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 Answers to Unit 1 Exercises A

1.

NATIVE

LATIN

GREEK

EXOTIC

hand

complex

chaos

chocolate

husband

deprecate

telegraph

hurricane

tooth

gradient

trauma

mammoth

tree

renovate

robot

2. (Your answers may differ slightly; some dictionaries give more complete information than others.)

a. sugar - Mid Eng < Mid French < Mid Lat < Old Ital < Arabic < Pers < Sanskrit

b. chocolate - Span < Aztec (Nahuatl)

c. robot - Czech

d. hurricane - Spanish < Taino (Carib)

e. bizarre - French < Italian < Basque

f. horde - Mid French & German < Polish

3.

a. propel

1)

pro-  /

pel

2)

'before,forward,for'

'push'

b. dysphonic

1)

dys-  /

phon /

-ic

2)

'bad'

'speech sound'

ADJ

c. microcosm

1)

micro-  /

cosm

2)

'small'

'universe, order'

d. conventional

1)

con-  /

ven  /

(t)  /

-ion /

-al

2)

'together,with'

'come, bring'

NOUN

ADJ

e. macrobiotic

1)

macro-  /

bio  /

-ic

2)

'large'

'life'

ADJ

4. probably c.; anthropophagous people are cannibals!


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