Greek & Latin Roots gest/port/miss/mit

WHat does the root gest mean?

• to carry or bring

• to carry or bear

• to send or throw

To send or throw is what root?

• miss/mitt

• gest

• port

Port means what?

• to send or throw

• to carry or bring

• to carry or bear

If you make a gesture, what are you doing?

• taking something like food into your body

• to carry something from one place to another

• to make a movement of your body that shows emphasis about a feeling

• to give or pass information

A letter or other written message is what?

• missive

• portfolio

• export

• ingest

To carry someone or something from one place to another

• ingest

• gestation

• transmit

• transport

an amount of money that is sent as a payment for something.

• remittance

• portfolio

• gesture

• missive

Fill in the blank: The general was sent as a(n) _____________ to negotiate for the president.

• export

• emissary

• gestation

• transmit

What does export mean?

• to take something such as food into your body

• to give or pass information from one person to another

• to send a product to be sold in a different country

• to carry someone or something from one place to another

The time when a person or animal is developing inside its mother before it is born

• ingest

• portfolio

• transmit

• gestation