English Vocabulary With Root Word – Set 3- Free PDF Download

E/ Ex

• Out Prefix Used in words like exceed, eject, eccentric EX- E- EC- means OUT
•  How can we remember this prefix?
•  Ex means OUT
•  Remember the word EXIT
• When you exit a place you go OUT

 Eccentric

Meaning

• Ec- out of, from, off Centr- center A person is OFF CENTER- does not follow the norms of societal behaviour

Egress

Meaning

• E- out of, from Gress- having stepped, having moved Having stepped or moved out of or from a place The action of GOING OUT or leaving a place departure

 Exit

Meaning

• GO OUT
•  Exit strategy
•  A pre-planned means/ strategy of EXTRICATING oneself from a situation that is likely to become difficult and unpleasant

 Extricate

Meaning

•  Move out of difficulty
• Free from a constraint or difficulty

 Extend

Meaning

•  Stretch OUT Expand, enlarge, increase To add in order to make it bigger The deadline for submission of application has been extended due to curfew in the city

Exceed

Meaning

•  Go out Be greater in number or size Go beyond what is allowed
• Exclude- shut out
• Eject- throw out
•  Emit- send out

 Emigrate

Meaning

•  Move out
•  Leave one’s own country to permanently settle in another country

Eradicate

Meaning

•  Pull OUT by the root
• Destroy completely; put an end to
• Eliminate, remove, EXTIRPATE (eradicate or destroy completely) Weed out

 Appendectomy

Meaning

•  Cutting the appendix OUT
•  A surgical operation to remove the appendix

Tonsillectomy

Meaning

• Cutting the tonsils out

Ecstatic

Meaning

• Of standing OUT from a normal emotional state
• Extremely happy
• Very happy and excited

Expunge

Meaning

• Remove or do away with
•  Obliterate or remove completely that which is unwanted or unpleasant
•  His name has been expunged from the list of members

Expedite

Meaning

• An action or process you make it happen more quickly
•  Accelerate,

 Execrate

Meaning

•  You curse someone to show your intense dislike or hatred for them
•  Feel or express great loathing for

 Exclude

Meaning

• Ex-out + clude- to shut
• Not include something
•  expel

Excoriate

Meaning

•  Ex-out + corium- skin To strip off or remove the skin from
• Damage or remove part of the surface of the skin

Exculpate

Meaning

• Ex- out + culpa- blame
• To prove or state officially that somebody is not guilty of something
• Show or declare that someone is NOT guilty of wrong doing

Excursion

Meaning

• Ex-out + CUR- to run A short journey made for pleasure
•  jaunt

Exhale

Meaning

•  Ex-out + hale- breathe
•  To breathe out the air or smoke

 Exhilarate

Meaning

•  Ex-out + hilar- cheerful
•  To make somebody feel very happy and excited elate

exhume

Meaning

• Ex- out + humus- ground
• To remove a dead body from the ground
• To dig out from the ground

exonerate

Meaning

• Ex-out + oner- burden
• To officially state that somebody is not responsible for something

expectorant

Meaning

• Ex-out+ pector- breast
• A cough medicine that helps you to get rid of thick liquid
• A medicine to treat cough
• an agent that promotes the discharge or expulsion of mucus from the respiratory tract broadly : an antitussive agent

 expedition

• Meaning
• Ex-out + ped- foot
•  An organized journey with a particular purpose

 Exquisite

• Meaning
•  Ex-out + quis- seek
• Extremely beautiful
• Elegant

 Extol

• Meaning
• Ex-out + tol- praise
•  To praise somebody Commend, applaud, eulogize

Extract

• Meaning
• Ex-out + tract- to pull
• To remove something from something

 

 

 

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