EVERYDAY SPELLING – 8th grade Name______
Lesson 4: “Greek Word Parts”
______1. ______a. lasting a long time; suffering long from an illness
______2. ______b. a colorless, odorless, gaseous element. It combines with oxygen to form water.
______3. ______c. A line segment passing from one side through the center of a circle or sphere to the other side.
______4. ______d. A unit of length equal to 1/100th of a meter.
______5. ______e. a large upright cylinder with a valve for drawing water directly from a water main, a water plug
______6. ______f. taking water or moisture from
______7. ______g. occur at the same time; agree in time; exactly together
______8. ______h. instrument to indicate the speed of an automobile or other vehicle, and often the distance traveled
______9. ______i. A container made with a vacuum between its inner and outer walls so that its contents remain hot or cold
_____10. ______j. instrument for measuring the temperature of a body or of space
_____11. ______k. an automatic device for regulating temperature, usually connected to an air conditioner or furnace
_____12. ______l. an abnormal fear of water
_____13. ______m. a regular, balanced arrangement on opposite sides of a line or plane or around the center or axis
_____14. ______n. of or having to do with heat
_____15. ______o. intsrument for measuring the pressure of air; used for predicting probable changes in weather
_____16. ______p. operated by the pressure of water or other liquids at rest or in motion
_____17. ______q. of or having to do with heat
_____18. ______r. a branch of mathematics that studies the relationship of points, lines, angles, and surfaces of figures in space
_____19. ______s. arranged in order of time; another word for time order
_____20. ______t. the history of events based on their time order
_____21. ______u. device that can be adjusted to make loud ticking sounds at different speeds
_____22. ______v. not balanced on each side
_____23. ______w. using force due to heat or to the conversion of heat into other forms of energy
_____24. ______x. having to do with the fusion of atoms through very high temperature, as in the hydrogen bomb
_____25. ______y. Instrument for measuring very short intervals of time accurately