digress
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
gress
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
digress
to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument
走向岔道, 离开本题, 扯到枝节上
Dissection of digress
digress = di- (apart, in different directions) + gress (step, extended further to mean go);
digress = to go in a different directions or to turn aside from a main course
Now Repeat my Dissection
digress = to go in a different directions or to turn aside from a main course
Important roots for this word:
di-
gress
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
Repetition is the key to learning.
Now please try to dissect the word into the roots that you know yourself in the box below:
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