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Semantics, the study of the meaning of words, is the sum of the basic elements offour skills, namely, reading, writing, speaking and listening effectively. The knowledge of vocabulary words in lexico-semantics, on the other hand, is essentialin every grade level, subject area and assessment for every student. In order toimprove students’ efficiency in the realm of learning and utilizing them in appropriate instances, we must give them means to decode unfamiliar words throughsuch elements called “affixes” and “roots”. Based on theories of Constructivismand Bloom's Taxonomy, and in the context of teaching all components of a languageand arts curriculum, teaching such common roots and affixes is an effective strategy that would secure them a rich vocabulary. This article will call attention to analternative dimension to traditional vocabulary teaching based on giving definitions of words or eliciting or deducing meaning from context. According to thismethodology, first an awareness is given to students that the English words areessentially borrowings from other languages mostly with Latin or Greek origins(roots) formed by additions to them by parts (affixes) attached to their front andend. So by guessing the meaning of unknown words by such elements, learners areassumed to grasp the idea of the whole word. This article will serve as an

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