Word Power Session 11 - Ms. Kirklin's Class



Word Power Session 11

1. A decade is ten years. This word is built on Greek deka, ____________ {K in a Greek root becomes c in English words}

2. Decalogue is another word for the ___________ commandments

3. The ___________ of the 1960’s was one of very high employment in America.

4. The ____________ of the 1920’s was one of wild stock speculation; the __________ of the thirties, economic depression; the _________ of the forties, war and prosperity; the ____________ of the fifties, conformity to the establishment; the __________ of the sixties, nonconformism, riots in the cities, violence on college campuses; the ____________ of the seventies, double-digit inflation

5. Greek deka is ______________; Greek gonia as in octagon, is _____________.

6. So a decagon is a geometric figure of ____________ angles (or sides)

7. Greek penta, five, plus gonia, angle, combine to form the English word pentagon, a geometric figure of _____________ angles.

8. The famous __________ that houses the Department of Defense is so called because it is a building of five sides.

9. The adjective form of octagon is octagonal. Write the adjective form of pentagon __________________

10. Ten is deka in Greek, decem in Latin. Built on Latin decem, December was the __________ month in the early Roman calendar (before they started fooling with it to include July and August) and the decimal system is based on the number ____________.

11. We know that Latin centum, as in centipede and centennial, means ____________

12. So if a septuagenarian is in their ____________, an octogenarian is in their ____________, and a nonagenarian in their _______________, then a centenarian must have reached the golden age of _____________.

13. Octogenarians are no longer very rare; but _______________ are so nearly unique that when they reach that magic age of 100, thre is an item in the hometown newspaper plus a picture, and the inevitable question: “What do you attribute your survival to?”

14. Now to recapitulate the age brackets, people in their 70s _________________; in their 80s_________________; in their 90s________________________; Finally, when they reach 100, they are _________________.

15. Podiatrist is built on Greek pod, ______________.

16. Chiropodist is built on Greek cheir, _______________ plus pod______________

17. Chirography is built on cheir (chiro-) __________ plus graphein, to ___________

18. Octopus is built on Greek okto, ___________ plus pous, _________________

19. Decade is built on Greek deka _____________

20. Octogenarian is built on Latin octoginta _____________; septuagenarian is built on septuaginta _____________; nonagenarian on nonaginta ______________

21. Decagon is built on Greek deka, __________________, plus gonia, ___________

22. Pentagon is built on Greek penta, ______________ plus gonia, _____________

23. December and demimal are built on Latin decem, ______________

24. Centenarian is built on Latin centum, _______________.

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