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Word Roots pg. 7&8
pg.7&8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| arch | first, chief, rule |
| crac | government, rule |
| glyph | carve |
| hier | sacred |
| typ | model , inspiration |
| anti- | against, opposite |
| co- / syn- | with , together |
| aort | lift, raise |
| arct | to press together |
| thes/thet | to place, to put |
| -ic | like, related to |
| -ics | science, system, related to |
| -y | state of, quality, act; body group |
| -ate | to make, to act, one who , that which |
| -ation | an action or process |
| -ia | condition |
| -is | thing which |
| -ize | to make, to act |
| archaic | belonging to an earlier period, ancient |
| hierocracy | government by clergymen |
| hierarch | a religious leader in a position of authority |
| archetype | an original model on which something is patterned :prototype |
| hieroglyphics | the picture script of the ancient Egyptian priesthood |
| hierarchy | a system in which people or things are arranged according to their rank or status |
| synthesize | combine so as to form a more complex product |
| coarctate | pressed together |
| antithesis | directly contrasting or opposite |
| thesis | the central idea of a piece of writing |
| aortarctia | narrowing of the aorta |
| antithetic | directly contrasting or opposite |
| coarctation | a narrowing or constriction |