Week 10 Root Words
stern | chest, breast | The sternum is the bone that covers your heart. |
stom stome | mouth | |
sub |
under below | A subway goes underground, a submarine goes under the water. |
super, sur | over, above, on top | Supersonic means to travel faster than the speed of sound. |
tax | arrange, put in order | Syntax is the order that words are put together to make a grammatically correct sentence. |
tele | far off, distant | A telephone allows you to send and hear sound to a far off distance. |
telo | end | |
terr | earth, land | A territory is an area of land. |
tetr | four | Tetris blocks are all composed of four smaller blocks. |
therm | heat | A thermometer measures the temperature (presence or lack of heat). |