For 2 of the words, give a definition, using the meaning of the prefix and highlight it.

1.abiology

2.abiosis

3.abiotic

4.aclusion

5.achromatic

1.abiology:

The scientific study of things that are not living; in other words, all of the science except those that are biological

2.achromatic:

Without color; colorless; unpigmented

achromatic:

A similar argument may be applied to find at what point an achromatic lens becomes sensibly superior to a single one.

achromatic:

Most of old generation's photographs are achromatic.

1.disability

2.disadvantage

3.disagree

4.disappear

5.disapprove

1.disability:

A condition in which someone is unable to perform because of physical or mental incompetence

2.disapprove:

To refuse to approve; to reject

disapprove:

Even when Dad disapproves of how things are going and son gets in trouble.

disapprove:

Many people disapprove of the same-sex marriage.

1.illegal

2.illusion

3.illicit

4.illustrious

5.illative (interesting word but uncommon; #2-4 would have been much better.)

1.illegal:

Prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules

2.illative:

Resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference

illegal:

Critics say the law would force many poor women into seeking risky illegal abortions.

illegal:

In most situations, the act of plagiarism is illegal.

impossible 

impregnable (adj.)

Imbalance  (n)

immovable (adj)

Immature (adj)

Immiscible (adj.) 

Not probable; unlikely to take place or to be true or to happen. 

a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium

Your parents might tell you it's improbable that they'll buy you a car when you turn 16. 

The current imbalance between farming and conservation interests

a hormonal imbalance.

It is highly improbable that mining would be allowed in the national parks.  

Deforestation causes imbalance in biodiversity.

inaudible 

inattentive

Inbrust

Inappropriate

Inarticulate

Not loud enough to be heard; unhearable. 

showing a lack of attention or care

I wore a hearing aid through much of my life, but sounds & voices were still inaudible. 

Efficient service, but at quiet times staff members might congregate and table service become inattentive.

Sound produced by a bat is inaudible for human beings.

The professor is teaching in the class but most students are inattentive. 

Irritable 

Irreparable

Irrational

Irascible

Irreverent

easily irritated or annoyed

Impossible to repair, rectify, or amend

Then the man without these interior resources gives way, breaks down, becomes querulous, fretful, irritable, sour. 

The wrong is irreparable in so far as these men do not think of returning to America except as visitors.

Is there anything I can do to make you less irritable? 

mistrust

mistake  

1. misfeasance (noun)

2. misadventure (noun)

3. miszealous (adj)

4. misdiagnose

5. misconception

6. misclaim

7. misbehave  

a) Bad luck or an accident.

b) In law, a death due to an unintentional accident without any violation of law or criminal negligence.

non-alcoholic

noncommitae

1. noncustodial

2. nonclandestine

3. non placet

4. non recuso laborem

5. non quis sed quid

6. non mobis nascimur

Not involving imprisonment or detention.  

Not providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding.

He is afraid of receiving a noncustodial sentence.  

unilateral

union

1. unanimous

2. uniform

3. undecennary

4. unibody

5. unify

6. uniflorous  

Shared as a view by all of the people concerned, with no one disagreeing.  

A particular type of glothing worn by all the members of a group or organization, such as the police, the army, etc.   

demirep (????)

demigod 

demilune 
demi-pension
demiurge

demitasse

1. demigod: a man in ancient stories, who is half god and half human.

2. demitasse:

small cup of strong black coffee without milk or cream.

No, thank you!” and she calls the waiter to bring a demitasse with cognac.

hemicrania 
hemigeusia 

hemimelia

hemiopalgia 
hemisensory

 1. hemicrania: a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men.

2. I did not find.

Some other diseases are erroneously called rheumatic, as hemicrania, and odontalgia.

semiformal

semiliterate

semiskilled

semitone

semiautomatic

semicircle

1. semiskilled: needing or having some skills or training.

2.semicircle: half a circle.

The incisors of each jaw are placed in close contact, forming a semicircle.

mon-

mono-

1. monoculous

2. Monostoatic

3.  monoandry (???) 

4. Monochrome

5. monocity (???)

monopoly

Monochrome:

Consisting of only one color and white; usually, of black and white.

monoculous:

Having just one eye.

Used television to view monochrome output

1. disunion .

2. reunion.

3. unicameral

4. uniflorous.

5. uniped.

Having or consisting of a single legislative chamber.

Having just one flower.

A person having only one foot (or leg); a one-footed creature

Unicameral parliament could become an elective dictatorship.

lipoprotein

mucoprotein

protein

proteinuria

protoplasm 

1- lipoprotein:  Any of the lipid-protein complexes in which lipids are transported in the blood.

2-protoplasm: The colorless liquid or jelly contents of a living cell, composed of proteins, fats, and other organic substances in water and which is regarded as the physical basis of all living matter and life functions.

the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus). 

oligarch

oligemic

oligoamnios

oligoarthritis

oligocarpus

oligocarpus: Having few carpels or fruit. 

oligemic: Pertaining to or characterized by oligemia. 

no more word in VOCAB

bi-

bin-

bifacial

binary 

1- biannual 

2-bicameral

3-bicarbonate

4-bicentennial

5-bicultural

1- occurring twice a year

2- having two branches, chambers, or houses as alegislative body. 

triacid

triatomic 

1-triacid

2-triage

3-triadelphous

4-triangle

5- triangular

5- involving three people or teams.

4- a flat shape with three straight sides and three angles.

some uncommon words; I crossed them out. Your sentence doesn't use the word correctly. Write a new sentence, please.

A sporting competition cannot be triangular. "Tri-" means "three." "Angular" means "angles". Therefore, a pyramid is triangular because it has three angles.  

dec-

deci-

1.decathlon 

2.decameter 

3.declaiter

4.decagram

5.decapod

1.decimate 

2.decibel 

3.decimal

4.deciliter

5.decile 

1.an athletic contest consisting of ten different events. 

2. a metric unit of length equal to ten meters.

1.Kill one in every ten, as mutineers in Roman armies. 

2.a longarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity.

Now hardly anyone knows who the decathlon champion might be.

New York Times Jun 6, 2010 

 After Earth’s population is decimated by a virus, the survivors are forced underground.

 "People are most likely to notice communication problems when their hearing loss exceeds 25 decibels," Lin said in an interview.

Mike Smith is one of the decathlon thletics athletes in 1986. 

Enviromental pollution decimates 9 million children every year.

Noisy decibels damage human ears.

Good!  

Excellent sentences.

1.percentile

 
2. per centum

3. century

4. centimeter

5. centile

1.One of 100 equal parts that a group of people can be divided into in order to rank them.

A quantity can be increased by any percentage but should not be decreased by more than 100 percent. 

New York Times Apr 3, 2012

"One hundred per centum of cases of neurasthenia are curable," responded the specialist.

Percentile life expectancy is shown in graph 7 .

100 per centum of the Women's Film Festival in Brattleboro are volunteers .

1. hectoliter

2. hectogram

 3. hectare

 4. hectometer

 5. hectograph

a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters

One hundred grams, the equivalent of 1543.7 grains.

(abbreviated `ha') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters)

a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters 

We have to give four hectoliters and two measures of our oats to the common granary....

Persky, Serge

During the Libyan war, fuel raised up increased to 2000 Rwandan franc per hectoliter.

1. myriad

2. myriarch

 3. myriarchy

4. myriotheism

5. myrialiter

So many that they cannot be counted 

A captain, or commander, of ten thousand men.

Government by ten thousand rulers.

"The myriad stars were impossible to count."

On Thursday, a Hong Kong newspaper, Apple Daily, disclosed myriad details of Bo family dealings in line with those criticisms.

New York TimesApr 12, 2012

He was told that his country has experienced a myriadproblems related to drug war. 

1. microscopic

 2. microparasite

3. micracoustic

4 .microfauna

5. microecology

A microorganism that lives as a parasite on other organisms and which is too small to be seen with the "naked" eye.

Something which is extremely small or that is not large enough to be seen with the naked eye but visible under a microscope.

Identifying and cultivating these microscopic food sources has proved difficult.

Scientific AmericanApr 6, 2012

My friend is suffering from a dermatological disease; consequently, she has been asked to give a small tissue as a sample for a microscopic test.

Gavin

extra credit (Name?)

Gaudence

1. million

2. millennium

 3. milligram

4. millisecond

5. milliwatt 

2. the amount of a thousand thousand units of money, as pounds, dollars, or francs

-   period of 1000 years.

- a thousandth anniversary.

One-thousandth of a gram.

The Boston-based custody bank's net income was $417 million, or 85 cents a share, including preferred stock dividends and other adjustments.

New York TimesApr 17, 2012

Maria was given three million Kenyan Shillings for the piece of land she sold yesterday.

1. macroeconomics

2. macrocephalous

3. macroflora

4. macrobiosis

5. baromacrometer

A branch of economics that focuses on the general features and processes that make up a national economy and the ways in which different segments of the economy are connected (takes a singular verb).

An individual with an abnormally large head.

1. Plants that are large enough to be seen with the naked eye. 

1. Tending to prolong life; relating to the prolongation of life.
2. The science of prolonging life.

An instrument for ascertaining the weight and length of a newborn infant. 

“Looking back on my time at the Federal Reserve, it gave me the opportunity to be exposed to macroeconomics.”

SlateOct 17, 2011

A friend of mine was really happy because she got an A in Macroeconomics.

1. megabyte 

2. megacosm

4. megaseism

5. megazooid

 a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes

The great world or that part of the universe which is exterior to man; as contrasted with microcosm, or mankind.

1. Large or relatively large animals, as of a particular region or period, considered as a group.

A violent earthquake

Large animals.

How are you supposed to know how many megabytes will be used up by a certain Web page or e-mail session?

1. magnanimity

 2. magnitude  

3.   magnificence

 4. magnocellular

5. magnisonant  

Great generosity or noble-spiritedness.

 The quality or fact of being great, in various senses; in the physical sense, great size or extent.

Glory; greatness of nature or reputation.

Consisting of, designating, or relating to neurons with large cell bodies.

Sounding great or important.   

He treated his prisoner with almost ostentatious magnanimity, and took him to Bordeaux, whence they sailed to England in May 1357.

Various

Using his own calculations with real-time GPS data from the Japanese earthquake, Melbourne got the right magnitude within two minutes.