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8th Grade Greek & La
Week 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| BIOS | life (Greek) |
| VIVO/VICTUM | live (Latin) |
| MIKROS | small (Greek) |
| MEGAS | great, large, big (Greek) |
| MAGNUS | big, large, great (Latin) |
| PATER/PATRIS | father (Latin) |
| MATER/MATRIS | mother (Latin) |
| biology | study of life |
| biography | written life story |
| autobiography | written life story of one's self |
| antibiotic | against living forms which invade the body |
| revive | come back to life |
| survive | to live over or beyond a threat of death |
| victual | food to support life |
| victim | religious sacrifice of live animal or person |
| microphone | device for transmitting a small sound over distance |
| microbe | tiny form of life |
| microscope | instrument for looking at tiny things |
| microwave | tiny electro-magnetic wave between 1 and 100 centimeters long |
| megaphone | device for making a sound larger (louder) |
| megalith | huge rock (such as those in Stonehenge) |
| megalophonous | having a big or loud sound or voice |
| mega | in the metric system, a million times |
| magnify | make larger |
| magnitude | greatness |
| magnificent | great in deed or character; lavish |
| magnanimous | great in mind; above what is low, mean or ungenerous; noble in soul |
| patriarch | chief father of a family or of a society |
| patriotism | love for the fatherland |
| patrimony | condition or estate inherited from one's fathers |
| patron | one who acts like a father toward another |
| matriarch | a woman who rules the family |
| maternal grandparents | parents of one's mother |
| alma mater | the "dear old school" from which one graduates |
| matrimony | state from which motherhood develops |