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Word Roots 23 &24
Shelby Thomas
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| hypertrophy | excessive growth r enlargement of a body part or organ |
| felicity | pleasing & appropriate manner; happiness |
| atrophy | to waste away or to decrease in size (as of a body part or tissue) |
| infelicitous | unsuitable; inappropriate |
| dystrophy | any gegenrative disorder resulting from inadequate or fualty nutrition |
| felicitation | an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another |
| trophic | of or relating to nutrition |
| affluence | an abundance or material wealth |
| fluctuation | variation in level, degree; constant change |
| fluency | effortless expression |
| influential | having a great deal of power to change something |
| influx | the arrival of a large number of people or things |
| reflux | a backwards flow |
| effluent | flowing outward or forward |
| a- | away, from; not, without |
| dys- | bad,badly |
| hyper- | over, above |
| in- | in, into;not |
| felic | pleasing, happy suitable |
| troph | nourish |
| it-ation | an avtion or process |
| -ic | like, related to |
| -ity | state, quality; act |
| it-ous | having the quality of |
| -y | state of, quality, act; body, group |
| af- | to, toward, against |
| ef- | out |
| re- | back, again |
| flu/fluc/flux | flowing |
| i-al | like, related to; an action or process |
| tu-ation | an action or process |
| -ence/-ency | state, quality; act |
| -ent | one who, that which; like, related to |