The Witty Wordsmith
Homework, Week 1
Solve the following word puzzles using the prefixes that are in our word list this week. Just a few notes:
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All answers are real English words. You might need to add a letter here or there, or modify a prefix or base
slightly to come up with the real English word.
You MAY use dictionaries or other language resources (AFTER you’ve used your own brain) to help ensure that
you have found a real word.
SPELLING COUNTS! If you’re spelling your words wrong, you’re spelling your roots wrong!
Don’t forget to submit your answers online BY THE DEADLINE.
Here are two resources that I use regularly:
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Online Dictionary (one of many): http://dictionary.reference.com/
Online Etymological Dictionary: http://www.etymonline.com/
Prefix
Clue
ab, a
1.
If "vert" means turn, what word means "turn away from"?
ab, a
2.
What do we call something that is "away from normal"?
ad
3.
If "junct" means join, what do we call a professor who is "joined to" a department?
ad
4.
What do we call something that is "added to" a verb (it describes or modifies the verb)?
amphi
5.
What do we call a building that has a "theater on both sides"?
ana
6.
If "bio" means life, what is bringing something "back to life"?
ana
7.
If "tom" means cut, what science dealing with the human body means "to cut up"?
ante
8.
What is the room "before" the main chamber?
ante
9.
If "bellum" means war, what word describes something that is from the period "before the
war"?
anti
10.
If "dot" means give, what do we call something that is "given against" a snake bite?
anti
11.
What do we call something that works "against bacteria"?
apo, aph
12.
If "stas" means stand, what do we call it when someone "stands away from" a religious belief
apo, aph
13.
If "ge" means earth, what is the point in the moon's orbit when it is the farthest "away from
earth"?
cata, cath
14.
If "pult" means hurl, what is a war machine that "hurls down" a large stone?
cata, cath
15.
If "hedra" means seat, what do we call the building where a bishop has his seat, or "sits
down"?
circum
16.
If "scribe" means write or draw, what word means to "draw around"?
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Prefix
Clue
circum
17.
If "flex" means bend, what is the name of an accent that "bends around" a letter like this: ẽ ?
com, con,
co
18.
If "tempor" means time, how do we describe two things that happen "together in time" (at the
same time)?
com, con,
co
19.
What do we call someone who "stars with" a big name actor in a movie?
contra
20.
If "dict" means speak, what is it when someone "speaks against" something?
contra
21.
If "ven" means come, what does someone do when they "come against" the law or some other
rule?
de
22.
If "scribe" means write or draw, what word means to "write down"?
de
23.
If "fend" means strike, what word means to "strike away" an attacker?
dia
24.
If "meter" means measure, what do we call the "measure through" a circle?
dia
25.
If "gno" means learn or know, what do we call a doctor's opinion about a patient that they
"learn through" examination?
en, em
26.
What does someone do if they write a message "in code"?
en, em
27.
What verb describes the act of putting someone or something "in a tomb"?
epi
28.
If "derm" means skin, what is the "skin upon" the outside of the body?
epi
29.
If "graph" means write, what do we call the study of things "written upon" something, like
stone?
ex, ec, e
30.
If "claim" means say or shout, what does someone do when they "shout out"?
ex, ec, e
31.
If "odos" means journey, what do we call it when a lot of people "journey out"?
extra
32.
What do we call something that is "outside the legal" system?
extra
33.
What do we call something that is "outside" or "beyond" the 5 senses?
hypo
34.
If "glyc" means sugar and "-emia" means blood, what is the word for having "below" normal
blood sugar?
hypo
35.
If "derm" means skin, what type of needle goes "under" or "below the skin"?
hyper
36.
If "glyc" means sugar and "-emia" means blood, what is the word for having "excessive" blood
sugar?
in, il, im
37.
If "scribe" means write or draw, what are we doing if we "write in" stone?
in, il, im
38.
If "duc" means lead, what do we call it when we "lead someone into" a new society or
organization?
inter
39.
What do we call or road or business transaction that goes "between states"?
inter
40.
If "ced" means go, what does a person do when they "go between" two other people?
intra, intro
41.
What do we call a business transaction that stays "within a state"?
intra, intro
42.
If "vena" means vein, what do we call a drug that is given "within a vein"?
meta
43.
If "morph" means shape, what kind of rock has "changed shape"?
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Prefix
Clue
ob, op, oc,
of
44.
If "lig" means bind, how do we describe someone who is "bound to" another person by an act
of kindness
ob, op, oc,
of
45.
If "stacl" means stand, what is something that "stands against" you, or stands in your way?
para
46.
What do we call something that is "beside" or "beyond" the "normal"?
para
47.
If "allel" means one another, how do we describe two lines that are "beside one another"?
per
48.
If "spect" means look, what do we call the way you "look through" or view an event?
per
49.
If "enni" means year, what do we call something that lasts "through the years"?
peri
50.
If "meter" means measure, what do we call the "measure around" something?
peri
51.
If "dont" means tooth, what word refers to the tissues "around the teeth"?
post
52.
How do we describe a syndrome that happens "after a trauma"?
post
53.
If "mort" means death, how do we describe something that happens "after death"?
pre
54.
If "ced" means go, how do we describe something that "goes before" something else?
pre
55.
If "dict" means speak, what is it to "speak before", or tell what's going to happen before it
does?
pro
56.
If "gno" means learn or know, what do we call a doctor's prediction about a patient, what the
doctor "knows before" about how the illness will progress?
pro
57.
If "ject" means throw, what kind of machine "throws" an image "in front of" an audience?
pros
58.
If "the" means place or put, what do we call an artificial limb that is "put in addition to" an
existing limb?
se
59.
If "ced" means go, what does a state do when it decides to "go without" the other states?
se
60.
If "duc" means lead, what do we call it when we "lead someone apart"?
sub
61.
If "merg" means dip, what do we call it when we "dip something under" the water?
sub
62.
What do we call it if something is under/below the standard?
super
63.
If "son" means sound, what do we call something that is "above" (faster than) the speed of
"sound"?
syn, sym,
sys, syl
64.
If "chron" means time, what do we call it when one thing is happening "together with" another
thing in "time" (at the same time)
syn, sym,
sys, syl
65.
If "phon" means sound, what do we call it when many instruments work "together" to make a
"sound"?
trans
66.
If "sec" means cut, what do we call it when something "cuts across" something else?
trans
67.
If "mit" means send, what do we call it if we "send across" something, like a radio signal?
ultra, ult
68.
How do we describe someone's motives when they go "beyond" what they seem?
ultra, ult
69.
How do we describe light rays that are "beyond" the "violet" spectrum?
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