Greek Roots 1
Homograph, geography, and biography all contain this Greek root, which means "to write."
What is graph?
Photosynthesis, photocopy, and photograph all contain this Greek root meaning "light."
What is photo?
The words levitate, alleviate, and lever all contain this Latin word meaning "lift."
What is lev?
Circumference, circle, and circulation all contain this Latin root meaning "round."
What is circ?
Rupture, disrupt, and disruptive all contain this Latin root meaning "to break."
What is rupt?
Telephone, telegraph , and television all contain this Greek root, which means "far."
What is tele?
Geography, geothermal, and geology all contain this Greek root meaning "earth."
What is geo?
The words audition, audience and audio all contain this Latin root meaning "to hear."
What is audi?
Quit acquit, and acquittal all contain this Latin root meaning "release."
What is quit?
Hyperactive, hypertension, and hyperventilate all contain this Greek root meaning "above normal."
What is hyper?
Antidote, antibiotics, antonym all contain this Greek root, meaining "opposite" or "against."
What is anti?
Hydrate, hydrant, and hydroelectric all contain this Greek root meaning "water."
What is hydro?
Omnivore, omnibus, and omnipotent all content this Latin word meaning "all."
What is omni?
Benefit, beneficial, and benefactor all contain this Latin root meaning "good."
What is bene?
Vision, television, and televise all contain this Latin root meaning "to see."
What is vis?
Automobile, automatic, and autofocus all contain this Greek root meaning "self."
What is auto?
Biology, biography, and symbiosis all contain this Greek root meaning "life."
What is bio?
Terrain, subterranean, and terrarium all contain this Latin root meaning "earth."
What is terr?
Dental, denture, and dentist all contain this Latin root which means "teeth."
What is dent?
A prefix is placed on the ___________ of a root word.
What is "front" or "beginning"
The word "autograph" is made up of these two Greek roots.
What are auto and graph?
Empathy, sympathy, and pathetic all contain this Greek root meaning "to feel."
What is path?
Manual, manufacture, and manuscript all contain this Latin root meaning "hand."
What is manu?
Concentric, central, and centrifuge all contain this Latin root meaning "center."
What is centri?
A suffix is placed on the _____________of the root word?