Greek Prefixes
1 A-, AN-: without
RootsSuffixes Derivatives
arch: chief or ruler of governmental: relating toabyss
byss: bottomia: conditionadamant
damant: subduedism: conditionamoral
em: bloodist: one whoanarchist
esthet: sensationize: verb endinganarchy
odyne: painy: state ofanemia
path: feelinganemic
the : godanesthetize
anodyne
`pathetic
asymmetrical
atheism
atheist
atypical
In the previous chapter you learned that an atheist is a person without a belief in God. The word is formed by adding the prefix ______to theist. If theism means having a belief in God, then the word meaning without a belief in God is ______.
Damant means “being subdued.” To be adamant means to be stubbornly opposed to or insistent upon something. If you are adamant that you have been overcharged at a store, are you likely to pay your bill or not?
To be apathetic about the fate of other human beings is to be: without feeling/deeply concerned. Even if you did not recall from an earlier unit that path means “feeling,” you could have chosen the right answer by knowing that a- means ______.
If the left and right sides of a human face are without balance, then it is a (n) ______face. (not symmetrical)
To behave in typical fashion is to behave as most other people would in a given circumstance. Thousands of children laugh at the pranks of a clown; the one child that cries is atypical. Whether it is a rock sample or a statistic, something that lies outside (without) the expected pattern is ______.
An act that is “not moral” is immoral. But if an act is committed with out regard for the concept of right and wrong, it is ______.
The prefix an-also means “without.” It is a form of a-used before roots beginning with a vowel. Thus, anodyne literally means ______. The medical term for pain relieves is anodynes.
The term anemia literally means ______. Anemia normally means a person’s blood is lacking in some way. In more general usage, a person who has no “life” or vitally is said to be ______.
Why is a patient anesthetized before an operation? ______.
Anarchy means ______. Thus a person who engages in destructive acts against a government to bring it down, to be without a government, is called a (n) ______.
During an exploration of the North Pole, two scientists were lost when their sled fell into an abyss. What is an abyss? ______.
The pit of hell is sometimes referred to as “the ______.” (bottomless pit) More commonly, the word is used in a metaphorical sense to emphasize or even exaggerate our feelings. In a fit of despair Margaret says she feels she is standing on the edge of an abyss. She means that she may fall into: a short period of illness/an immeasurably hopeless or wretched condition.