Tag Archives: foreign languages/linguistics

Here is a worksheet on the Greek word root chron/o. It means, as you probably already know–but your students may not know–time. It’s an extremely productive root in English; as this worksheet shows, chron/o is at the base of a number of words that educated people know and routinely use: chronic, chronology, synchronize–this list could go on at some length.

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Here is a worksheet on the  Latin roots mal and male. They mean, as any Spanish speaker can tell you, bad, evil, ill, and wrong. These are very productive roots in English, yielding, among many, others, malevolent and malpractice.

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Here is a worksheet on the Greek roots cracy and crat. Unsurprisingly, they mean government, rule, and power–you know, like democracy, physiocrat, and kakistocracy.

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