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Word Roots 19-20
Hannah Kaiser
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| An- | Not, without |
| Cardi | Heart |
| Ech | Sound |
| Gram | Write. written |
| Lal | Talk, babble |
| Locat | Place |
| -Ia | Condition |
| -Ic | Like, related to |
| -Ion | An action or process; a state, quality, act |
| Echolocation | A means of locating an object using an emitted sound and the reflection back from it |
| Echocardiogram | A noninvasive technique that uses ultrasound to record the functioning of the heart |
| Echoic | Formed in imitation of some natural sound |
| Echolalia | Involuntary parrot-like repetition of a word or phrase just spoken by another; echoing |
| Anechoic | Free from echoes and reverberations |
| Anthrop | Mankind, man |
| Eo | Dawn, early |
| Graph | Write, written |
| Lith | Stone |
| Paleo | Ancient, old |
| Sphere | Balls |
| -Cene | New, recent |
| -Ic | Like, related to |
| -Us | Thing which |
| -Y | State of, quality, act; body, group |
| Lithosphere | The outer part of the solid earth composed of rock |
| Paleolithic | Relating to the second epoch of the Tertiary period |
| Eoanthropus | A genus of early man (compromising only the Piltdown man); dawn man |
| Eolith | A very early and crude stone tool |
| Lithography | The process or method of printing from a metal or stone surface |
| Eocene | Relating to the early Stone Age |