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9thGrade WordRoots10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| an- | not, without |
| cardi | heart |
| echo | sound |
| gram | write, written |
| lal | talk, babble |
| locat | place |
| -ia | condition |
| -ic | like, related to |
| -ion | an action or process; state, quality, act |
| echolocation | a means of locating an object using an emitted sound and the reflection back from it |
| echocardiogram | a noninvasive technique that uses ultrasound to record the functioning of the heart |
| echoic | formed in imitation of some ultrasound |
| echolalia | involuntary parrot-like repetition of a word or phrase spoken by another |
| anechoic | free from echoes or reverberations |
| anthrop | humankind, man |
| eo | dawn, early |
| graph | write, written |
| lith | stone |
| paleo | ancient, old |
| sphere | ball |
| -cene | new, recent |
| -ic | like, related to |
| -us | thing which |
| -y | state of, quality, act, body, group |
| lithosphere | the outer part of the solid earth composed of rock |
| Paleolithic | related to the early Stone age |
| Eoanthropus | a genus of early man; dawn man |
| eolith | a very early or 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 |