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word roots pg. 11-12
kendall demirjian
Term | Definition |
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des- | from, away, down, apart, not |
in- | in, into; not |
re- | back, again |
cant | song |
ation-/illation- | an action or process |
cle | small |
trice | feminine |
a- | away, from; not, without |
di- | two |
en- | in, into |
meta- | beyond, change |
cephal | head, brain |
morph | form |
thorax | chest |
-ic | like, related to |
-itits | inflammation |
-ology | study of, science |
-osis | condition |
-ous | having the quality of |
incantation | the chanting of supposedly magic words |
recant | to withdraw something perviously said |
cantillation | the action of unaccompanied chanting in free rhythm |
canticle | a hymn dervived from the Bible, literally a little song |
cantatrice | female professional singer |
descant | high melody above the main melody |
dimorphic | occurring or existing in two different forms |
cepalic | of, or relating to the head |
morphology | the study of the form and structure of organisms |
metamorphosis | a complete change of character, appearance, condition, etc. |
amorphous | without definite from, shapeless |
encephalitits | inflammation of the brain |
cephalothorax | fused head and thorax of an arachnid or high crustacean |