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Word Pandemic

Dictionary Denotation [count] medical. : an occurrence in which a disease spreads very

quickly and affects a large number of people over a wide area or
throughout the world.
Word’s Origin Greek

Connotation pan·dem·ic
/panˈdemik/

Write the word in a sen- The corona virus pandemic has been really hard on people who
tence lost their jobs

What Part of Speech (noun, adjective: (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the
verb, adjective etc.) world.
noun: an outbreak of a pandemic disease.
Write a Synonym (a word epidemic
that has the same meaning)

Write an Antonym (a word infrequent

that means the opposite)

Any roots? COVID-19

Any prefixes or suffixes? In pandemic, the -ic suffix is also Greek, where it's used for
adjectives, and Latin took that and gave us words like civic,
classic, and aquatic among many others.
Are their any other forms of pandemia
the word?