Tag Archives: foreign languages/linguistics

A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Cryo

Here is a short word root exercise on the Greek root cryo; it means cold. Now you can explain what it means that baseball legend Ted Williams is in cryogenic storage.

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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Caust- and Caut-

If you’re teaching the Holocaust or related issues to your students, and you want to delve deeper into meaning of that Greek word, you might find this short exercise on the Greek word roots caust and caut useful. Otherwise, it’s a quick and systematic way to build vocabulary. In either case, it means to burn. You’ll see these roots showing up in words like holocaust and cauterize.

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A Greek and Latin Word Root Master List for Roots Appearing on Mark’s Text Terminal

Although I’ve posted this document  in the Word Roots Worksheets section of the About Weekly Texts page on the masthead here at Mark’s Text Terminal, here again is my master list of Greek and Latin word roots at the request of several students in my Wednesday institute class. You guys here at HSE&F, Just click on that hyperlink, and the document will download to the desktop of your computer. Anyone else interested in this document, do the same.

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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Lip/o

The other day I used this this short word root exercise on the Greek root lip/o in one of my first classes for the year. It means, as its definitions show, fat, which explains how liposuction got its name. It occurred to me that it might be a useful do-now worksheet for science teachers, so here it is.

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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Rhin/o

Here is a short exercise on the Greek word root rhin/o. For those of you who don’t watch “South Park” (home of “Tom’s Rhinoplasty”!), this root means nose. This is another root that shows up in words used extensively in the healthcare professions. If you have students expressing interest in working in healthcare, this is a root they ought to know.

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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Crani/o

Here is a short worksheet on the Greek word root crani/o. Your students will very likely recognize quickly that it means skull and cranium. Along the way, however, they’ll expand their vocabulary with some common medical terms–particularly helpful if they are interested in careers in healthcare.

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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Helic/o

Here is a short worksheet on the Greek word root helic/o. It means spiral and circular. This is a particularly productive root in vocabulary in mathematics and the life sciences.

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Cultural Literacy: Xenophobia

Here, for what I assume are obvious reasons besides a complement to the worksheet on the Greek word root xen/o (foreign) I posted a couple of days ago, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on xenophobia.

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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Arthr/o

Here is a short worksheet on the Greek word root arthr/o, which means joint. Now you know the origin of the word arthritis. This is a word root for students interested in the health care professions, if nobody else.

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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Xen/o

Here is another worksheet that deals with timely topics, this one a short exercise on the Greek word root xen/o. It means foreign. It is at the root of the word xenophobia, “fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.” You know, that affliction to which we in the United States occasionally fall ill.

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