NCEE STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ TIP
✔✔via (road / way / street) - ✔✔convey, conveyance, conveyer, convoy, deviate,
deviation, devious, envoy, impervious, invoice, obviate, obvious, previous, trivial,
triviality, viaduct, voyage, voyager
✔✔vīnum (wine) - ✔✔vine, vinegar, vineyard, vinous, vintage, wine
✔✔vir (man) - ✔✔triumvirate, virile, virtual, virtually, virtue, virtuoso, virtuous
✔✔virgō (maiden) - ✔✔virgin, virginal, virginity
✔✔facilis (easy) - ✔✔facilitate, facility, facile, facilitator - q.v. faciō
✔✔fēlīx (lucky / happy) - ✔✔felicitous, felicity, felicific
✔✔ferōx (wild / fierce) - ✔✔ferocious, ferocity
✔✔fortis (brave / strong) - ✔✔comfort, comfortable, comforter, discomfort, effort,
enforce, enforceable, force, forceful, forcible, fort, forte, fortify, fortification, fortitude,
fortress, perforce, re-enforce, reinforcement, uncomfortable
✔✔grātus (pleasing) - ✔✔agree, agreeable, agreement, congratulate, congratulation,
disagree, disagreement, disgrace, disgraceful, grace, graceful, gracious, grateful,
gratify, gratification, gratitude, gratuity, ingrate, ingratiate, gratis, ingrate, ingratitude
✔✔gravis (heavy / serious) - ✔✔aggravate, aggravation, aggrieve, grave (adj.), gravity,
gravitation, grief, grievance, grieve, grievous
✔✔īrātus (angry) - ✔✔q.v. īra
✔✔lātus (wide / broad) - ✔✔dilate, dilation, latitude
✔✔levis (light) - ✔✔alleviate, carnival, elevate, elevation, elevator, irrelevant, leaven,
levee, lever, leverage, levity, levy, relevancy, relevant, relief, relieve, unleavened
✔✔līber (free) - ✔✔q.v. līberō
✔✔longus (long) - ✔✔elongate, elongation, longevity, longitude, longitudinal, lunge,
oblong, prolong, prolongation, purloin
✔✔magnus (big, great, large) - ✔✔magistracy, magistrate, magnanimous, magnanimity,
magnate, magnific, magnifical, magnificence, magnificent, magnifier, magnify,
,magnitude, majestic, majestical, majesty, majority, master, masterful, masterpiece,
mastery, maxim, mayor, miss (n.), Mister, mistress
✔✔malus (bad / evil) - ✔✔dismal, maladjustment, malady, malaria, malcontent,
malediction, malefactor, malevolence, malevolent, malice, malicious, malign, malignant,
malnutrition, maltreat
✔✔medius (middle) - ✔✔demigod, immediate, intermediary, intermediate, mean,
middle, meantime, meanwhile, medial, median, mediate, mediation, mediator, medieval,
mediocre, mediocrity, meridian
✔✔memor (mindful) - ✔✔commemorate, commemoration, immemorial, memoir,
memorable, memorial, memorize, memory, remember, remembrance
✔✔miser (sad / miserable) - ✔✔commiseration, miserable, misery
✔✔mortuus (dead) - ✔✔q.v. mors
✔✔multus (much / many) - ✔✔multiform, multiple, multiplication, multiply, multitude,
multitudinous
✔✔nōbilis (noble) - ✔✔q.v. noscō
✔✔nōtus (known) - ✔✔q.v. noscō
✔✔novus (new) - ✔✔innovation, innovator, novel, novelist, novelty, novice, novitiate,
renovate, renovation
✔✔nūllus (no / none) - ✔✔annul, null, nullification, nullify, nullity
✔✔omnis (all / every) - ✔✔omnipotent, omnipotence, omnipresent, omniscience,
omniscient, omnivorous
✔✔parātus (prepared / ready) - ✔✔q.v. parō
✔✔paucī (few) - ✔✔paucity
✔✔pauper (poor) - ✔✔impoverish, pauper, pauperism, poor, poorhouse, poverty
✔✔territus (frightened) - ✔✔q.v. terreō
✔✔pār (equal) - ✔✔apparel, comparable, comparative, compare, comparison, compeer,
disparage, disparagement, disparity, incomparable, pair, parity, peer, peerage, peeress,
peerless, umpire
, ✔✔plēnus (full) - ✔✔accomplish, complement, complementary, complete, completion,
compliance, compliant, compliment, complimentary, comply, deplete, depletion,
expletive, implement, incomplete, plenary, plenipotentiary, plenitude, plentiful, plenty,
replenish, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, supply
✔✔potēns (powerful) - ✔✔q.v. possum
✔✔prūdēns (wise) - ✔✔q.v. videō
✔✔pulcher (beautiful) - ✔✔pulchritude, pulchritudinous
✔✔rūsticus (rustic / of the country) - ✔✔q.v. rūs
✔✔sacer (sacred) - ✔✔consecrate, consecration, desecrate, desecration, execrable,
execrate, execrate, reconsecrate, sacerdotal, sacrament, sacramental, sacred,
sacrifice, sacrificial, sacrilege, sacrilegious, sexton
✔✔sānus (healthy / sane) - ✔✔insane, insanity, sane, sanitarium, sanitary, sanitation,
sanity, unsanitary
✔✔satis (enough) - ✔✔asset, dissatisfaction, dissatisfied, insatiable, insatiate, satiate,
satiety, satisfaction, satisfactory, unsatisfactory, unsatisfied
✔✔similis (similar to) - ✔✔assemblage, assemble, assembly, assimilate, assimilation,
dissemble, dissimilar, dissimulation, ensemble, reassemble, resemblance, resemble,
semblance, similarity, similitude, simulate, simultaneous
✔✔sinister (left / wicked) - ✔✔sinister
✔✔sollicitus (worried) - ✔✔insouciance, insouciant, solicit, solicitous, solicitude
✔✔sōlus (alone) - ✔✔desolate, desolation, sole, soliloquy, solitaire, solitary, solitude,
solo, sullen
✔✔sordidus (dirty) - ✔✔sordid
✔✔stultus (silly / foolish) - ✔✔stultify, stultification
✔✔superbus (proud) - ✔✔superb, superbly
✔✔tardus (slow) - ✔✔retard, tardiness, tardy
✔✔timidus (afraid) - ✔✔q.v. timeō
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ TIP
✔✔via (road / way / street) - ✔✔convey, conveyance, conveyer, convoy, deviate,
deviation, devious, envoy, impervious, invoice, obviate, obvious, previous, trivial,
triviality, viaduct, voyage, voyager
✔✔vīnum (wine) - ✔✔vine, vinegar, vineyard, vinous, vintage, wine
✔✔vir (man) - ✔✔triumvirate, virile, virtual, virtually, virtue, virtuoso, virtuous
✔✔virgō (maiden) - ✔✔virgin, virginal, virginity
✔✔facilis (easy) - ✔✔facilitate, facility, facile, facilitator - q.v. faciō
✔✔fēlīx (lucky / happy) - ✔✔felicitous, felicity, felicific
✔✔ferōx (wild / fierce) - ✔✔ferocious, ferocity
✔✔fortis (brave / strong) - ✔✔comfort, comfortable, comforter, discomfort, effort,
enforce, enforceable, force, forceful, forcible, fort, forte, fortify, fortification, fortitude,
fortress, perforce, re-enforce, reinforcement, uncomfortable
✔✔grātus (pleasing) - ✔✔agree, agreeable, agreement, congratulate, congratulation,
disagree, disagreement, disgrace, disgraceful, grace, graceful, gracious, grateful,
gratify, gratification, gratitude, gratuity, ingrate, ingratiate, gratis, ingrate, ingratitude
✔✔gravis (heavy / serious) - ✔✔aggravate, aggravation, aggrieve, grave (adj.), gravity,
gravitation, grief, grievance, grieve, grievous
✔✔īrātus (angry) - ✔✔q.v. īra
✔✔lātus (wide / broad) - ✔✔dilate, dilation, latitude
✔✔levis (light) - ✔✔alleviate, carnival, elevate, elevation, elevator, irrelevant, leaven,
levee, lever, leverage, levity, levy, relevancy, relevant, relief, relieve, unleavened
✔✔līber (free) - ✔✔q.v. līberō
✔✔longus (long) - ✔✔elongate, elongation, longevity, longitude, longitudinal, lunge,
oblong, prolong, prolongation, purloin
✔✔magnus (big, great, large) - ✔✔magistracy, magistrate, magnanimous, magnanimity,
magnate, magnific, magnifical, magnificence, magnificent, magnifier, magnify,
,magnitude, majestic, majestical, majesty, majority, master, masterful, masterpiece,
mastery, maxim, mayor, miss (n.), Mister, mistress
✔✔malus (bad / evil) - ✔✔dismal, maladjustment, malady, malaria, malcontent,
malediction, malefactor, malevolence, malevolent, malice, malicious, malign, malignant,
malnutrition, maltreat
✔✔medius (middle) - ✔✔demigod, immediate, intermediary, intermediate, mean,
middle, meantime, meanwhile, medial, median, mediate, mediation, mediator, medieval,
mediocre, mediocrity, meridian
✔✔memor (mindful) - ✔✔commemorate, commemoration, immemorial, memoir,
memorable, memorial, memorize, memory, remember, remembrance
✔✔miser (sad / miserable) - ✔✔commiseration, miserable, misery
✔✔mortuus (dead) - ✔✔q.v. mors
✔✔multus (much / many) - ✔✔multiform, multiple, multiplication, multiply, multitude,
multitudinous
✔✔nōbilis (noble) - ✔✔q.v. noscō
✔✔nōtus (known) - ✔✔q.v. noscō
✔✔novus (new) - ✔✔innovation, innovator, novel, novelist, novelty, novice, novitiate,
renovate, renovation
✔✔nūllus (no / none) - ✔✔annul, null, nullification, nullify, nullity
✔✔omnis (all / every) - ✔✔omnipotent, omnipotence, omnipresent, omniscience,
omniscient, omnivorous
✔✔parātus (prepared / ready) - ✔✔q.v. parō
✔✔paucī (few) - ✔✔paucity
✔✔pauper (poor) - ✔✔impoverish, pauper, pauperism, poor, poorhouse, poverty
✔✔territus (frightened) - ✔✔q.v. terreō
✔✔pār (equal) - ✔✔apparel, comparable, comparative, compare, comparison, compeer,
disparage, disparagement, disparity, incomparable, pair, parity, peer, peerage, peeress,
peerless, umpire
, ✔✔plēnus (full) - ✔✔accomplish, complement, complementary, complete, completion,
compliance, compliant, compliment, complimentary, comply, deplete, depletion,
expletive, implement, incomplete, plenary, plenipotentiary, plenitude, plentiful, plenty,
replenish, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, supply
✔✔potēns (powerful) - ✔✔q.v. possum
✔✔prūdēns (wise) - ✔✔q.v. videō
✔✔pulcher (beautiful) - ✔✔pulchritude, pulchritudinous
✔✔rūsticus (rustic / of the country) - ✔✔q.v. rūs
✔✔sacer (sacred) - ✔✔consecrate, consecration, desecrate, desecration, execrable,
execrate, execrate, reconsecrate, sacerdotal, sacrament, sacramental, sacred,
sacrifice, sacrificial, sacrilege, sacrilegious, sexton
✔✔sānus (healthy / sane) - ✔✔insane, insanity, sane, sanitarium, sanitary, sanitation,
sanity, unsanitary
✔✔satis (enough) - ✔✔asset, dissatisfaction, dissatisfied, insatiable, insatiate, satiate,
satiety, satisfaction, satisfactory, unsatisfactory, unsatisfied
✔✔similis (similar to) - ✔✔assemblage, assemble, assembly, assimilate, assimilation,
dissemble, dissimilar, dissimulation, ensemble, reassemble, resemblance, resemble,
semblance, similarity, similitude, simulate, simultaneous
✔✔sinister (left / wicked) - ✔✔sinister
✔✔sollicitus (worried) - ✔✔insouciance, insouciant, solicit, solicitous, solicitude
✔✔sōlus (alone) - ✔✔desolate, desolation, sole, soliloquy, solitaire, solitary, solitude,
solo, sullen
✔✔sordidus (dirty) - ✔✔sordid
✔✔stultus (silly / foolish) - ✔✔stultify, stultification
✔✔superbus (proud) - ✔✔superb, superbly
✔✔tardus (slow) - ✔✔retard, tardiness, tardy
✔✔timidus (afraid) - ✔✔q.v. timeō
