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GRE Root Course

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60 high-yield roots, 500+ real GRE words. Stop memorizing lists — learn the system that generates them.

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GRE vocabulary is not 3,000 random hard words. Most of them are built from a compact set of Latin and Greek roots — loquacious, circumlocution, and interlocutor are one root wearing three disguises.

This course covers the 60 roots with the highest GRE-word density in our database, organized into 12 themed units. Every lesson teaches one root through its actual GRE words — not the easy family members you already know. Each lesson ends with a quiz that retries your misses until you get everything right, and every unit closes with a review that contrasts easily-confused roots — exactly the distinctions GRE verbal questions test.

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Course outline

Unit 1

The Art of Words

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Free trial unit. Five roots of speaking and naming — the source of GRE favorites like loquacious, circumlocution, ignominious, and eulogy.

  1. loquspeak, talk8 focus words
  2. claimcry out, shout, call8 focus words
  3. logword, speech, reason; study of8 focus words
  4. nominname8 focus words
  5. signmark, sign, seal8 focus words
  6. Unit review
Unit 2

Motion & Arrival

Five ways English goes: ced (go, yield), gress (step), it (go), ven (come), via (way). GRE verbal loves the differences — transgress steps over the line, circumvent sneaks around it.

  1. cedgo, yield, move8 focus words
  2. gressto step, walk, go8 focus words
  3. itto go, to walk8 focus words
  4. vencome, arrive8 focus words
  5. viaway, road, path7 focus words
  6. Unit review
Unit 3

Throw & Drive

miss (send), pel (push), tra (drag), gest (carry), mov (move) — the forces behind GRE verbs.

  1. misssend, let go8 focus words
  2. pelpush, drive8 focus words
  3. trapull, drag, draw8 focus words
  4. gestcarry, bear, perform, conduct8 focus words
  5. movmove7 focus words
  6. Unit review
Unit 4

Take, Hold & Place

cap (seize), tain (hold), pos (place), sit (settle), dit (give) — possession and position, GRE-style.

  1. captake, seize, hold8 focus words
  2. tainhold, keep8 focus words
  3. posplace, put, set8 focus words
  4. sitsit, settle, be placed8 focus words
  5. ditgive7 focus words
  6. Unit review
Unit 5

Turn & Twist

vers (turn), plic (fold), tort (twist), circ (ring), strain (bind tight) — GRE's favorite contortions.

  1. versturn8 focus words
  2. plicfold, bend, layer8 focus words
  3. torttwist, turn, wrench8 focus words
  4. circcircle, ring, around8 focus words
  5. straindraw tight, bind7 focus words
  6. Unit review
Unit 6

Sense & Spirit

sp (look), sent (feel), path (suffer/feel), spir (breathe), viv (live) — perception and vitality.

  1. splook, observe, watch8 focus words
  2. sentfeel, perceive, be aware8 focus words
  3. pathfeel, suffer, experience; (in compounds) disease8 focus words
  4. spirbreathe, spirit7 focus words
  5. vivlive, life7 focus words
  6. Unit review
Unit 7

Stand & Stop

st (stand), fin (end), bar (barrier), clud (shut), stinct (prick/quench) — firmness and finality.

  1. ststand, set, place8 focus words
  2. finend, limit, boundary7 focus words
  3. barbar, barrier; ban, prohibition8 focus words
  4. cludclose, shut, exclude8 focus words
  5. stinctprick, goad; quench, put out7 focus words
  6. Unit review
Unit 8

Make & Beget

fac (make, GRE tier), gen (birth), man (hand), press (press), mono (one) — creation revisited at GRE depth.

  1. facmake, do8 focus words
  2. genbirth, produce, kind8 focus words
  3. manhand8 focus words
  4. presspress, squeeze7 focus words
  5. monosingle, alone, one7 focus words
  6. Unit review
Unit 9

Balance & Worth

equ (equal), val (worth), par (equal/prepare), medi (middle), ple (fill) — measurement and judgment.

  1. equequal, even8 focus words
  2. valstrong, worth, value7 focus words
  3. parprepare; equal; bring forth / appear8 focus words
  4. medimiddle; heal7 focus words
  5. plefill, full8 focus words
  6. Unit review
Unit 10

Seek & Stretch

pet (seek), tend (stretch), pend (hang/weigh), lud (play), sequ (follow) — pursuit and its games.

  1. petseek, aim, strive8 focus words
  2. tendstretch, extend7 focus words
  3. pendweigh, pay out, spend, hang8 focus words
  4. ludplay, sport, mock8 focus words
  5. sequfollow7 focus words
  6. Unit review
Unit 11

Flow & Touch

flu (flow), tact (touch), car (run), ped (foot), cid (cut/fall) — the body of language in motion.

  1. fluflow; pour8 focus words
  2. tacttouch8 focus words
  3. carrun, flow; chariot, wheeled cart; carry8 focus words
  4. pedfoot8 focus words
  5. cidcut, kill8 focus words
  6. Unit review
Unit 12

Choose & Guard

lect (choose/read), jur (law/oath), graph (write), ali (other), serv (keep) — order, letters, and the other.

  1. lectchoose, pick, read, gather8 focus words
  2. jurlaw, right, oath, justice8 focus words
  3. graphwrite, writing, record8 focus words
  4. aliother, another8 focus words
  5. servserve; keep, guard, watch over8 focus words
  6. Unit review