Key Vocabulary
Academic Vocabulary
Language and Grammar
Word Parts
Latin and Greek Roots
100

A character that represents an organization.

What is a mascot?

100

A basic part of a whole.

What is element?

100

Used to describe people, places, or things.

What is an adjective?

100

It means not active.

What does inactive mean?

100

The Latin root meaning tell.

What is dict?

200

Something that is old but good.

What is classic?

200

Means to find out or to show what something is. 

What is identify?

200

Describes a verb. It often ends in -ly. 

What is an adverb?

200

To take the frost off something.

What does defrost mean?

200

The Greek root meaning write.

What is gram?

300

Something that is very bad or harmful.

What is evil?

300

A part of a category of related things. 

What is specific? 

300

Added to many adjectives and adverbs to compare three or more things. 

 

               

The suffix -est  

                  

300

To have two wheels.

What does bicycle mean?

300

The Latin root meaning write.

What is scrib?

400

To make something new.

What is create?

400

The main message of a story.

What is theme?

400

Added to many adjectives or adverbs to compare two things.

  

The suffix -er

400

To work the bugs out of something.

What does debug mean?

400

The Latin root meaning cut.

What is sect?

500

To be very interested in something.

What is fascinated?

500

The way something is organized or put together. 

What is structure?

500

 Used to compare three or more actions.

What is most? 

500

To speak after someone else. 

What does respond mean?

500

The Greek root meaning far. 

What is tele?

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