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What is an orthographic word |
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A word surrounded by white space on either side
Ex: phone
NOT: work out |
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Which of the following are NOT content words:
nouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions
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What are examples of function words? |
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Prepositions, determiners, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions (sometimes pronouns) |
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to know
(ex: cognition, agnostic, ignorant)
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to write
(ex: scribe, scripture) |
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to make lines, write, record
(ex: telegraph, telegram) |
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English gets words through: (3) |
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1) Borrowing/Loan words
2) Derived or Created words
3) Native/Inherited words |
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Of the 1,000 most frequent words in English, what percent are native English? |
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Of the 100 most frequent words in the English language, what percent of them are native English? |
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What are some examples of word creation processes? |
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Derivation
Zero Derivation
Compound (Syntactic, Lexical)
Blending
Clipping
Backformation
Acronym
Eponym
Reduplication |
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What is the word creation process: derivation? |
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Adding a prefix/suffix
(ex: treat - mistreat) |
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What is the word creation process: zero derivation? |
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A shift in word class
(ex: brown the meat - brown shoes) |
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What is the word creation process: Syntactic compound |
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A compound that has a transparent meaning |
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What is the word creation process: Lexical compound |
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A compound that has a new, unique meaning that must be looked up |
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What is the word creation process: blending? |
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Parts of words combined
(ex: liger, smog) |
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What is the word creation process: clipping? |
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Shortening the word with the same meaning
(ex: cellphone - cell) |
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What is the word creation process: backformation? |
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Taking off the mock-suffix to create a new word
(ex: "babysit" from "babysitter") |
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What are the kinds of word creation processes in acronyms? (4) |
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1) Word acronyms (NASA)
2) Spelling acronyms (FBI)
3) Mixed acronyms (CD-ROM)
4)Reverse/Imitative acronyms (WAGE) |
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What is the word creation process: eponym? |
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It comes from somewhere or something
(ex: Fahrenheit, magnet) |
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to feel, suffer; illness
(apathy, pathetic) |
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feel, agree, think
(assent, sense) |
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think, remind, warn
(mentality, admonish, mnemonic, mind) |
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Of the 10,000 most frequently used words in English, what percent are native English? |
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Of the top ____ most frequently used English words, what percent are native English?
100
1,000
10,000 |
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What are the periods of English language history? |
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Old English (450-1066)
Middle English (1066-1476)
Early Modern English (1476-1776)
Modern English (1776-present) |
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What is the history of the Old English period? |
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Celts came to England but had little effect on language. Germanic language reigned. Viking/Scandinavian words borrowed. |
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What is the history of the Middle English period?
(1066-1476) |
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Norman Conquest: Duke of Normandy overthrows English king. French begins to infultrate english language. English begins to reemerge in 1200s. Over 10,000 borrowed French words (Norman/Anglo French and Central/Parisian French). Other borrowings include Latin and Low German. |
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What is the history of the Early Modern English period? (1476-1776) |
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1476: Moveable-type printing press. Books become mor available, literacy increases. English Renaissance, lots of borrowing from Latin and Greek languages. Dictionaries begin to be written. |
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look, see
(speculum, spectator, suspicion, skeptic, microscope) |
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speak, give
(indicate, dictate) |
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fit, suitable, capable
(adapt, attitude, inept) |
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foot
(biped, antipode, octopus) |
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bind, tie
(ligature, religion, ligament) |
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What are characteristics of derivational affixes? |
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prefixes and suffixes
create new words
more than one d.affix may be added |
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What are characteristics of inflectional affixes? |
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only suffixes
add gramatical info
only one per word
(-ed, -ing, -en, -s, -s, -'s, -er, -est) |
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speak, call
(vocal, evoke) |
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ask, seek
(question, query, inquisitive, inquire) |
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sing
(recant, incentive, enchanted) |
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eye, sight, look at
(myopia, optometry, biopsy) |
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hear
(audible, audience, audit) |
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name
(misnomer, nominate, anonymous) |
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What languages did we borrow from during the: Old English period? |
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Norse
Celtic placenames
Latin (religion, education) |
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What languages did we borrow from during the: Middle English period? |
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French, Latin, Greek, Dutch/Low German |
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What languages did we borrow from during the: Early Modern English period? |
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Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, French, German, etc |
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Why does English deviate from "ideal spelling"? |
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-Keep loanwords spelled the same
-Transparency: consistent forms of morphemes
-Letters serving as markers for pronunciation
-Unstressed vowels reduced to a ∂ (schwa) |
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flesh
(carnal, carrion, caruncle) |
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body, flesh
(corporal, corpse, corpus) |
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What was the first English dictionary, and who was it meant for? |
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(1604) "A Table Alphabetical"
contained words that educated people may struggle with |
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self, same
(automatic, tautology) |
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same, even
(homogeneous, homeostatic) |
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birth, source, origin
(gene, genetic, genre, oxygen)
tribe, nation, type
(genius, genuine, generous) |
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Homonyms have the ___ sound, ____ spelling and ____ origins. |
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Same sound, same spelling, different origins |
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Polysemes have the ____ sound, ____ spelling, and ____ origins. |
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Same sound, same spelling, same origins |
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Heteronyms have the ___ spelling and ___ sound. |
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Same spelling, different sound |
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A hammer is a type of tool:
a) Hyponym, hypernym
b) Hypernym, hyponym
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a)
a HYPONYM is a subset of a HYPERNYM |
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What are the 7 kinds of semantic changes? |
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1) Broadening
2) Narrowing
3) Amelioration/Bettering
4) Pejoration/Degeneration
5) Abstraction
6) Concretization
7) Shift in Denotation/Meaning Shift |
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light, rise
(levitate, relieve) |
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Who is the god: Poseidon? |
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God of water, earthquakes |
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Who is the goddess: Demeter? |
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Goddess of harvest, fertility, and seasons |
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Who is the goddess: Athena? |
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Goddess of wisdom and war strategy |
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Who is the goddess: Artemis/Diana? |
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Who is the goddess: Aphrodite? |
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Goddess of love and fertility |
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God of blacksmithing and fire |
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Who is the god: Diomisis? |
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God of wine, ecstacy, and pleasure |
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What is this medical suffix: -logist? |
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What is this medical suffix: -osis
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What is this medical suffix: -iasis
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What is this medical suffix: -pathy
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Diseased condition; treatment |
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What is this medical suffix: -itis?
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What is this medical suffix: -plegia?
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What is this medical suffix: -algia?
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What is this medical suffix: -odynia?
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What is this medical suffix: -rrhea?
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What is this medical suffix: -gen?
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What is this medical suffix: -genic
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What is this medical suffix: -tomy?
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What is this medical suffix: -ectomy
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What is this medical suffix: -stomy?
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
bone |
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
muscle
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
blood
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
skin
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cuti- / derma- / dermato- |
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
nerve
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
head
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
brain
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
eye
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
ear
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
nose
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
tongue
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lingua- / glotto- / glosso |
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
teeth
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
heart
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
lung
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
kidney |
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
liver
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
stomach
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What is the Latin/Greek combining form for:
abdomen
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
veno- |
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
phlebo-
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
arterio-
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
vaso-
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
spiro-
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
pneuo-
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
pneumo-
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
jugulo-
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
tracheo-
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
broncho-
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
pleuro-
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membrane encasing each lung |
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
thoraco-
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
thoraco-
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
pepto-
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
-trophy
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
-orexia
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What does this Greek/Latin form mean:
hyst
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Put these parts of the small and large intestine in order:
colon jejunum cecum
ileum dudodenum rectum pylorus |
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pylorus, dudodenum, jejunum, ileum, cecum, colon, rectum |
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
adeno-
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
blasto-
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Denoting a seed or embryo |
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
cyto-
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
cysto-
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
histo-
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
myelo-
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Denoting bone marrow or spinal cord |
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
tricho-
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
-penia
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
-plasia
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
brachy-
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
brady-
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
lepto-
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
malaco- |
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
pachy-
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
platy-
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
sclero-
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
tachy-
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What does this Latin/Greek form mean:
xero-
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How should a medical word be analyzed? |
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1) Divide into components
2) Look at suffix
3) Look at prefix
4) Look at the root |
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