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Word Meaning:
deals with the geographic distribution of plants and animals
Roots & Meanings: bio=life, geo=earth, graph=write
Related words: biology, biography, biopsy, antibiotic, bionics
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Word Meaning:
a rule, spoken, written, or generally understood
Root: cept
Root Meaning:
to take or receive
Related words: accept, receptacle, exception, concept, perception
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Word Meaning:
to make something easier or less difficult
Root: fac
Root Meaning:
to do or to make
Related words: factory, manufacture, fact, benefactor, malefactor, facsimile, fax,
faculty
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Word Meaning:
a liking for or attraction to something
Root: fin
(af=to or toward)
Root Meaning:
end
Related words: final, infinite, finicky,
confine, definite, finish
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Word Meaning:
to go backward
Root: gress
(retro, re=back)
Root Meaning:
go or step
Related words: aggressive, egress, ingress, digress, congress
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Word Meaning:
farm (a granger is a farmer)
Root: gran
Root Meaning:
seed
Related words: granola, granary, granulated,
granite, pomegranate, grain, ingrained
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Word Meaning:
the inclination to companionship or community life
Root: soc (ability= capacity or fitness)
Root Meaning:
companion
Related words: associate, dissociate, antisocial, sociology, socialism
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Word Meaning:
to sign something along with someone else
Root: sign
(co=with)
Root Meaning:
mark
Related words: signature, assignment, consign, insignia, significant
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Word Meaning:
to cleanse to remove impurities
Root: pur
Root Meaning:
cleanse
Related words: pure, expurgate, impure, puritan, purist
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Word Meaning:
the scientific study of speech sounds
Root: phon
Root Meaning:
sound
Related words: telephone, phonics, phonograph, phony
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Word Meaning:
(verb) belonging
Root: tain
Root Meaning:
hold
Related words: abstain, taint, contain, sustain, sustenance, detain
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Word Meaning:
the amount of slope up or down in land or an object
Root: grad
Root Meaning:
step
Related words: grade, centigrade, graduate, gradual, retrograde
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Word Meaning:
1. climb; 2. get up on; 3. put in a position; 4. organize; 5. prepare; 6.
increase; 7. short for “mountain”
Root: mount
Related words: paramount, surmount,
tantamount, mountebank, amount, remount
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Word Meaning:
moving or the ability to move from place to place
Root: mot
(loco=place)
Root Meaning:
move
Related words: commotion, promote, emotion,
remote, motive, motor
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Word Meaning:
a speech sound usually represented by the letter h
Root: spir
(a=to)
Root Meaning:
breath
Related words: expire, perspire, spirit, inspire
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Sunday, May 17, 2020
Week of May 18 words 91-105
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