Believe me, it is possible to crack english words. But there are very few people who know about it. The main reason for this is we weren't told about it by any source (teachers, parents, friends, relatives). Also many-a-times what happens is people know about it but they dont like to share it with others.
Let us know few things about english words. Almost all words in english has been derived from latin root or greek root or german root. If we know meaning of this (latin/greek/german)root word than we can have better understanding of cracking english words. For apply this technique you should be familiar with meaning of root word and meaning of latin/greek/german prefixes and suffixes.
Let us now learn how to apply this technique.
(1)First of all break down the word to their root, prefix and suffix.
(2)As I told you should be familiar with meaning of root, prefix and suffix because it will enable you to guess the meaning correctly.
For example,
(1)Latin root 'scribe' means 'to write'. Words written below are derived from latin root 'scribe'.
- prescribe
- describe
- inscribe
- scripture
Note - words written above belong to the act of writing.
(2) Let us crack the word asynchronous. Its meaning is occurence of two or more process at different times. Let us first break down the word 'asynchronous'.
'a' 'syn' 'chron' 'ous'
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Root - meaning
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a - without
syn - together
chron - time
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Note - Greek root 'a' and 'syn' are prefix and chron is a greek root word.
Let us have a look at some of latin, greek and german roots and its meaning.
Greek roots
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Root - Meaning
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andr/gyn - man
anthropos - mankind
archy/cracy - rule by
astro - star
bibli - book
chron - time
macro/mega - big
micro - small
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Latin root
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Root - Meaning
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cede/ceed/cess - go/movement
centr - center
cred - believe
fract/frag - break
luc - light
magni - large
mar - sea
scribe - to write
tract/tang - touch
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Prefix [ (l) denotes latin and (g) denotes greek ]
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Root - Meaning
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ab(l) - from/away
ambi(l) - both sides
ante(l) - before
anti(g) - against
sym/syn(g) - together
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Suffix [ (l) denotes latin and (g) denotes greek and (gr)for germanic ]
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Root - Meaning
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arium/ary(l) - place
full(g) - full of
ist(g) - expert in some sort of action or field
ish(gr) - somewhat like
ness(gr) - condition or state
oid(g) - like/shape of
wise(gr) - in the manner of
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