Root: sci

Meaning: to know

• Omniscience -n

  • Infinite awareness and knowledge

  • The oracles seemed to have omniscience

• Prescient -adj-

  • Having or showing advances knowledge of what is going to happen

  • The fates seemed prescient

• Conscientious

  • Governed by morality, prone to doing good deeds

  • The conscientious student worked hard

Root: tend/tent

Meaning: to stretch or extend

• Contentious -adj-

  • Having a tendency to pick fights, quarrelsome

  • Jason and Medea developed a contentious relationship

• Distend -v-

  • To swell or become expanded

  • The balloon became distended

• Portend -v-

  • To give a warning beforehand

  • The dark clouds portended a storm

Root: mit/mis

Meaning: to send

• Emissary -n-

  • Someone sent out to represent another

  • The King sent out his emissary

• Manumission -n-

  • The act of freeing from slavery

  • Lincoln manumission slavery

Root: path

Meaning: to feel pain or suffering

• Apathetic -adj-

  • Showing of feeling little or no emotion, having no interest or care

  • The apathetic student fared poorly

• Sociopath -n-

  • A mentally unstable person who harms many people or society as a whole

  • Thanos was a sociopath

Extra Word:

• Sycophant -n-

  • A servile flatterer

  • A fawning parasite

  • A brown-nose

  • A suck-up

  • An apple polisher

  • A boot licker

  • The student was blatantly sycophantic