Whats the Meaning
If you are looking at the formation of a mountain or trying to format a document on your computer, what does the root "form" mean?
Answer: Shape
Root Focus: Form = Shape
Name a common profession or career that uses the root "Astro," meaning someone who travels among the stars.
Answer: Astronaut.
Root Focus: Astro = Star.
Does the root Hydr, as in the word Dehydrate, come from a Greek or Latin origin?
Answer: Greek
Context: (Found in science terms like Hydrogen).
A glass tank filled with water for fish to live in is called an ____rium.
Missing Root: Aqua
Root Meaning: Water
Perform surgery on the word "Autograph." What are the two roots and what do they mean?
Auto = Self
Graph = Write
If you are using multimedia for a project or trying to multitask by doing two things at once, what does the root "multi" mean?
Answer: Many
Root Focus: Multi = Many
This is the legal term for a decision made by a judge in a court of law, or the ability to make a good decision.
Answer: Judgment (or Judicial)
Root Focus: Jud = Judge.
Does the root Bene, as in the word Beneficial, come from a Greek or Latin origin?
Answer: Latin
Context: (Latin is the basis for Romance languages like Spanish/Italian where "Bien" or "Buono" mean good).
A period of one hundred years is known as a ____ury.
Missing Root: Cent
Root Meaning: One hundred
Perform surgery on the word 'Television' to find the two roots and their meanings.
Tele = Far / Distance
Vis = To see
Meaning: A device used for seeing images and programs from a distance.
If you use a thermometer to check your temperature or a perimeter to find the distance around a shape, what does the root "meter/metr" mean?
Answer: Measure
Root Focus: Meter/Metr = Measure
If someone tells you a fact that goes against your common sense or what you expected to happen, you would say that the information is ________-intuitive.
Answer: Counter-intuitive
Root Focus: Counter = Against/Opposite.
Question: Does the root Psych, as in the word Psychology, come from a Greek or Latin origin?
Answer: Greek
Context: (Most "Ology" or study-based words come from Greek).
In math, the distance around a circle is called the ________ference.
Missing Root: Circum
Root Meaning: Around
This word has three parts! Perform surgery on the word 'Photomicroscope' to find all three roots and their meanings.
Photo = Light
Micro = Small
Scope = To see / Viewing instrument
Meaning: A microscope equipped with a camera to take images (light) of very small objects.
Answer: Ject = Throw
Explanation: Their mood has been thrown
In grammar, this is the noun that comes before a pronoun to show who the pronoun is talking about. (Example: In "John lost his keys," John is the _______cedent.)
Answer: Antecedent
Root Focus: Ante = Before.
Does the root Dys, as in the word Dyslexia or Dysfunction, come from a Greek or Latin origin?
Answer: Greek
Context: (Many medical prefixes that describe a condition are Greek).
If you speak against someone or say the opposite of what they said, you ____dict them.
Missing Root: Contra
Root Meaning: Against/Opposite
Perform surgery on the word "Malformed." What are the two roots and what do they mean?
Mal = Bad
Form = Shape
Meaning: Something that is badly shaped or abnormally formed.
If you are the beneficiary of a will, or if a situation is beneficial to your health, what does the root "bene" mean?
Answer: Good
Root Focus: Bene = Good
This word describes music or art that is intended to "manifest" or influence the mind, often using bright colors, distorted sounds, and surreal patterns.
Answer: Psychedelic
Root Focus: Psych = Mind.
Does the root Scrib, as in the word Scribble, come from a Greek or Latin origin?
Answer: Latin
Context: (Action-oriented verbs in English often trace back to Latin).
When a caterpillar changes its shape to become a butterfly, it goes through a process called meta____osis.
Missing Root: Morph
Root Meaning: Form/Shape
Perform surgery on the word "Hypothermia." What are the two roots and what do they mean?
Hypo = Under or Beneath
Therm = Heat