Final Study Guide - Supplementary Lecture Morphemes

Question 1

{phy}

Answer 1

nature, growth

Question 2

{neo-}

Answer 2

new, young

Question 3

{gam}

Answer 3

marriage

Question 4

{phaner(o)}

Answer 4

visible, evident

Question 5

{kerat-}

Answer 5

horn

Question 6

{blast}

Answer 6

bud, sprout

Question 7

{toxic(o)

Answer 7

Originally used to mean ‘of or for a bow’
Now means poison: toxin, toxic, toxemia, intoxicated

Question 8

{-on}

Answer 8

thing

Question 9

{phyl(o)}

Answer 9

race, tribe, family

Question 10

{phyll(o)}

Answer 10

leaf

Question 11

{cene}

Answer 11

new, recent

Question 12

{-ite}

Answer 12

(a stone or fossil) mineral

Question 13

{nat}

Answer 13

to be born, birth

Question 14

{zo(o)}

Answer 14

animal

Question 15

{phyt(o)/-phyte}

Answer 15

plant

Question 16

{gen}

Answer 16

make, produce

Question 17

{-ine/-in}

Answer 17

common suffixes used to name chemicals

Question 18

{mei(o)/mi(o)}

Answer 18

less(en)

Question 19

{leuc(o)/leuk(o)}

Answer 19

white

Question 20

{olig(o)}

Answer 20

few

Question 21

{dy}

Answer 21

2

Question 22

{plankt}

Answer 22

wandering, drifting

Question 23

{eu}

Answer 23

good, well, easy

Question 24

{hal(o)}

Answer 24

salt

Question 25

{melan(o)}

Answer 25

black

Question 26

{chlor(o)}

Answer 26

green

Question 27

{chondr(o)}

Answer 27

granule, or in medicine ‘cartilage’

Question 28

{chrys(o)}

Answer 28

gold(en)/bright yellow

Question 29

{epi}

Answer 29

on, upon

Question 30

{kary/cary}

Answer 30

seed

Question 31

{hol(o)}

Answer 31

all, whole

Question 32

{cyan(o)}

Answer 32

blue, greenish blue

Question 33

{cyt(o)}

Answer 33

vessel

Question 34

{mit(o)}

Answer 34

thread

Question 35

{anth(o)}

Answer 35

flower, bloom

Question 36

{prot(o)}

Answer 36

first

Question 37

{-ote/-ota}

Answer 37

form names of individuals, places, or objects related to a particular group or category

Question 38

{palae(o)}

Answer 38

old

Question 39

{erythr(o)}

Answer 39

red

Question 40

{poie}

Answer 40

make, produce

Question 41

{pharmac(o)}

Answer 41

drug, poison