Vocabulary Building / Word Roots

The Roots tract, vert, and verg

Words About Pulling and Turning

Part of the full libraryOpens January 2, 2027 · $97 for a year
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Thomas MeliSAT instructor
word rootA word part with an old meaning shared by a family of words, such as cred, believe, in credible and credence.

You’ll leave with these skills

  1. Link detract and protracted to words you know through tract, pull
  2. Tell abstract ideas from things you can touch
  3. Tell divergent and convergent apart from the vert words

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