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Words, Words
Sound and Vision
Come Together
Here, There, and Everywhere.
Movements and Measurements
100
Root word that means "word" in Latin
What is verbum?
100
Greek root that means "to see"
What is skopeo?
100
Latin for attach or stick together.
What is figo or fixum?
100
To throw something back or throw something away (using the root word "jacio")
What is reject?
100
Greek for measure
What is metron?
200
Root word that means "word" or "study" in Greek
What is a logos?
200
Either the Greek or the Latin word for "sound"
What is phone (Greek) or sonus (Latin)?
200
Latin for join (and the root word "join" comes from)
What is jungo or junctum?
200
Means toward, near, or next to in Latin.
What is ad ?
200
Greek for turning
What is tropos?
300
Means "in name only" (from the Latin root nomen)
What is nominal?
300
What you can know or notice based on what you see (using the root word "video").
What is evidence?
300
To remember together (from a Latin root)
What is commemorate?
300
Knowing what someone far away is feeling or thinking(one root word: tele)
What is telepathy?
300
the big, important, universal idea in a piece of literature; the controling idea (from the Greek root, thesis)
What is the theme?
400
Means "study of the soul or mental life" (root word: logos).
What is psychology?
400
A drawing made of light (from Greek roots)
What is a photograph?
400
Words (like and, but, or) that hook other words together Hint: it is one of the parts of speech.
What are conjunctions?
400
Part of the book that goes before the first chapter (root word: logos)
What is a prologue?
400
A flower that turns toward the sun (comes from Greek roots)
What is a heliotrope? (also called a sunflower)
500
Means an exact, word-for-word, quote (root word is Latin)
What is verbatim?
500
A form of rhyming Italian poetry (Latin root)
What is a sonnet?
500
To be "stuck on" something--you can't stop thinking about it
What is fixated?
500
Means to put upon (using the root word "pono")
What is impose?
500
Someone who takes moving pictures (greek roots)
What is a cinematographer?