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词根词缀:cap-, cip-, capt-, cept-, ceive, -ceipt, -ceit, -cipient

【来源及含义】Latin: catch, seize, take, take hold of, receive, contain, hold; caught, taken prisoner

【相关描述】Don't confuse the words in this cap-, cip- unit with those in the capit-, capt-, "head; leader, chief", or "first" unit of words.

【同源单词】accept, acceptable, acceptably, acceptance, acceptation, Accipe hoc

词根词缀:mis-

【来源及含义】Anglo-Saxon: bad, harsh, wrong; always a prefix

【相关描述】Don't confuse this mis- unit with the following units: misce-, "mix, mingle"; miso-, mis-, "hate, hatred"; miss-, -miss, -mis- "send, throw".

【相关词根词缀】Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "bad, wrong": caco-, kako-; dys-; mal-; pessim-; sceler-.

【同源单词】misadventure, misbegotten, misbehave, misbehavior, miscall, mischief

词根词缀:-tion

【来源及含义】Latin: a suffix forming nouns from verbs of condition and action; an act or process: resumption, absorption; state or condition, redemption, exhaustion; something resulting from or otherwise related to an act or process, assumption, friction

【相关描述】This unit is presenting a small fraction of the hundreds of words ending with the suffix of -tion; however, there is a significant number of words which may help everyone have a better understanding and appreciation of the use of this element.

【同源单词】abduction, abjection, ablution, ablution, abolition, abruption