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Transportation
Prefix: Trans Root: port Suffix: ation
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90% of English words of 2 or more syllables are Greek or Latin origin
More than 60% of new words readers encounter have transparent morphological structure – can be broken down into word parts and use knowledge of those word parts to infer meaning (if they understand the root and word parts)
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