Lesson 4: Greek Adjective-Forming Suffixes

Question 1

-al

Answer 1

pertaining to, like, belonging to, having the character of (e.g. diagonal)

Question 2

-an (-ian)

Answer 2

pertaining to, like, one connected with (e.g. protozoan)

Question 3

-ous (-ious)

Answer 3

full of, pertaining to, like (e.g. synonymous)

Question 4

-ic, -tic (-ac after i)

Answer 4

pertaining to, like (e.g. epidemic)

Question 5

-ics, -tics

Answer 5

“art, science, or study of” (e.g. genetics)

Question 6

-oid, -ode

Answer 6

like, having the shape of (e.g. spheroid)

Question 7

AMYGDAL-

Answer 7

almond, tonsil (e.g. amygdalin)

Question 8

ANDR-

Answer 8

man, male (e.g. androgyny)

Question 9

ANTHROP-

Answer 9

man, human being (e.g. anthropopathy)

Question 10

CHRON-

Answer 10

time (e.g. chronic)

Question 11

CLAD-

Answer 11

branch (e.g. cladode)

Question 12

DYNAM-, DYN-

Answer 12

power (e.g. dynamic)

Question 13

EME-

Answer 13

to vomit (e.g. autemesia)

Question 14

GYMN-

Answer 14

naked, uncovered (e.g. gymnasium)

Question 15

GYN(E)-, GYNEC- (GYNAEC-)

Answer 15

female (e.g. misogynist)

Question 16

HELIC-, HELIX

Answer 16

spiral (e.g. helicopter)

Question 17

HYDR-

Answer 17

water, fluid (e.g. hydraulic)

Question 18

IATR-

Answer 18

physican, medical treatment (e.g. psychiatry)

Question 19

MELAN-

Answer 19

black, dark (e.g. melancholy)

Question 20

NECR-

Answer 20

corpse, dead tissue (e.g. necrology)

Question 21

OLIG-

Answer 21

few, scanty (e.g. oligarchy)

Question 22

PED- (PAED-)

Answer 22

child (-pedia = instruction) (e.g. encylopedia)

Question 23

PHAG-

Answer 23

to eat (e.g. autophagus)

Question 24

PHIL-

Answer 24

to love, have an affinity for (e.g. philanthropy)

Question 25

POLY-

Answer 25

many, much (e.g. polygamy)

Question 26

TARS-

Answer 26

instep, edge of the eye (e.g. hypotarus)