Here is a worksheet on the Latin word roots lun and luni. They mean, you will probably not be surprised to hear, moon. These show up quite a bit in English (lunar, lunatic, interlunar, etc.).
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Here is a word root worksheet on the Greek word root kilo–, which means thousand. This turns up all over the place in English, particularly in metric measurements like kilometer and kiloton. I expect this is a word root students should know for work in the hard sciences–even in a high school classroom.
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OK, here is a worksheet on the Latin word roots lud and lus; they mean, interestingly, to play. These roots produce words in English like allude, collude, delude, and prelude. In other words, what’s at play when using these words is human understanding and consciousness. I’ve never used this in the classroom. As you can see, there is a big linguistic and imaginative leap needed to get to the meaning of these roots–and indeed the words themselves, which represent advanced acts of understanding.
Use cautiously and with a great deal of support, I counsel.
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“Zeitgeist: The characteristic spirit (Geist) of a historical era (Zeit). Eighteenth-century philosophers like Voltaire were intrigued by the idea of ‘the spirit of the age,’ but it was most fully developed by Hegel. Philosophies and works of art, he argued, cannot transcend the spirit or the age in which they are produced. Their expression is always symbolic and imperfect, and the progress of the human spirit is marked by the greater or lesser degree to which it captures the absolute spirit, or truth itself, beyond the limitations of any particular era. The term Zeitgeist has come to be used more loosely to describe the general cultural qualities of any period, such as ‘the sixties’ or ‘the romantic era,’ and does not carry the strong historicist connotations of Hegelian philosophy.”
Excerpted from: Marshall, Gordon, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Moving right along on this chilly Sunday afternoon, here is a word root worksheet worksheet on the Greek roots gon and gonio. Math teachers, you know these roots–which mean angle–because they show up in words like pentagon and polygon. These are, needless to say, very productive roots in English.
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Moving right along on this chilly afternoon, here is a worksheet on the Greek root gastr/o. It means, as you probably already inferred, stomach. It’s a very productive root in the English language, particularly for people entering the health sciences and culinary arts professions.
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Can you use this worksheet on the Latin word root ego? It means, you probably won’t be surprised to hear, self. It’s a good word–and a better concept–for adolescents to understand.
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Here’s a worksheet on the Latin word root pel. It means, simply, to drive. You’ll find it at the base of such commonly used English words as compel and expel.
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OK, here’s a worksheet the Greek word root erg/o. It means work. You’ll find it at the base of technical words like ergonomic.
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OK, health care professions students, here is a worksheet on the Greek root endo-, which means, simply, inside. That’s why endocrinologists deal with those glands buried deep inside your body. This is, of course, another of those roots that produces a lot of words related to health care, so if you have students looking at careers in that profession, here’s another Greek root they should probably know.
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