GRE | List of words to enhance your vocabulary with alphabet ‘P’

Set-6 :
The list of 10 most common root words with alphabet ‘P’ with their meaning and examples is as follows:

No	Root	Meaning	Examples	Meaning
1	pater/patri	father	paternal	characteristics of a father
			patriot	nationalist
			expatriate	a person who lives outside their native country
2	ped/pod	foot	impede	hinder/obstruct
			biped	having two feet
			expedite	to speed up/free from entanglement
3	path/pathy	emotion/suffering/feeling	sympathy	feeling of pity
			pathetic	able to arouse feeling of compassion or arouse
			pathology	study of essential nature of diseases
4	phil	loving	philosophy	love of wisdom
			philanderer	a male flirt
5	phob	fear	hydrophobia	fear of water
			acrophobia	fear of heights
			theophobia	fear of religion
6	psych	mind	psychology	study of nature / development of mind
			psychic	a person having paranormal powers
			psychopath	mentally & emotionally unstable
7	prot	first	protagonist	main character in drama / movie
			prototype	a first or preliminary version of
8	poten	powerful	impotent	powerless
			omnipotent	all powerful
			potentate	monarch state
9	pel	drive/force	compel	to force someone to act
			expel	to drive someone out of place
			repel	to force back
10	pan	all	pantheism	worship that tolerates all gods
			pan-america	involving all the countries of north & south america
			panacea	cure-all

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