Thursday, September 6, 2007

Word Roots and Word Coining

Today we started by making a list, in your notes, of root words, probably 40 of them or so. Then we moved on to the following assignment:

Word Coining Assignment

By combining some of the Greek and Latin roots, suffixes and prefixes we’ve been studying for the past few days, make up 15 new words. List them and their definition on a separate piece of paper. Your goal is for people to be able to guess the meaning of your words using only their knowledge of Greek and Latin. Due 9/7

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