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1.2 Use knowledge of Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon roots and affixes to understand content-area vocabulary.
Root Words
Spec= to look; to see
Perspective (noun)- one’s mental view of facts, ideas, and their interrelationships
Example: My perspective is that we should feed our cats organic food.
Spectacle (noun)- somebody or something that attracts attention by being unpleasant or ridiculous;
an object, phenomenon, or event that is witnessed, especially one that is impressive, unusual, or
disturbing
Example: You always make a spectacle of yourself when you loudly tell the waiter that you ordered
orange juice on your pizza when he delivers it to your table even though you did not.
Man= hand
Manufacture (verb) - to make by hand or machinery
Example: My business manufactures cucumber peelers.
Mandate (noun) - an order or command
Example: The mandate is that we should all wear One Direction shirts on Monday.
mal= bad; ill; evil; wrong
malicious (adjective)- deliberately harmful
Example: If anyone did anything malicious to Liam from One Direction, I would get really upset.
Malfunction (verb) -failure to function properly
Example: The time I met Justin Bieber, I malfunctioned.
1.2 Use knowledge of Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon roots and affixes to understand content-area vocabulary.
Trans= across
Transparent (adjective)- easily seen through, recognized, or detected
Example: The transparent window on the airplane allowed me to see Kobe Bryant in first class.
Example: The fact that she graduated at the top of her class from Yale was transparent in her
writing.
Transport (verb)- to carry somebody or something from one place to another
Example: We transported the fake mustaches from Texas to New Jersey.
Geo=earth
Geography (noun)- the study of Earth’s physical features
Example: We studied how mountains are formed in Geography class today.
Bio=life
Biography (noun)- an account of somebody’s life not written by the person who it is about
Example: I read Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life by Marshall Frady. It was a biography about the life
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mono=single; one
Monologue (noun)- a long, uninterrupted speech; a speech you give to yourself while you are alone
Example: In the play Cesar’s Way, the monologue Cesar gave after the death of his dog made the
entire audience cry.