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Comprehensive Test A
Comprehensive Test. p146-147. 1/2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A, AN (atheist, agnostic, asymmetrical) | not, without; usual or irregular |
| AMBI,AMPHI (ambition, ambience, ambiguous, ambivalent) | around, both |
| ANN, ENN (Anniversary, annuity, biannual, biennial) | year |
| ANTE, ANTI (anteroom, anterior, ante, antedate) | before |
| ANTHROP (anthropology, philanthropist, misanthrope) | human |
| ANTI (antifreeze, antitrust, antisocial, antipodes) | against, opposite |
| Auto (automobile, autocracy, autocrat, autonomy) | self |
| BENE (benediction, beneficence, benevolence) | well, good |
| Bi (bicameral, bicentennial, bicuspid, bipartisan) | two |
| Bio (symbiosis, autobiography, biofeedback) | life |
| CEDE, CEED (secede, antecedent, intercede, recede) | go, yield, give away |
| CHRON (anachronism, chronicle, chronometer, synchronize) | time |
| CIRCUM (circumference, circumnavigate, circuitous) | around |
| COGNI, GNOS (acquaint, cognizant, incognito, metacognition) | to know |
| COM, CON, COL, COR (Coherent, commensurate, commiserate, concur) | together, with |
| CRED (credence, credulity, credulous, creed, miscreant ) | to believe |
| CUR (precursor, concourse, concur, excursion, recur) | to run |
| DEM (demagogue, demagoguery, democracy, endemic) | people |
| DICT (abdicate, contradict, edict, jurisdiction) | to speak |
| DIS, DI, DIF (disaster, diffident, disarray, disconsolate) | not, away, apart |
| EQU (equable, equinox, equivocate) | equal |
| EU (eulogize, euphony, euthanasia) | good, well |
| EX, ES, E (ebullient, excoriate, expatriate) | out |
| FID (bona fide, confidential, perfidious) | faith |
| GEN (engender, generous, progeny) | birth, race, kind |
| GRAPH, GRAM (calligraphy, hologram, topography) | to write |
| HYPER (hyperactive, hyperglycemia, hypertrophy) | overmuch, too far |
| LOG (analogous, doxology, prologue) | speech, word |
| -LOGY (archeology, entomology, psychology) | study of |
| LOG, LOC (collegial, eloquent, ventriloquist) | to speak |
| MAL (maladroit, malfeasance, malinger) | bad |
| METER, METR (barometer, metronome, trigonometry) | measure |
| MIT, MIS, MISS (emissary, premise, transmit) | to send |
| MONO (monarchy, monopoly, monotonous) | one |
| MORPH (anthropomorphism, mesomorphic, morphology) | form |
| PAN (panacea, panoply, pantomime) | all |
| PATH (antipathy, pathos, telepathy) | feeling, suffering |
| PED (expedient, impediment, pedigree) | foot |