Mit and Mis root words

The English root mit and its variant miss comes from a Latin word that means ‘to send.’

When a lightbulb emits light, what does it do? It simply ‘sends it out.’ If you are out on a mission, you’ve been ‘sent’ to do a task. If, however, you’ve been dismissed from that task, you’ve been ‘sent away.’ If someone permits you to do something, you are ‘sent through’ to carry on.

mit and miss mean the same thing,

notice what happens when you add suffixes to the following mit words.

Permit becomes permission, emit becomes emission, commit, becomes commission,

Don’t “miss” that mit becomes a miss!

Every comic book villain tries his best to contribute wholeheartedly to the demise of his chosen superhero, that is, to his permanent ‘sending away,’ or ‘death;’ the words superhero and demise don’t go together very well. Dr. Octopus could never ‘send away’ Spiderman, at least on a permanent basis!

Have you ever omitted anything from a test? If so, you have ‘sent it away.’

When you submit your answers, you ‘send them under’ for the inspection of the teacher.

Hopefully all those tests that you have submitted as a student will allow you to be admitted, or ‘sent to’ a good college!