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Learn about Latin and Greek roots related to the sea, measurement, movement, shape, and the eye. Draw pictures, define, and use these words in sentences.
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MAR • LATIN ROOT • SEA • EXAMPLE WORDS • MARINE • MARINA • MARINATE • MARSH
MARINA • –noun a boat basin offering dockage and other service for small craft.
METER, METR • GREEK ROOT • MEASURE • EXAMPLE WORDS • PERIMETER • METER • METRIC
METRIC • –adjective pertaining to the meter or to the metric system.
MIGR • LATIN ROOT • MOVE • EXAMPLE WORDS • MIGRATE • MIGRATION • IMMIGRATE • EMIGRATE • MIGRATORY
MIGRATORY • –adjective • 1. periodically migrating: a migratory species; migratory workers. • 2. pertaining to a migration: migratory movements of birds. 3. roving; nomadic; wandering
MORPH GREEK ROOT FORM, SHAPE EXAMPLE WORDS: AMORPHOUS MORPHOLOGY
AMORPHOUS • –adjective 1. • lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless: the amorphous clouds. • 2. • of no particular kind or character; indeterminate; having no pattern or structure; unorganized: an amorphous style; an amorphous personality.
OPT, OPTIC • GREEK ROOT • EYE • EXAMPLE WORDS • OPTICAL • OPTICIAN
OPTICIAN • noun 1. • a person who makes or sells eyeglasses and, usually, contact lenses, for remedying defects of vision in accordance with the prescriptions of ophthalmologists and optometrists. • 2.a maker or seller of optical glass and instruments.
TEST ON FRIDAY!!! • THIS WEEK, DRAW PICTURES OF YOUR WORDS, DEFINE THEM, AND USE THEM IN A SENTENCE.