Root Words-Definitions Prefixes-Definitions Suffixes-Definitions

anthropo-mankind circum – around -arium – place of

astro – star anti – against -ist – one who practices
bene – good/well ante – before -ic – relating to
chloro – green auto – self -graphy – the study of
chrono – time centi – hundred -ology - the study of
bio – life di – two -tion - quality or state of
derm – skin dis – opposite -ism - quality or state of
dict – speak ex – out -ous - quality or state of
gen – birth inter – between
geo – earth intra – within
hemo – blood macro – large
hydro – water micro – small
meter – measure mis – bad
olig – few neo – new
path – feeling poly – many
ped – child post – after
phil – love pre – before
phys – body/nature pro – forward
proto – first retro – back
scrib/script – write sub – under
sect – cut super – more than
tele – far off sym – together
terr – earth/land un - not
ver – truth gress- to step
 Greek and Latin Root Word Fun!
Fill-in-the-Blank
1. ________opoly – a market condition that exists when there are a few sellers of a
product
2. ________col – the first copy of a treaty or other document
3. ______agogy – the art or science of teaching children
4. _____________navigate – to travel around by boat or ship
5. __________personal intelligence – learning from within your own thoughts
6. __________personal intelligence – learning between group members
7. __________economics – focused on financial issues on a smaller scale
8. __________atology - the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases
9. __________globin – a protein found in red blood cells
10. __________theism – the belief in many gods

11. Phyllon is Greek for “leaf”. What does chlorophyll literally translate as?
12. What would a misanthrope think?
13. What would a chronologist do?
14. An elephant is a type of pachyderm because it has thick what?
15. What would someone be able to do if they were telepathic?
16. How would you “step forward”?
17. What is the “quality or state of stepping back?”
18. How would you “step two ways”?
19. What would you do if you were to interdict?

Literal Translations

20. Philanthropist –_______________________

21. Autobiography - ________________________
22. _____________ - “relating to the body of stars”
23. _____________ - “to measure one hundred”
24. Diction –
25. Sympathy –
26. Subterranean –
27. Genetics –
28. Hydrogen –
29. Prescription –

Bonus:
Retrofuturism –
Neoliberalism –
Antibiotics -