Vocabulary Roots

This root means "look at".

• spect
• aud
• port
• dic

This root means "to see".

• aud
• vis
• dic
• port

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

opt/o/ops

• eye, vision
• feeling, disease
• name, word
• sound

one who watches an event

• spectator
• spectacular
• speculate
• spectrum

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

The Greek/Latin roots spec-/spect  mean: 

• run fast
• to look in, watch
• to go in
• to go across

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

a part of a whole; a broken piece of something that is no longer whole

• frail
• fragment
• fracture
• fraction

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

If you break your arm, it could be one of these.

• fracture

• fragment
• fraction
• frail

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

The volcano _____________ and spewed ash and lava.

• ruptured
• corrupted
• erupted
• abrupted

to break into someone's conversation

• interrupt
• corrupt

suddenly

• abrupt
• bankrupt