List of Word Roots - 8

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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