BUILD AND DECODE WORDS
Morphology lessons
Learn what word parts mean and how they work. Each lesson starts with the gist, lets you explore real words, and checks your understanding with hints and explanations.
EXPLORE AT YOUR PACE
Get the gist. Explore. Check.
- Understand the ideaRead a short explanation. Expand it for examples, spelling changes, and meaning in context.
- Explore the connectionsSelect a word in a cluster map, build it in the matrix, and compare how its parts change.
- Check your understandingAnswer multiple-choice questions. Use a hint after a mistake, then read why the answer works.
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SPACED REVIEW
Bring a lesson back
Open a saved review and recall the word parts before looking at the notes.
Core meanings · 8 class lists · 11 short lessons
Roots
Find the core meaning inside an academic word. The 8 class lists are divided into 11 short lessons.
Make, move, see, and shape
Use core meanings for action, form, movement, carrying, and seeing.
act, ag/ig, form, port, fer, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedPull, push, speak, write, and cut
Follow movement and communication roots, then compare two families connected to cutting.
tract, pel/puls, dict, scrib/script, leg/lect, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedLead, make, hold, bend, turn, and fold
Decode how familiar academic words describe making, holding, and changing direction.
duc/duct, fac/fact/fic/fect, ten/tain/tin, flex/flect, tort/tors, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedTake, close, break, throw, go, and come
Trace roots that show movement into, out of, or through an action.
cap/cip/cept, clud/clus/clos, frag/fract, rupt, ject, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedLife, body, mind, and feeling
Connect abstract academic words to human life, knowledge, thought, and emotion.
anim, cogn/gnos, corp, psych, sens/sent, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedCare, belief, place, and strength
Study roots that name culture, sacred belief, community, trust, and endurance.
cult, sanct, theo, urb, fid, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedLeaders, citizens, cities, and truth
Build civic vocabulary by connecting leadership, citizenship, community, and truth.
arch, cap, civ, pol/poli/polit, lig, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedBelief, standing, growth, power, and freedom
Decode words about credibility, institutions, cultivation, government, and liberty.
cred, sta/stit, cult, crat, lib Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedReasoning, remembering, following, and building
Use roots for thought, proof, questions, sequence, and structure.
log/logue, mem, prov, rog, sequ/secu, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedWords, solving, joining, hanging, wandering, and sticking
Finish the list with roots that join, loosen, balance, stray, and stick.
verb, solv/solu, junct, pend/pens, err, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedLove, goodness, strength, and judgment
Use high-value roots for love, truth and deception, strength, value, and correctness.
amor, phil, fal/fals, bene/bon, fort, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedBeginnings that change meaning · 8 short lessons
Prefixes
Notice what a beginning adds: direction, number, time, degree, or judgment.
Direction and place
Move down, out, across, between, under, in, and across a distance.
de-, ex-, out-, trans-, inter-, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedMovement, time, and opposition
Compare movement forward or away with time before or after and ideas in opposition.
dis-, pro-, ad-, pre-, post-, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedTogether, again, and changing senses
Use the example word to separate repeated spellings with different meanings.
con-/com-/co-, re- (again), re- (intensive), in- (in), in- (on), … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedAbove, below, around, and through
Map physical position and degree with prefixes used in science and everyday words.
over-, under-, infra-, ultra-, peri-, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedNumber word parts
Use number clues from one and two through five, ten, many, and half.
multi-, uni-, poly-, mono-, penta-, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedTime, order, and newness
Study a bridge list of prefixes, roots, and combining forms connected to time and order.
temp-/tempor-, neo-, equ-/equi-, sync/synch family, seq-/sequ-, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedScale, sameness, and difference
Compare all, large, small, different, and same across academic vocabulary.
omni-, pan-, macro-, micro-, hetero-, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedSelf, false, not, and wrong
Use judgment prefixes to recognize incorrect, negative, harmful, false, and self-directed meanings.
mis-, non-, mal-, dys-, pseudo-, … Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedEndings that change meaning or word job · 8 short lessons
Suffixes
Use an ending to predict a word’s meaning, grammar, or part of speech.
Noun makers: actions and qualities
Turn actions and qualities into nouns that name processes, results, and states.
-tion / -sion / -ion, -er / -or, -ment, -ness, -ity / -ty Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedNoun makers: people, beliefs, and conditions
Name systems, people, relationships, life stages, states, and actions.
-ism, -ist, -ship, -hood, -ance / -ence Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedVerb makers
Recognize endings that create verbs of making, causing, changing, or beginning.
-ize / -ise, -ate, -ify, -en, -esce Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedGrammar endings: -ing and -ed
Use sentence context to tell ongoing action, an activity noun, regular past, and completed forms.
-ing, -ed Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedAdjective makers: can be, full of, or without
Turn bases into describing words that show possibility, presence, absence, or tendency.
-able / -ible, -ful, -less, -y, -ive Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedAdjective makers: related to or tending to
Decode adjectives that show relationship, state, character, likeness, or degree.
-ary / -ory, -ent / -ant, -ic / -ical, -ish Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedAdverbs and direction words
Use endings that tell how an action happens or which direction something moves.
-ly, -ward / -wards, -wise Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedAcademic building blocks
Recognize fields of study, writing, governments, viewing tools, and places.
-ology, -graphy, -cracy, -scope, -arium Quick explanations · interactive word maps & matrices · checks with hints Quiz: not startedKEEP EXPLORING