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Word roots p. 19-20
Kendall Demirjian
| 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; state quality act |
| anthrop | mankind, man |
| eo | drawn early |
| lith | stone |
| paleo | old ancient |
| shper | ball |
| cene | new recent |
| us | thing which |
| y | state quality act; body group |
| echolocation | a means of locating an object using an emitted sound and the reflection back to it |
| echocardiogram | a noninvasive technique that uses ultrasound to record the functioning of a heart |
| echoic | formed in imitation of some natural sound |
| echolalia | involuntary parrot-like repetition of a word or phrase spoken by another; echoing |
| anechoic | free from echoes and reverberations |
| lithosphere | the outer part of the solid earth composed of rock |
| paleolithic | related to the early stone age |
| eoanthropus | a genus of early man (comprising 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 second epoch of the Tertiary period |