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8th Grade Greek & La
Week 12
Question | Answer |
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BIOS | life (Greek) |
VIVO/VICTUM | live (Latin) |
MIKROS | small (Greek) |
MEGAS | great, large, big (Greek) |
MAGNUS | big, large, great (Latin) |
PATER/PATRIS | father (Latin) |
MATER/MATRIS | mother (Latin) |
biology | study of life |
biography | written life story |
autobiography | written life story of one's self |
antibiotic | against living forms which invade the body |
revive | come back to life |
survive | to live over or beyond a threat of death |
victual | food to support life |
victim | religious sacrifice of live animal or person |
microphone | device for transmitting a small sound over distance |
microbe | tiny form of life |
microscope | instrument for looking at tiny things |
microwave | tiny electro-magnetic wave between 1 and 100 centimeters long |
megaphone | device for making a sound larger (louder) |
megalith | huge rock (such as those in Stonehenge) |
megalophonous | having a big or loud sound or voice |
mega | in the metric system, a million times |
magnify | make larger |
magnitude | greatness |
magnificent | great in deed or character; lavish |
magnanimous | great in mind; above what is low, mean or ungenerous; noble in soul |
patriarch | chief father of a family or of a society |
patriotism | love for the fatherland |
patrimony | condition or estate inherited from one's fathers |
patron | one who acts like a father toward another |
matriarch | a woman who rules the family |
maternal grandparents | parents of one's mother |
alma mater | the "dear old school" from which one graduates |
matrimony | state from which motherhood develops |