Vocabulary Ch.1

Front 1

acronym

Back 1

a word formed from the first letter of each word in a series

Hint 1

SCUBA

Front 2

affix

Back 2

to attach a part to the beginning or end of a word

Hint 2

PREpare, zoOLOGY

Front 3

coinage

Back 3

a newly invented word or phrase

Hint 3

blog, email

Front 4

colloquial

Back 4

informal language usage

Hint 4

What's Up?

Front 5

diminutive

Back 5

a suffix indicating small size

Hint 5

piglet

Front 6

metonymy

Back 6

the use of a closely related word as a substitute

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oxymoron

Back 7

an expression that contains contradictory terms

Hint 7

awfully good

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palindrome

Back 8

a word spelled the same backward and forward

Hint 8

racecar

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portmanteau word

Back 9

a word formed from two other words

Hint 9

chunnel

Front 10

spoonerism

Back 10

a comical switching of the first sounds of words

Hint 10

go buck a fuffalo

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a-, an-

Back 11

without

Hint 11

asexual

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arch-, arthro-

Back 12

of or in the joints

Hint 12

arthritis

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-ase

Back 13

termination denoting a ferment or enzyme

Hint 13

sucrase

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calor-

Back 14

heat

Hint 14

calorie

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cerebro-

Back 15

pertaining to the large part of the brain

Hint 15

cerebriform

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caud-, cauda

Back 16

tail

Hint 16

caudal

Front 17

cephalo-, -caphalic

Back 17

head

Hint 17

cephalopod

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chrom-

Back 18

colored

Hint 18

chromosome

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chloro-

Back 19

green

Hint 19

chlorophyll

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-cyt

Back 20

cell

Hint 20

cytoplasm

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-derm

Back 21

skin

Hint 21

dermatophyte

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di-

Back 22

two, twice

Hint 22

dissect

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echino-

Back 23

spiny, prickly

Hint 23

echinderm

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em-, en-, endo-, in-

Back 24

in, into

Hint 24

embed

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epi-

Back 25

upon

Hint 25

epidemic

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erythro-

Back 26

red

Front 27

-gamet

Back 27

sex cell

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hema-, hemo

Back 28

blood

Hint 28

hemoglobin

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hippo-, -hippus

Back 29

horse

Hint 29

hippopotamus

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hypo-

Back 30

under, less than, below

Hint 30

hypodermic

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ichthy-

Back 31

fish

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inter

Back 32

between, together

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-ism

Back 33

action, face, act of doing

Hint 33

Darwinism

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leuco-, leuk

Back 34

white

Hint 34

leucocyte

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-lys-, -lyt-

Back 35

break down, destroy

Hint 35

catalyst

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meso-

Back 36

middle

Hint 36

mesoderm

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myo-

Back 37

muscle

Front 38

-nema

Back 38

round, thread-like

Hint 38

nematode

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-opia

Back 39

sight

Front 40

-osis

Back 40

a process

Hint 40

metamoophosis

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-os-, -osteo

Back 41

bone

Hint 41

osteology

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ovi-, ovo-

Back 42

egg, ovum

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peri-

Back 43

around near

Front 44

phago-, phag

Back 44

to eat

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-phyll

Back 45

leaf

Hint 45

chlorophyll

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platy

Back 46

flat, broad, wide

Hint 46

platypus

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pseudo-

Back 47

false

Front 48

pulmo-

Back 48

lung

Hint 48

pulmonary

Front 49

-pus-, -pes, -ped, -pod

Back 49

foot

Hint 49

centipede, platypus

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-scler

Back 50

hardness, stiffness

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-som-

Back 51

body

Hint 51

chromosome

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sym-, syn-

Back 52

to join, combine

Hint 52

photosynthesis

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thig-

Back 53

touch, contact

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thorac-, -thorax

Back 54

chest, thorax

Hint 54

pneumothorax

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-trophism

Back 55

response to a stimulus

Hint 55

hydrotropism

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-vacci-

Back 56

cow

Hint 56

vaccination