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Latin and Greek root
sect, ped, man, manu, spec, dict, ject, port, miss, mit, graph, scrib, script
word | definition |
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bisect | to CUT into two pieces |
dissect | to CUT apart for the purpose of investigation |
insect | a class of small arthropod animals that has three SEPARATE sections to their bodies: head, thorax, abdomen |
intersection | the point at which two lines or roads meet and CUT across each other |
section | a SEPARATE part of something |
sectional | a couch that is made up of SEPARATE pieces |
sector | a SEPARATE part of a society, group, or area |
transect | to CUT across something |
trisect | to CUT into three separate pieces |
vivisection | surgery on living animals; medical research that involves CUTTING into living animals to study organs, tissues, or diseases |
biped | a creature with two FEET |
centipede | a creature with 100 FEET |
impediment | something that STANDS in one's way; an obstacle |
millipede | a creature with 1,000 FEET |
pedal | a lever that is moved with one's FOOT |
peddler | a person who goes from door to door on FOOT trying to sell a product |
pedestrian | a person who walks across the street on FOOT |
pedicure | a FOOT treatment that could include soaking the feet and polishing the toenails |
quadruped | a four-FOOTED creature |
tripod | a three-FOOTED stand often used to balance a camera |
emancipate | to set free; to lend a HAND in freeing someone; to release from someone's hands |
manacles | HANDcuffs |
manager | a person who has the upper HAND; a person who is in charge of someone or something |
mandate | an order or command placed in one's HANDS |
maneuver | to HANDily or skillfully go around something |
manicure | a treatment for the HANDS and nails |
manipulate | to skillfully operate by hand |
manual | a handbook; a book of directions |
manufacture | to make by hand or by machine; to change raw material into a new product |
manuscript | a handwritten or typed piece of writing, such as a book |
circumspect | careful to look at all possibilities before acting; cautious; aware of consequences |
inspect | to look at carefully in search of flaws |
introspection | the act of looking into one's own thoughts and feelings |
perspective | one way of looking at things |
respect | to look up to someone; to show honor |
retrospective | looking back at past things |
spectacle | something displayed for the public to see |
spectacles | glasses that help someone see better |
spectator | a person who watches something, such as a sporting event |
speculate | to look at and think about something from different points of view |
contradict | to speak against; to say the opposite |
dictation | what is written down as someone says it |
dictator | a leader who speaks and rules with total power |
diction | the manner in which something is expressed in words (written or spoken) |
dictionary | a reference book in which spoken or written words are defined |
dictum | a judge's ruling or statement |
edict | public words issued by an official that explain a law or command |
indictment | formal words spoken or written by a jury that charge a person with a crime |
predict | to say what will happen before it occurs |
verdict | the decision a jury makes in a trial; the decision said by the jury |
dejected | to feel sad; to feel thrown down in spirit |
eject | to throw out |
injection | a shot; the "throwing" of medicine into the body by a needle |
interjection | a word thrown into a sentence or conversation |
jettison | to throw goods overboard to lighten the load on a boat or an airplane |
projectile | an object thrown into the air with great force |
projector | a machine that throws an image onto a wall |
reject | to throw something out because it's defective and can't be used again |
subject | to throw oneself under someone else's rule |
trajectory | the curved path of an object thrown into space |
deport | to carry or send away from a country; to banish |
export | to carry out of the country |
import | to carry into the country |
portable | capable of being easily carried |
portage | the route over which boats and supplies are carried overland from one lake or river to another |
porter | an attendant who carries travelers' luggage for them |
portfolio | a case for carrying loose papers |
report | a collection of writing that carries information to be shared again with someone new |
support | to carry the weight of something |
transport | to carry something from one place to another |
admit | to SEND someone in; to allow someone to enter |
dismiss | to SEND someone out; to let someone leave |
emit | to SEND out or give off (such as an odor) |
intermission | a break between acts of a play or performance during which people are SENT out for snacks or stretch breaks |
missile | a weapon designed to be SENT in the direction of a target |
mission | a special duty or function which a person or group is SENT out to do |
omit | to leave out: to not SEND |
remit | to SEND back (usually related to paying bills) |
submit | to "SEND" yourself under someone else's control; to give in to someone else's power |
transmit | to SEND something across places; to pass along |
autobiography | WRITING about a person's life WRITTEN by that person |
autograph | the WRITING of one's own name |
bibliography | the WRITTEN list of all the books used in a report of book |
biography | a book WRITTEN about a person's life |
cartographer | mapmaking; the WRITING involved in making maps or charts |
homograph | a word WRITTEN the same way as another word but having a different meaning (e.g., bow-hair and bow-ship) |
paragraph | a section of WRITING that has a topic and concluding sentence |
phonograph | record player; a device that turns the WRITING on records into sound |
photography | the use of light to RECORD an image using a camera |
seismograph | a device that WRITES down (records) the movements of the earth |
describe | to say or WRITE down how something or someone looks; to use adjectives in WRITING |
inscription | a short dedication WRITTEN in a book or engraved on something, such as a coin or monument. |
manuscript | a piece of WRITING; a book |
postscript | P.S.; a short bit of WRITING added after a letter is finished |
prescription | a piece of paper WRITTEN by a doctor that lets you get medicine at the pharmacy |
scribble | sloppy WRITING that is hard to read |
scribe | a person who WRITES things down |
script | a set of papers with WRITING that will be read and acted out |
subscription | a WRITTEN agreement to buy and read a magazine or newspaper for a set period of time |
transcribe | to WRITE down or record; to translate |
eject | to throw OUT with force, authority, or influence |
emit | to send OUT something like a sound or smell |
erupt | to force OUT or release something; to explode |
exceed | to go OUT beyond; to be OUTSIDE and beyond what is expected |
exclude | to leave OUT |
exhale | to breathe OUT |
expand | to stretch OUT; to make or become larger |
extinguish | to put OUT a fire; to bring to an end |
include | to be a part of; to be a member IN |
inflate | to put air or gas INTO something; to fill IN with air or gas |
inhale | to breathe IN |
inject | to force INTO something; to force fluid IN |
inspect | to look IN; to look carefully at something |
inspire | to influence someone IN a positive way or direction; to breather life INTO |
instruct | to teach; to give knowledge INTO something |
invite | to ask someone IN |
accreditation | granting approval or BELIEF in a school |
credential | a document that proves a person is BELIEVABLE |
credible | BELIEVABLE; reliable |
credit | to BELIEVE that someone will do something |
creditor | a person who BELIEVES that he will be paid back the money that he loaned |
credulous | tending to BELIEVE too easily; easily convinced: easily fooled |
creed | a set of religious BELIEFS or principles |
discredit | to refuse to BELIEVE; to reject as untrue |
incredible | not BELIEVABLE; improbable; unlikely |
incredulous | doubting; unwilling or unable to BELIEVE |