Vocab List 1 (suffixes)

Question 1

-al

Answer 1

pertaining to, like (biological)

Question 2

-an, -ian

Answer 2

pertaining to, like (protozoan)

Question 3

-ous, -ious

Answer 3

full of, having, like (carnivorous)

Question 4

-ic, -tic, -ac

Answer 4

pertaining to, like (cardiac)

Question 5

-ics, -tics

Answer 5

art, science or study of (physics)

Question 6

-oid, -ode

Answer 6

like, having the shape of (spheroid)

Question 7

-aemia, -emia

Answer 7

condition of the blood, congestion of blood (leukemia)

Question 8

-logy

Answer 8

science of (psychology)

Question 9

-lysis

Answer 9

dissolution of or by, surgical division (hydrolysis)

Question 10

-mania

Answer 10

madness for or about (kleptomania)

Question 11

-pathy

Answer 11

disease of, treatment of disease by (hydropathy)

Question 12

-phobia

Answer 12

abnormal fear of (agoraphobia)

Question 13

-theraphy

Answer 13

treatment of or by (chemotherapy)

Question 14

-tomy

Answer 14

surgical operation on, surgical cutting of (lobotomy)

Question 15

-ectomy

Answer 15

surgical operation, surgical removal of (tonsillectomy)

Question 16

-uria

Answer 16

condition of the urine (acetonuria)

Question 17

-genous, -genic

Answer 17

producing, produced (photogenic)

Question 18

-hedron

Answer 18

solid figure having a specified # of faces (tetrahedron)

Question 19

-iasis

Answer 19

diseased condition often by parasite infection (psoriasis)

Question 20

-meter, -metry

Answer 20

science of measuring, to measure (spectophotometry)

Question 21

-nomy

Answer 21

science of, system of laws governing (astronomy)

Question 22

-oecious

Answer 22

having a house/dwelling (monoecious)

Question 23

-philous, philic

Answer 23

loving, thriving in (hydrophilic)

Question 24

-plasty

Answer 24

formation, plastic surgery operation (rhinoplasty)

Question 25

-rrhoea

Answer 25

flux, abnormal flow of (gonorrhoea)