Greek/Latin Roots

• Lexicon - list of roots and words that a person has in his or her brain ready to use.
• Derivation - the process of making words out of other words.
• Denotation - the textbook definition of a word.
• Connotation - the intellectual (and or) emotional interpretation of a term.
• Affixes - group of letters attached before and after the root word.
• Prefixes - Group of letters placed before the root.
• Suffixes - Group of letters used after the root.
• Geo - earth
• Dem - people
• Graph - to write
• Logy - study of
• Meter - measure
• Phobia - fear
• Micro - small
• Phon - sound
• Bi, bio - life
• Tele - far
• Photo - light