Lesson 16: Figurative Usage

Question 1

GLAUC-

Answer 1

silvery, gray-green (e.g. glaucoma)

Question 2

GON(Y)-, GONAT-

Answer 2

knee (e.g. gonalgia)

Question 3

(H)APT-

Answer 3

to touch (e.g. haptics)

Question 4

(H)APH-

Answer 4

sense of touch (e.g. haphalgesia)

Question 5

KARY-, CARY-

Answer 5

nucleus, nut (e.g. karyogamy)

Question 6

KERAT-, CERAT-, KER-, CER-

Answer 6

horn, horny tissue, cornea (e.g. kerotin)

Question 7

LEPID-

Answer 7

scale (e.g. lepidosteoid)

Question 8

NEM-, NEMAT-

Answer 8

thread (e.g. nematode)

Question 9

NOS-

Answer 9

disease (e.g. paranosic)

Question 10

ONC-, -ONCUS

Answer 10

tumor, swelling (e.g. adenoncus)

Question 11

PHRA-

Answer 11

to speak (e.g. phrase, aphrasia)

Question 12

PNEUM-, PNEUMAT-

Answer 12

air, gas (e.g. pneumatophore)

Question 13

PHYLAC(T)-

Answer 13

to guard, to protect (e.g. cataphylaxis)

Question 14

PORPHYR-

Answer 14

purple (e.g. porphyrin)

Question 15

SARC-

Answer 15

flesh (e.g. sarcoma)

Question 16

SCLER-

Answer 16

hard (e.g. sclera)

Question 17

SEP-

Answer 17

to rot, to putrify (e.g. antiseptic)

Question 18

SIT-

Answer 18

food (e.g. apositia)

Question 19

SPLEN-

Answer 19

spleen (e.g. splenalgia)

Question 20

STEN-

Answer 20

narrow (e.g. stenocardia)

Question 21

STERE-

Answer 21

solid, three-dimensional (e.g. stereoplasm)