Quiz 2 DIA don dow glu glo Helio hema hemo dia Greek ACT Focus Word diaphanous adj very sheer and light almost completely transparent or translucent seethrough Context ID: 806839
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Greek & Latin Morphemes forQuiz 2
DIA
don/
dow
glu
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glo
Helio
hema
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hemo
Slide2dia(Greek)
ACT Focus Word: diaphanous (adj.)
very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or
translucent (see-through)Context: “Carr survives through the intervention of a diaphanous figure that he initially believes to be a ghost.” —The Spell Sworddiameter (n.)a straight line passing across a figuredialogue (n.)conversation (“speak across”)Other words: dialect, diagonal, diagnosis, diagram
across,
through,
thoroughly
Slide3don, dow
(Latin)
ACT Focus Word: condone (v.)
Definition: to give approval toContext: Few parents condone their children drinking under age.pardon (v.)give forgivenessendow (v.)give an income or property todowager (v.)a widow with a title or property derived from her late husbandOther examples: donate, donor, donationgive
Slide4glu
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glo
:(Latin) ACT Focus Word: conglomerate (n.)anything composed of heterogeneous materials or elements (often applied to a corporation with subsidiary companies)agglutinate (v.)to unite or cause to adhere, as with glueOther words: glue, gluten, glucoselump, bond, glue
Slide5ACT Focus Word: heliograph
(n.)
a device for transmitting messages by reflecting sunlight
The captain of the ship used the heliographic light to signal the people in the sailboat.Helios (n.)ancient Greek god of the sunHelios’s Roman counterpart is Sol, the god of the sun, who drove his chariot daily across the sky.heliophobia (n.)an irrational fear of sunlightFrom my pallor, a person might believe I suffer from heliophobia.helio (Greek)
sun
Slide6hema, hemo (Greek):
ACT Focus Word:
hematoma
(n.)localized swelling in tissue, filled with blood caused by a break in a blood vessel.Context: Investigators state in their report that the victim suffered a brain bruise called a subdural hematoma when his head struck the ground.hemophilia (n.)disorder in which excessive bleeding occurs owing to the absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the bloodhemoglobin (n.)oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red colorblood