USA Today Rootonym October 16, 2026 Answers
All 4 root words from the Friday Rootonym — each answer with its root and what the root means.
To give up; to renounce a throne or high office formally (verb)
King Edward VIII announced that he would ________ his position to marry Wallis Simpson.
Sum paid to shareholders out of company earnings; a bonus (noun)
Greg receives a quarterly ________ from two companies that continue to grow rapidly.
Process of physically and chemically breaking up food in the alimentary canal (noun)
Jackie never eats raw onions because they interfere with her ________ and cause heartburn.
Forcible separation or division into parts; a throwing into disorder or discontinuity (noun)
There was a ________ in a company's scheduled meeting when the fire alarm rang.
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This page lists all root words from the USA Today Rootonym published on October 16, 2026. Each card shows the masked word as it appears in the puzzle, the shared root with its meaning, the full answer, and the definition. Tap any definition to open that word's page with its example sentence.