Greek Root Words Pt2 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
aco(u)- | to hear |
acr- | highest, the extremities |
actin- | ray, radiating structure |
acu- | to hear |
aden- | gland |
aesthe- | to feel, perceive |
agog(ue)- | to lead |
agon- | struggle, contest |
alg- | pain |
all- | other |
andr- | man, male |
angel- | messenger, message |
angi- | vessel |
anth- | flower |
anthrop- | human being |
archa(e)-, arche- | ancient, primitive, beginning |
arthr- | joint, speech sound, articulation |
asce- | to exercise |
ast(e)r- | star |
aut- | self |
ball- | to throw, put |
bar- | weight, pressure |
bi- | life |
bibli- | book |
blast- | bud, formative substance |
ble- | to throw, put |
bol- | to throw, put |
brachy- | short |
brady- | slow |
bucol- | cowherd |
cac- | bad |
cal(l)- | beauty |
canon- | a rule |
cardi- | heart |
carp- | fruit |
cau(s)- | to burn |
centr- | center |
cephal- | head |
ch(e)ir- | hand |
chlor- | green, yellowish-green, chlorine |
chol(e)- | bile, gall |
chondr- | cartilage |
chore- | dance |
chrom(at)- | color |
chron- | time |
cine- | to move |
cla- | to break |
clys- | to wash |
cocc(us)- | berry, seed, spherical bacterium |
cosm- | universe, order |
cra- | to mix |
cri- | to judge, decide, separate |
cryph-, crypt- | hidden, secret |
cyan- | dark blue |
cycl- | circle, wheel |
cyn(os)- | dog |
cyst- | bladder, sac |
cyt- | cell |
dactyl- | digit, finger, toe |
d(a)emon- | spirit, evil spirit |
dec(a)- | ten |
dem- | people |
dendr- | tree, treelike structure |
derm(at)- | skin |
deeuter- | second |
di- | twice, double |
dich- | in two |
didac- | to teach |
dipl- | twice, double |
do- | to give |
dog- | opinion, teaching |
dolich- | long |
dox- | opinion, teaching |
drom- | a running, a course |
dyn(am)- | force, power |
ego- | I |
em- | blood |
enter- | intestine |
er(ot)- | love |
erg- | work |
erythr- | red |
esthe- | to feel, perceive |
ethn- | race, cultural group |
eury(s)- | wide, broad |
gam- | marriage |
gastr- | stomach |
ge- | earth |
gen(e)- | kind, race |
ger(ont)- | old age, old people |
gloss-, glot(t)- | tongue, language |
glyph- | to carve |
gno(s)- | to know |
gon- | generative, reproductive, sexual |
gon- | angle, angled figure |
gon- | to produce, originate |
gymn- | naked |
gyn(e)-, gyn(a)ec- | woman, female |
haem(at)- | blood |
hect- | a hundred |
hedon- | pleasure |
hegemon- | leader |
heli- | sun |
hem(at)- | blood |
hemer- | day |
hemi- | half |
hepat- | liver |
hept(a)- | seven |
heter- | other, different |
hex(a)- | six |
hier- | sacred |
hipp- | horse |
hist(i)- | tissue |
hod- | way, road |
hol- | whole |
hom(e)- | same |
hydr- | water |
hygr- | wet, moist |
hyster- | uterus, hysteria |
iatr- | physician, medicine |
ichthy- | fish |
icon- | image |
ide- | thought, idea |
idi- | one's own, peculiar |
is- | equal |
kal(l)- | beauty |
kilo- | one thousand |
kine- | to move |
lab- | to take, seize |
lat(e)r- | to worship excessively |
lect- | to speak, choose |
lem-, lep- | to take, seize |
leuc-, leuk- | white |
lip- | fat |
lite- | stone |
lith- | stone |
log(ue)- | speech, word, reasoning |
ly- | to loosen |
macr- | large, long |
manc-, mant- | to divine by means of |
mast-, maz- | breast |
mega(l)- | large, a million |
melan- | black, dark |
mening- | membrane |
mer- | part |
mes- | middle |
micr- | small, one millionth part of |
mim- | to imitate |
mis- | hatred |
mne- | to remember |
mon- | one, single |
morph- | form, shape |
my(s)- | muscle |
myc(et)- | fungus, mold |
myel- | bone marrow, the spinal cord |
myos- | muscle |
naut- | sailor |
ne- | new, new and different form of |
necr- | the dead, corpse, dead tissue |
nephr- | kidney |
nes- | island |
neur- | nerve |
oct(a)- | eight |
od- | song, poem |
od- | way, road |
odont- | tooth |
olig- | few |
onym- | name, word |
oo- | egg |
opthalm- | eye |
op(t)- | eye, to see |
ora- | to see |
ornis-,ornith- | bird |
orth- | straight, correct |
ost(e)- | bone |
ot- | ear |
paed- | child |
pal(a)e- | old |
pan(t)- | all, every |
pate- | to walk |
path- | to feel, suffer; disease |
patr- | father |
patri- | family, clan |
ped- | child |
pedia- | education |
pent(a)- | five |
pep(t)- | to digest |
petr- | rock |
pha- | to speak |
phag- | to eat |
pha(n)- | to show, appear |
phe(m)- | to speak |
pher- | to bear, go |
phil- | to love |
phleb- | vein |
phon- | sound, voice |
phor- | to bear, go |
phot- | light |
phra- | to speak |
phren- | mind, diaphragm |
phy- | to grow |
phyll- | leaf |
physi- | nature |
plas(t)- | to form |
platy- | flat, broad |
pleg- | paralysis |
plex- | paralytic stroke |
pod- | foot |
polem- | war |
pol(is)- | city, state |
poly- | many, much |
prot- | first, original, primitive |
pseud- | false |
psych- | mind |
pter(yx)- | wing, fin |
py- | pus |
pyr- | fire |
r(r)hin- | nose |
schis-, schiz- | to split |
scler- | hard |
som(at)- | body |
soph- | wise |
sta- | to stand, stop |
stal- | to send, draw |
sten- | narrow |
stere- | solid, three-dimensional |
sthen- | strength |
stle- | to send, draw |
stol- | to send, draw |
stom(at)- | mouth |
stroph- | to turn |
tach(y)- | swift, speed |
tact- | to arrange, put in order |
taph- | tomb |
taut- | the same |
tax- | to arrange, put in order |
techn- | art, skill, craft |
tele- | afar, operating at a distance |
tetr(a)- | four |
thanas-, thanat- | death |
the- | to place, put |
the- | god |
thec(a)- | case |
therm- | heat |
thromb- | clot |
thym- | mind, strong feeling |
tom- | to cut |
ton(us)- | a stretching, tension |
top- | place |
tox- | poison |
tri- | three |
trop- | to turn |
troph- | to nourish, grow |
typ- | stamp, model |
ur- | urine |
ur- | tail |
urg- | work |
xanth- | yellow |
xen- | stranger, foreigner |
xyl- | wood |
zo- | animal |
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