Root Words #6 (sect)

To cut into two pieces

• trisect

• section

• bisect

• insect

To cut apart for the purpose of investigation

• sector

• sectional

• dissect

• transect

A class of small arthropod animals that has three separate sections to their bodies; head, thorax, abdomen

• insect

• trisect

• section

• sector

the point at which two lines or roads meet and cut across each other

• intersection

• transect

• bisect

• trisect

a separate part of something

• section

• dissect

• trisect

• sectional

A couch that is made up of separate pieces

• sectional

• bisect

• intersection

• insect

A separate part of a society, group, or area

• transect

• trisect

• bisect

• sector

To cut across something

• bisect

• sectional

• section

• transect

To cut into three separate pieces

• bisect

• trisect

• dissect

• section