Greek and Latin Roots, Grades 3–5: Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: tele

This vocabulary list features words with the Greek root tele meaning "far."
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  1. telegram
    message sent by a device that communicates over a wire
  2. telegraph
    apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire
  3. telekinesis
    the power to move something by thinking about it
  4. telemarketing
    the act of selling products or services by calling people on the phone
  5. telemetry
    automatic transmission of data from remote sources
  6. telepathic
    communicating without apparent physical signals
  7. telepathy
    extrasensory communication from one mind to another
  8. telephone
    electronic equipment that transmits sound over distances
  9. teleplay
    a script adapted or written for TV
  10. teleport
    travel by dematerializing and assembling at another point
  11. telescope
    a magnifier of images of distant objects
  12. televise
    broadcast via a system that transmits images over distance
  13. television
    an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen
Created on Thu May 02 23:15:57 EDT 2024 (updated Mon Aug 19 14:32:16 EDT 2024)

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