Today's List
Root Words | Meaning | Associated Words |
gyn/o/e | woman, female | gynecology - the science of female reproductive health; gynephobia - fear of women; gynecoid - resembling a woman. |
gress, grad/e/i | to step, to go | digression - a departure from the main issue, subject, etc.; progress - movement forward or onward; gradual - step by step. |
hect/o, hecat | hundred | hectoliter - 100 liters; hectare - metric unit equaling 100 ares or 10,000 square meters; hectometer - 100 meters. |
helic/o | spiral, circular | helicopter - an aircraft with horizontal rotating wing; helix - a spiral form; helicon - a circular tuba. |
heli/o | sun | heliotropism - movement or growth in relating to the sun; heliograph - apparatus used to send message with the help of sunlight; helianthus - genus of plants including sunflowers. |
hemi | half, partial | hemicycle - a semicircular structure; hemisphere - one half of the earth; hemistich - half a line of poetry. |
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