Name: ______
Week Six Vocabulary Test
A. Define each Latin/Greek root word.
1. FRAG/FRACT: ______
2. TELE: ______
3. PHIL: ______
B. Match each vocabulary word with its meaning.
_____ 4. fractious a. relating to the communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
_____ 5. fragmentary b. a potion, charm, or drug supposed to cause the person taking it to fall in love, usually with some specific person. A magic potion for any purpose.
_____ 6. infraction c. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
_____ 7. refraction d. a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
_____ 8. telegenic e. readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome; refractory or unruly:
_____ 9. teleological f. having physical qualities or characteristics that televise well; videogenic.
_____ 10. telemetry g. consisting of or reduced tofragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete:
_____ 11. telepathic h. the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
_____ 12. oenophile i. the philosophical doctrine that final causes, design, and purpose exist in nature.
J. breach; violation; infringement.
K. one who collects stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
l. to transmit (radio signals, data, etc.) automatically and at a distance, as between a ground station and an artificial satellite, space probe, or the like, especially in order to record information, operate guidance apparatus, etc.
_____ 13. philatelist
_____ 14. philology
_____ 15. philter
C. Use each root in a word of your choosing and provide a definition.
16. FRAG/FRACT: ______
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17. TELE: ______
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18. PHIL: ______
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