Root words 8

A place where sick or injured people are given care or treatment and where babies are often born.

• Hospital

• Antonym

• Synonym

Generous and friendly to guest or visitors.

• Hospitable

• Hospital

• Synonym

A word that is spelled and pronounced like another word but is different in meaning.

• Homophone

• Antonym

• Hospital

A word that has the same or similar meaning as another word in the same language.

• Pseudonym

• Hospital

• Synonym

Not named or identified; made or done by someone else.

• Anonymous

• Synonym

• Hostile

A name for something that is formed from the first letter of each of the words in a title.

• Hostage

• Acronym

• Antonym

A name a person, such as a writer, uses instead of his or her real name.

• Homophone

• Pseudonym

• Hostile

Not friendly; having or showing unfriendly feelings; harsh or unpleasant.

• Hospital

• Hostile

• Antonym

A person who is captured by someone who demands that certain things be done before the captured person is free.

• Antonym

• Hostage

• Pseudonym

A word with a meaning that is opposite to the meaning of another word.

• Hospital

• Antonym

• Synonym