So while she was digging in the ground to prepare the bottom of a Inspection, looking in or closer and pterodactyl, pter means wing, dactyl means finger, it is a prehistoric winged reptile. You would eat bread with, so bread together, who do While excavating the foundationįor a geothermal plant, my companion Neha found a fossil. Off their hinges all at once when you approach. Doors fling themselves openįor you, you can go anywhere, you can understand any concept,Īny piece of vocabulary. You suddenly become the proud owner of a ring of keys. Is that when you master a small handful of them, Magic, the power of studying roots, prefixes and suffixes Walking down a hallway and was suddenly confronted Word I don't understand, it's like I had been Mean for you as a reader? Well when I encounter a To get rid of the ghost, you need a paranormal pest control expert, one that is alongsideīut not within normalcy and thus, you call the Ghostbusters. Haunted, you don't need a normal pest control expert Who works alongside lawyers, a paramedic works alongside doctors and if your house is Would be the Greek para, which means alongside. Going to be some kind of science or specialized area of study. To be a little amoeba cetology, the study or science of whales anthropology, the study of human beings cosmology, the study of the universe. So we can make a bunch of words with logy, like biology, that's supposed An example of a suffix wouldīe logy, meaning the study of or the science of. Prefixes attach at theįront end of a word, whereas suffixes attach at the back end. Prefixes and suffixes, if you have, these areīoth types of affixes. Affixes aren't words or rootsīut they are word particles that convey meaning. It's kind of poetic, isn't it? To this understanding, let You put those together, you get photograph or writing with light. The word phot is Greek for light, the root graph comes from Get the adjective dental, which means about teeth, or the noun dentist, which means a person who specializes in teeth, or the noun dentures, Vocabulary about vocabulary now, so brace yourselves. Or read ancient Latin in order to understand English but many complicated words are made up of little language buildingīlocks that we can break apart, using the power of understanding! (explosion) That was cool right? I'm cool? I'm cool. I'm not gonna say that you need to be able to speak modern Greek It for fun history reasons and let's just leave it at that for now. Suffice it to say that English has Latin and Greek chunks in Greek and Latin in it at all is super fascinating to me and if I allowed myself, I'd go off on a big old tangent about it but let's save that for another time. Have Greek or Latin roots embedded in them and how youĬan use that to your advantage. Hello readers, today I want to talk about vocabulary and how many English words
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