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Don't Panic When Seeing New Words: 3 Steps to Guess Meanings by Breaking Down Prefixes and Suffixes
Many intimidatingly long words are actually made up of small building blocks. Once you learn to break a word down into three parts—prefix, root, and suffix—you can guess its general meaning without looking it up in the dictionary. This is the first article in our "Learning Vocabulary by Breaking Down Words" series, guiding you through 3 steps to unlock a whole host of new vocabulary.
5 High-Frequency Roots: Recognize port, dict, vis, scrib, and struct to Unlock Whole Clusters of Words at Once
Do you always memorize vocabulary only to forget it? Actually, many English words look similar because they share the same 'root'. This article will introduce you to 5 ultra-high-frequency roots: port, dict, vis, scrib, and struct. Each root is like a key that unlocks 5 or 6 words at once, allowing you to memorize words by 'families' from now on—making the process faster and much more permanent.