Name: _______________________________________________
Week One Vocabulary Test
A.
Define each Latin/Greek root word.
1. TESSAR/TETR : ______________________________________________
2. CAPIT: ___________________________________________
3. ANTHROP: _________________________________________
B.
Match each vocabulary word with its meaning.
_____ 4. Tetracycline
a. To cut the head off; behead
_____ 5. Tetrahedron
b. The effort or inclination to increase the well being of
mankind, as by charitable aid or donation
_____ 6. Tetralogy
c. Having four feet, legs or leglike appendages
_____ 7. Tetrapod
d. A polyhedron with four faces
_____ 8. Capitalism
e. resembling humans; belonging or pertaining to the primate
suborder Anthropoidea, characterized by a relatively flat face,
dry nose, small immobile ears, and forward-facing eyes,
comprising humans, apes, Old World monkeys, and New World
monkeys.
_____ 9. Capitulate
f. An economic system, characterized by open competition in
free market, in which the means of production and distribution
are privately or corporately owned and development is
proportionate to increasing accumulation and reinvestment of
profits
_____ 10. Decapitate
g. an antibiotic, C 22 H 24 H 2 O 8 , derived from chlortetracycline,
used in medicine to treat a broad variety of infections.
_____ 11. Recapitulate
h. The scientific study of the origin and of the physical, social,
and cultural development and behavior of man
_____ 12. Anthropoid
i. To surrender under specified conditions; come to terms. To
give up all resistance; acquiesce
j. In ancient Athens, a series of four dramas, three tragic one
satiric, performed at festivals dedicated to Dionysus; A series of
four related dramatic or literary works; a complex of four
symptoms
K. Characterized by a hatred or scorn for mankind
l. To repeat in concise form
_____ 13. Anthropology
_____ 14. Misanthropic
_____ 15. Philanthropy
C.
Use each root in a word of your choosing and provide a definition.
16. TESSAR/TETRA: ________________________________________________________
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17. CAPIT: ________________________________________________________________
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18. ANTHROP: _____________________________________________________________