Greek and Latin Root Words for Vocabulary Building

Greek and Latin Root Words for Vocabulary Building
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Enhance your vocabulary by learning the meanings of commonly used Greek and Latin root words. This weekly word list includes Week 1: a, an, in- for "without," ant

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Slide1Greek & Latin RootsWeekly Word Lists

Slide2Week 1a, an, in =   Without ant, anti, contra,contro = against, opposite bio, vit = life (o)logy = study or science of psych(o) = mind, spirit phil, philo, phile, = to love, lover of act = to do, driven to do hyper, super, sur = over, above hypo, sub = under, below mono, uni = one

Slide3Week 2poly = many auto = self graph, gram, scrib = to write tele = from afar vis = to see andr(o), anthrop = male, mankind patr, pater = father matr, mater = mother ped = child dem(o) = people

Slide4Week 3ion, tion, ism, y = act of / state of arthr = joint bronch(o) = windpipe cardi(o), cor = heart cephal, cap = head, brain manu = hand pod(o), ped = foot opt(o) = eye, sight corp = body hem = blood

Slide5Week 4bi, di, du = two tri = three tetra, quadr = four penta, quint = five dec = ten hecto, cent = hundred kilo, mill = thousand semi, hemi = half, part cycl, orb, sphere = round, circle prim(o), proto = first

Slide6Week 5(k)Chrono, temp = time aqua, hydr(o) = water astr(o), stell = star geo, terr = earth, land cosm(o) = universe heli(o) = sun naut= to sail phon(o) = sound phobia = fear of ible, able = able to be