Mastering “Word Roots” for SAT Success

PAC – peace

 

pacify

pacifist

pacific

 

PALP – feel

 

palpable

palpitation

 

 

PAN – all

 

panorama

panacea

panegyric

pandemic

 

panoply

 

 

 

PATER, PATR – father

 

paternal

paternity

patriot

compatriot

 

expatriate

patrimony

patricide

patrician

PATH, PASS – fell, suffer

 

sympathy

antipathy

empathy

apathy

 

pathos

impassioned

 

 

PEC – money

 

pecuniary

impecunious

peculation

 

PED, POD – foot

 

pedestrian

pediment

expedient

biped

 

quadruped

tripod

 

 

PEL, PULS – drive

 

compel

compelling

expel

propel

 

compulsion

 

 

 

PEN – almost

 

peninsula

penultimate

penumbra

 

PEND, PENS – hang

 

pendant

pendulous

compendium

suspense

 

propensity

 

 

 

PER – through, by, for, throughout

 

perambulator

percipient

perfunctory

permeable

 

perspicacious

pertinacious

perturbation

perusal

PER – against, destruction

 

perfidious

pernicious

perjure

 

PERI – around

 

perimeter

periphery

perihelion

peripatetic

PET – seek, go towards

 

petition

impetus

impetuous

petulant

 

centripetal

 

 

 

PHIL – love

 

philosopher

philanderer

philanthropy

bibliophile

 

philology

 

 

 

PHOB – fear

 

phobia

claustrophobia

xenophobia

 

PLAC – calm, please

 

placate

implacable

placid

complacent

PON, POS – put, place

 

postpone

proponent

exponent

preposition

 

posit

interpose

Juxtaposition

depose

PORT – carry

 

portable

deportment

rapport

 

POT – power

 

potential

potent

impotent

potentate

 

omnipotence

 

 

 

PRE – before

 

precede

precipitate

preclude

precocious

 

precursor

predilection

predisposition

preponderance

 

prepossessing

presage

prescient

prejudice

 

predict

premonition

premonition

preposition

PRIM, PRI – first

 

prime

primary

primal

primeval

 

primordial

pristine

 

 

PRO – ahead, forth

 

proceed

proclivity

procrastinator

profane

 

profuse

progenitor

progeny

prognosis

 

prologue

promontory

propel

proponent

 

propose

proscribe

protestation

provoke

PROTO – first

 

prototype

protagonist

protocol

 

PROX, PROP – near

 

approximate

propinquity

proximity

 

PSEUDO – false

 

pseudoscientific

pseudonym

 

 

PYR – fire

 

pyre

pyrotechnics

pyromania