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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tom | cut |
| ton, ten | stretch, tone |
| chir | hand |
| pod | foot |
| cephal | head |
| dactyl | finger, toe |
| gloss, glott, glot | language, tongue |
| osteo | bone |
| derm, dermat | skin |
| plas, plasm, plast | mold; shape, form; substance |
| pachy- | thick |
| tauto- | same |
| algia, algy, algiac, algic, algetic | pain, one who suffers pain, pertaining to or causing pain |
| machy, machia, machist, machic, machical, machal | war; fight, one who fights; pertaining to fighting |
| itis, itic | inflammation |
| atom | a small particle unable to be cut |
| monotone | all in one unvaried tone |
| cephalopod | a mollusk with its tentacles attached to its head |
| chirography | handwriting, penmanship |
| dactylology | communication using the hands or fingers |
| polyglot | a multilingual |
| osteotomy | a dividing of the bone |
| pachyderm | an elephant or thick-skinned animal |
| plastic | a synthetic material that can be shaped |
| cephalalgia | headache |
| dermatitis | inflammation of the skin |
| logomachy | an argument concerning words |
| chiromancy | palmistry |
| hypodermic | medicine under the skin |
| tautology | needless repetition |
| bio | life |
| phys | nature; growth |
| psych | mind; soul; spirit |
| soma, somat | body |
| lith, lite | stone |
| petr, peter | rock |
| glyph, glypt | carving |
| icon | image; idol |
| astr | star |
| nom | arrangement; law |
| onoma, onym | name |
| ec, oec | house, environment |
| ethn | nation |
| paleo | ancient |
| neo | new |
| hier | sacred |
| clasm, clast, clastic | breakage, destruction, one who shatters or destroys, breaking, destructive |
| lysis, lyst, lytic, lytical | loosening, solution, one who solves, loosening, dissolving |
| iatry, iatrics, iatrist, iatric | healing, science of healing |
| biography | a record of life |
| physiology | function of living organisms and their processes |
| psychiatry | the practice of treating mental disorders |
| psychosomatic | pertaining to a disorder (physical) |
| paleolithic | an old late stone age tool |
| petrology | study of rocks |
| hieroglyphics | sacred pictograph scripts |
| iconoclast | a breaker of tradition |
| misoneism | dislike of new |
| astronomy | study of stars and space |
| anonymous | represented with no name |
| economics | branch that deals with goods and material distribution of services |
| anomaly | one who is not normal or fitting into typical environment |
| analysis | a breakdown of a problem |
| ethnologist | a branch that deals with culture and race |