Roots and Affixes, Grade 6: stru, struct (make, build)

Learn this list of words containing the Latin roots stru and struct, meaning "make" or "build."
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  1. reconstruction
    the activity of building something again
  2. instrumental
    serving or acting as a means or aid
  3. structural
    affecting or involved in the building of something
  4. structured
    having a definite and highly organized system
  5. indestructible
    not easily ruined
  6. instructive
    serving to enlighten or inform
  7. unstructured
    lacking definite organization
  8. deconstruct
    interpret by carefully examining a work's ideas and language
  9. destruction
    an event that completely ruins something
  10. destructive
    causing damage
  11. restructure
    construct or form anew or provide with a new structure
  12. instructor
    a person whose occupation is teaching
Created on Wed Apr 15 16:21:14 EDT 2026 (updated Fri May 01 18:15:29 EDT 2026)

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