G6 Reading Vocabulary - 2024-25 PDF

Important Study ALL Greek every day! & Latin Roots 1 Greek Roots 4. geo (earth) ○ Meaning: Earth, ground 1. auto (self) ○ Ex...

Important Study ALL Greek every day! & Latin Roots 1 Greek Roots 4. geo (earth) ○ Meaning: Earth, ground 1. auto (self) ○ Example Words: geography, geology, geothermal ○ Meaning: Self, by oneself ○ Context/Tip: "Geo" is easy to ○ Example Words: autograph, remember because we all live on autonomous, automobile Earth. If you’re learning about ○ Context/Tip: Think of "auto" as countries or continents, you’re something that happens on its own or studying geography. Geology is the without help. Auto means "self"—so study of the Earth’s materials. The when you hear automobile, think of a root geo is also in geothermal, which car that moves by itself. You can also relates to heat from the Earth’s core. remember it because autograph is your own signature, something you do 5. micro (small) by yourself! 2. bio (life) ○ Meaning: Small ○ Example Words: microscope, ○ Meaning: Life microbe, microsecond ○ Example Words: biology, biography, ○ Context/Tip: “Micro” refers to biohazard something very small. A microscope ○ Context/Tip: "Bio" is found in words helps us see tiny things, and microbe related to life. You might know that refers to a very small organism. Think biology is the study of living things, of “micro” as meaning something so and biography is a story about small it’s hard to see with the naked someone's life. Visualizing a living eye. organism or a person's story can help remember this root. 6. philo (love) 3. chron (time) ○ Meaning: Love, friendship ○ Example Words: philosophy, ○ Meaning: Time philanthropy, bibliophile ○ Example Words: chronology, ○ Context/Tip: If you love something, synchronize, chronic you might be a philanthropist ○ Context/Tip: The word chron comes (someone who loves to help others) up in any word that has to do with or a bibliophile (someone who loves time. Chronology is the order of books). Remember that “philo” events in time, and synchronize involves love or fondness, whether it’s means to happen at the same time. for wisdom (philosophy) or people. You can think of chronic as something ongoing for a long period—time never stops! 2 7. photo (light) ○ Meaning: Light 9. phon (sound) ○ Example Words: photograph, photosynthesis, photon ○ Meaning: Sound ○ Context/Tip: Whenever you see ○ Example Words: telephone, "photo" or “phot,” think of light or symphony, phonics pictures. Photograph is a picture ○ Context/Tip: Think of "phon" taken with light, and photosynthesis is whenever you hear or make sound. A the process by which plants use light telephone lets you hear someone’s to make food. Visualizing light or a voice, and a symphony is a musical camera can help. performance of many sounds. Phonics is the method of learning to 8. tele (far) read by sounds. ○ Meaning: Far, distant ○ Example Words: telephone, 10. logos (word, study) television, teleport ○ Context/Tip: “Tele” means something Meaning: Word, reason, study that is far away. The telephone lets Example Words: biology, psychology, logic you talk to someone far away, and Context/Tip: Logos often refers to the study television lets you see things from a of something. Psychology is the study of the distance. Teleport is the idea of mind, and biology is the study of life. You moving something instantly across might also think of logic, which is reasoning space. or understanding based on words and concepts. 3 Latin Roots 4. ject (throw) ○ Meaning: Throw 1. bene (good, well) ○ Example Words: eject, project, inject ○ Context/Tip: “Ject” involves throwing ○ Meaning: Good, well or pushing something. To eject is to ○ Example Words: benefit, benevolent, throw something out, and to inject is benefactor to push something in (like a needle). ○ Context/Tip: "Bene" is related to When you think of project, picture a things that are good or positive. A projection, something that’s “thrown” benefactor is someone who gives out for others to see. help, and benevolent means kind or charitable. You can remember it by 5. man (hand) thinking of the benefit of something being good. ○ Meaning: Hand ○ Example Words: manual, 2. cent (hundred) manipulate, manuscript ○ Context/Tip: Think of “man” ○ Meaning: Hundred whenever something is done with ○ Example Words: century, percent, your hands. A manual is a guidebook centimeter you use by hand, and to manipulate is ○ Context/Tip: If you think of “cent,” to handle something skillfully. you can associate it with the idea of Manuscript is a hand-written 100. A century is 100 years, and document. percent is out of 100. It’s easy to remember because "cent" sounds like 6. port (carry) "century," and both involve 100. ○ Meaning: Carry 3. dict (speak, say) ○ Example Words: transport, portable, import ○ Meaning: Speak, say ○ Context/Tip: Anything that you carry ○ Example Words: dictionary, predict, has port in it. To transport is to carry dictate goods from one place to another, and ○ Context/Tip: Think of “dict” as portable means easy to carry. Import connected to speaking or telling. A means to bring something into a dictionary is where you look up the country. meaning of words (you speak the words out loud), and predict is to say what you think will happen. Visualizing speaking or writing will help you remember it. 4 7. scrib/script (write) 10. aud (hear) ○ Meaning: Write Meaning: Hear ○ Example Words: scribe, inscription, Example Words: auditory, audience, audible describe Context/Tip: Whenever you think of aud, ○ Context/Tip: Think of scrib or script think of hearing. Auditory refers to anything whenever you see or make writing. A related to hearing, audible means you can scribe is someone who writes, and an hear it, and an audience is a group of people inscription is something written, who listen to something. usually on stone or a monument. Describe means to write or speak about something in detail. 8. spect (look, see) ○ Meaning: Look, see ○ Example Words: inspect, spectator, spectacle ○ Context/Tip: Whenever you look at something, you’ll see spect. If you inspect something, you are closely looking at it, and a spectacle is something amazing to look at. Remember spectator as someone who watches a show or game. 9. vid/vis (see) ○ Meaning: See ○ Example Words: video, visual, vision ○ Context/Tip: Vid or vis is about seeing or viewing. A video lets you see moving images, and visual refers to anything related to sight. Vision is the ability to see. 5