Roots of English – 6

Dear Readers,

Here we are with our 6th session of our Roots of English hope this will help you with your English language preparation.

English language is made up of four parts

GREEK ROOTS, GERMAN ROOTS, FRENCH ROOTS, LATIN ROOTS

Now if you learn these roots you can figure out the meaning of hundreds of English language words without even knowing their exact meaning.

The first question arises here is what is a root?

A root is the part of the word which gives instructions to a word. Now how many parts is a word made of?

A word is made up of three parts.

For ex– subtracted

Sub (prefix) ——–tract (root) ———-ed (suffix)

Note: PREFIX—a word, letter or number placed before another.

SUFFIX—a letter or a group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning.

CASE I 

Consider ERG as a ROOT means work, effect, disturbance, surprise, activity

Now with the help of this one root you can come out with conclusion of several other English words. Such as,

FLABBERGAST—— surprise (someone) greatly, astonish.

ERGONOMICS-— the study of people’s efficiency in their working environment.

DIVERGENCE —– the process or working or state of diverging.

POLTERGEIST—– a ghost or other supernatural being supposedly responsible for physical disturbances such as making loud noises and throwing objects about.

ENERGY—- the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity.

ERG –— a unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one dyne when its point of application moves one centimetre in the direction of action of the force.

ALLERGY —- a damaging (effect) immune response by the body to a substance, especially a particular food, pollen, fur, or dust, to which it has become hypersensitive.

ERGOMETER —- an apparatus which measures work or energy expended during a period of physical exercise.

ERGOGRAPH —- an apparatus for measuring the work capacity of a muscle.

ERGOPHOBIA —- is an abnormal and persistent fear of work

CASE II 

ROOT —- FA or FESS means speak, quality, character

Now words we can guess of are –

CONFABULATION —-  the act of having a conversation or a discussion.

INEFFABLE  — incapable of being expressed in words.

INFAMY —–  shameful or criminal conduct or character

DEFAME —- to attack someone or someone’s reputation, character, or good name by making slanderous or libelous statements.

FESSED —– confess, own up.

FABLE —- a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral/ tell fictitious tales.

CONFESS —-  declare, admit that one has committed a crime or done something wrong.

FABULOUS —- extraordinary (quality), especially extraordinarily large.

FAME —- the state of being known by many people, quality.

FAMOUS —- known about by many people, Fame.

PROFESS —- claim, often falsely, that one has (a quality or feeling).

I hope this session will help you with your English Language Preparation.We will come back soon with our next session.

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