Academic Word Matrix

Combine prefixes, Latin roots, and suffixes to see how meaning and part of speech shift across an entire academic word family. Then deploy a derived word in your own sentence.

1. Choose a Prefix

Latin struere / structus

struct

Meaning: “to build or put together”

∅+ struct +∅

2. Choose a Suffix

That prefix + suffix combination is not one of the standard English forms in this family.

Try one of these valid combinations from the -struct- matrix:

3. Deploy a Matrix Word in Your Own Academic Sentence

Write one sentence explaining how the mason crew will reconstruct or protect the bridge, using at least one word from the struct matrix and because or so.

Available family words: construct, construction, reconstruct, reconstruction, constructive, destruction

Your sentence