Greek and Latin Roots 1
This word is used to describe a very big stone.
What is a megalith?
This word is used to describe someone who has paralysis on one half of their body only.
What is hemiplegia?
This word is used to describe a belief in multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
This word describes a wide or bottomless pit.
What is an abyss?
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Mrs. Edge is a ____________ because she loves books.
What is a bibliophile?
This word describes a machine used to make small things visible.
What is a microscope?
A person with the ability to speak three languages is called this word.
What is trilingual?
This word is the term for words that sound the same, but have different spellings.
What is a homophone?
This word is a form of government for the people and by the people.
What is a democracy?
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When my grandfather died, we lost the ____________________ of the family.
What is the patriarch?
This word combines two Greek roots and is used to describe a body condition where the temperature is overly high.
What is hyperthermia?
This word combines two Greek roots to describe a fear of fire.
What is pyrophobia?
This word combines two Greek roots to describe a shape with five sides and five angles.
What is a pentagon?
This word is a creature that exists in different forms, especially at different stages of the life cycle.
What is heteromorphic?
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The journalist filmed a _______________________ to teach people about the terrible conditions in the Ukraine.
What is a documentary?
This word combines two Greek roots to form a word that means to come together in time or motion.
What is synchronize?
This word describes something that people think will solve all problems and make everything better.
What is a panacea?
This word means the scientific study of humans.
What is anthropology?
This word describes an outside supportive covering of an animal.
What is an exoskeleton?
Christopher Marlowe was a _______________________ of Shakespeare since they lived and wrote in the same time period with each other.
What is contemporary?
The element of the periodic table is derived from the Greek word meaning “color” because of the many colorful metals that can be formed from it.
What is chromium?
This word describes the mental disorder that causes a compulsion to steal.
What is kleptomania?
This word is used to name a small universe.
What is a microcosm?
This word is the measure of the mind’s mental capacities and processes.
What are psychometrics?
_______________________ is the process in which plants transform light into food, and the word literally means to put together from light.
What is photosynthesis