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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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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You might find this short exercise on the Greek word roots hect, hecto, and hecat useful for getting a class started. It means hundred.
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Here is a worksheet on the Greek word root dactyl/o. It means finger, toe, and digit (which may require some explaining, or perhaps a context clues worksheet to explain what digit means in this context).
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“In a hundred years the histories of French literature will only mention (this work) as a curio.”
Emile Zola, in Emile Zola 1953
Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
Unlike other short exercises on word roots I’ve composed, this worksheet on the Greek word root chrys/o may be one of the toughest from which to infer a meaning. It means gold or yellow, but that isn’t as readily apparent from the patterns of language in the definitions as some of the other worksheets of this type you’ll find on Mark’s Text Terminal.
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Here is a worksheet on the Greek word root cyan/o. It means blue. It’s one of those roots found in scientific terms, particularly in medicine.
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This worksheet on the Greek word root pseud/o seems to me de rigeur for the high school classroom. It is a very productive root which means, of course, false. This root is easily appended to many nouns, which makes it possible for us to call someone like the presidential advisor “Dr.” Sebastian Gorka a pseudointellectual.
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Here, if you happen to need it for your global studies class, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Pax Romana.
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Here is a worksheet on the Greek word roots dont and odont/o. If you’ve ever worn braces or needed treatment for gum disease (i.e. with an orthodontist or periodontist), you will recognize right away that this productive root means both tooth and teeth.
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