8th Grade Root Words

gener

• family, creation, birth, or sort

• to place, to put

• to roll, turn, coil, or fold

• to demand; call out for; shout

loc

• head; chief; wealth

• to ask, seek, gain

• place

• to cut, divide

pet, peat, pete

• to save or protect

• to seek, aim for; rush

• something written, drawn, or recorded; chart

• law, right, true, to swear an oath

sect, secti, sec, seg

• step, to go

• to bring

• hand

• to cut, divide

via, vi, vey, voy

• to roll, turn, coil, or fold

• fair, balanced

• road, passageway, trip; to pass

• measure

stru, strue, struct

• to build; arrange; pile up

• to choose, read, gather, take from

• to melt, pour, or blend

• to do, to perform; to cause to move

equ, equi, eg

• fair, balanced

• to throw

• arrange, order, command

• to push, force, beat

jur, jure, juri, jury, juris, jus, just

• to stick or cling

• law, right, true, to swear an oath

• mark, seal; meaning; indication

• to stand, stop

mem, ment

• place

• mind

• measure

• to ask, seek, gain

vol, volt, volv, volve, volut, volute

• to roll, turn, coil, or fold

• strength, worth, health

• law; bind in purpose

• to throw