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Word Study Week 8
Question | Answer |
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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 |