Word Dissection List #2 - 9th Grade

oid

• having to do with space objects

• robot-like

• resembling / like

• unlike / not resembling

poly

• multiples of three

• singular (one)

• having to do with fibers

• many (much)

___ic/tic

• Noun: knowing or knowledge of

• Adjective: having to run

• Adjective: having to do with (having/being)

• Noun: in the process of

___ic/tic

• 1. Noun: person who is (who has)

• Noun: person who was (who was)

• Adjective: to eat

• Adjective: to move

_ologist

• unknown/unknowing

• related to zoos

• specialist (expert: study/science of)

• Expert only in the science of the brain

___meter/ometer

• 1. measuring (device/one who measures)

• distance

• length

• answering

ex-_

• outside / outside of

• present

• future

• former (past)