accessible
easy to reach or understand
Roots
- -able / -ible: able to be, fit to be, or worthy of
- ced / cess / ceed: go, approach, yield, move back, or stop
Other words with the ced / cess / ceed root
Accessible means there is a way in: the person, place, idea, or price can be reached.
The teacher made the abstruse proof accessible with one diagram.
Access is approach. Accessible adds -ible: able to be approached, reached, or understood. Keep the contrast with recede: one opens a way in; the other pulls away.