Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Word Parts - audio, aud, audi, audit


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...

audio-, aud-, audi-, audit- :
From Latin hearing, listening, perception of sounds

audible - loud or clear enough to be heard; audiency - characterized by listening and hearing; inaudibly - characterized by being impossible to hear; preaudience - in law, the right to be heard before another; transaudient - penetrable by sound waves; audiovisual - materials using sight and sound to present information.

And for you:
audiospectogram, audiogram, audiologist, clairaudiently, dysaudia, auditory, autoaudible, audiophiliac, auditopsychic, audiolingual, audiometric, audioanalgesia.

Source: English-Word Information, Word Info About English Vocabulary

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