General Review #1

Doublets

100

fragile

frail

Fragile is Latin.

Frail is French.

200

catch

capture

Catch is French.

Capture is Latin.

300

reason

ratio

Reason is French.

Ratio is Latin.

400

potion

poison

Potion is Latin.

Poison is French.

500

tradition

treason

Tradition is Latin.

Treason is French.

Double or No Double?

100

egg

Double.

200

misspoke

No double.

300

robber

Double.

400

attract

No double.

500

questionnaire

Double.

It's All Greek to Me

100

graph

<ph> ~ /f/

200

chrome

<ch> ~ /k/

300

gym

<y> in the middle

400

microscope

Connecting vowel <o>.

500

synchronize

<y> in the middle AND <ch>~/k/

All's Well that Ends Well

100

home

The replaceable <e> marks the vowel sound.

200

ski

No complete English word ends in <i>, so this must be borrowed.

300

flu

No complete English word ends in <u> so this must be a clip (of influenza).

400

is, as, his, us, has

Content words cannot end with a single <s>, so these must be function words.

500

tomato

English content words don't end in <o>, so this must be a loan word.