ROOTS
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What is GON?
ORIGIN DAILY DOUBLE
This root is used to name the organ which stores and releases reproductive cells in the female body.
What is OV?
A regular shape with 5 sides and 5 angles.
What is pentagon?
The direct line of descent from a person's ancestors
What is lineage?
What is diagonal?
Line up, one and all
What is LINEA?
A space bounded or defined by curved lines
What is curvilinear?
A shape having three or more sides and angles.
What is polygon?
A large body of soldiers
What is regiment?
Something which is rigid and cannot be bent or adapted
What is inflexible?
This root could be used to describe the shape of a beach ball, an orange, and the Earth.
What is GLOB?
DAILY ORIGINS DOUBLE
This root is the only root from this lesson to originate from Greek.
What is GON?
An object with a shape similar to an egg
What is oval?
To bend something away from its original direction of travel, but not return it to its source
What is deflect?
The process of moving something around OR The readership of a newspaper or magazine
What is circulation?
Get around to studying the root which means round.
What is CIRC?
The process of something, e.g. a product or cultural practice, spreading throughout the world
The action of surrounding something or somebody
What is encircle?
A bend or curve in a line graph plotting change OR a distinctive shift in voice
What is inflection?
To draw or verbally define the shape of something precisely
What is delineate?
A prism bends light, and a rainbow appears.
What is FLECT?
A branch of math involving the study of the relationship between the sides and angles of triangles
What is trigonometry?
Describing something shaped like a sphere
What is globule?
A family of proteins with globular shaped molecules occurring in plant and animal tissue
What is globulins?
Describing a geometrical shape having two pairs of sides of unequal length and four right angles
What is rectangular?