ELA FISH ROOTS 21/22 Flashcards
COLLA
glue (collage
COMBUS
burn up, blow um (incombustible)
CINER
ash (incinerate)
CUSS
strike, shake (percussion, concussion)
Di-
two, twice (dice)
CEPHAL
head or brain (cephalopods)
-ESIA
process (anesthia)
CINAMTO/KIN
movement (cinematography)
kinesiology
GRAM
write (telegram)
-IC
like or related to (dramatic)
ECHO
sound (ecolocation)
LOCAT
place (echolocation)
EO
early, dawn (neolithic -new ston age)
PALEO
old, ancient (paleolithic)
LITH/O
stone (lithograph)
SPERE
ball, round (hemisphere)
-IZE
to make, to act (synthesize, energize, polarized)
ERG
work (energize)
METALL
metal, mine (metallic)
PYRO
fire (pyrophobia)
EN-
enter, into (entrance, envelope)
EU-
good or well (eulogy, eithenize)
GLAC
ice (glacier)
-ARIUM
place (planetarium, aquarium)
CON
with, together (consequence, conversation)
SE
apart (segregation, seperate)
GREG
herd, flock, group (congregation)
BARO
pressure (barometer, barometric)
TUM
swelling (tumor)
EC
out (eccentric)
CAUST
burn (holacaust, caustic)
-ARY
belonging to (stationary, dictionary)
STAS/STAT
standing still, not moving, not changing (stationary, static)
NARCO
numbness, stupor (narcolepsy, narcotic)
SAUR
lizard (dinosaur, pterosaur)
CALYPT
hidden, covered (eucalyptus)
PEPS/PEPT
digest (dyspepsia, peptic, peptobismal)
-IDE
belonging to (peroxide, dioxide)
-TUDE
state, condition (altitude, attitude)
MEDI
half, middle, between (median, Mediterranean)
EV
time, age (evolution, revolution)
TERR
earth, land (terrarium, Mediterranean)
MELAN
blank, dark (melancholy, melanoma)
MNEM, MNES
mind, memory (amnesia)
LAV
wash, bathe (lavatory)
PURG
wipe out, clean out (purgatory)
MAGNI
great, large (magnitude, magnify)
INTER
between, middle (intermediate, interstate, intersection)
MOR
dumb, unintelligent (moron, morbid)
MOLL
soft, soothing (mollify, emollient)
LEPS
take, seize (narcolepsy, epilepsy)
MANIA
intense crazing, loss of reason (monomaniacal, kleptomania)