Greek/Latin Roots

Question 1

hal

Answer 1

breathe

Question 2

aqua

Answer 2

water

Question 3

ben

Answer 3

good

Question 4

alt

Answer 4

high

Question 5

aud

Answer 5

“hear” or “listen”

Question 6

cosm

Answer 6

universe kosmos

Question 7

cred

Answer 7

believe

Question 8

duc

Answer 8

lead

Question 9

gen

Answer 9

birth or kind

Question 10

mis/mis

Answer 10

a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,” “wrongly,” “incorrectly,”

Question 11

morph

Answer 11

change

Question 12

rupt

Answer 12

burst

Question 13

sign

Answer 13

any object, action, event, pattern, etc., that conveys a meaning.a token; indication.

Question 14

tact

Answer 14

a keen sense of what to say or do to avoid giving offense; skill in dealing with difficult or delicate situations.

Question 15

spec

Answer 15

Usually, specs. specification

Question 16

act

Answer 16

anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:

Question 17

ast

Answer 17

“pertaining to stars or celestial bodies, or to activities, as spaceflight, taking place outside the earth’s atmosphere,”

Question 18

chron

Answer 18

‘time.’

Question 19

struct

Answer 19

build

Question 20

civ

Answer 20

civ & civil. These ROOT-WORDS are CIV & CIVIL which come from the Latin civis CITIZEN. That is what you must think of when you see CIV & CITIZEN: No. 1, relating to a citizen; No. 2, science of citizenship, etc.

Question 21

hydro

Answer 21

Informal. hydroelectric power.

Question 22

photo

Answer 22

a combining form meaning “light” (photobiology); also used to represent “photographic” or “photograph” in the formation of compound words:

Question 23

poli

Answer 23

cit, civ, poli, polis, polit. The Greek & Latin roots that mean citizen, city, or state. civilization. The word that identifies a group of people, such as the ancient Greeks, who live together in a complex society. police.

Question 24

scop

Answer 24

A scop (/ʃɒp/ or /skɒp/) was a poet as represented in Old English poetry. The scop is the Anglo-Saxon counterpart of the Old Norse skald, with the important difference that “skald” was applied to historical persons, and “scop” is used, for the most part, to designate oral poets within Old English literature.

Question 25

scribe

Answer 25

The Latin root word scrib and its variant script both mean “write.” These roots are the word origin of a fair number of English vocabulary words, including scribe, describe, postscript, and manuscript.

Question 26

mal

Answer 26

The Latin root word mal means “bad” or “evil.” This root is the word origin of many English vocabulary words, including malformed, maltreat, and malice. You can recall that mal means “bad” through malfunction, or a “badly” working part, and that it means “evil” through malice, or intentional “evil” done to another.

Question 27

loc

Answer 27

at or to the place.

Question 28

celer

Answer 28

-celer- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning “swift, quick.’’ This meaning is found in such words as:accelerate, celerity, decelerate.