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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| • a | not |
| • -a | plural |
| • ab | away |
| • acr | sharp |
| • acro | high |
| • act | to do |
| • ad | to |
| • aden | gland |
| • aer | air |
| • ag | to do |
| • agog | leader |
| • alb | white |
| • algia | pain |
| • alt | high |
| • alter | other |
| • amat | love |
| • ambul | walk |
| • amphi | both |
| • an- | without |
| • andro | man |
| • Anglo | English |
| • anim | mind |
| • ann | year |
| • ante | before |
| • antho | flower |
| • anthropo | man |
| • anti | against |
| • apo | away or up |
| • apt | fit |
| • aqua | water |
| • -ar | relating to |
| • archy | government |
| • ard | always |
| • arthro | joint |
| • ase | enzyme |
| • astr | star |
| • ate | cause |
| • atmo | vapor |
| • atom | vapor |
| • audi | hear |
| • aur | gold |
| • austral | south |
| • auto | self |
| • barro | pressure |
| • bas | low |
| • bath | deep |
| • -be | life |
| • bell | war |
| • bene | good |
| • bi | two |
| • biblio | book |
| • bio | life |
| • blasto | embryo |
| • bon | good |
| • brachio | arm |
| • brachy | short |
| • branchio | gills |
| • brev | short |
| • caco | bad |
| • cad | fall |
| • calli | beautiful |
| • calor | heat |
| • cant | sing |
| • cap | take |
| • capit | head |
| • cardio | heart |
| • carn | flesh |
| • cata | down |
| • caust | burn |
| • cede | go |
| • cent | one hundred |
| • centri | center |
| • cephalo | head |
| • chiro | hand |
| • chlor | green |
| • chrom | color |
| • chron | time |
| • cide | kill |
| • circum | around |
| • cirr | hair |
| • cise | cut |
| • clam | cry out |
| • cle | small |
| • clud | close |
| • co | together |
| • cogn | know |
| • com | together |
| • con | together |
| • contra | against |
| • cor | heart |
| • coron | crown |
| • corp | body |
| • cosmo | world or universe |
| • counter | against |
| • cracy | government |
| • cranio | skull |
| • cred | believe |
| • crypt | hidden |
| • culp | blame |
| • cumu | heaped |
| • cur | care for |
| • curr | run |
| • curs | run |
| • cyan | blue |
| • cyclo | circle |
| • cyt | cell |
| • dactylo | finger |
| • de | down |
| • dec | ten |
| • decho | in two parts |
| • demi | half |
| • demo | people |
| • dendr | tree |
| • derm | skin |
| • dextro | right or clockwise |
| • di | two |
| • dia | across |
| • dict | say |
| • digit | finger |
| • dign | worthy |
| • diplo | double |
| • dis | away |
| • dom | rule |
| • dorm | sleep |
| • dors | back |
| • dox | opinion |
| • duct | lead |
| • dyna | power |
| • dys | bad |
| • eco | house |
| • ecto | outer |
| • ef | out |
| • ego | I |
| • emia | blood |
| • endo | within |
| • enter | intestine |
| • epi | on |
| • equi | equal |
| • erg | work |
| • err | wander |
| • erythro | red |
| • ess | female |
| • ethno | race or culture |
| • eu | good |
| • ex | out |
| • exo | out |
| • extra | beyond |
| • fer | carry |
| • ferro | iron |
| • fic | make |
| • fid | faith |
| • fil | thread |
| • fin | end |
| • fiss | split |
| • flect | bend |
| • flu | flow |
| • foli | leaf |
| • fore | front |
| • form | shape |
| • fort | strong |
| • fract | break |
| • frat | brother |
| • fug | flee |
| • fus | pour |
| • fy | make |
| • gamy | marriage |
| • gastro | stomach |
| • gen | origin |
| • geo | earth |
| • germ | vital |
| • gest | carry |
| • glott | tongue |
| • glyc | sweet |
| • gno | to know |
| • gon | angle |
| • grade | step |
| • gram | writing |
| • graph | write |
| • grat | pleasing |
| • grav | heavy |
| • greg | group |
| • gress | step |
| • gymno | naked |
| • gyn | woman |
| • gyro | turn |
| • haplo | single or simple |
| • hedron | sided object |
| • helio | sun |
| • hema | blood |
| • hemi | half |
| • hemo | blood |
| • here | stick |
| • hetero | different |
| • hexa | six |
| • hibern | winter |
| • hippo | horse |
| • hist | tissue |
| • holo | whole |
| • homo | same |
| • hum | earth |
| • hydro | water |
| • hyper | over |
| • hypo | under |
| • -i | plural |
| • ichthy | fish |
| • ician | specialist |
| • ics | art |
| • ideo | idea |
| • idio | peculiar |
| • ign | fire |
| • il | not |
| • im | not |
| • in | in or not |
| • ine | nature of |
| • infra | beneath |
| • inter | between |
| • intra | within |
| • intro | into |
| • ish | like |
| • ism | doctrine |
| • iso | equal |
| • -ist | one who |
| • itis | inflammation |
| • ium | an element |
| • ize | make |
| • ject | throw |
| • junct | join |
| • jur | swear |
| • jus | law |
| • kilo | thousand |
| • kin | motion |
| • labor | work |
| • lachry | tear |
| • lat | side |
| • leg | read |
| • lent | full of |
| • lepsy | attack |
| • less | without |
| • let | small/ little |
| • leuko | white |
| • liber | free |
| • lign | wood |
| • lin | line |
| • lingu | tongue |
| • lite | mineral or fossil |
| • liter | letter |
| • lith | rock |
| • loco | place |
| • log | word or reason |
| • logy | science |
| • loqu | talk |
| • luc | light |
| • lum | light |
| • luna | moon |
| • lys | breakdown |
| • macro | large |
| • magn | great |
| • mal | bad |
| • man | hand |
| • mania | madness |
| • mar | sea |
| • matri | mother |
| • medi | middle |
| • mega | large |
| • mel | song |
| • mela | black |
| • mem | remember |
| • mens | measure |
| • meso | middle |
| • meta | change |
| • meteor | high |
| • meter | measure |
| • micro | small |
| • migr | wander |
| • milli | thousandth |
| • mir | wonder |
| • mis | bad |
| • miss | send |
| • mob | move |
| • moll | soft |
| • monger | seller |
| • mono | one |
| • mont | mountain |
| • mony | condition |
| • morph | shape |
| • mort | death |
| • mot | move |
| • multi | many |
| • mund | world |
| • muta | change |
| • myo | muscle |
| • myria | many |
| • nano | billionth |
| • narco | sleep |
| • nat | born |
| • nav | ship |
| • necro | death |
| • neo | new |
| • nesia | island |
| • ness | quality |
| • neuro | nerve |
| • nomy | law |
| • non | not |
| • nounce | tell |
| • nov | new |
| • nuc | center |
| • numer | number |
| • nym | name |
| • ob | against |
| • octa | eight |
| • ocul | eye |
| • oid | appearance |
| • oligo | few or small |
| • oma | tumor |
| • omni | all |
| • oo | egg |
| • ophthal | eye |
| • opia | sight |
| • orb | circle |
| • ornith | bird |
| • ortho | straight |
| • oscu | mouth |
| • ose | sugar |
| • osis | condition |
| • oss | bone |
| • osteo | bone |
| • ous | full of |
| • ovi | egg |
| • pac | peace |
| • paleo | old |
| • pan | all |
| • par | equal |
| • para | beside or near |
| • parl | speak |
| • pater | father |
| • path | feeling |
| • patho | disease |
| • ped | foot or child |
| • pend | hang |
| • penta | five |
| • per | through |
| • peri | near or around |
| • petr | rock |
| • phag | eat |
| • phan | appearance |
| • phasia | speech |
| • phen | appearance |
| • phile | love |
| • phobia | fear |
| • phon | sound |
| • phor | carry |
| • phos | light |
| • photo | light |
| • phyll | leaf |
| • phylo | kind |
| • phyt | plant |
| • pico | trillionth |
| • pithec | ape |
| • plasm | form |
| • plasto | molded |
| • platy | flat |
| • pleo | more |
| • plu | more |
| • pneumo | lung |
| • pod | foot |
| • polis | city |
| • poly | many |
| • pond | weight |
| • pop | people |
| • port | carry |
| • pos | put |
| • post | after |
| • pot | drink |
| • potent | power |
| • pre | before |
| • prim | first |
| • pro | forward |
| • protero | early |
| • proto | first |
| • pseudo | false |
| • psych | soul |
| • pter | wing |
| • pugn | fight |
| • pulse | drive |
| • punct | point |
| • put | think |
| • pyro | fire |
| • quadr | four |
| • quasi | somewhat |
| • quin | five |
| • radi | ray |
| • rat | think |
| • re | again |
| • rect | right |
| • reg | rule |
| • retro | backward |
| • rhiz | root |
| • rhodo | rose |
| • rid | laugh |
| • rogat | ask |
| • rub | red |
| • rupt | break |
| • sacro | holy |
| • sanct | holy |
| • sangui | blood |
| • sapro | rotten |
| • sat | enough |
| • saur | lizard |
| • schizo | divide |
| • sci | know |
| • scope | look |
| • scrib | write |
| • se | apart |
| • sect | cut |
| • sed | sit |
| • semi | half |
| • sen | old |
| • sens | feel |
| • sept | seven |
| • sequ | follow |
| • sess | sit |
| • sine | without |
| • sis | condition |
| • socio | society |
| • sol | alone |
| • sol | sun |
| • solv | loosen |
| • som | body |
| • somn | sleep |
| • son | sound |
| • soph | wisdom |
| • soror | sister |
| • spec | look |
| • spir | breathe |
| • spor | seed |
| • sta | stop |
| • stell | star |
| • stereo | solid |
| • strat | layer |
| • string | bind |
| • struct | build |
| • sub | under |
| • super | over |
| • sur | over |
| • surg | rise |
| • sym | together |
| • syn | together |
| • tachy | quick |
| • tact | touch |
| • tang | touch |
| • taxis | arrangement |
| • tele | far |
| • tempor | time |
| • terr | land |
| • tetra | four |
| • theo | god |
| • thermo | heat |
| • tion | act or state |
| • tomy | cut |
| • topo | place |
| • tort | twist |
| • tox | poison |
| • tract | pull |
| • trans | across |
| • tri | three |
| • trib | pay |
| • trich | hair |
| • troph | nourishment |
| • tropo | turn |
| • tude | state of |
| • ultima | last |
| • ultra | beyond |
| • un | not |
| • und | wave |
| • uni | one |
| • urb | city |
| • vac | empty |
| • val | worth |
| • vas | vessel |
| • vect | carry |
| • ven | come |
| • ventri | belly |
| • ver | true |
| • vermi | worm |
| • vert | turn |
| • vest | clothes |
| • via | road |
| • vice | in place of |
| • vid | look |
| • vita | life |
| • viv | life |
| • voc | voice |
| • vol | will |
| • volv | roll |
| • vore | eating |
| • xeno | stranger |
| • xylo | wood |
| • zo | animal |
| • zygo | yoke |
| • zym | ferment |
| • a | not |
| • -a | plural |
| • ab | away |
| • acr | sharp |
| • acro | high |
| • act | to do |
| • ad | to |
| • aden | gland |
| • aer | air |
| • ag | to do |
| • agog | leader |
| • alb | white |
| • algia | pain |
| • alt | high |
| • alter | other |
| • amat | love |
| • ambul | walk |
| • amphi | both |
| • an- | without |
| • andro | man |
| • Anglo | English |
| • anim | mind |
| • ann | year |
| • ante | before |
| • antho | flower |
| • anthropo | man |
| • anti | against |
| • apo | away or up |
| • apt | fit |
| • aqua | water |
| • -ar | relating to |
| • archy | government |
| • ard | always |
| • arthro | joint |
| • ase | enzyme |
| • astr | star |
| • ate | cause |
| • atmo | vapor |
| • atom | vapor |
| • audi | hear |
| • aur | gold |
| • austral | south |
| • auto | self |
| • barro | pressure |
| • bas | low |
| • bath | deep |
| • -be | life |
| • bell | war |
| • bene | good |
| • bi | two |
| • biblio | book |
| • bio | life |
| • blasto | embryo |
| • bon | good |
| • brachio | arm |
| • brachy | short |
| • branchio | gills |
| • brev | short |
| • caco | bad |
| • cad | fall |
| • calli | beautiful |
| • calor | heat |
| • cant | sing |
| • cap | take |
| • capit | head |
| • cardio | heart |
| • carn | flesh |
| • cata | down |
| • caust | burn |
| • cede | go |
| • cent | one hundred |
| • centri | center |
| • cephalo | head |
| • chiro | hand |
| • chlor | green |
| • chrom | color |
| • chron | time |
| • cide | kill |
| • circum | around |
| • cirr | hair |
| • cise | cut |
| • clam | cry out |
| • cle | small |
| • clud | close |
| • co | together |
| • cogn | know |
| • com | together |
| • con | together |
| • contra | against |
| • cor | heart |
| • coron | crown |
| • corp | body |
| • cosmo | world or universe |
| • counter | against |
| • cracy | government |
| • cranio | skull |
| • cred | believe |
| • crypt | hidden |
| • culp | blame |
| • cumu | heaped |
| • cur | care for |
| • curr | run |
| • curs | run |
| • cyan | blue |
| • cyclo | circle |
| • cyt | cell |
| • dactylo | finger |
| • de | down |
| • dec | ten |
| • decho | in two parts |
| • demi | half |
| • demo | people |
| • dendr | tree |
| • derm | skin |
| • dextro | right or clockwise |
| • di | two |
| • dia | across |
| • dict | say |
| • digit | finger |
| • dign | worthy |
| • diplo | double |
| • dis | away |
| • dom | rule |
| • dorm | sleep |
| • dors | back |
| • dox | opinion |
| • duct | lead |
| • dyna | power |
| • dys | bad |
| • eco | house |
| • ecto | outer |
| • ef | out |
| • ego | I |
| • emia | blood |
| • endo | within |
| • enter | intestine |
| • epi | on |
| • equi | equal |
| • erg | work |
| • err | wander |
| • erythro | red |
| • ess | female |
| • ethno | race or culture |
| • eu | good |
| • ex | out |
| • exo | out |
| • extra | beyond |
| • fer | carry |
| • ferro | iron |
| • fic | make |
| • fid | faith |
| • fil | thread |
| • fin | end |
| • fiss | split |
| • flect | bend |
| • flu | flow |
| • foli | leaf |
| • fore | front |
| • form | shape |
| • fort | strong |
| • fract | break |
| • frat | brother |
| • fug | flee |
| • fus | pour |
| • fy | make |
| • gamy | marriage |
| • gastro | stomach |
| • gen | origin |
| • geo | earth |
| • germ | vital |
| • gest | carry |
| • glott | tongue |
| • glyc | sweet |
| • gno | to know |
| • gon | angle |
| • grade | step |
| • gram | writing |
| • graph | write |
| • grat | pleasing |
| • grav | heavy |
| • greg | group |
| • gress | step |
| • gymno | naked |
| • gyn | woman |
| • gyro | turn |
| • haplo | single or simple |
| • hedron | sided object |
| • helio | sun |
| • hema | blood |
| • hemi | half |
| • hemo | blood |
| • here | stick |
| • hetero | different |
| • hexa | six |
| • hibern | winter |
| • hippo | horse |
| • hist | tissue |
| • holo | whole |
| • homo | same |
| • hum | earth |
| • hydro | water |
| • hyper | over |
| • hypo | under |
| • -i | plural |
| • ichthy | fish |
| • ician | specialist |
| • ics | art |
| • ideo | idea |
| • idio | peculiar |
| • ign | fire |
| • il | not |
| • im | not |
| • in | in or not |
| • ine | nature of |
| • infra | beneath |
| • inter | between |
| • intra | within |
| • intro | into |
| • ish | like |
| • ism | doctrine |
| • iso | equal |
| • -ist | one who |
| • itis | inflammation |
| • ium | an element |
| • ize | make |
| • ject | throw |
| • junct | join |
| • jur | swear |
| • jus | law |
| • kilo | thousand |
| • kin | motion |
| • labor | work |
| • lachry | tear |
| • lat | side |
| • leg | read |
| • lent | full of |
| • lepsy | attack |
| • less | without |
| • let | small/ little |
| • leuko | white |
| • liber | free |
| • lign | wood |
| • lin | line |
| • lingu | tongue |
| • lite | mineral or fossil |
| • liter | letter |
| • lith | rock |
| • loco | place |
| • log | word or reason |
| • logy | science |
| • loqu | talk |
| • luc | light |
| • lum | light |
| • luna | moon |
| • lys | breakdown |
| • macro | large |
| • magn | great |
| • mal | bad |
| • man | hand |
| • mania | madness |
| • mar | sea |
| • matri | mother |
| • medi | middle |
| • mega | large |
| • mel | song |
| • mela | black |
| • mem | remember |
| • mens | measure |
| • meso | middle |
| • meta | change |
| • meteor | high |
| • meter | measure |
| • micro | small |
| • migr | wander |
| • milli | thousandth |
| • mir | wonder |
| • mis | bad |
| • miss | send |
| • mob | move |
| • moll | soft |
| • monger | seller |
| • mono | one |
| • mont | mountain |
| • mony | condition |
| • morph | shape |
| • mort | death |
| • mot | move |
| • multi | many |
| • mund | world |
| • muta | change |
| • myo | muscle |
| • myria | many |
| • nano | billionth |
| • narco | sleep |
| • nat | born |
| • nav | ship |
| • necro | death |
| • neo | new |
| • nesia | island |
| • ness | quality |
| • neuro | nerve |
| • nomy | law |
| • non | not |
| • nounce | tell |
| • nov | new |
| • nuc | center |
| • numer | number |
| • nym | name |
| • ob | against |
| • octa | eight |
| • ocul | eye |
| • oid | appearance |
| • oligo | few or small |
| • oma | tumor |
| • omni | all |
| • oo | egg |
| • ophthal | eye |
| • opia | sight |
| • orb | circle |
| • ornith | bird |
| • ortho | straight |
| • oscu | mouth |
| • ose | sugar |
| • osis | condition |
| • oss | bone |
| • osteo | bone |
| • ous | full of |
| • ovi | egg |
| • pac | peace |
| • paleo | old |
| • pan | all |
| • par | equal |
| • para | beside or near |
| • parl | speak |
| • pater | father |
| • path | feeling |
| • patho | disease |
| • ped | foot or child |
| • pend | hang |
| • penta | five |
| • per | through |
| • peri | near or around |
| • petr | rock |
| • phag | eat |
| • phan | appearance |
| • phasia | speech |
| • phen | appearance |
| • phile | love |
| • phobia | fear |
| • phon | sound |
| • phor | carry |
| • phos | light |
| • photo | light |
| • phyll | leaf |
| • phylo | kind |
| • phyt | plant |
| • pico | trillionth |
| • pithec | ape |
| • plasm | form |
| • plasto | molded |
| • platy | flat |
| • pleo | more |
| • plu | more |
| • pneumo | lung |
| • pod | foot |
| • polis | city |
| • poly | many |
| • pond | weight |
| • pop | people |
| • port | carry |
| • pos | put |
| • post | after |
| • pot | drink |
| • potent | power |
| • pre | before |
| • prim | first |
| • pro | forward |
| • protero | early |
| • proto | first |
| • pseudo | false |
| • psych | soul |
| • pter | wing |
| • pugn | fight |
| • pulse | drive |
| • punct | point |
| • put | think |
| • pyro | fire |
| • quadr | four |
| • quasi | somewhat |
| • quin | five |
| • radi | ray |
| • rat | think |
| • re | again |
| • rect | right |
| • reg | rule |
| • retro | backward |
| • rhiz | root |
| • rhodo | rose |
| • rid | laugh |
| • rogat | ask |
| • rub | red |
| • rupt | break |
| • sacro | holy |
| • sanct | holy |
| • sangui | blood |
| • sapro | rotten |
| • sat | enough |
| • saur | lizard |
| • schizo | divide |
| • sci | know |
| • scope | look |
| • scrib | write |
| • se | apart |
| • sect | cut |
| • sed | sit |
| • semi | half |
| • sen | old |
| • sens | feel |
| • sept | seven |
| • sequ | follow |
| • sess | sit |
| • sine | without |
| • sis | condition |
| • socio | society |
| • sol | alone |
| • sol | sun |
| • solv | loosen |
| • som | body |
| • somn | sleep |
| • son | sound |
| • soph | wisdom |
| • soror | sister |
| • spec | look |
| • spir | breathe |
| • spor | seed |
| • sta | stop |
| • stell | star |
| • stereo | solid |
| • strat | layer |
| • string | bind |
| • struct | build |
| • sub | under |
| • super | over |
| • sur | over |
| • surg | rise |
| • sym | together |
| • syn | together |
| • tachy | quick |
| • tact | touch |
| • tang | touch |
| • taxis | arrangement |
| • tele | far |
| • tempor | time |
| • terr | land |
| • tetra | four |
| • theo | god |
| • thermo | heat |
| • tion | act or state |
| • tomy | cut |
| • topo | place |
| • tort | twist |
| • tox | poison |
| • tract | pull |
| • trans | across |
| • tri | three |
| • trib | pay |
| • trich | hair |
| • troph | nourishment |
| • tropo | turn |
| • tude | state of |
| • ultima | last |
| • ultra | beyond |
| • un | not |
| • und | wave |
| • uni | one |
| • urb | city |
| • vac | empty |
| • val | worth |
| • vas | vessel |
| • vect | carry |
| • ven | come |
| • ventri | belly |
| • ver | true |
| • vermi | worm |
| • vert | turn |
| • vest | clothes |
| • via | road |
| • vice | in place of |
| • vid | look |
| • vita | life |
| • viv | life |
| • voc | voice |
| • vol | will |
| • volv | roll |
| • vore | eating |
| • xeno | stranger |
| • xylo | wood |
| • zo | animal |
| • zygo | yoke |
| • zym | ferment |
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