Lesson 17

Question 1

physics

Answer 1

• originally: the study of the natural universe

- currently: one branch of the study of the natural universe

Question 2

radish

Answer 2

• root

- a particular type of root in the mustard family

Question 3

insanity

Answer 3

• illness

- mental illness

Question 4

grand mal

Answer 4

• great ailment

- the severe type of epilepsy

Question 5

excruciating

Answer 5

• inflicting the pain of literal torture or crucifixion

- causing any great pain

Question 6

eradicate

Answer 6

• to pull up by the roots

- to get rid of by any means

Question 7

spectrum

Answer 7

• the range of colors of the rainbow

- any wide range

Question 8

crescent

Answer 8

• the new moon

- anything shaped like the new moon

Question 9

cyn-

Answer 9

dog

Question 10

hapl-

Answer 10

single

Question 11

kym-

cym-

Answer 11

wave

Question 12

lemm(a)-

Answer 12

sheath, husk

Question 13

loph-

Answer 13

crest (nóc)

Question 14

lophi-

Answer 14

small crest

Question 15

lymph-

Answer 15

water

Question 16

mit-

Answer 16

thread

Question 17

ornis-

ornith-

Answer 17

bird

Question 18

pale-

palae-

Answer 18

old

Question 19

pha-

Answer 19

to speak

Question 20

phem-

Answer 20

voice

Question 21

phrag-

Answer 21

to block up

Question 22

plan-

Answer 22

wandering

Question 23

pleur-

Answer 23

side, rib

Question 24

-plo

Answer 24

folded

Question 25

pne(a)-

pneust-

Answer 25

breathing

Question 26

rhaph-

rrhaph-

Answer 26

to sew

Question 27

spa-

Answer 27

to draw, to jerk

Question 28

staphyl-

Answer 28

bunch of grapes

Question 29

steth-

Answer 29

chest

Question 30

xen-

Answer 30

foreign