7th Grade EL Root Words

Match the following root word with its meaning.

• water

• aqua

• love

• arbor,  

  arboris

• tree

• aud

• to hear

• amo,  

  amatum

• to test

• assess

Match the following root word with its meaning

• believe

• consist

• time

• chronos  

  (chron)

• adhering to the  

  same principles

• bene,  

  boun, bon

• good

• cred

• good, well

• bonus

Match the following root words with its meaning.

• tree

• dem(os)

• practical

• familiaris

• people

• dendron

• make, do

• effectivus

• of a household

• facio,  

  factum,  

  fy, fier

Match the following root words with its meaning.

• attach

• habitare

• create

• figo, fixum

• same

• identitas

• dwell, live

• gen

• water

• hydros  

  (hydr)

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• fire

• logos

• join

• jungo,  

  junctum

• movement

• kinesis,  

  cinema

• moon

• ignis

• word, speech

• luna

Match the following root word to its meaning.

• large, big

• phobos

• to seize, take hold  of, make one’s  

  own

• narr

• love

• philia,  

  phile

• to say, to tell

• occupare

• fear

• magnus

Match the following root word with its meaning.

• to carry

• platea

• know

• pono,  

  postum  

  (pos,  

  post)

• to write

• port

• place, street,  

  area

• scribe  

  (scrib),  

  scriptum  

  (script)

• put, place

• scio,  

  scitum  

  (sci)

Match the following root word with its meaning.

• sound

• spectro,  

  spect,  

  spec

• to see, watch,  

  observe

• testis,  

  testari,  

  testor

• time

• sonus

• art and craft

• tempus,  

  temporis

• assert

• tech

Match the following root word with its meaning.

• word

• verbum

• to call or summon

• vac

• heat

• vocare  

  (voc, vok)

• empty

• thermos  

  (therm)