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Latin and Greek Roots

These English words are formed by combining two Greek or Latin roots.

Example: Life + Write = Biography
Disclaimer: These are not exact translations - you have to guess the word based on the clue
Quiz by Quizmaster - Dec 09, 2015

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Roots	English Word
False + Foot
Many + Marriage
Two + Year
Life + Study of
Small + View
Self + Kill
One + God

Roots	English Word
People + Rule
Eight + Angle
Before + War
Book + Love
Beauty + Write
Steal + Crazy
Green + Leaf

Roots	English Word
Star + Sailor
Foreign + Fear
Same + Type
Pressure + Measure
Thunder + Lizard
Self + Movable
Hate + Human

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BlendedCow

level 50

Sep 16, 2013

Cool

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kalbahamut

level 70

Sep 16, 2013

I thought I guessed chlorophyll... must have spelled it wrong. Still did well. Etymology always was interesting to me.

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Jamesgoatcher

level 56

Mar 23, 2016

Chlorophyll?! More like - BORE-ophyll!

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Jacktheguy

level 71

Mar 23, 2016

*insert cricket noise here*

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jetlifari

level 61

Apr 17, 2017

Haha! I love Billy Madison :D

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cranbeckh

level 60

Sep 16, 2013

Astronaut = star sailor. Very poetic.

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twained

level 57

Mar 23, 2016

Yeah, beautiful.

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MetopeTriglyph

level 60

Mar 25, 2016

"Thunder lizard"'s not bad either.

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Yossarian

level 66

Sep 16, 2013

Anyone missing Brontosaurus was never 4. Also? Average score 9 is just embarrassing.

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kalbahamut

level 70

Sep 16, 2013

it took me a while to remember Brontosaurus. I think I tried dinosaur first.. which means terrible lizard, I think? Then tyrannosaurus even though I knew that was wrong (tyrant lizard). Then I got brontosaurus. But I probably learned that when I was five or six not four.

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DeusCaritasEst

level 60

Mar 23, 2016

I knew I knew what it was, so I tried the first thing that popped into my head, which was "Godzilla." That doesn't work, by the way. Then I tried dinosaur. Then finally remembered Brontosaurus.

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Insomniac

level 37

Oct 16, 2016

Same here. I first tried dinosaur, then godzilla, then trex. I just knew it was some dinosaur-ish thing.

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tschutzer

level 77

May 8, 2014

I find it hard to believe that nearly 90% of the people who've taken this quiz somehow managed to skip directly from age 3 to age 5. Perhaps there could be some other explanation...

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smartcookie17

level 50

Jul 18, 2014

Maybe that they weren't obsessed with dinosaurs? Girls exist too, you know.

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Janjan

level 57

Jun 19, 2015

I did used to be 4 (quite a long time ago admittedly) but I didn't learn that. Dinosaurs didn't play a big part in my life1

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Susie222

level 59

Jul 31, 2015

I am a girl (well, actually I am a woman) and I know what a thunder lizard is. I also happen to have a son who loved dinosaurs as a child and one who preferred sharks.

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Kestrana

level 67

Mar 23, 2016

I was a girl obsessed with dinosaurs.

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PrinceEric

level 50

Mar 23, 2016

Girls can be interested in whatever the heck they want.

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helen790

level 28

Apr 28, 2017

I was never four, I actually skipped that year. I went straight from 3 to 5.

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DonTheLamplighter

level 69

Jun 27, 2017

I got "thunder lizard". Once my mother-in-law's name didn't work, I remembered all that dinosaur stuff from my childhood.

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Zivi

level 29

Sep 16, 2013

Awesome quiz! Chlorophyll and Brontosaurus are both great :)

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ForgingIron

level 37

Sep 16, 2013

Can you accept "barometry"?

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Quizmaster

level ∞

Dec 9, 2015

Okay

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Bux72

level 34

Sep 16, 2013

"microscopic"?

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Quizmaster

level ∞

Dec 9, 2015

That will work now

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level 65

Sep 17, 2013

Greek 17 Latin 4 I rest my case...

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buck1017

level 72

Dec 3, 2013

What was your case? Can you rest a case that has not yet been established?

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tschutzer

level 77

May 8, 2014

Apparently, it was a case full of mostly-Greek (and some Latin) rooted words. Sure, go ahead and rest it. Just don't leave it unattended for too long, or it may have to be treated as a capsabombus.

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smartcookie17

level 50

Jul 18, 2014

OBJECTION! Your Honor, this is ridiculous. The prosecution has not even given a viable statement. This is hearsay and does not belong in court, and is irrelevant to this case, which the prosecutor, sadly, has not found it necessary to establish. If they have no charges, the defense must be innocent, and therefore this gathering is moot. Your Honor, I rest my case, which, as it must be noted, is as established as can be under the circumstances.

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DeusCaritasEst

level 60

Mar 23, 2016

I'll allow it.

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beetboy12

level 44

Nov 16, 2014

Cool quiz. Harder than I expected, going from English to Greek/Latin. 18/21. Never heard of a pseudopod btw.

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AndySpades

level 35

Nov 30, 2015

Awesome quiz! And just like beetboy12 I learned a new word (pseudopod as well).

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Miqueas

level 64

Mar 23, 2016

Doesn't automatic adjust well with the definition for automobile? And how about equivalent for homogeneous?

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Jacktheguy

level 71

Mar 23, 2016

Automatic translates to "willing to self-perform." Willing to move is not exactly the same thing as moving.

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ander217

level 71

Apr 17, 2017

I tried homogenized and when it wasn't accepted, I moved on.

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Crazylittlpanda

level 34

Mar 23, 2016

Thunder Lizzard though...

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Moosefight

level 67

Mar 23, 2016

Haha! Finally, knowing the word callipygian helped!

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Thorvald

level 65

Mar 23, 2016

I was sure that kleptomania started with "c" in English... When it didn't accept "cleptomania" I gave up...

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fromabove

level 36

Apr 29, 2017

Same here :(

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pilgrimstories

level 39

Mar 24, 2016

Great quiz!

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nanook

level 53

Mar 25, 2016

I kept thinking human + hate must be homophobe!

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ander217

level 71

Apr 17, 2017

I think I would have done better if I had known whether it was Latin or Greek. I'd get stuck on something such as viridis for green or visum/vista for view, and then couldn't think of anything else.

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zupermaus

level 31

Apr 28, 2017

chlorophyll's clue should be "plant+leaf", not "leaf+green"

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