A number of English words have Greek and Latin roots. An understanding of the commonly used roots will help you to easily guess and remember the meaning of new words and substantially strengthen your vocabulary.
This application enables you to learn a list of commonly used root words, their meanings and some examples of words that was formed from the root words. You also can look up for the roots of a word.
GREEK ROOTS
• Over 258 Greek roots
• Detailed meaning
• Words from the roots
• Search by root or by meaning
• Roots of the Day: learn Greek roots daily
• Bookmark a root
LATIN ROOTS
• Over 712 Latin roots
• Detailed meaning
• Words from the roots
• Search by root or by meaning
• Roots of the Day: learn Latin roots daily
• Bookmark a root
WORDS
• Over 5600 words
• Roots in a word
• Detailed meaning
• Audio Pronunciation
• Example sentences
• Translation
• Search by word or by meaning
• Words of the Day: learn words daily
• Bookmark a word
UNITS
• 33 Units
• Learn a unit using multiple choice quizzes
SPACED REPETITION FLASHCARDS
• Tap a card to see meaning
• Mark a card as "hard", "good", "easy"
• Hard flashcards are shown more frequently, good and easy flashcards are shown less frequently over time.
• Charts: showing your progress
• Calendar: view cards scheduled on a date
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Best App On The Store for Root Memorization Purposes
Solid UI, not stunning but an enjoyable enough experience. Some small additions could make this app much more effective:
There should be spaced repetition within each of the units, with a progress bar for mastery of each unit.
On the main page where all the roots are grouped together (separated into Latin and Greek) there should be an option to discard cards. Discard cards as in I don’t want to learn this root. The main purpose for learning roots is for greater understanding of English language and to figure out meaning of words easier. There are some roots that are practically never used in modern English and thus I don’t care to learn them (at least for now, maybe I’ll come back to learn them), but their grouped in with everything else. Another suggestion is perhaps different card packs like top 200 most used Greek and Latin words.
Otherwise a great app, 8/10 recommend.
Does not always show the meanings of multiple roots within one word.
Does not always show the meanings of multiple roots within one word.
Needs more settings
There should be a way more options for the quizzes and an option where I can turn off the voice feedback
Not for learning medical terms
I purchased the app for learning medical terminology. I looked up pleura, visceral, and parietal. All are missing. I stopped right there and deleted the app. This seems to be aimed at a student learning elementary vocabulary. I give it two stars because it has glucose, implying content of a few other medical terms. Med students look elsewhere. The developer would do a service to consumers by clarifying the intended audience.
