Root Word Review #4

What does it mean if you are misanthropic?

Which word refers to the "second to final" of something? For example, the episode before a season finale?

• Terminus

• Penultimate

• Hypotneuse

• Median

• Eponym

Which of these words means "government by sacred/divine people"?

• Kleptocracy

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Meritocracy

• Hierocracy

Draw an image that represents the root word "polis".

Which of these words is a fancy term for sleepwalking?

• Endomorphic

• Ambivalence

• Somnambulate

• Heterodox

• Kinesthetic

Match each body related word to the aspect of the body it refers to.

• Hand/Hands

• Epinephrine

• Blood

• Manuscript

• Foot/Feet

• Hemolysis

• Fingies/Toes

• Cephalopod

• Kidneys

• Adactylia

If you have oversensitive nerves resulting in pain, you have a condition called ​ (a)   .

• neuralgia.
• tachycardia
• meiosis
• torsion
• pneumolysis
• endomorphism

What THREE words below have a root stem for "twist"?

• Torture

• Trilateral

• Circumference

• Torsion

• Contortionist

Which root refers to "a system of laws that govern a particular subject area"?

• Nom/Nomy

• Lect

• Traum

• Lysis

• Mania

If your college professor tells you that your writing needs "brevity", they are saying that your writing needs to be . . .

• Much less violent

• Sourced much more effectively

• Shorter, quicker, more to the point

• Longer, flowing, with complex sentences

• Edited for punctuation