Week 09 Roots and Affixes

a device into which people speak or sing in order to record their voices or to make them sound louder

• microphone
• phon
• colonist
• saxophone
• reporter

a long piece of music that is usually in four large, separate sections and is performed by an orchestra or band

• symphony
• colonist
• predecessor
• phon
• predecessor

a medical doctor, especially a doctor who is not a surgeon

• physician
• phonics
• reporter
• homophone
• -er, -or, -ian, -ist

a method of teaching people to read and pronounce words by learning the sounds of letters, letter groups, and syllables

• phonics
• phon
• physician
• pianist
• homophone

a musical instrument that has a curved metal tube and is played by blowing into a mouthpiece and pressing keys with your fingers

• saxophone
• symphony
• homophone
• -er, -or, -ian, -ist
• phon

person who

• -er, -or, -ian, -ist
• phon
• colonist
• predecessor
• predecessor

a person who had a job or position before someone else; something that comes before something else

• predecessor
• colonist
• -er, -or, -ian, -ist
• symphony
• physician

a person who lives in a colony; a person who helps to create a colony

• colonist
• reporter
• predecessor
• physician
• pianist

a person who plays the piano

• pianist
• phonics
• predecessor
• -er, -or, -ian, -ist
• saxophone

a person who writes news stories for a newspaper, magazine, etc. or who tells people the news on radio or television

• reporter
• -er, -or, -ian, -ist
• pianist
• physician
• homophone