1. Greek and Latin Roots
Week 12

2. ten/tain Meaning: hold Examples: detain tenacious
Delay; keep from proceeding
tenacious
Stubborn; a firm hold

3. tend/tens Meaning: stretch; strive Examples: contend tense to struggle
Tightly stretched

4. Word Associations Which word goes with confine?
Which word goes with “hold tightly”?
Which word goes with “fight back”?
Which word goes with extended?

5. term Meaning: end; limit Examples: terminal terminate
Concluding, final; fatal
terminate
end

6. therap Meaning: attend; treat Examples: therapeutic therapist
Having healing powers
therapist
Specialist in a particular therapy

7. Word Associations Which word goes with doctor?
Which word goes with cancel?
Which word goes with curative?
Which word goes with lethal?

8. top/topo Meaning: place; region Examples: topography topophobia
The configuration of a land surface
topophobia
Fear of certain places

9. tort/torqu Meaning: twist; turn Examples: retort contort
A quick reply that turns the speaker’s words to one’s own advantage
contort
Twist out of shape

10. Word Associations Which word goes with “a come back”?
Which word goes with Earth’s surface?
Which word goes with “to be scared of”?
Which word goes with bend?

11. tran Meaning: across; through Examples: transgression translucent
The exceeding of a limit or boundary
translucent
Clear; lucid

12. trem Meaning: tremble; shake Examples: tremendous tremor
Enormous; able to make one tremble
tremor
A shaking movement; a trembling or quivering

13. Word Associations Which word goes with size?
Which word goes with “to go past”?
Which word goes with “to see through”?
Which word goes with shiver?

14. uni Meaning: one Examples: unique unanimity One of a kind
A consensus or undivided opinion

15. urb Meaning: city Examples: suburb urbane
Residential area outlying a city
urbane
Refined, sophisticated, suave

16. Word Associations Which word goes with civilized?
Which word goes with rare?
Which word goes with “a place to live”?
Which word goes with agreement?