I Underline the roots in each of the following words:

(Remember that a root is a morpheme which has the potential of having other morphemes
attached to it.

womanly, impossible, endanger, Chinese, failure, unlikely, famous, prewar, infamous,

subway, lighten, falsify, enlighten, misappropriation, friendship, unhappily, decomposability,
unforgettable, unexpressed, enlargements, formalizers, affectionately, decentralize,
re-discoverable, innermost, oversimplify, unmanned, watchmakers, undercooked,
contradictory, handbooks, sunflowers, malformation, independent, unreasonably,
uncomfortably, bird-watchers, subscribers, itemized, tastelessness, attractiveness
unwillingly, cheekiness, marriageable, idealized, chessboards, immersion, underdeveloped,
procommunist, carelessly, unfortunately, irresistibly, disobedience, misunderstanding

II Write in the blanks the meaning of the italicized bound roots:

All the roots in exercise 2 were free roots (lexical morphemes. Now we will look at bound roots
to which it is sometimes difficult to give an exact meaning. Many of these are from Greek and
Latin like -clude in include, exclude, preclude, and occlude.

To do this exercise you need a dictionary that has the etymology (origin) of the word in the entry
(ie. Latin, Greek, Middle English, French, etc). Under include you will find that –clude is the
Latin for “shut”.

1) audience, audible, audition, auditory

2) suicide, patricide, matricide, infanticide

3) oral, oration, oracle, oratory

4) aquaplane, aquatic, aquarium, aqueduct

5) manual, manicure, manuscript, manacles