looking at things respect - to look up to someone; to show honor retrospective - looking back at past things spectacle - something displayed for the public to se spectacles - glasses that help someoe see better spectator - a person who watches something, such as a sporting event speculate - to look at and think about something from different points of view.

__**Sept. 19-Sept. 23 ((dict = speak)**__ contradict - to speak against; to say the opposite dictation - what is written down as someone says it. dictator - a leader who speaks and rules with total power diction - the manner in which something is expressed in words (written or spoken) dictionary - a reference book in which spoken or written words are defined dictum - a judge's ruling or statement edict - public words issued by an official that explain a law or command indictment - formal words spoken or written by a jury that charge a person with a crime predict - to say what will happen before it occurs verdict - the decision a jury makes in a trial; the decision said by the jury

__**Sept. 26-Sept. 30 (ject = throw)**__ dejected - to geel sad; to feel thrown down in spirit eject - to throw out injection - a shot; the "throwing" of medicine into the body by a needle jettison - to throw goods overboard to lighten the load on a boat or an airplane projectile - an object thrown into the air with great force projector - a machine that throws an image onto a wall reject - to throw something out because it's defective and can't be used again subject - to throw oneself under someone else's rule trajectory - the curved path of an object thrown into space

Oct. 3 - Oct. 7 (sect = cut; separate) bisect - to cut into two pieces dissect - to cut apart for the purpose of investigation insect - a class of small arthropod animals that has three separate sections to their bodies: head, thorax, abdomen intersection - the point at which two lines or roads meet and cut across each other section - a separate part of something sectional - a couch that is made up of separate pieces sector - a separate part of a society, group, or area transect - to cut across something trisect - to cut into three separate pieces vivisection - surgery on living animals; medical research that involves cutting into living animals to study organs, tissues, or diseases

__**Oct. 11 - Oct. 14 (port = carry)**__ deport - to carry or send away from a country; to banish export - to carry out of the country import - to carry into the country portable - capable of bein easily carried portage - the route over which boats and supplies are carried overland from one lake or river to another porter - an attendant who carries travelers' luggage for them portfolio - a case for carrying loose papers report - a collection of writing that carries information to be shared again with someone new support - to carry the weight of something transport - to carry something from one place to another

Oct. 17 - Oct. 21 (miss, mit = send) admit - to send someone in: to allow someone to enter dismiss - to send someone out; to let someone leave emit - to send out or give off )such as an odor) intermission - a break between acts of a play or performance during which people are sent out for snacks or stretch breaks missile - a weapon designed to be sent in the direction of a target mission - a special duty or function which a person or group is sent out to do omit - to leave out; to not send remit - to send back (usually related to paying bills) submit - to "send" yourself under someone else's control: to give in to someone else's power transmit - to send something across places; to pass along

__**Oct. 24 - Oct. 27 (graph = writing)**__ autobiography - writing about a person's life written by that person autograph - the writing of one's own name bibliography - the written list of all the books used in a report of book cartography - mapmaking; the writing involved in making maps or charts homograph - a word written the same way as another word but having a different meaning; (example bow - hair and bow - ship) paragraph - a section of writing that has a topic and concluding sentence phonograph - record player; a device that turns the writing on records into sound photography - the use of light to record an image using a camera seismograph - a device that writes down (records) the movements of the earth

__**Oct. 31 - Nov. 4 (scrib, script = write)**__ describe - to say or write down how something or someone looks; to use adjectives in writing inscription - a short dedication written in a book or engraved on something, such as a coin or monument manuscript - a piece of writing; a book postscript - P.S.; a short bit of writing added after a letter is finished prescription - a piece of paper written by a doctor that lets you get medicine at the pharmacy scribble - sloppy writing that is hard to read scribe- a person who writes things down script - a set of papers with writing that will be read and acted out subscription - a written agreement to buy and read a magazine or newspaper for a set period of time transcribe - to write down or record; to translate

__**Nov. 7 - Nov. 11 (cred = believe)**__ accreditation - granting approval or belief in a school credential - a document that proves a person is believable credible - believable; reliable credit - to believe that someone will do something creditor - a person who believes that he will be paid back the money that he loaned credulous - tending to believe too easily; easily convinced; easily fooled creed - a set of religious beliefs or principles discredit - to refuse to believe; to reject as untrue incredible - not believable; improbable; unlikely incredulous - doubting; unwilling or unable to believe

__**Nov. 14 - Nov. 18 (jur, jus, jud =law; justice)**__ abjure - to give up rights; to recant judge - a person chosen to interpret laws, decide on a winner, or settle a controvery jurisdiction - the territory or land in which justice and laws are administered and followed jurist - an expert in law jury - a group of people sworn to abide by the laws to determine the truth just - lawful; fair justice - fairness; rightfulness justification - the fact that is said to prove that something is true justify - to prove; to offer perjury - to break the law by lying; to break a formal promise; to break an oath

__**Nov. 21 - Dec. 2(ben, bene, bon = good, well)**__ benediction - a good blessing in a religious service benefactor - a good person who offers help or donates money beneficial - having a good outcome; favorable beneficiary - a person who receives something good from someone else such as an inheritance benefit - to gain or receive good results from something benevolent - kind; good-hearted benign - favorable; having a good effect; not harmful bonafide - in good faith; authentic; genuine; real bonus - anything good that is received over and beyond what was expected (usually money) bon voyage - French for "have a good trip"

__**Dec. 12 - Dec. 16 (mal, male -= bad; abnormal; worse)**__ dismal - depressing; causing gooom or misery; causing bad feelings malady - bad health; illness; sickness malaria - bad air; a disease usually spread by infected mosquitoes malefactor - an evildoer; a person who does bad things malevolent - a word that describes a person or character who wishes bad things would happen to others malfeasance - wrongdoing or bad conduct by a public official malice - mischief; evil intent; bad will malignant - harmful; something bad enough that it could result in death when related to cancer malnourished - having bad health or having poor nutrition malodorous - bad smell; stinky

__**Dec. 5 - Dec. 8 (bio-)**__ antibiotic - a medicine used to save lives because it destroys harmful bacteria and cures infections autobiography - a piece of writing written by a person about hisor her own life biography - a piece of writing about a person's life written by someone else biologist - a person who studies living things biology - the study of living things biopsy - the removal of living tissue from the body for diagnosis examination biosphere - the zone of planet Earth where there is life (between the deep crust and the lower atmosphere) macrobiotic diet - a diet thought to help people live longer because it focuses on natural foods neurobiology - the study of the nervous system of living things and how it helps the living things learn and react symbiosis - how two different living organizsms live together and depend on each other

__**Jan. 2- Jan. 6 (vit, viv-)**__ revitalize - to bring something back after it declined in condition or popularity; to breathe new life into something revive- to bring back to life again survival - the ability to continue living survivor - a person who lives through a difficult event or experience vital - necessary or essential to life vitality - quality or state of bein full of life; state of being full of energy vitamin - a tablet of substances that are thought to promote a healthy life vivacious - full of life; fun; lively; animated vivid - "as big as life"; brightly colored; daring vivisection - surgery on living animals; medical research that involves cutting into animals to study organs, parts or diseases

__**Jan. 9- Jan. 13 (flect, flex)**__ circumflex - to bend around or curve deflect - to turn or move to one side; to bend; to swerve flexible - capable of bending without breaking flexor - a muscle that bends a part of the body, such as an arm or a leg inflection - the bending of a person's voice so that it does not sound boring or within only one tone; making one's voice go up and down inflexible - not capable of being bent without breaking reflect - to bend or throw back light or heat; to fold

or turn back reflection - the image in a mirror that is a result of bending light when it is thrown back reflex angle - an angle that is greater than 180 degrees because the angle is bent beyond the straight line retroflex - bent or turned backward

__**Jan. 16- Jan. 20 (frail, fract, frag)**__ fractals - the type of geometry that creates broken patterns out of a smaller version of a design fraction - a part of a whole; a broken piece of something that is no longer whole fragile - so delicate that it could break easily; easily damaged fragment - an incomplete sentence; a break in a sentence fragmented - describes something that is broken into pieces frail - being easily broken or destroyed infraction - a broken rule; a violation refract - to bend light so that it looks like it is broken suffrage - to break into an issue; to vote

__**Jan. 23 - Jan. 27 ( junct, join, jug)**__ conjoined - joined together; combined; united conjugate - to join together or match a correct verb in grammar conjunction - a word that joins two phrases or sentences disjointed - not connected; having no flow in thinking join - to get together or meet; to become included joint committee - a committee with members from both the Senate and the House of Representatives who join together and meet to discuss issues jugular - a vein that carries blood back to the heart from the head; a vein that joins the head and the heart junction - the place where two highways or two sets of railroad tracks cross or join rejoin - to meet or get together again

__**Jan. 30 - Feb. 3 (rupt)**__ abrupt - sudden; unexpected; broken into what is expected bankrupt - to be out of money; financially ruined; to "break the bank" corrupt - evil; dishonest; to break away from honesty corruptible - able to be influenced into doing something that breaks away from the rules; able to become bad disrupt - to break up; to cause confusion disruption - something that breaks someone's concentration; bothersome; annoying erupt - to explode; to break out with force interrupt - to break into someone's conversation interruption - something that breaks up what you were doing; an unplanned event that breaks up an activity rupture - to burst or break open (usually a body part)

__**Feb. 6 - Feb. 10 (cede, ceed, cess)**__ accessible - able to go in to, enter, or approach accessory - an article or item worn with an outfit that "goes with" or matches the outfit concede - to yield to an opponent that one has lost; to give in; to admit that something is true and valid exceed - to go or be beyond the limit or expectations intercede - to mediate; to go between people to help them reach an agreement precede- to go before something else in time, order, place, or rank proceed - to keep on going; to go ahead with something; to move along recede - to go or move back recess - the time during which people go out to take a break successor - a person who goes after someone else (usually related to a person taking over a job that is of higher rank)

__**Feb. 13 - Feb. 17 (vers, vert)**__ anniversary - the date on which an event occurs every year; every year an event turns a year older conversation - a discussion that switches from one person to another; a discussion that "turns back and forth" convert - to turn or change your beliefs or way of thinking diversify - to divide up money into different investments so that if one area turns for the worse then you will be protected diversion - something that turns your attention off of what you are thinking about extrovert - a person who turns his or her attention outward toward other people introvert - a person who turns his or her attention inward toward himself or herself; a shy person invert - to turn or flip in the opposite direction revert - to turn back to a previous action or thought; to go back in thought or speech; to give back subvert - to corrupt or undermine; to turn against established authority

__**Feb. 20 - Feb. 24 (tract)**__ abstract - pulled away from direct relation to anything; impersonal as in attitude or views attract - to pull into something; to pull into oneself contract - to pull together to make smaller in size or bulk; to pull inward; opposite or "expand" distract - to pull a person's attention in another direction extract - to pull out by force protract - to pull out; to make something take longer; to prolong reaction - a statement or promise that is pulled back or taken back subtract - to pull some out, therefore having less left over traction - a pull to the arm or leg muscles to bring a bone back into place when it is dislocated or fractured tractor - a powerful vehicle that pulls farm machines and hauls heavy loads

__**Feb. 27 - March 2 (struct)**__ construction - what is built; buildings that are created or produced destruction - the act of taking down or destroying something that was built infrastructure - the parts of a city on which the rest of the city was built around; communication, transportation, and schools instruct - to build knowledge instructor - a person who helps someone build knowledge misconstrue - to build the wrong meaning; to misunderstand; to interpret the wrong way obstruction - something that blocks the way of things being created or built; something in the way reconstruct - to build again substructure - the base, support, or foundation of a building superstructure - something built on top of something else; the part of the building that was built on top of the foundation or base

__**March 5 - March 8 (therm)**__ endothermic - heated from within the body exothermic - requires heat to be absorbed from outside of the body therm - a unit of heat equal to 1,000 great calories thermal - related to heat or temperature thermodynamic - caused or operated by heat that has changed into different forms of energy thermograph - a device that automatically writes down (records) changes in temperature thermometer - an instrument that measures temperature or heat thermophile - an organism that has adapted to living in very high temperatures (heat), such as bacteria or algae thermos - a container that is used to keep things warm, such as your soup; a double-walled container that keeps things warm thermostat - a device used to control the temperature

__**March 12 - March 16 ( socio)**__ antisocial - against the basic rules of a group; harmful to the people in a group associate - a fellow worker or friend (usually related to an office) association - a group of people who have gathered based on similar goals or beliefs disassociate - to break ties with a group; to end a friendship; to sever a relationship social - friendly; a person who enjoys companions socialite - a person who is important or of high rank within a specific, usually fashionable group sociogram - a diagram that represents each person's friends in a classroom sociology - the study of how people get along sociopath - a person whoo suffers from an antisocial mental disorder unsocial - not social; having or showing a dislike for others in a group

__**March 19-March 23 (phono)**__ cacophony- harsh sounds; bad noise dysphonia - difficulty producing speech sounds, usually due to hoarseness euphonic - having a nice sound; pleasant combination of sounds in words gramophone- a device used to play the sounds of music as written on records homophone- a word that has the same sound but a different meaning as another word megaphone- a large funnel -shaped device used to make the voice sound louder by directing the sound waves straight out to listeners (most often used by cheer teams) microphone - a device used to make small voices sound larger, especially in a big room phonics -the sounds that letters make and the letters that are used to represent sounds phonology - the tudy of speech sounds in language saxophone - a woodwind instrument that sends out sounds through its curved, metal body

__**March 26-March 30 (strain, strict, string)**__ astringent - a substance used on skin to make the skin tight boa constrictor - a snake that kills its prey by squeezing it tightly constrict - to hold in; to make smaller; to squeeze or bind to make smaller district - a region or area that is bound together by specific rules, laws, resources, and/or money restrain - to hold back, to keep under control; to limit; to draw tight by force restricted - bound by limits; kept within certain rules strain - to draw or stretch tight beyond the normal limits strainer - a device used for letting the water leave the food so the food is drawn together string - a thin piece of twisted fiber that can be used to tie things together stringent - demanding strict attention to rules; rigid; having a tight set of rules

__**April 2- April 5 (terr, terra, geo)**__ extraterrestrial - out of this world; above and beyond what is found on planet Earth geode - a hollow stone found on the earth that is lined on the inside with crystals geographer - a person who studies the regions of te earth, including the climates and natural resources geography - the science of the earth that deals with the regions or places on the planet's surface geology - the study of the earth, specifically rocks and the planet's crust mediterranean - almost or completely surrounded by land subterranean - under the surface of the earth; underground terra cotta - baked earth; hard, brownish-red pottery terrace - a raised, flat mound of earth (dirt) that looks like a platform with sloping sides territory - an area, region, or piece of land

__**April 10- April 13 ( naut, naus, nav)**__ Argonaut - a person who took part in the California Gold Rush by traveling west in search of gold from 1848-1849 astronaut - a person who is trained to travel into outer space circumnavigate - to travel around the earth on water or in the air cosmonaut - a Soviet who is trained to travel into outer space nauseous - affected with a feeling of sickness in the stomach that feels like sea sickness nautical - related to sailing, sailors, or ships navigable - wide or deep enough for ships to be able to pass through navigate - to steer or direct a ship or airplane navigator - a person who is trained to plan the course of and drive a ship navy - a fleet of ships; all the warships of a nation