One of the fastest ways to increase your vocabulary is by learning word parts, i.e., roots, prefixes, suffixes or forms.
The TRiO SSS Scoop will give you a new word part everyday so that you can begin to work on increasing your college vocabulary. Here's your word part for today...
fid-, fidel-Latin for belief, believe, trust, faith, true
confide - to trust in someone to keep your secrets; confidential - meant to be kept private or secret; fidelity - being true to promises or duty; bona fide - being real and genuine; perfidious - being disloyal and dishonest.
Can you define the following:
confidence, confidant, perfidy, infidel, infidelity, affidation, affidavit, bona fide, diffidence, fideism, fidelity, fiducial, infidel, infidelity, minimifidian, perfidy
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