Greek and Latin Vocabulary roots #5

Gest

• To bear or carry

• To strip

• To work

• To hike

We ______________ food for the nutrition of our bodies

• ingest

• congest

• gesticulate

• suggest

grad, gress

• to step

• to hike

• to carry

• to read

_________________ from high school is the first step on the way to a career.

• Graduating

• Regressing

• Grading

• Gradual

gram, graph

• write, draw, describe, record

• plot numbers

• to open

• to bend

A ________________________ measures and records the details of an earthquake.

• seismograph

• graphic

• barometer

• thermometer

greg

• flock, herd

• run

• surf

• make meat safe to eat

Students _________________ during a fire drill so that teachers can make sure all are safely out of the building

• congregate

• gregarious

• various

• aggregate

hemi, semi

• half

• whole

• holes

• eighth

A mineral that can be used as a gemstone, but is considered to be less valuable.

• semiprecious

• hemisphere

• semiconductor

• semifinal