Latin Roots
This root word means "see".
What is vid/vis?
This root word means "life".
What is bio?
A book with words, definitions, and pronunciations that uses the root "dict".
What is a dictionary?
What is a biologist?
A frog is an amphibious animal; it lives on land an in water.
What is living on land and water?
The root "dict" means this in English.
What is say?
This root means "distant".
A word using the root "flex" that means that someone or something is able to bend or stretch a lot.
What is flexible?
The word using the root "meter" that is a type of mathematics that involves shapes.
What is geometry?
Some people telecommute for work instead of going to an office in person.
What is working from a distance?
The root "flect/flex" means this in English.
What is bend?
"Meter" means this in English.
What is measure?
A verb that means to build something using the root "struct".
What is construct?
A word meaning a show broadcast nation-wide that uses the root "tele".
What is a telecast?
The servant genuflected to the king in a long, low bow.
What is bending or bowing?
This root means "build".
What is struct?
"Graph" or "gram" means this in English.
What is write?
A word meaning to turn the opposite way using the root "vers".
What is reverse?
A word that is a simplified drawing of a topic that uses the root "gram".
What is a diagram?
After riding the roller coaster four times, Cong had a bad case of vertigo.
What is dizziness or spinning?
This root means "turn".
What is vert/vers?
This root word means "time".
What is chron?
A word using the root "vis" meaning to oversee a group of people.
What is supervise?
A word using "chron" that means something that happens continually for a long time.
What is chronic?
The mapmaker added the topography of the land: mountains, rivers, and lakes.
What are drawings of natural features?