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Roots & Affixes
"Gen" and "Nat"
"Poli"
"Gen" Challenge
"Nat" and "Poli" Challenge
100
A root that means city or government
What is "poli"
100
The act of giving to others.
What is generosity?
100
A person who is running for, or serving in, a political office.
What is a politician?
100
Related to inherited traits.
What is genetic?
100
A synonym for patriotism.
What is nationalism?
200
A root that comes from a Greek meaning of "race" and a Latin meaning of "birth"
What is "gen"?
200
Belonging to a particular nation
What is nationality?
200
A plan for action.
What is a policy?
200
The study of family histories.
What is genealogy?
200
Tactful or diplomatic
What is politic?
300
Suffixes that mean "people"
What are "-ician", "-er", and "-or"?
300
Part of the cells of living things that determines traits like hair color and eye color.
What is a gene?
300
Having to do with a city and its surrounding communities.
What is metropolitan?
300
Agreeable or pleasing in nature.
What is congenial?
300
Before giving birth.
What is prenatal?
400
A root that comes from a Latin word that means "born".
What is "nat"?
400
Between or relating to two or more countries.
What is international?
400
Representative of many countries.
What is cosmopolitan?
400
An upper or ruling class of people.
What is gentry?
400
A large, busy city.
What is metropolis?
500
The two different branches of the root "nat".
What are "nation" and "birth"?
500
The act of producing.
What is generation?
500
At home anywhere, not bound by local or national limitiations.
What is cosmopolitan?
500
A word for a descendant or offspring (e.g. a child)
What is progeny?
500
A word that means existing in a person since birth.
What is innate?