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Word Study Week 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| LIC-LICIT (root) | permit |
| ANCE-ANCY (suffix) | state; action; process; quality; degree |
| LICense | a PERMIT allowing one to do something |
| intolerANCE | STATE of not tolerating or allowing |
| ANTHROP (root) | man; human |
| CIDE (suffix) | kill |
| philANTHROPy | a love and concern for one's fellow MAN, usually shown by donations of food, money, etc. |
| homiCIDE | the KILLING of one human being by another |
| GEN (root) | birth; race; kind of |
| LOGY-OLOGY (suffix) | study; science; theory |
| GENes | traits you are BORN with |
| anthropOLOGY | the STUDY of humankind |
| MICRO (prefix) | small; minute |
| INTRO (prefix) | within; into; inward |
| MICROscope | a machine/instrument that magnifies very SMALL objects |
| INTROvert | a person who keeps things INWARD or inside |
| NAT-NASC (root) | to be born; to spring forth |
| PSEUDO (prefix) | false; untrue |
| preNATal | before something is BORN |
| PSEUDOnym | a FALSE name used by an author to conceal his/her identity |