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Set #10
9th grade word roots
| 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 |
| 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, grou |
| 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 rep it ion of a word or phrase just spoken by another; echoing |
| Aneoic | free from echoes and reverberations |
| 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 |
| lithiography | the process or method of printing from a metal or stone surface |
| eocene | relating to the second epoch of the Tertiary Period |