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- geo
- (the study of places on the earth)/ (the study ot the earth's physical features)
- Meter
- Unit of measure/ device to measure volts
- Proto
- the main character in a story/ the first model made
- Vid, Vis
- To overseeor watch over/ record on tape for viewing
- flex
- (able to bend)/ (bending or springing back
- Zoo
- a place where animals are kept/ the study of animal life
- am, amkor
- (friendly)/ (loving)
- aster
- (star flower)/ (starlike symbol [*] )
- bibl
- (sacred book of Christianity)
- Tend, tens
- to stretch and make longer/ the act or stretching something tight
- aud
- (can be herd)/ (a place to listern to speeches and performances
- log, logo
- (speech between two people)/ (thinking or reasoning)
- dynam
- (powerful explosive)/ (power producer)
- Sphere
- half of a sphere, one of the halves of the earth
- hum
- (to take out kof the earth)/ (earth;dirt)
- cred
- (capable of being believed)/ (unbelievable)
- Phil
- City of brotherly love/ the love of wisdom
- Pac
- Peaceful/ person who is against war
- Migra
- Person who moves to another country/ person who moves form place to place
- Onym
- Without a name/ false name
- bio
- (book about a person's life)/ (list of books)
- Tox
- poisoned inside; drunk/ poisonous
- Vor
- Flesh-eating/ plant-eating
- Ver, Vers
- To turn aside/ to turn back
- luc, lum
- (to light up)/ (letting light come through)
- Spir
- To breathe out; die/ to breathe into; give life to
- Voc
- to speak, sing, or call/ the way a person earns a living; a person's calling
- Multi
- Of or including many cultures/ an animal with many feet
- ject
- (to throw out)/ (to throw forward)
- corp
- (a legal body; business)/ (a small world)
- Threm
- related to heat/ a device for controlling heat
- Path, pathy
- Feeling for another/ father figure
- fract, frag
- (to brake)/ ( a piece broken from the whole)
- anthrop
- (like or of a human being)/ (the study of humankind)
- Mob, Mot
- movable/ being moved ahead in rank or performance
- cord, cor
- (heartfelt)/ (relationg to the heart)
- homo
- (of the same birth or kind)/ (to blend into a uniform mixture)
- Port
- To carry out/ able to be carried
- ale, alter
- (a person's other name)/ (another choice)
- mania
- (abnormal desire to steal)/ (an insane person)
- Tract
- The act of pulling/ a machine for pulling
- cide
- (the killing of one person by another person)/ (pest [bug] killer)
- Mort
- Something that never dies/ subject to death; causing death
- Tele
- Machine used to speak to people over a distance/ machine used to see things that are very far away
- fin
- (the last of something)/ (having no end)
- Mon
- To warn or remind/ a structure used as a reminder of a person or an event
- Scope
- Instrument for viewing patterns and shapes/ instrument used to see above the water
- cise
- (a thin, clean cut)/ (the teeth that cut or tear food)/ (cut exactly right)
- Val
- Of equal worth/ to find out the worth of
- Spec
- To look at carefully/ an example to look at
- Mem
- a note or reminder/ a reminder of a person or an event
- Phobia
- a fear of high places. a fear of public, open places
- Tom
- the science of cutting apart plants and animals for study/ a particle that cannot be cut or divided
- Mar
- of or found in the sea/ sailor
- fide
- (having faith or trust in oneself)/ (faithfulness to a person or cause)
- Viv
- to bring back to life/ full of life
- man
- (to fix the hands)/ (done by hand)
- Photo
- a story told mainly with photographs/ picture made using light rays
- Tact, tag
- touch/ spreading disease by touching
- Sequ, secu
- one thing following another
- flu
- (flowing smoothly or easily)/ (waterlike, flowing substance)
- Nov
- A new ideal/ to make like new again
- Ped
- Lever worked by the foot/ one who travels by foot
- Strict
- A large snake that coils around its prey and squeezes it to death/ to draw tightly together
- leg
- (related to the law)/ (people who make laws)
- Psych
- The study of the mind/ the science of mind and behavior
- greg
- (a group that functions together)/ (togroup apart)
- Phon
- related to sounds/ sounds made together
- dem
- (ruled by the people)/ (affecting many people at the same time)
- hetero
- (different in birth or kinds)/(having interest in the opposite sex)
- graph
- (writing one's name)/ (the study of hand-writing)
- forc, fort
- (strenght or power)/ (to make strong)
- equi
- (day and night of equal length)/ (the same or equal to)
- Omni
- Present everywhere at the same time/ eating all kinds of food
- chrome
- (having one color)/ (having many colors)
- Tempo
- from the current time period/ lasting for a short time
- Numer
- Too many to count/ large in number
- cosm
- (the universe or world)/ (a small world)
- grad
- (step-by-step)/ (talking the next step)
- Sci
- being aware/ knowing everything
- dent, dont
- (false teeth)/ (dentist who straightens teeth)
- dic, dict
- (a book of words that people use or say)/ (to tell about something in advance)
- Vac
- Empty/ am ampty space
- gen
- (existing at birth)/ (the study of inborn traits)
- Terra
- the earth or ground/ relating to the earth
- Scrib, Script
- Something written by hand/ to write quickly
- Typ
- the first printing or model/ a printing error
- derm
- (the study of skin)/ (outer layer of skin)
- anni, annu, enni
- (happening at the same time once a year)/ (happenining once a year)/ (happening one evry 100 years)
- cycl, cyclo
- (a vehicle with two wheels)/ (a very stropn circular wind)
- Medi
- Between good and bad; average/ in the middle
- Neur
- A doctor who treats the nervous system/ surgery on part of the nervous system
- chron
- (in time order)/ (to make happen at hte same time)
- Pop
- the number of people in an area/ full of people
- hab, habit
- (the place in which one lives)/ (to live in)
- fac, fact
- (a place where people make things)/ (to make by hand or machine)
- Pend
- A hanging object/ a hanging weight that swings back and forth
- Mit, Miss
- to send out; give off/ sending over
- Nat
- Present from birth/ birth
- Sen
- Showing old age/ an old person
- hydr
- (to take the water out of )/ (the fear kof water)
- Rupt
- to break into/ to break
- magn
- (great)/ (to make bigger or greater)