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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Rhin/o

Posted on September 6, 2017 | Leave a comment

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

Posted on July 8, 2017 | Leave a comment

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

Posted on July 7, 2017 | Leave a comment

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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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Arthr/o

Posted on July 6, 2017 | Leave a comment

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

Posted on July 5, 2017 | Leave a comment

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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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Roots Hect-, Hecto- and Hecat-

Posted on July 5, 2017 | Leave a comment

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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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Dactyl/o

Posted on July 4, 2017 | Leave a comment

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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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Chrys/o

Posted on July 3, 2017 | Leave a comment

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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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Cyan/o

Posted on July 3, 2017 | Leave a comment

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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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Pseud/o

Posted on July 3, 2017 | Leave a comment

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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