1. 1. cant: sing • Cantor: religious official who sings or chants • Incantation: spell or verbal charm • Recant: sing back • _____________________________________________

2. 2. Carp: fruit • Acarpous: sterile; not bearing fruit • Carpophagous: feeding on fruit • Sarcocarp: fleshy fruit like apricot or cherry • __________________________________________

3. 3. Caust: burn • Caustic: corrosive; sarcastic • Cauterize: to burn with a hot instrument • Holocaust: total devastation by fire; a sacrificial offering • consumed by fire • ___________________________________________

4. 4. Cephal: head • Bicephalous: full of two heads • Cephalopod: a marine mollusk that has a distinct head • with tentacles around the mouth and well-developed eyes, • like the octopus and the squid • Electroencephalograph: an instrument to record electric • currents in the brain ___________________________________________

5. 5. Chiro: hand • Chirography: handwriting, penmanship • Chiropractor: one who uses his/her hands to heal • Backs • Chiromancy: palm reading • _____________________________________________

6. 6. De (div): god • Deity: a god • Deify: to make a god • Divine: pertaining to god • _________________________________________

7. 7. Em (emp): buy, take • Example: from the latin exemire, to take out • Peremptory: take thoroughly; ending all debate • Caveat emptor: “Let the buyer beware!” • __________________________________________

8. 8. Fil: line, thread • File: a receptacle that keeps loose objects in line • Filament: a thinly spun thread, fiber, or wire • Filigree: delicate, intricate, ornamental work • made from gold, silver, or other fine wire • ____________________________________________

9. 9. Gyro: circle, turn • Gyration: act of turning • Gyrocopter: a rotary-wing aircraft that is driven • forward by a conventional propeller • Gyrocompass: a navigational device containing a gyroscope • with a rotating axis parallel to the earth’s axis and thus • pointing to true north instead of magnetic north • __________________________________________

10. 10. Hibern: winter • Hibernate: the act of holing up for the winter • Hibernal: pertaining to winter • Hibernaculum: a case, covering, or structure in which an • Organism remains dormant during the winter • _________________________________________

11. 11. Journ: daily • Journal: related to daily • Journey: a day’s travel • Journeyman: one who has completed his apprenticeship, or • a day’s work • _______________________________________

12. 12. Lumin: light • Luminous: full of light • Illuminate: to put light into • Luminescence: beginning to be light • ___________________________________________

13. 13. My (myo): muscle • Cardiomyopathy: disease of the heart muscle • Myasthenia: abnormal muscle fatigue or weakness • Myogenic: forming muscle tissue • ________________________________________

14. 14. Pend (pens): hang, weigh • Pending: characteristic of hanging • Pensive: characteristic of weighing something in one’s • mind • Depend: to hang down • __________________________________________

15. 15. Phor: bear, yield, carry • Euphoria: state of yielding something good • Dysphoria: state of yielding bad things • Carpophore: bearing fruit • ________________________________________

16. 16. Put: think • Compute: to think together • Dispute: to think apart • Reputation: what people think about someone • __________________________________________

17. 17. Radic (radix): root • Radical: characteristic of root • Radish: root vegetable • Eradicate: to get rid of completely; root out • ____________________________________

18. 18. Rat (ratio): reason, think, determine • Rational: characteristic of reason • Ratify: to confirm or make settled • Ratiocinate: to think methodically and logically • ___________________________________________

19. 19. Rid (ris): laugh, mock • Ridiculous: laughable • Deride: laugh down • Ridicule: mock • _____________________________________

20. 20. Scend: climb • Ascend: climb to or toward • Descend: climb down • Transcend: climb across • ____________________________________________

21. 21. Spor: sow • Endospore: spore formed within the cell membrane of • a parent cell • Sporocide: an agent of killing spores • Sporogenesis: formation of or reproduction by spores • __________________________________

22. 22. Stat (stasis): stand, stop, stable • Static: inactive, not moving • Thermostat: maintains a stable present temperature • Hemostasis: stoppage of blood flow by natural or surgical • means • ________________________________________

23. 23. the: put • Photosynthesis: process of putting light together • Epithet: put over or upon; a term, frequently abusive, • Used to characterize a person or thing • Antithesis: direct contrast; put against • ___________________________________________

24. 24. Trop: turn • Tropic: circle at which the sun turns • Trophy: a monument to victory when the enemy turns • Heliotrope: turn toward the sun • ___________________________________________

25. 25. Ver: true • Verify: make sure something is true • Verdict: speak the truth • Verisimilitude: state of being truly similar • _______________________________________