Module 5 Quiz

Question 1

Academy

Answer 1

A school or learned society

Question 2

Arcadian

Answer 2

Simple, peaceful, rustic

Question 3

Croesus

Answer 3

A very rich man

(Croesus, like Midas, was a very wealthy king of Asia Minor)

Question 4

Cynic

Answer 4

One who sarcastically doubts human motives

(Like the Greek school of thought)

Question 5

Draconian

Answer 5

Extremely severe

(In Athens, Draco made extremely severe laws. For example, he made stealing a cabbage punishable by death.)

Question 6

Epicure, epicurean

Answer 6

A person of refined taste in matters of food and drink

(Epicurus was the founder of the epicurean school of thought that believed the supreme goal of life should be pleasure)

Question 7

To cut the Gordian knot

Answer 7

To solve a difficult problem by direct and drastic means

(Alexander the great cut King Gordius’ intricate knot)

Question 8

Laconic

Answer 8

Brief, concise

(Laconia was another name for Sparta, where the soldiers were characteristically blunt and decisive men of few words)

Question 9

Mausoleum

Answer 9

A large tomb

(King Mausolus was encapsulated in a magnificent tomb)

Question 10

Meander

Answer 10

To follow a winding course; the Greek-key design

Question 11

Ostracism

Answer 11

Exclusion from society

Question 12

Philippic

Answer 12

A bitter denunciation

(Demosthenes denounced Phillip of Macedonia through a series of orations. These orations were called the philippics)

Question 13

A phyrrhic victory

Answer 13

A victory won at too great a cost

(Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, won a battle against the Romans, but at the cost of the majority of his army)

Question 14

Solecism

Answer 14

A substandard usage of language, a social blunder

(The Soli colony was extremely barbaric)

Question 15

Sophistry, sophism

Answer 15

Clever but deceptive argumentation meant to mislead

Question 16

Spartan

Answer 16

Rigorous, austere, disciplined

Question 17

Stoic

Answer 17

Impassive (not feeling or showing emotion)

Question 18

Sword of Damocles

Answer 18

A constantly threatening danger

(He had a sword hung over his head by a single thread to illustrate how it feels to be a dictator)

Question 19

Sybarite

Answer 19

One devoted to luxury and pleasure

(Sybaris was a Greek colony in southern Italy famed for its wealth and luxurious living)

Question 20

-ast, -st

Answer 20

one who does

Ex: Gymnast

Question 21

-t, -te

Answer 21

he who; that which

Ex: poet, athlete

Question 22

-y, -ia

Answer 22

quality of, state of, act of

Ex: philosophy, anemia

Question 23

All-

Answer 23

other

Ex: parallel

Question 24

Cac-

Answer 24

bad

ex: cacogenics

Question 25

Cau(s)-

Answer 25

to burn Ex: cauterize

Question 26

Cla-

Answer 26

to break Ex: iconoclast

Question 27

Do-

Answer 27

to give Ex: dose, antidote

Question 28

Erg-, urg-

Answer 28

to work ex: energy

Question 29

Lat(e)r-

Answer 29

to worship excessively, be fanatically devoted Ex: idolater, idolatry (like the word idolize)

Question 30

path-

Answer 30

to feel, suffer; disease Ex: sympathy; pathology

Question 31

Phy-

Answer 31

to grow Ex: neophyte

Question 32

Physi-

Answer 32

nature Ex: physiology

Question 33

Sta-

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to stand, stop Ex: static

Question 34

The-

Answer 34

to place, put Ex: thesis, synthetic

Question 35

-ma, -m, -me

Answer 35

result of; thing that is the result of Ex: drama

Question 36

-sis-, -se, -sy, -sia

Answer 36

act of; state of; result of Ex: Analysis; amnesia

Question 37

Andr-

Answer 37

man, male Ex: androgenic

Question 38

Kine-, Cine-

Answer 38

to move Ex: kinetic, cinema

Question 39

Gen(e)-

Answer 39

Kind, race Ex: genealogy

Question 40

Gyn(e)-

Answer 40

woman, female Ex: gynecology

Question 41

Idi-

Answer 41

one's own; peculiar Ex: idiot, idiosyncracy

Question 42

Lith-, lite-

Answer 42

stone- Ex: lithograph (print onto stone)

Question 43

Mis-

Answer 43

hatred Ex: misanthrope

Question 44

Phe(m)-, Pha-

Answer 44

to speak Ex: prophet

Question 45

Schiz-, schis-

Answer 45

to split Ex: schizophrenia

Question 46

Stere-

Answer 46

solid; three-dimensional Ex: stereotype (a customary way of thinking that’s rigid [solid])

Question 46

Stere-

Answer 46

solid; three-dimensional Ex: stereograph

Question 47

Typ-

Answer 47

stamp, model Ex: typographical, typical

Question 48

logy-

Answer 48

science of; systematic study of Ex: biology

Question 49

-nomy

Answer 49

science of; system of laws governing Ex: astronomy

Question 50

-cracy

Answer 50

rule by; type of government Ex: democracy

Question 51

-crat

Answer 51

one who advocates or practices rules by Ex: democrat

Question 52

Aut-

Answer 52

self Ex: autonomy

Question 53

gastr-

Answer 53

intestine Ex: gastrointestinal tract

Question 54

Heli-

Answer 54

sun Ex: helios (god of the sun)

Question 55

Ide-

Answer 55

thought, idea Ex: ideal, ideation

Question 56

Manc-, mant-

Answer 56

to divine by means of Ex: emancipate, pyromancy

Question 57

Micr-

Answer 57

small, one millionth part of Ex: microscope

Question 58

Necr-

Answer 58

the dead, corpse, dead tissue Ex: necromancy

Question 59

Pal(a)e-

Answer 59

old Ex: paleontology

Question 60

Pseud-

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false Ex: pseudoscience

Question 61

psych-

Answer 61

mind Ex: psychology

Question 62

Trop-

Answer 62

to turn Ex: entropy

Question 63

-archy

Answer 63

rule by Ex: monarchy

Question 64

-arch

Answer 64

one who rules monarch

Question 65

-mania

Answer 65

madness about, passion for kleptomania

Question 66

-maniac

Answer 66

one having a passion or madness for kleptomaniac

Question 67

-phobia

Answer 67

abnormal fear or hatred of

Question 68

-phobe

Answer 68

one who fears or hates Homophobe

Question 69

Acr-

Answer 69

highest, the extremities acrobat

Question 70

Ego-

Answer 70

I egotistical

Question 71

Hier-

Answer 71

sacred hieroglyphic

Question 72

Hydr-

Answer 72

water hydropump

Question 73

mega(l)-

Answer 73

large, a million mega millions lottery

Question 74

Olig-

Answer 74

few oligarchy, oligopoly

Question 75

patr-

Answer 75

father patriot

Question 76

Patri-

Answer 76

family, clan patriarch

Question 77

Soph-

Answer 77

wise philosophy

Question 78

Tele-

Answer 78

afar, operating at a distance telephone

Question 79

Xen-

Answer 79

stranger, foreigner xenophobe

Question 80

Zo-

Answer 80

animal zoology

Question 81

-meter

Answer 81

measure, instrument for measuring, number of feet in poetry

Question 82

-metry

Answer 82

art or science of measuring geometry

Question 83

-graph

Answer 83

writing, instrument for writing telegraph

Question 84

-graphy

Answer 84

writing, art or science of writing calligraphy

Question 85

-gram

Answer 85

thing written telegram

Question 86

-scope

Answer 86

instrument for viewing, to view telescope

Question 87

Bar-

Answer 87

weight, pressure barometer (or like bar the pressure measurement)

Question 88

Cal(l)-, Kal(l)-

Answer 88

beauty calisthenics

Question 89

Is-

Answer 89

equal Isomer (compound with the same chemical formula but a different arrangement of atoms)

Question 90

Macr-

Answer 90

large macroeconomics

Question 91

Ora-

Answer 91

to see oracle

Question 92

Petr-

Answer 92

rock petrolium

Question 93

phot-

Answer 93

light photography

Question 94

top-

Answer 94

place utopia