List of Word Roots - 8

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List of Word Roots

Word root/prefix	Root Meaning	Words based on the Root
Ethno	people/race	Ethnic - related to a defined group of people Ethnocentric - judging on the basis of ethnicity of people Ethnology - the study of people and races.
Fid	faith	Confide - place trust in someone Fidelity - faithfulness Fiduciary - a trustee;
Fore	previous, in front of, earlier	Forebear - ancestor Forebode - an advance warning of something bad Forecast - estimation of future events
Fug	run away, flee, escape	Fugitive - a person who has escaped Refuge - a place/situation of shelter from pursuit/danger Refugee - a person who has left their country to escape danger
Gen/o/e/	family, birth, formation, kind, race	Genealogy - the study of family history/ lines of descent Generation - people born and living at approximately the same time Genetic - relating to heredity encoded in the genes.

The above table highlights how you can learn multiple words from the same root. Effectively, you can build groups on the basis of word roots and use these to learn multiple words at the same time.

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