1. This prefix means “below” or “under.”
2. If you add “marine” to the prefix, you get a word
that means “underwater.”
3. This prefix begins a word that means ” the teacher
when your regular classroom teacher is absent.”
1. This is an adjective suffix that means “having
the qualities of…”
2. One word that uses this suffix means “having
the quality of grace.” (gracious)
3. Another word that uses this suffix means
“having the quality of space.” (spacious)
sub1. This root word means “time.”
2. A mythological god is named after this root
word. (Chronos)
3. A timeline of a historical event like the
American Revolution would display the dates
in _______________________ order.
-ous
1. This root word means “to feel or be aware.”
2. Having an allergy means your system is
_______________ and reacts to something.
(sensitive)
3. You have 5 ___________: sight, sound, smell,
taste, touch. (senses)
(chronological)
sens, sent
chrono
1. This root means “water.”
2. Adding the suffix –ant gets a word that means
“the object from which water flows.” (hydrant)
3. Adding –phobia to the root gets a word that
means “fear of water.” (hydrophobia)
hydro
1. This root means “to write.”
2. Doctors write ________________for
(prescriptions)
medicine, and pharmacists fill the
________________. (prescriptions)
3. Actors and actresses learn their lines by
reading from a ________. (script)
scrib/script
1. This root word means “to see or look.”
2. Sometimes eyeglasses are referred to as
______________. (spectacles)
3. If you are in the crowd at a sports event, you
are a _________________ (spectator).
spec
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1. This root means “people.”
2. Our form of government is a ______________.
(democracy)
3. If you belong to one of the two major political
parties, and if you are NOT a Republican, you
are probably a ______________ (Democrat.)
dem
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This root word means “star.”
If you add the suffix –nomy, which means “a body
of knowledge” to this root, you get a word meaning
“the study of objects in outer space.”
If you add the suffix –naut, which comes from the
Greek word for “sailor,” you get a word meaning “
a person who travels into outer space.”
astr/astro
1. This root means “war.”
2. The words belligerent and bellicose are based
on this root.
3. If you add the prefix re- and the suffix –on to
the root, you get a word that means “defiance
or resistance against authority.” (rebellion)
belli
1. This root means “short.”
2. It is the root of the word abbreviate, meaning
“to reduce to a shorter form.”
3. If you add the suffix –ity, which means “state
of quality of,” you get a word meaning “the
quality of being brief” or “the shortness of
time.” (brevity)
brev
1. This root word means “body.”
2. Adding the ending –se gets a word that means
“dead body.”
3. It is the root of the word corpulent, which
means “having a large, bulky body.”
corp
1. This root means “self.”
2. If you add the suffix -graph to this root, you
get a word that means “a person’s own
signature.”
3. If you add the suffix –matic to this root, you
get a word that means “self-acting.”
auto
1. This root means “life.”
2. If you combine the root with the suffix -logy,
you get a word that means “the scientific
study of life.” (biology)
3. If you combine this root with the suffix –logist,
you get a word that means “someone who
studies life.” (biologist)
bio
1. This root means “heart.”
2. If you add the suffix –iac to the root, you get a
word that means “having to do with the
heart.” (cardiac)
3. If you add the suffix –ology to the root, you
get a word that means “the study of the
heart.” (cardiology)
card/cardi
1. This root means “believe.”
2. Adding the suffix –it gets a word that means
“trustworthiness, believability, having
confidence in…” (credit)
3. It’s the root for the words credible, which
means “believable”, and incredible, which
means “too improbable to be believed.”
cred
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