Root: fund/fus

Meaning: to pour out or to melt

• Diffuse -v-

  • To spread freely, to scatter

  • The heat was diffused

• Effusive -adj-

  • Given to excessive displays of emotion

  • Mr. Shear is not an effusive person

• Profusion -n-

  • A great abundance, or a great amount of something

  • There was a profusion of blood

Root: verb

Meaning: word

• Verbose -adj-

  • Overly wordy

  • His emails are verbose

• Verbatim -adj-

  • In the exact word for word

  • The students copied the notes verbatim

• Proverb -n-

  • A brief, repeated statement that expresses a “truth”

  • Old people constantly express proverbs

Root: flect/flex

Meaning: to bend

• Deflect -v-

  • To turn aside, especially from a straight course

  • Superman can deflect bullets

• Genuflect -v-

  • To kneel on one knee and then rise as a sign of respect

  • The knight genuflected before his king

Root: pac/peas

Meaning: peace

• Pacify -v-

  • To soothe anger or agitation

  • The screaming baby had to be pacified

• Appease -v-

  • To make peaceful and quiet

  • Sometimes parents appease their children

Extra Word

• Impecunious -adj-

  • Poor

  • The homeless man was impecunious