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Word Roots Set 10
9th Grade Words Roots Set 10
Term | Definition |
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an- | not, without |
cardi | heart |
echo | sound |
gram | write, written |
lal | talk, babble |
local | place |
-iac | 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 natural sound |
echolalia | involuntary parrot-like repetition of a word or phrase spoken by another; echoing |
anechoic | free from echoes or reverberations |
anthrop- | humankind, man |
eo | dawn, early |
graph | write, written |
liths | stone |
paleo | ancient, old |
sphere | ball |
-cene | new, recent |
-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 an 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 |