Unit 3

Question 1

aut/opsy (n)

Answer 1

AUT, AUTH, AUTO OF, OR for oneself: self-propelled. Autopsy is an examination to determine the cause of death:

Question 2

auth/or (n)

Answer 2

The original writer of a book, document, story etc

Question 3

auto/bio/graphy (n)

Answer 3

An account of one’s life written by yourself. Biography is when someone else writes about you.

Question 4

auto/mobile (n)

Answer 4

A vehicle once started “moves by itself”

Question 5

bi/annu/al (adj)

Answer 5

Something that takes place twice a year:

Question 6

bi/camer/al (adj)

Answer 6

Something that is made up of two chambers (a large room used for formal or public events). Like the Congress of the United States.

Question 7

bi/cent/ennial (adj)

Answer 7

Something that happens every 200 years. Like a bicentennial celebration. For example in 1976 the United States celebrated its bicentennial.

Question 8

bi/ennial (adj)

Answer 8

Something that LASTS for 2 years. Like a biennial war.
adjective
1. taking place every other year.
“summit meetings are normally biennial”
2. (especially of a plant) living or lasting for two years.

noun: biennial; plural noun: biennials
1. a plant that takes two years to grow from seed to fruition and die.
2. an event celebrated or taking place every two years.

Question 9

bi/foc/al/s (n)

Answer 9

Reading glasses having one part that corrects for viewing distant objects an another part for close objects.

Question 10

bi/gamy (n)

Answer 10

marrying someone while already married to someone else. Monogamy (married to one person) Polygamy (having more than one partner)

Question 11

bi/lingu/al (adj)

Answer 11

Being able to speak two languages. Canada is a bilingual country. They speak English and in parts like Quebec, they speak French. Ireland is also a bilingual country. Irish and English are spoken. If you say someone is bilingual (noun) they are able to speak two languages.

Question 12

bi/ped (n)

Answer 12

Two footed animal as in humans. Remember bi is two and ped is short for the latin word for feet. pedibus

Question 13

bi/plane

Answer 13

A two-winged airplane.
Monoplane (one) means an airplane with one pair of wings. Triplane (three wings stacked up) A triplane is a fixed-wing aircraft equipped with three vertical stacked wing planes. Look up picture online .

Question 14

bi/pod

Answer 14

Means two-legged support. Like those used to support machine guns.

Question 15

bi/sect

Answer 15

To cut or to divide into two parts. In Geometry, it means into two equal parts: as to bisect an angle.

Question 16

bi/week/ly (a)

Answer 16

Taking place once every two weeks.

Question 17

bin/ocul/ar

Answer 17

Pertaining to (related to) two eyes. Mono (one) for, or in one eye, Multocular (more than one)

Question 18

bis/cuit

Answer 18

Something that has been cooked twice. Italian biscotti (twice-baked almond biscuit) Zwieback - German zwei (“two”) literally means twice-baked.

Question 19

billion (n)

Answer 19

The number named by a unit with nine zeros after it. 1000 millions: 1 , 000,000,000

Question 20

bi/opsy

Answer 20

In medicine, the examination of a piece of living tissue generally through a microscope.

Question 21

bio/graphy

Answer 21

An account of one’s life written by someone else.

Question 22

bio/logy

Answer 22

The science dealing with life and living organisms.

Question 23

amphi/bious

Answer 23

Capable of living in water or on land, as frogs, beavers etc.