SAT Vocabulary 4 ex 3

The root petr means “stone”

The root sist means “to stand,” “to stop,” or “to set”

The suffix ous means “full of”

The roots viv and vit mean “to live”

The root glyph means “to carve”

The suffix sub means “under”

The suffix id means “tending to”

The suffix al means “pertaining to”

1. Provide literal translations of the following words:

a. vivid d. revitalize

b. vivacious e. exist

c. vital f. insist

2. Someone or something that has been turned to stone is __________. A(n)________

Would be a good place to find petroglyphs, and it would also be a good place to practice petrology, which is the study of ______________.

3. Subsist literally translates to “stand under.” Explain how subsist, which means “to maintain life,” evolved from “stand under.”

4. We use the term ___________ to describe oils that we extract from the earth to use as fuel.