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ROOT WORD ORIGIN -Published on 18th Feb 2023 by Oxford School of English- Most of the English words originated from Latin or Greek language no wonder that makes it interesting. Modern English language has root words from other languages also, yet these two have the crown. By learning Greek and Latin root words, a student can easily learn around 60% of English vocabulary. Some of the benefits of learning root words are as under. 1. Extra information – While learning roots which are the origin of any particular words one tends to learn major historical events and culture. 2. Better understanding – Root words are considered the most meaningful part of the word and can be further divided. For example, you know the word Friend’. Now, what about the words such as Friendly’, Befriend’, Friendliness, and Unfriendly’? Even if you don’t know the exact meaning, you can predict that all these words are somehow connected to Friend’. Now let’s dig a little deeper. Un-’ means something negative. So, that means Unfriendly’ must mean Not friendly’. What does Friendly’ mean then? Friend-like’? Yes! It means a person who is pleasant like a friend. 1. Facilitate learning – Leaning one root can help us to open doors to many. We can categorize a word list according to the root. Therefore, becoming familiar with the roots will naturally make reading and spelling easier. But studying word roots is really boring, right? NOT ANY MORE 1. Thei : Thei means god/religion Ist meaning follower Now adding different words Theist meaning the one who believes in god Atheist means one who doesn’t believe in god. Monotheist mono+theist mono(only one) so monotheist means the one who believes in one god. Polytheist Ploy means many so polytheists mean the one who believes in many gods. Pantheist Pan means all over so a pantheist believes in all gods across all religions. 2. Logy : Logy means the study of something Theology - Teho means god or religion so theology means the study of religion Anthropology - Anthrop means human being so anthropology means the study of a human being. Morphology - Morph means structure so morphology means the study of structures. Anthropomorphism - Its antrop+morph+ism meaning is giving human structure to god. Zoomorphism - Its zo+morph+ism means giving animal structure to god. Amorpic - It’s a+morph means no particular structure. 3. Phobia : Phobia means fear or dislike Zoophobia - zoo+phobia means fear of animal Androphobia - Andro means boys/male so androphobia means the one who doesn’t like boys. Gynophobia - Gyno means girl/woman so gynophobia means the one who doesn’t like girls Pedophobia - Pedo means child so pedophobia is the one who doesn’t like children. Demophobia - demo means people so demophobia means the one who fears public speaking. Anthropophobia - anthro means human being so anthropophobia mean fear of human being or the one who doesn’t like the company of human being or in simple word aloof (living alone) 4. Cious : Cious means to do something Loquacious - loquis means talking so loquacious means the one who talks a lot Voracious - vora means eat so voracious means the one who eats a lot. Avaricious - avari means greed so avaricious means greedy Pugnacious - pug means fight so pugnacious means the one who fights a lot. 5. Cide : Cide means kill/ murder Infanticide - infant+cide meaning to kill a child. uxoricide - uxor means wife so uxoricide means A husband who murders his wife. Mariticide - marit means husband so matricide means The murder of a husband by his wife. Patricide - patri means father so patricide means A person who murders their father. Matricide - matri means mother so matricide means A person who murders their mother. Fratricide - frat means brother so fratricide means A person who murders their brother. 6. MIGR : Migr means move Immigrant- a person who moves to a new country to settle Migrant- a person who moves from place to place Migration- the process of moving 7. PAN : All any everyone Panacea- a cure for all diseases or problems Panorama- an all-around view Pantheism- the worship of all gods Pandemic- affecting all 8. Tox : Tox means poison Detoxification- the process of removing poison Toxic- poisonous Toxicology- the study of poisons Intoxicated- influenced by drugs 9. Cracy : Cracy means Govt/System Democracy - demo+cracy means govt of people Autocracy - auto+cracy means dictatorship/kingship (when one person rules the whole government or system) Theocracy - Theo+cracy means when the government is of religious people like a priest, bishops, etc. Plutocracy - Pluto means wealthy so plutocracy means when the government is controlled by wealthy people like industrialists. Oligocracy - Oligo means selected few so oligocracy means when a selected few runs the government. Mobocracy - Mob means crowd so mobocracy means when the crowd takes over government or in other words lawlessness. Monarchy - Monarc means top officials like a king so monarchy is the rule of a king. Anarchy - means lawlessness it’s just similar to mobocracy. Gerontocracy - geron means aged/ experienced so gerontocracy means when positions are determined by experience or age. Meritocracy - merito means performance so meritocracy means when position are decided by performance Cleptocracy - clepto means thief so cleptocracy means when the government is run by thieves. Beaurocracy - beauro means top officials so beaurocracy means when the government is run by top officials. Aristocracy - aristo means nobility so aristocracy means when the government is run by noble families. 10. Somnia : Somnia means sleepness Insomnia means lack of sleep Somniferous - ferrous means things causing something so somniferous are the things that cause sleep like pills etc. Somnambulist - som+amb+ist here som means sleep ambu means walk so somnambulist means the one who walks while sleeping. Ambulant - means things able to walk Somniloquist - locust means talking so somniloquist means the one who talks while sleeping

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Spy The Lie! 10 Ways to Describe Liars In his famous book Word Power Made Easy, Norman Lewis dedicates an entire chapter to liars and lying in order to introduce readers to 10 fascinating words that can be used to categorise liars on the basis of their behaviour. These words can of course be applied to a much wider variety of scenarios, but liars - as a group of people - evoke strong reactions in us. We’ve all come across a variety of liars. Can you identify them? Let’s find out! 1. A notorious liar This type of liar has a reputation for being a rampant teller of untruths. This person's habits of conceit are so well known - to the point of infamy - that the only people likely to believe them are strangers, and that too, not for very long. 2. A consummate liar This type of liar is a master of deception. An absolute artist of fabrication, liars of this type are very convincing in their style that they almost always get away with it. They have a way of making even skeptics believe what they say. 3. An incorrigible liar A liar who is beyond correction, liars of this type go on telling lies despite the rebuke, retribution, embarrassment, punishment and even the sadness that their habits bring upon them. 4. An inveterate liar Lying, for this kind of liar, is nothing less than a regular routine. So deep rooted and frequent is their habit of telling untruths that it comes naturally to them. Lying is almost like a natural reflex for liars of this type. 5. A congenital liar This is a type of liar whose long history of deceiving and falsifying information makes people assume they’ve been lying for so long it may well be since they were born. 6. A chronic liar A liar who keeps telling lies with a straight face, almost unabashedly. This type of liar keeps telling lies again and again without exception. Their habit of telling untruths is easily an everyday affair. 7. A pathological liar For this type of liar, there is no distinction between truth and fiction. They keep telling lies to the point that it seems like a disease that no treatment or medicine can effectively cure. 8. An unconscionable liar This is a type of liar who completely lacks a conscience altogether. Ever the expert at misrepresentation and manipulation, this kind of liar feels no remorse or guilt for being a deceitful person. 9. A glib liar A liar of this sort has a vivid imagination and is ready to tweak the facts to their advantage in ways that are smooth and effortless. However, this habit is what makes such liars easily suspected for telling untruths as their words only too often precede their thoughts. 10. An egregious liar This is one type of liar whose deception is so exceptional, so extraordinary and so unrelentingly vicious. Their lies are outstanding to the point that they elicit gasps of utter disgust and amazement.

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