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Greek Roots Lesson 8
Roots, Prefixes and Suffixes for Lesson 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| crat, cras | mix |
| cosm | order; word |
| polit, polis | city |
| crit, cris | separate; discern; judge |
| top | place |
| thalass, thalatt | sea |
| naus, nau | ship |
| plut | wealth |
| idio- | one's own; individual |
| ideo-, idea | idea |
| auto- | self |
| -cracy, | rule; government |
| -crat | one who rules |
| -cratic | pertaining to rule |
| -poly | sale; selling |
| -pole, -polist | one who sells |
| -polistic | pertaining to selling |
| crater | from the word mixing bowl, bowl-shaped depression or cavity |
| cosmos | the world as a harmonious system |
| cosmopolitan | free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world. |
| hypercritical | finding fault or judging excessively |
| topography | relief map of an area |
| thalassic | growing or living in the sea |
| astronaut | trained for space flight (in a space ship) |
| plutocrat | a ruler in a government run by the wealthy class |
| ideogram | written symbol that represents an idea |
| autocracy | unlimited power by one person; government in which one person has unlimited powe |
| monopoly | exclusive control of a good or service by one company |
| politics | the science or art of government |
| critical | involving skillful judgment |
| idiosyncrasy | characteristic peculiar to an individual |
| hypocrite | someone who pretends to have beliefs, values, virtues that he/she does not actually possess. |