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Etymology file card review

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  • Q1
    What is the meaning of "phil"?
    fill up the salt shaker
    a man on TV
    fill up the gas tank
    love,friendship
    30s
  • Q2
    One who loves words is a _______________________.
    philologist
    30s
  • Q3
    One who loves wisdom is a ____________________.
    philosopher
    30s
  • Q4
    One who loves his fellow man ( mankind) is a ______________________
    philanthropist
    30s
  • Q5
    One who loves women is a __________________.
    philogynist
    30s
  • Q6
    What is the GREEK root for "measure"?
    metron
    30s
  • Q7
    What is a centimeter?
    One hundredth of a meter.
    30s
  • Q8
    What instrument measures air pressure?
    barometer
    30s
  • Q9
    What is measurement of the same, equal?
    symmetry
    30s
  • Q10
    What Latin root means " see"?
    video,vegetable
    video,visum
    video,tele
    video,phone
    30s
  • Q11
    What GREEK root means "with, together"?
    tele
    sym
    visum
    tropos
    30s
  • Q12
    Two words with similar meaning are called ____________________.
    homographs
    synonyms
    jelly beans
    antonyms
    30s
  • Q13
    One's own signature is an_______________
    spyrograph
    autograph
    phonograph
    telegraph
    30s
  • Q14
    Who would NOT be in a library?
    bibliophile
    bibliography
    bibliophobe
    bibliomaniac
    30s
  • Q15
    A machine for seeing things far away is a ________________.
    television
    telegraph
    teletubby
    evidence
    30s

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