Name:______Period:______

GREEK ROOTS – SET II WORKSHEET – FRESHMAN ENGLISH

PARTI: MATCHING – PAIR THE APPROPRIATE ROOT WITH ITS DEFINITION.

1._____ETHNO
2._____DEM
3. _____EU
4. _____GEO
5. _____GNO,KNO
6._____HYDRO
7. _____HYPNO
8. _____LITH
9. _____LOGUE, LOGO
10. ____METER,METR
11. ____MICRO
12. ____PHON
13. ____POLY
14. ____SCOPE
15. ____TOM, TOMY /
  1. idea, word, speech, reason
  2. to see
  3. stone
  4. many
  5. people
  6. nation
  7. sound, voice
  8. water
  9. sleep
  10. cutting, the operation of incision
  11. small
  12. measure
  13. good, well
  14. to know
  15. earth, ground

PART II: SENTENCE COMPLETION – USING YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF ROOTS AND THE CONTEXT CLUES PROVIDED, CHOOSE THE MOST APPROPRIATE WORD TO COMPLETE EACH SENTENCE.

  1. _____ The _____ is one of the smallest units of measurement.

Name:______Period:______

  1. diameter
  2. Decalogue
  3. monolith
  4. micrometer

Name:______Period:______

  1. _____ Before the invention of the electric speaker people played their music on a(n) _____ which translates grooves on a vinyl disk into sound waves which traveled through a horn-like cone.

Name:______Period:______

  1. spectroscope
  2. barometer
  3. phonograph
  4. geode

Name:______Period:______

  1. _____ At the Hoover Dam, water is forced through _____ turbines in order to generate a massive amount of electricity.

Name:______Period:______

  1. megalithic
  2. electrometric
  3. atomic
  4. hydraulic

Name:______Period:______

  1. _____Even though in most places it is illegal,people continue to practice _____,often taking many spouses.

Name:______Period:______

  1. monogamy
  2. polygamy
  3. lobotomy
  4. geology

Name:______Period:______

  1. _____Easter Island has some of the world’s most spectacular _____. There are hundreds of large stone heads scattered all over the island.

Name:______Period:______

  1. megaliths
  2. demagogues
  3. hydroids
  4. microbes

Name:______Period:______

  1. _____ At a funeral, the person closest to the deceased usually recites a _____ in which he/she reflects on good memories of the dead.

Name:______Period:______

  1. monologue
  2. dialogue
  3. effigy
  4. eulogy

Name:______Period:______

  1. _____Submarines will often use a(n) _____ to see what it happening above the surface.

Name:______Period:______

  1. hydroplane
  2. telemeter
  3. periscope
  4. monolingual

Name:______Period:______

  1. _____ Although Seth had been born in the United States, he thought of Israeli as his true _____ because his grandfather had come from that country.

Name:______Period:______

  1. ethnicity
  2. anatomy
  3. geography
  4. demography

Name:______Period:______

  1. _____ When Richard went to the doctor for a pain in his abdomen, he was told that he might have a(n) _____, but he was hesitant; he hated the thought of having something cut out of his body

Name:______Period:______

  1. endoscopy
  2. hypnotism
  3. euphemism
  4. appendectomy

Name:______Period:______

  1. _____ Henry had always wanted to be a(n) ____ so that he could study the Earth’s many complex and unique features.

Name:______Period:______

  1. demographer
  2. Gnostic
  3. geologist
  4. ethnographer