Vocabulary Ch.1
Terms
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- acronym
- a word formed from the first letter of each word in a series
- affix
- to attach a part to the beginning or end of a word
- coinage
- a newly invented word or phrase
- colloquial
- informal language usage
- diminutive
- a suffix indicating small size
- metonymy
- the use of a closely related word as a substitute
- oxymoron
- an expression that contains contradictory terms
- palindrome
- a word spelled the same backward and forward
- portmanteau word
- a word formed from two other words
- spoonerism
- a comical switching of the first sounds of words
- a-, an-
- without
- arch-, arthro-
- of or in the joints
- -ase
- termination denoting a ferment or enzyme
- calor-
- heat
- cerebro-
- pertaining to the large part of the brain
- caud-, cauda
- tail
- cephalo-, -caphalic
- head
- chrom-
- colored
- chloro-
- green
- -cyt
- cell
- -derm
- skin
- di-
- two, twice
- echino-
- spiny, prickly
- em-, en-, endo-, in-
- in, into
- epi-
- upon
- erythro-
- red
- -gamet
- sex cell
- hema-, hemo
- blood
- hippo-, -hippus
- horse
- hypo-
- under, less than, below
- ichthy-
- fish
- inter
- between, together
- -ism
- action, face, act of doing
- leuco-, leuk
- white
- -lys-, -lyt-
- break down, destroy
- meso-
- middle
- myo-
- muscle
- -nema
- round, thread-like
- -opia
- sight
- -osis
- a process
- -os-, -osteo
- bone
- ovi-, ovo-
- egg, ovum
- peri-
- around near
- phago-, phag
- to eat
- -phyll
- leaf
- platy
- flat, broad, wide
- pseudo-
- false
- pulmo-
- lung
- -pus-, -pes, -ped, -pod
- foot
- -scler
- hardness, stiffness
- -som-
- body
- sym-, syn-
- to join, combine
- thig-
- touch, contact
- thorac-, -thorax
- chest, thorax
- -trophism
- response to a stimulus
- -vacci-
- cow