Word Within the Word List #14
ROOT
DEFINITION
pleo
more
pod
foot
soror
-a
val
para
sister
plural
worth
beside or near
dom
rule
erg
work
rhiz
root
sapro
rotten
schizo
divide
hippo
horse
som
body
spor
seed
sta
rhodo
taxis
vol
stop
rose
arrangement
will
frat
brother
trich
hair
troph
nourishment
tox
sect
zygo
zym
poison
cut
yoke
ferment
EXAMPLES
pleonasm, pleopod, pleomorphic,
pliocene
pseudopod, diplopoda, podiatrist,
gastropod
sorority, sororicide, sorosis, sorites
data, bacteria, phyla, trivia
valiant, valid, equivalent, evaluate
parable, parabola, paradox,
paraphrase
dominate, predominant, domain,
subdominant
energy, synergy, ergonomics, ergsecond
rhizoid, rhizomorpyhous,
rhizophagous, rhizome
saprophytic, saprophyte, saprolite,
saprophilous
schism, schizocarp, schizoid,
schizopod
hippopotamus, hippogriff, eohippus,
hipparch
somatic, chromosome, somatoplasm,
somatology
endospore, sporangia, sporogenesis,
macrospore
hemostate, station, status quo, static
Rhode Island, rhodium, rhododendron,
syntax, taxidermy, taxonomy, ataxia
volunteer, malevolent, volition,
involuntary
fraternity, fraternal, fratricide,
fraternize
trichina, trichosis, trichinosis,
monotrichous
autotroph, atrophy, dystrophy,
trophism
toxin, toxoid, toxicity, phytotoxins
dissect, vivisection, bisect, section
zygote, zygoid, zygoptera, zygospore
enzyme, zymurgy, zymology, zymogen
ORIGIN
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Lesson 14
Word Within the Word List #14
Using the context clues from the sentence and your understanding
of the root, define the underlined words in the following sentences.
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A pleochroic crystal shows different colors from different directions.
The podiatrist couldn’t treat the injured arthropod; he only treated humans.
The sorority was located between two fraternities.
The data revealed not one phenomenon but several phenomena.
The valedictory address contained valid arguments and evaluations.
The parapsychologist told a parable that contained a paradox.
The baron was dominant over his entire dominion.
Do the workers in this country want a meritocracy or an ergatocracy?
Rhizophagous jungle animals dig up and feed on delicious rhizomes.
Saprogenic bacteria soon caused the material to decay.
The schism in the party could not be healed before the election.
In Mesopotamia, the hippopotamus is allowed to use the hippodrome.
Did his chromosome problem have a psychosomatic cause?
The Sporozoa are Protozoa that multiply by sporogenesis.
The people in the station voted to preserve the status quo.
The rhododendron was in bloom on the high mountainsides.
The taxidermist was interested in the taxonomy of animal species.
The new volunteer had a curious, malevolent expression.
The candidate tried to fraternize with the local politicians.
Trichinosis is a disease caused by the trichina worm.
His muscles had begun to atrophy from disuse.
The high toxicity of the toxin made a powerful antitoxin necessary.
Dissection is legal, but vivisection is not.
A zygote is the cell produced by the union (yoking) if two gametes.
If zymology is the science of enzymes, why is zymurgy winemaking?
Lesson 14
Word Within the Word List #14
ANALOGIES:
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ERGATOCRACY : GERONTOCRACY ::
a) elderly : manual
b) hard hat : cane
c) fraternity : fraternal
d) eohippus : horse
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VOLUNTEER : VOLITION::
a) traitor : confession
b) deserter : desertion
c) apostate : commitment
d) equivalence : ambivalence
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STATUS QUO : REVOLUTION ::
a) form : metamorphosis
b) taxidermy : animal
c) autotroph : heterotroph
d) vivisect : dissect
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PHENOMENA :PHENOMENON ::
a) fraternize: fraternity
b) benevolent : benevolence
c) fungi : fungus
d) saprophyte : saprogenic
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APOSTASY : ZEALOTRY ::
a) predominant : superior
b) fanaticism : commitment
c) betrayal : loyalty
d) psychology : parapsychology
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SOMATIC : PSYCHOLOGICAL::
a) fracture : neurosis
b) resentment : arthritis
c) body : vestment
d) parabola : ellipse
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BISECT : DISSECT::
a) dominate : divide
b) multiply : factor
c) intersect : vivisect
d) detoxify : poison
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PARADIGM : PROTOTYPE ::
a) conceptual : physical
b) malevolent : benevolent
c) schizophrenia : neurosis
d) rhizophagy : anthropophagy
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ZYMURGY : CHEMISTRY ::
a) topiary : gardening
b) gastropod : cephalopod
c) wine : bouquet
d) cell : chromosome
10. AMBIBALENT : AMBIGOUS ::
a) evaluate : devaluate
b) feeling : meaning
c) conflict : tranquility
d) somatic : psychosomatic
Lesson 14
Word Within the Word List #14
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Is a snail an arthropod?
When muscles shrink from disuse, is that eutrophication?
Do high school biology students vivisect frogs?
Will a schism in a political party benefit the party?
Is phyllotaxy the arrangement of leaves on a stem?
Would you get sick if you drank a nontoxic fluid?
Are pigs rhizophagous?
Is an ergatocracy a country ruled by the working class?
Is a saprophyte a plant that lives on decaying matter?
Are green plants autotrophic?
Lesson 14
Word Within the Word List #14
Lesson 14