Name: _______________________
Word Cell UNIT 13
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Date: ________________________
Teacher: _____Rudolph/Spurny___
AUT, AUTH, AUTO
of, by, or for oneself; self-propelled (Gr-R)
aut/opsy
(n) an examination to determine the cause of death; literally, seeing with one’s own eyes the
cause of death; a post-mortem
auth/or
(n) the original writer of a book, document, story, etc.
auto/bio/graphy (n) an account of one’s life written by himself; compare biography
auto/mobile
(n) a vehicle, once started, ‘moves by itself’; (a) pertaining to an automobile or automobiles;
as, an automobile plant; (v) to ride in or drive an automobile; as, to automobile out West
auto/cracy (n), auto/crat (n), auto/cratic (a), auto/graph (n-v-a)
BI-, BIN-, BISbi/annu/al
bi/camer/al
bi/cent/ennial
bi/ennial
bi/foc/al/s
bi/gamy
bi/lingu/al
bi/ped
bi/plane
bi/pod
bi/sect
bi/week/ly
bin/ocu/lar
bis/cuit
billion
bi/opsy
bio/graphy
bio/logy
amphi/bious
two; twice; double
(L-Pr)
(a) taking place twice a year; as, a biannual crop; semiannual
(a) made up of two chambers, as is the congress of the United States (Senate and House of
Representatives), and also the British Parliament (House of Commons and the House of
Lords)
(a) lasting for, consisting of, or taking place every two hundred years; as, a bicentennial
celebration; (n) the two-hundredth anniversary of an event; as, in 1976 the United States
celebrated its bicentennial (1776-1976)
(a) lasting for two years; as, a biennial war; taking place once in two years; as, a biennial
election; (n) anything that occurs or appears once in two years; as, a biennial plant
(n) glasses having one part that corrects for viewing distant objects and another part that
corrects for viewing close objects
(n) marrying someone while already married to someone else; compare monogamy and
polygamy
(a) of or pertaining to two languages; using two languages; as, Belgium is a bilingual country
(French and Flemish), as is also Canada (English and French)
(n) a two-footed animal, as is man; (a) being two-footed
(n) a two-winged airplane; compare monoplane and triplane
(n) a two-legged support, as those used to support machine guns
(v) to cut or to divide into two parts; in geometry, into two equal parts; as, to bisect an angle
(a) taking place once in two weeks, or two times a week; (n) a biweekly publication; (adv)
once every two weeks
(a) pertaining to two eyes; as, man has binocular vision; (n) a binocular instrument; as, field
glasses, opera glasses, etc; compare monocular and multocular
(n) something that has been cooked twice; compare the Italian (biscoto) and the German
(zwieback)
(n) the number named by a unit with nine zeros after it; 1000 millions; 1,000,000,000
bi/corn (a), bi/cycle (n-v), bi/lateral (a), billion/aire (n)
BI, BIO, BIOUS
life; living
(Gr-R)
(n) in medicine, the examination of a piece of living tissue, generally through a microscope
(n) an account of one’s life written by someone else
(n) the science dealing with life and living organisms
(a) capable of living in water or on land, as frogs, beavers, etc.
amphi/bi/an (a-n), anti/bi/otic (a-n), auto/bio/graphy (n), micro/bio/logy (n)
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UNIT 13
NAME: _________________________
EXERCISE 1: MATCHING GAME: In the spaces provided, supply each word-cell in Column A with its
proper definition from Column B.
A
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annu
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(1) language
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-or
(2) to examine
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bi
(3) life; living
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sect
(4) year or years
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graphy
(5) the study of
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ocul
(6) to cut; divided
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-opsy
(7) both land and water
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logy
(8) eyes
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amphi
(9) something that is written
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lingu
(10) one who
EXERCISE 2: DEFINITIONS: In the spaces provided, supply the words being defined. Use the correct
form of the word, as necessary.
(1) _____________________
taking place twice a year; semiannual
(2) _____________________
an account of one’s life written by himself
(3) _____________________
science dealing with life and living organisms
(4) _____________________
taking place every two hundred years
(5) _____________________
another word for a post-mortem examination
EXERCISE 3: GOOFY WORDS: Use word cell definitions to find definitions for made-up words.
(1) _____ ocubio
a. like moving
(2) _____ focigraphy
b. eye of life
(3) _____ mobilely
c. two examinations
(4) _____ cuitgamy
d. a cooked marriage
(5) _____ bisopsy
e. lens writing
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Unit 13
NAME: ______________________
EXERCISE 4: WORD-CELL REVIEW: In the space provided next to each WORD-CELL, supply the
appropriate Definition number. Then write a word that contains the WORD-CELL. The first one has been
done for you.
WORD CELL
EXAMPLE
DEFINITION
__9___ sect
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the sun
______ aqua
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to lead
______ -ist
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a city
______ ab-
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star; stars
______ onym
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away; from; off
______ an-
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both
______ -orium
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7.
a place of or for
______ ante-
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language; tongue
______ sol
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9.
to cut; divided
______ auto
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10. one who
______ cent
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11. before; in front of
______ astro
_____________________________
12. to wash; to clean
______ bi-
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13. high; height
______ audio
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14. hundred; hundredth part
______ polis
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15. life; living
______ alti
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16. water
______ duct
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17. word; name
______ mobile
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18. to hear
______ bio
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19. something that is written
______ graphy
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20. two; twice; double
______ ambi
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21. a book; books
______ lingu
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22. against
______ lavat
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23. move; moving
______ anti-
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24. not; without
______ libr
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25. of, by, or for oneself
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3. a two-footed animal; being two footed
1.
Root meaning “year or years”
4. Pertaining to two eyes
2.
Story of one’s life written by himself
6. Lasting for two years
3. Taking place twice a year
10. Root meaning “of, by, or for oneself”
4. The story of one’s life written by someone else
11. Suffix meaning “of or pertaining to”
5. Root meaning “cut; divided”
12. Having two mates at the same time
6. Science of life and living things
13. Root meaning “life; living”
7. A “self-moving” vehicle
14. Prefix meaning “both”
8. 1,000,000,000; 1000 million
15. The examination of a piece of living tissue
9. Root meaning “foot or feet”
16. A two-winged airplane
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