Greek and Latin Roots #1-10

A. Zombron (United States of America)
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  1. annual
    occurring every year
  2. anniversary
    the date on which an event occurred in some previous year
  3. antebellum
    belonging to a period before a war
  4. antedate
    be earlier in time than
  5. aquamarine
    a shade of blue tinged with green
  6. aquatic
    operating or living or growing in water
  7. astronomy
    the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies
  8. astronaut
    a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
  9. bicycle
    a vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
  10. biped
    an animal that walks on two legs
  11. bisect
    cut in half or cut in two
  12. biosphere
    the regions of the Earth where living organisms exist
  13. biology
    the science that studies living organisms
  14. century
    a period of 100 years
  15. decimal
    a number in a system based on ten
  16. decade
    a period of 10 years
  17. dictionary
    a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words
  18. dictate
    a guiding principle
  19. duplication
    the act of making a copy of something
  20. duplex
    a house with two units sharing a common wall
Created on Wed Aug 30 15:25:15 EDT 2023

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