Greek and Latin Roots

Greek and Latin Roots 1

100

What root means to believe?

Cred

200

What root means life?

Bio

300

What root means good or well?

Bene

400

What root means soul or life?

Anima

500

What Greek root means to write?

Bonus:  What Latin root means to write

Graph

Scribe

Greek and Latin Roots 2

100

What does flex mean?

Bend

200

What does geo mean?

Earth/Ground/Soil

300

What root means to hear?

Aud

400

What Greek root means star?

Bonus:  What Latin root means star?

Astr-

Stell-

500

What root means water?

Bonus:  Which is which?  Which of the answers is Latin and which is Greek?

Aqua OR Hydr 

Greek and Latin Roots 3

100

What does the root dict means?

to say/speak/tell

200

What does the root rupt mean?

Break

300

What does the root tele mean?

Far Away

400

What does the root migr mean?

leave or move

500

What does the root terra mean?

Land

Greek and Latin Roots 4

100

What does the root -ject mean?

Bonus:  Say some words that have -ject in them. Double bonus:  Tell what those words literally mean.  

To Throw

reject: "re" means "back" or "again"

so reject means to throw back

eject:  e means "out" so eject means throw out

200

What does the root port mean?

To carry

300

What does the root skopeo in Greek mean?

to look at

400

What does the root vac mean? 

As in evacuate and vacuum

Empty

500

What does the root phon mean?

Sound

Greek and Latin Roots 5

100

What does the root rupt mean?

Bonus: Says some words with rupt and what they literally mean. 

To break

interrupt: to break between

rupture: to break

200

What does the root loc mean?

Place

300

What does the root struct mean?

To build or make

400

What does the root therm mean?

Heat

500

DOUBLE BONUS: Write an example word using the root graph

Bonus:  Tell the literal meaning of the words

autograph, homograph, telegraph, photograph