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Julias English Roots

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1-60 roots

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1. photos light
2. graph draw
3. tele far away, distant
4. metron measure
5. philia love, friendship
6. tropos turning
7. phobos fear
8. syn with, together
9. thesis put, place, position
10. kinesis movement

 

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11. phone sound
12. sonus sound
13. skopeo look at, inspect, consider, examine
14. video, vismum see
15. logos word, study
16. verbum word
17. nomen, mominis name
18. pro for, before, forward, in place of
19. prae brfore, in front of
20. ad to toward: near, next to

 

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21. jacio, jactum throw
22. pono, positum lay, put, place
23. cum with, together
24. figo, fixum fix, fasten, attatch
25. jungs, junctum join, unite, connect
26. digituse finger, toe, inch
27. caput, capitis head
28. manus hand
29. pes, pedis foot
30. bracchium arm

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31. dens, dentis tooth
32. corpus, corporis body
33. unus one
34. duo two
35. tres three
36. quattuor four
37. quinque five
38. sex six
39. septem seven
40. octo eight
41. novem nine
42. decem ten
43. centum hundred
44. mille thousand
45. pyro fire
46. ignis fire
47. vulcanus vulcan- roman god of fire
48. hydros water
49. aqua water
50. bonus good

 

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51. helios sun
52. sol sun
53. luna moon
54. dia through, between, across, apart
55. trans across, over, beyond, through
56. geo earth
57. terra land
58. dormio, dormitum sleep
59. hypnos sleep
60. annus year
61. lithos stone
62. petros stone
63. astron star
64. stella star
65. dendron tree
66. arbor/arboris tree
67. chronos time
68. tempus/temporis time
69. para beside, along, with
70. inter between, among, amid
71. techne art, skill
72. ars\artis art, skill
73. bios life
74. vivo/victum life

 

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75. megas great, large, big
76. magnus great, large, big
77. pater/patris father
78. mater/matris mother
79. frater/fratris brother
80. demos the people, the citizens
81. populus people
82. polis city
83. urbs, urbis city
84. pathos feeling, suffering
85. autos self
86. thermos heat
87. curro, cursum run
88. zoon animal
89. verto, versum turn
90. facio, factum do, make
91. scribo, scriptum write
92. plico, plictum fold
93. dico, dictum speak, say
94. biblos book
95. liber, libri book, free

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Vocab Words for English

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1. lack of interest; lack of feeling apathy
2. fair; not favoring one side; unbiased impartial
3. to respect highly; to honor revered4.
4. extreame disgust for something or someone disdain
5. extreamly bad; flagrant egregious
6. useless; hopeless futile
7. to harass; to surround beset
8. making peace, attempting to resolve a disbute through good will conciliatory

 

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9. determined, form, unwavering resolute
10. quiet; restaint; reluctant to speak especialy about oneself reticence
11. lack of agreement; incompatibility; confict discord
12. to deny, reject, or disoen something or somebody repudiate
13. clear; easy to understand lucid
14. favorable promising; pointing to a good result auspicious
15. self satisfied. overly pleased with oneself, content to a fault complacent
16. without ending or stopping incessant

 

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17. to praise or celebrate lauded
18. without a plan or purpose, ramdom desultory
19. unoriginal; ordinary banal
20. to praise highly extolled
21. to ridicule; to laugh at contemptuously derided
22. dull: bland; banal insipid
23. to speed up or ease the progress of something or someone expedited
24. temporary; uncertain; experimental tenative
25. to be indecisive; to waver vacillated

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The Herioc Quest (The 7 Elements)

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1. the Call the hero feels dissasified with life and wants to do something that will make the satisfied, often the hero has has an unusual infancy of childhood
2. the Quest the journey and struggles the hero must overcome on his jouney to fing the teasure
3. the Helpers the people involved with the hero who help him out; the three kinds are the good mother, the mentor, and the loyal sibling
4. the Others the charecters or figures who represent the hidden or unexpressed side of the hero's personality with whom the hero must encounter and resolve the conflict
5. the Treasure the thing that the hero has been seaching for and will relolve the dissatisfaction from the call
6. the Return the hero brings back the treasure to the people and demonstrates to the biggest act of heroism
7. the Tranformation the hero's community enjoys the benifit of the treasure

 

 

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