Number words/ prefixes(Lesson 11-13)
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- quadruped
- an animal with four feet
- bi-, di-
- two
- millennium
- a period of a thousand years; a hoped-for period of great happiness, peace, and prosperity
- oct-
- eight
- pentagon
- a figure having five sides and five angles
- cent-
- hundred
- penticle
- a five pointed star
- quint-, penta-
- five
- dilemma
- a situation requiring a choice between two alternatives
- centigrade
- divided into 100 degrees
- QUINTESSENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- THE PUREST OR MOST TYPICAL EXAMPLE... ORIGINALY MENT THE FITH ESSENCE(SPACE) THE 4 ESSENCES WERE FIRE, EARTH, WIND, AND WATER... MUST KNOW THIS WORD WORD FOR WORD
- deci-
- tenth
- dipterous
- having two wings
- hepta-, sep-
- seven
- monotony
- sameness; lack of variety
- demi-, hemi-, semi-
- half
- unilateral
- of, on, or by one side only
- ennea-,non-,novem-
- nine
- mono-, uni-
- one
- centi-
- hundredth
- ambi-, amphi-
- both, around
- kilometer
- a metric unit of lenght equal to 1,000 meters
- milli-
- thousandth
- ambiance
- an environment or atmosphere/feeling of a place
- centimeter
- a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter
- deca-
- ten
- quadr-, tetr-
- four
- kilo-, mili-
- thousand
- ambivalent
- having opposit and conflicting feelings about something; unsure
- ambiguous
- having two or more possible meanings; indefinite, puzziling
- ambidextrous
- able to use both hands equally well
- kilobyte
- a unit of capacity equal to 1,024 bytes; which are groups of binary numbers processed as units by a computer
- hexa-, ses-, sex-
- six
- tri-
- three