These Roots of English helps you in building your vocabulary with pronunciation so that you can use the word with appropriate pronunciation. In this article, we are presenting one more article of our series "Roots of English" which will help you in enhancing your vocab. We hope that this will be helpful for you in learning some new words in an amusing way.
The English language is made up of four parts. These are -
- GREEK ROOTS
- GERMAN ROOTS
- FRENCH ROOTS
- LATIN ROOTS
Now if you learn these roots, you can figure out the meaning of hundreds of English language words without even knowing their exact meaning. Before we go further, let us answer some basic questions for you first.
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What is a root?
A root is the part of the word which gives instructions to a word.
How many parts is a word made of?
A word is made up of three parts.
For example – Disinterested
Here 'Dis' is a prefix, 'interest' is the root and 'ed' is the suffix.
Note: PREFIX is a word, letter, or number placed before another.
SUFFIX is a letter or a group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning.
The root word for today: Fid/Fidel
Now today we have taken 'fid/Fidel ' as a ROOT which has a meaning: faith, believe, belief, trust, true
Now with the help of this one root, you can come out with the conclusion of several other English words. Such as:
1) Confide - (kun-fahyd) - to share information in secret
Usage - He confided that he was very unhappy with his job.
2) Fidelity - (fi-del-i-ty) - faithfulness to one's duties; accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact
Usage - These speakers reproduce sound with such fidelity, you’d think you were actually in a concert hall.
3) Perfidy - (per-fidy) - behavior that shows that someone cannot be trusted
Usage - When the soldier’s perfidy against the government was brought to light, people all over the country called for the man to be expelled.
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4) Fiduciary - (fi-doo-ci-ar-y) - an individual who acts on behalf of another
Usage - Although the ten-year-old actor was a millionaire, he still needed a fiduciary to manage his financial matters.
5) Diffident: - (dif-i-dunt) - lacking confidence in one’s ability or self
Usage -Even though everyone told her she was beautiful, the diffident actress still believed she was ugly.
6) Affidavit:- (af-i-dey-vit) - a statement made under oath and trust that is verified by a person of authority
Usage - The affidavit signed by my grandmother will transfer all of her property to her church upon her death.
7) Minimifidian: - (minimi-fid-yan) - Having a minimal amount of faith.
Usage - Due to the frequent accidents in life, he behaves like a minimifidian whenever someone talks about good things in life.
8) Confidant: - (con-fi-dant) - a person whom you trust, a person with whom you can share your secrets.
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Usage - Because my best friend is my confidant, I feel as though I can tell him anything without the information becoming public.
9) Confident: - (kon-fi-dunt) - Feeling or showing trust/faith in your capabilities
Usage - He is very confident about clearing the upcoming bank exam.
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10) Defiance: - (dih-fahy-uns) - open resistance , bold disobedience.
Usage - The protesters showed their defiance of the official ban on demonstrations.
We hope this session will help you in Vocabulary Preparation. We will come back soon with our next session. Also, you can go through our previous articles from the list given below:
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